Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

At present, the smartphone is simply a device for quickly looking up facts, but as AI agents, like Alexa and Google Nest, continue to improve, these personal assistants will become more useful” (p. To tap into the full potential of AI-driven education, schools and institutions must prioritize building solid technological infrastructure.

Intelligence 120

Intelligence Ethics Feedback Assignments 120

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Not everyone thinks that’s possible, of course, and even Cavanagh, vice provost for digital learning at the University of Central Florida, admits that edtech can spark plenty of new ethical challenges along the way. If she had wanted to go back to school. How does that work? I guess it depends on the use case that you're talking about.

Education 166

Education Quizzes Writing Online Learning 166

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

At present, the smartphone is simply a device for quickly looking up facts, but as AI agents, like Alexa and Google Nest, continue to improve, these personal assistants will become more useful” (p. To tap into the full potential of AI-driven education, schools and institutions must prioritize building solid technological infrastructure.

Intelligence 107

Intelligence Ethics Feedback Assignments 107

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

Just as professors wouldn’t bring in a teaching assistant they couldn’t talk to or collaborate with, they shouldn’t adopt interactive tools that are mysterious and locked. And they came to Carnegie Mellon looking for other schools that would be interested in putting all of their course materials online—to drive that open access.

Teaching 93

Teaching Ethics Textbooks Laboratory 93

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

We invited three guests: Candace Thille, an assistant professor of education at Stanford Graduate School of Education; Mark Milliron, co-founder and chief learning officer at Civitas Learning; and Kyle Bowen, educational technology services director at Penn State University. Above all, I do think there’s this ethic of Do No Harm.

Learning 85

Learning Intelligence Science Questions 85

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

He hopes AI bots—such as his most well-known, a virtual teaching assistant named Jill Watson —may help to ease the entrenched tensions that make education such a “ wicked problem ” to solve. The professor also acknowledged the many ethical questions raised by such efforts. You don't go to school to learn how to tie a shoelace.

Mental Models 180

Mental Models Education Ethics Learning 180

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

I'm the world's first android teaching assistant. So she relies on support from William Barry, the philosophy instructor who records her delivering brief lectures for his undergraduate class on the ethics of emerging technology. But she also reflects some of my biases, obviously, because she’s my teaching assistant,” Barry says.

Teachers 153

Teachers Education Instructors Intelligence 153