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China’s kindergarten coders: The AI arms race begins at age 4

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In China, the state is systematically rewiring its education system to raise a generation fluent in artificial intelligence. by contrast, lacks a national AI curriculum, and remains mired in debate about whether students should even use ChatGPT to write essays. The education system is its primary tool.

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AI Is Still an Unknown Country — and Teens Are Its Pioneers

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When artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT were first introduced for public use in 2022, Gillian Hayes, vice provost for academic personnel at the University of California, Irvine, remembers how people were setting up rules around AI without a good understanding of what it truly was or how it would be used.

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California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it?

Cal Matters

Why would students write anything themselves, instructors wondered, if a chatbot could do it for them? Indeed, many students have taken the bait, if not to write entire essays, then certainly to draft an outline, refine their ideas or clean up their writing before submitting it.

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Catch them Learning: A Pathway to Academic Integrity in the Age of AI

Cult of Pedagogy

The official corrected the mistake by writing down the time Ruiz had told him. Gather baseline evidence of writing skills across academic disciplines using a simple, in-class prompt that requires students to provide a claim and supporting evidence in a full paragraph. Writing and reasoning get better with feedback and effort.

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Students learn the basics of AI as they weigh its use in their future careers

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As part of the course, students use artificial intelligence tools often viewed in a negative light due to privacy and other technical concerns to explore their career interests and better understand how technology could shape the workforce.

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ThinkCERCA Raises $10.1 Million to Build Critical Thinkers, Readers and Writers

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Like how to write an email.” Helping students write and reason clearly, critically and concisely is the central mission at her company, ThinkCERCA. Teachers can choose a lesson in the program, which guides students through a multi-step process to analyze the reading materials and write a response essay.

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How to (correctly!) use ChatGPT for essay writing

eSchool News

Not only does it make educators revise their approach to teaching academic writing, but some still see it as a threat to students’ academic integrity. More than that: If students often ask ChatGPT to generate essays or make those essays longer , their writing and communication skills will suffer.

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