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A cautious approach to using AI in education

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Guidance for using AI in education AI is already impacting education in several areas: plagiarism detection, learning management platforms, analyzing student success/failure metrics, and curriculum development. Within education, algorithmic bias can have a severe impact on equity in the classroom if left unexamined and unchecked.

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Museum of Science, Boston releases equity-oriented engineering curricula

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As they collaboratively engage in real engineering practices and persist through failure, students strengthen their STEM and language proficiency, simultaneously. “We Drawing on scientific knowledge, learners brainstorm designs, and then build, test, and analyze them iteratively to generate original solutions.

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How AI can transform lesson planning and assessment

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All it asks for is the topic, reading level, and any additional criteria teachers might have for their class, like an enhanced focus on accessibility or detailed deep dives into ethical implications. Unlike AI tools meant for the general public, I believe it’s imperative that any AI tool offer granular customization over the generated output.

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2 questions about cheating, copying, and student ‘integrity’

Dangerously Irrelevant

We’re so quick to bemoan the lack of ethics in our students. We complain incessantly about their work ethic, their commitment to their classwork and homework, and their failure to find interest or meaning in the learning tasks we put before them. They cheat. They take shortcuts on the work.

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How I Took the Dread Out of Grading—and Replaced It With Fun

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The business community knows what they want in their employees: work ethic, the ability to communicate and function as a team, flexible thinking, etc. For a long time, “work ethic” and “agency” were simply other terms for “turned in on time.” A favorite failure occurred while facilitating a wellness event for second graders.

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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

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Active Learning: From Fear to Engagement Fear of failure can stifle creativity and learning. For example, during group problem-solving, ask students to identify and reflect on common mistakes, transforming failure into an opportunity for growth (Dweck, 2006).

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Is Open Content Enough? Where OER Advocates Say the Movement Must Go Next

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In Mitchell’s keynote at OpenEd, she asked the audience of educators, librarians and other open education enthusiasts to think about their “tolerance for failure” in education. Then what has followed for me, because I’ve been always interested in the ethical questions, is: where do we stop and why do we stop there?

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