eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Here is one way teachers can use AI tools to curate an entire class’s flow, its study materials, and practice tests without the aid of an army of teaching assistants. Teachers can use the Magic Design tool to effortlessly create presentations using just natural language prompts.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Encouraging the use of AI to support tutoring efforts, act as a creative aid, and assist research and planning will be crucial in helping students learn to utilize the technology in a way that is both productive and ethical.

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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

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Encouraging the use of AI to support tutoring efforts, act as a creative aid, and assist research and planning will be crucial in helping students learn to utilize the technology in a way that is both productive and ethical.

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Edsurge

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. All students will get a grounding in what the company calls “cyber hygiene,” or staying safe online, and in the ethical implications of hacking.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Now, educators are trying to navigate the ethical use of artificial intelligence in the field. As insights from neuroscience increasingly inform educational practices, we are seeing old theories and practices, such as whole language, challenged and new approaches more aligned to the science of learning emerge.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

According to National Assessment of Educational Progress test results, roughly two decades of academic progress has been lost during the pandemic. Drawing on scientific knowledge, learners brainstorm designs, and then build, test, and analyze them iteratively to generate original solutions.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2017

We are a diverse urban learning community, where our families speak 23 different languages. In my second year, in an effort to get technology into the hands of the students, foster authentic inquiry, and break the “test-prep” mentality which has come to dominate many a school landscape, I launched Inquiry Fair.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Many educators recognize that standardized tests don’t measure everything—and that some of the most critical types of growth can’t be measured by a numerical score. Seven years ago, during my first year of teaching, all of my eleventh graders failed the Georgia State End of Course Test in American Literature. Something didn’t add up.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

Bier and others involved in the project say that they are testing the approach in a variety of educational settings, including public and private K-12 schools, community colleges and four-year colleges. Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.) What’s new in your approach? And honestly, it can vary a lot.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

This potential hinges on the responsible and ethical use of AI, taught through a framework that addresses critical concerns such as bias, misinformation, and the preparation of students for a world transformed by AI. This partnership will enable teachers across Canada to offer ethical, quality AI training to their students.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

We chanted and danced “Pie-pie-pie” (a Spanish-language twist on “head, shoulders, knees, and toes”) in a giant circle. My students and I were insulated from many standardized tests and accountability pressures. Our paved heat island was better than indoors but still too hot. So we headed to a park a few minutes walk from our sauna.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Over the last decade or so , we’ve settled into a choreographed dance around large-scale, state-mandated standardized test scores. Next, people who have nothing to do with the design, administration, taking, or scoring of the tests will then use them to critique states, districts, schools, and/or individual teachers.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2023

After the model was trained and tested, students used it to solve a local problem in their community such as trafficking , drowsy driving and COVID-19. 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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

At its most basic, grading of multiple choice quizzes and tests is now essentially instantaneous. Read Securly's Whitepaper: New technologies to ensure student safety in the digital age Natural language processing can also be applied to other aspects of student mental health and social-emotional learning.

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Edsurge

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). AI Literacy applies 21st-century skills , including communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity.

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Edsurge

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. Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.) I don’t think [that] 10 years from now you’ll have to do that,” she says. “I

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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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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This encompasses a broad range of capabilities, from basic tasks like recognizing patterns and solving problems to more complex activities such as understanding natural language, AI education tools, learning from experience, and exhibiting creativity. What is the role of artificial intelligence in the future of education?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

We have evidence that when you take a demanding test that requires reasoning, reading a book or listening to a lecture in preparation is no different than doing nothing. One thing we do is build agents that hold a conversation in natural language. But to put those concepts into practice, you need deeper learning.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

AI technologies are designed to simulate human intelligence and perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as understanding natural language and engaging in interactive conversation. Test and evaluate: Conduct testing and evaluation to assess the technology’s performance and suitability for your specific use case.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2024

However, the integration of AI into higher education also raises concerns about its ethical use , including data privacy, security and the potential for bias in algorithms. We want to help institutions embrace AI in an ethical and responsible structure. We are rethinking how to test students. It is like setting up guardrails.

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Edsurge

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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

They are asking themselves questions like, “Is this helping me get through this specific assignment or this specific test because I’m trying to navigate five classes and applications for internships” — but at the cost of learning? Peirce Caudell, of Indiana University, says her students have raised ethical issues with using AI tools as well.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

The most common method is through assessment—either via homework or quizzes and tests. In addition we have weekly homework, which tests a variety of topics covered to date. So how does one identify a student’s knowledge state? For my classes, I use low-stakes formative quiz assessments each week.

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Edsurge

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. For a long time, “work ethic” and “agency” were simply other terms for “turned in on time.” Even with them, the tests were still really hard.) But it is not scary anymore.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2021

encouraging quotes, questionable photos, or potentially hateful language), there could be consequences for your digital reputation. While every case is unique, it is important for educators to become familiar with what is known as the Pickering Connick test. Depending on the nature of all that content (i.e.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

AI technologies are designed to simulate human intelligence and perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as understanding natural language and engaging in interactive conversation. Test and evaluate: Conduct testing and evaluation to assess the technology’s performance and suitability for your specific use case.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

AI Foundations for Educators – Common Sense Education: A short course by Common Sense Education covers foundational AI and its ethical considerations in education. Introduction to AI for Teachers and Students: Five videos from Wharton School that provide an overview and a practical approach to AI large language models for educators.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2024

A few weeks ago, Ferris State University made a splashy announcement that it planned to enroll two chatbot “students” in its classes, calling it a novel way for colleges to test their curricula. Overall, he says, the university is working on a strategy around “an AI platform for ASU that blends our data here.”

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Virtual tutors and chatbots equipped with natural language processing capabilities offer 24/7 support, addressing queries and reinforcing learning concepts outside traditional classroom hours. Safeguards must be in place to protect sensitive information and ensure ethical data handling practices. Is AI taking over education?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. It may be one like Storyboard That! Pixton , or another that you prefer.

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Edsurge

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. He is testing out a second type of workshop too, which brings teachers together who teach the same subjects. They use ChatGPT like Google, introducing a new search with every query, unrelated to the previous query.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2022

citizenship/ethics/etiquette. language usage. how to understand domain-specific language associated with technology, i.e., ‘cloud’. The online program starts with a pre-test to determine the level of student knowledge, then provides exercises to backfill any holes in learning. analytical thinking. critical thinking.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2018

Where kids are being pitted against each other on the basis of spurious forms of testing, it sets up a false sense of antagonism between people that I think we should avoid. and testing companies have put a big emphasis on improving these standings to not much success. But like most things, there are good and bad versions of it.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Feature Bots Chatbots Primary function Automate tasks Communicate and provide information User interaction No direct user interaction Direct user interaction through natural language Typical use cases Customer service, marketing, social media Customer service, education, e-commerce Figure 1.

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