eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Educators can guide students to interrogate the reliability of AI outputs and discuss the ethical implications of biased algorithms. For example, text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools support students with disabilities, while language models assist non-native English speakers. Rethinking AI as a tool for empowerment 1.

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MAY 8, 2024

In a time when technological advancements shape our daily lives and drive economic growth, focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education in K-12 schools is not just a trend but a necessity. By 2021, 91 percent of schools in New York City offered computer science (up from 76 percent in 2019).

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

CoderZ, an award-winning, cloud-based robotics and STEM platform, is helping educators introduce computer science in elementary and early middle school with its new Code Farm coding and robotics course for grades four through six.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2025

Switching seamlessly between languages like many bilingual learners do AI-powered translation tools are improving, but they dont match the way multilingual individuals naturally switch between languages in real life. Bilingual students often engage in code-switching, blending languages based on context, audience, and emotion.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

We need common language and understanding around these terms. During the conversation, there was a need to define terms and shared language. With the advent of AI and small language models, were going to be more and more dependent on our own data internally, said Pete Just, CETL (Just Strategics, Indiana).

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eSchool News

JULY 30, 2024

It is powered by Adaptive Learn, its state-of-the-art AI system that understands, adapts and responds to a child just as a teacher or reading coach would, using principles backed by the Science of Reading to create a fun and educational journey for children in grades K-3.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2017

We are a diverse urban learning community, where our families speak 23 different languages. Upper-grade students do deep research into one literary, one science, and one social science topic of interest to them, and are challenged to come up with a connecting theme and evidence for the connection from each of the domains.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Thanks to a $30 million gift from an alumnus, the small, selective college in Maine is establishing the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence , which aims to integrate machine learning, natural language processing and big data into instruction and research across the college. “We

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Keeshin’s company is perhaps best known for a series of introductory coding courses it offers on programming languages such as Javascript and Python. Like other CodeHS offerings, the year-long cybersecurity course is designed for schools without robust computer science departments and expert faculty.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

However, as the educational community navigates these innovations, it becomes essential to address ethical considerations to ensure the responsible and effective integration of AI. Parhizkar, a science and technology specialist at Alief Independent School District, discusses how AI can be used to personalize learning for students.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

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. Teachers can use the Magic Design tool to effortlessly create presentations using just natural language prompts.

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JUNE 18, 2021

The course on Ethics, Public Policy and Technological Change, which has been running for a couple of years in-person, is intended to get students thinking about tough issues in the ethics of technology. It’s co-taught by a computer science professor, Mehran Sahami, and two political-science professors, Reich and Jeremy Weinstein.

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MARCH 27, 2025

Zarek Drozda, director of the nonprofit Data Science for Everyone, says his organization has seen interest in offering AI and data science coursework increase among school districts, with the number of states launching data initiatives increasing from one to 29 over the past four years. ChatGPT is trained on text data.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Teaching metacognition equips ELLs with the tools needed to navigate not only language acquisition but also the demands of various subject areas, from math and science to history and literature (Flavell, 1979; Schraw & Moshman, 1995). Translating phrases into Spanish helped him connect new terms to his native language.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

There’s a clue in a statement from the Davis Institute’s first director , natural language processing expert Amanda Stent. “AI 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.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

It’s not science fiction anymore; right now, in every single field of study, AI is being used. For example, in our Hands-On AI Projects for the Classroom guides , we have a project that’s specifically for foreign language teachers. Or, “What does it mean to recognize emotions or to understand the context of language?”

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

These efforts are often described as attempts to “ help non-computer science students build the tech skills required for today’s jobs ” so that they are ultimately “ more employable. ” The New School, in New York City, is taking a different approach.

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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. Now, though, large language models can easily mark discussion posts as on or off topic with a minimum amount of prompt engineering, Pardos says.

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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. Allow Parents to Consent.

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APRIL 24, 2023

This project was guided by Anni Kumar, a seasoned educator and head of the computer science department at Vikas Bharati Public School. This ensures that AI tools are not only effective but also responsible and ethical. Lastly, AI tools can have significant ethical implications.

