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NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Walberto Flores EdTech Coordinator, Highlands International School San Salvador Artificial intelligence has entered our classrooms — sometimes invited and other times not — leaving educators to ask essential questions about its implementation and impact. It’s a valid question that even my high school students ask.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It’s also somewhat eclipsed conversations about the ethics of how these tools are implemented, according to one observer. And the decisions those teachers make may be influenced by factors like how familiar they are with the technology or even what gender they are, according to a new study. The main findings?

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JULY 9, 2021

That’s the ethics debate playing out in one online educator space , a lively back-and-forth carried over from a recent workshop on educational A/B testing. Those questions were posed in the thread by Collin Lynch, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. “A/B

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AUGUST 2, 2022

But when it comes to ethical monitoring—concerned with how school systems set up their digital classroom management tools and teachers use them—we hear far too little. If we truly expect learners to develop those desired digital citizenship skills, educators must first become ethical monitors of their students’ online activity.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

Formulating a product, you better know about ethics and understand legal frameworks.” Madsen recently tweeted his frustration, spurring a conversation about ethics in data science curriculum, what’s missing, and where programs are already working to fill in the gap. Research ethics is baked in throughout the curriculum,” Hale explains.

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AUGUST 24, 2021

You likely had a stronger reaction to the second question. Emerging technologies like synthetic biology are all around us and at varying degrees of development and dissemination. The real question is: How do we increase access and participation in the creation of emerging technology so that it represents and works for all of us?

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2024

This discussion aims to navigate through commonly cited concerns from educators, highlighting how each perceived obstacle to integrating AI into classrooms can actually be overcome through applications of the very technology in question. No one thinks AI should replace the essential human elements of teaching.

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OCTOBER 6, 2018

But at last month’s WISE@NY Learning Revolutions conference, supported by the Qatar Foundation, panelists offered a surprising alternative for the skills that will be in most demand: philosophy, ethics and morality education. She called attention to the “ Moral Machine ,” an ethical quandary posed by MIT professor Iyad Rahwan.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

As Andy Nguyen, a leading expert in artificial intelligence in education, aptly puts it: We are at an inflection point where technology is not just an adjunct to education; it’s becoming the backbone. Given the urgency, educational institutions must be bold. The time for action is not in the future; it’s now.

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DECEMBER 28, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Chip Donohue is the founding director of the Technology in Early Child Center at Erikson Institute, and a senior fellow at the Fred Rogers Center.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2023

MindSpark defines RAI with the following 5 pillars – RAI is community-centric; it is monitorable and secure; ethical and fair; justifiable and accountable; as well as explainable and transparent. Educators need an understanding of what AI is and is not.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

It’s that sharing of student photos, especially those with identifying information, that has researchers questioning what the implications may be for student privacy and whether it’s ethical for schools to post pictures at all. There are educational leaders in schools wrestling with these ethical quandaries , the report authors noted.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

If you’re unsure where to begin, ask the chatbot for help brainstorming lesson ideas and then ask follow-up questions until you get something you can use. Educators are the experts in teaching and learning, and they need to be at the center of conversations about how artificial intelligence will be used in education.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2024

When ranking the top three barriers to AI adoption in education settings, surveyed teachers and administrators identified the following: data privacy and security, insufficient training for teachers on how to use AI, and uncertainty about the efficacy of AI in improving student outcomes. We are at a pivotal moment in education.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

But what is this topic exactly and why is it important for moving education forward? During the November 2024 meeting of CoSNs EdTech Innovation Committee , participants were asked those same questions, and shared their perspectives on what educators should do about the topic. Read on for 10 key takeaways from the discussion.

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OCTOBER 8, 2021

What should teachers be expected to know about student data privacy and ethics? Considering so much of their jobs now revolve around student data, it’s a simple enough question—and one that researcher Ellen B. Was that information included in codes of education ethics? What are ethical and responsible uses of data?

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MARCH 20, 2023

When that app began to send her photos of her child, she had some additional questions. Across the country, more and more child care programs are signing up to use administrative technology. That means thinking hard about the best ways and places to use new tools and the ethical implications of any choices.

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AUGUST 1, 2024

Many teachers and professors are spending time this summer experimenting with AI tools to help them prepare slide presentations, craft tests and homework questions, and more. As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. Should they disclose that to students?

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DECEMBER 24, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Screens entertain us, help us relax and help us answer the questions we ponder as fast as we can ask them. However, the secret is out: technology alone stinks as a learning model.