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JULY 25, 2016

AP Computer Science is getting a facelift—or rather, an entirely new face. The College Board has announced that this fall it will launch a new Advanced Placement course in computer science: AP Computer Science Principles , a program that the organization hopes will engage more females and students of color in computer science.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

It builds on years of work in Digital and Media Literacy and Computational Thinking , including elements of computer science, ethics and additional areas beyond science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The skills and practices necessary to engage with AI are relevant to all disciplines.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2019

More companies in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—or STEM—fields are hiring workers with liberal arts backgrounds, according to a recent report. It’s so important that we have people who are thinking about the ethical implications of the technology we’re building today.” That was the case with Robert Dawson.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Some of the long-term results of the students who were in the smaller classes include: Higher student achievement levels in grade seven language, reading, science, math, and social studies classes. You’ll study topics like community relations, ethics, meeting the needs of diverse learners, budgeting, research, and more.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Language is an important vehicle to help children understand and learn. Not only did children learn a lot better with conversational agents, but the biggest gains were to English language learners,” Warschauer says. “We It puts a huge amount of ethical questions into who can decide what that agent can do.”

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JANUARY 11, 2021

The original version of this article appeared in Toward Data Science. To accomplish this, I developed a custom algorithm that uses natural-language processing and draws on open-source libraries to understand the context of each question and map it to the primary learning topic it was designed to evaluate.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This year, there were three prizes: for work in pre-K-12 education, higher education and a newly created prize, for learning science research. With advances in educational data mining, we can infer learners’ emotions from their natural language interaction with systems, their facial expressions, even their body posture.

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JULY 12, 2023

It enhances cognitive abilities, emotional intelligence, moral and ethical development, identity formation, communication skills, social awareness, and creativity. Fiction, essays, science. Poetry uses language and rhythm to express feelings and emotions. Religious literature explores religious issues, ethics, and morality.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

While some educators rightfully voice concerns over the ethical aspects of such a tool, this article will draw on my own experiences using ChatGPT 4.0 Large language models 1 Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are complex algorithms developed through a type of machine learning called deep learning.

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

The business community knows what they want in their employees: work ethic, the ability to communicate and function as a team, flexible thinking, etc. Ninth grade students in an interdisciplinary Global Science Perspectives class were asked to explore the themes of the course and find correlations between culture and science.

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APRIL 25, 2023

I think that this is about the art and science of taking care of kids, and that all of us who are in any position raising or working with kids need to come together and figure out: How do we collectively share information and share the responsibility of the kids who are in our care? Absolutely, if done alone. I worry about it.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

The thing that some educators can’t wrap their heads around, still, is that they’re working with a large language model. A foreign language teacher in his workshop used an AI tool to create a scene with different forms of transportation. This gives educators an option to discuss which AI tools might be useful to teach certain topics.

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JUNE 19, 2018

From cloning to social media, it is more essential to understand the ethical implications of an idea and how it will impact people than it is to build well-designed code. Virtue is conformity of one's life and conduct to moral and ethical principles. Today, classical education can provide a roadmap for students to learn and grow.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Hutson (2024) identifies the challenges of AI in education as the blurred boundaries between human and AI-generated content, the inadequacy of traditional plagiarism definitions, and the need to balance the ethical integration of AI with the preservation of critical thinking, originality, and intellectual property standards. McDonough, M.,

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

However, after listening to a TED Talk featuring Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy , demonstrating the use of AI tutors in his school, I realized that my days of teaching traditional math content and language arts skills are numbered. In the absence of ethics and values to drive the deployment of AI , its arrival in schools is a risk.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Students who sign up to administer surveys (sometimes in Spanish or in indigenous languages like Mixtec) receive a stipend, earn college credit — and get a taste of what it’s like to produce scholarship in collaboration with faculty and with the backing of a top university. I’ve never been told, ‘You got this. Good job, I’m proud of you.’

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