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JUNE 10, 2025

When she poses a question to her seventh graders over her school’s learning platform and watches the live responses roll in, there are times when too many are suspiciously similar. Teachers are transitioning away from question-and-answer assignments or straightforward essays — in favor of projects.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

But before administrators and other educational leaders fully invest in the AI fever dream, it might be wise to slow down and first develop some guidelines around using AI in education–particularly for how to evaluate and apply this new, disruptive technology.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

If it’s the second, then most small liberal arts colleges are well-equipped to train students about the social and ethical challenges that artificial intelligence presents. Liberal arts education serves a foundational grounding that, in its stability, allows students to navigate this increasingly fast, perplexing world.

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MAY 17, 2024

With digital education platforms generating data on how millions of students are learning, they are also sitting on veritable information gold mines for researchers who are trying to improve education. Instead, we're taking the researchers’ questions to that data.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

To understand how self-monitoring devices might impact education, first we need a definition of these technologies. According to Rich Voithofer, associate professor of educational technology at Ohio State University, wearables are an “intimate two-way interface between ourselves and the world.” to 11 p.m., Rich Voithofer.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

The first two principles focused on how to ensure that the AI tool not only fits with existing technology and workflows but equips students for their futures. Navigate the ethics of generative AI in education. When selecting a generative AI tool, examine creators, training methods and ethical transparency.

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MAY 4, 2021

This question became even more timely and relevant [during the pandemic] because students and teachers find it really hard to concentrate in both face-to-face and virtual environments, especially virtual environments,” he argues. Neuroscience data can be very easily misinterpreted or misused,” he says, and there are ethical concerns as well.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

As the Director of Quantitative Research and Data Science, as well as the Data Privacy Officer at Digital Promise, I aim to demystify the complex world of data privacy, particularly in the realm of education and AI tools. A few examples of these questions include: What data will you collect? How will data be used?

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APRIL 13, 2017

In March, Ekowo co-authored a report on the ethical use of predictive analytics in higher education. “It It’s one of the hardest questions to grapple with, says Iris Palmer, a senior policy analyst who co-authored the New America report. Should students know everything?

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

By guiding students through reflection and self-questioning, teachers can help deepen metacognitive awareness (Zimmerman & Schunk, 2011). Addressing educator concerns While AI tools enhance learning, educators often worry about overreliance and ethical concerns (Selwyn, 2019). UCL Institute of Education Press.

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MARCH 15, 2018

More than 100 people tuned in, with questions such as how to make VR accessible for students with disabilities and how to avoid motion sickness when using the technology. Audience question from Ben Loeffler] I'm a creative technologist at 160over90. Audience question] My question is about VR motion sickness.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Since the platform launched in May 2019, it’s attracted about 20,000 tech employee “advisers,” who have answered about 10,000 employment questions to date. Examining Ethics Human resources leaders caution employees and job seekers to consider the potential downsides of exchanging cash for referrals. People will stretch their ethics.”

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

The education technology industry often gets flak for not seeking the perspectives of educators. As industry organizations offer educators a range of compensation, from travel stipends and honorariums to fees for consulting gigs, some school officials have waded into ethically murky waters.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

They also explored ethics and how AI will impact their careers and lives. Ethics was also something they really liked. They loved the real-world scenarios we came up with and debating AI ethical considerations. I really feel like if I ever have a question, I can go back and ask them. How did your students respond to it?

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

Other outlets have shared worries from students and privacy advocates over how much information these tools are collecting, through features like eye-tracking technology and requirements that students show their entire room and provide personal information during sessions which are often recorded. They asked for responses by December 17.

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DECEMBER 6, 2024

These days, proponents of learning analytics are exploring how the advent of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools bring new possibilities and raise new ethical questions for the practice. One possible application is to use new AI tools to help educators and researchers make sense of all the student data theyve been collecting.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This approach goes beyond simply teaching students how to use AI tools; it aims to develop a comprehensive set of skills that will enable students to understand, critically evaluate and ethically engage with AI technologies. We are really trying to teach them how to question, poke holes and understand. Does this benefit us?

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JUNE 7, 2021

You can pose a question for a future column here. Reader Question: Dear Bonni, I know that both you and your husband have podcasts and that you love not only producing them, but consuming them. Extend the Learning About a Topic The topic of utilitarianism gets explored quite a bit in my business ethics class.

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