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How Teachers Are Pondering the Ethics of AI

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It’s also somewhat eclipsed conversations about the ethics of how these tools are implemented, according to one observer. The study , “How Teachers Navigate the Ethical Landscape of AI in Their Classrooms,” interviewed 248 K-12 teachers. He cautioned that he couldn’t fully replace his human teaching assistants with a chatbot.

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New Competition Wants to Bring Ethics to Undergraduate Computer Science Classrooms

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Much has been said and written about the need to teach ethics in computer science education—especially in light of major controversies such as with Facebook and Cambridge Analytica and broader concerns about the intersection of tech companies and politics.

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The Future of Canvas

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Steve Daly Ryan Lufkin Shiren Vijiasingam More Highlights from InstructureCon23: The company and Khan Academy announced a partnership that brings Canvas, the anchor of the Instructure Learning Platform, and Khan Academy’s AI-powered student tutor and teaching assistant, Khanmigo.

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That Class Where Stanford Profs Projected Hundreds of Zoom Students on a Video Wall

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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. At best, he says, “you get some sense of whether it’s going well or poorly.”

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How AI can transform lesson planning and assessment

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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. Educators can use these tools to quickly create engaging and topically-relevant lesson plans aligned with the latest innovations in their chosen fields.

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Teachers: It’s time to make friends with AI

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AI-assisted support as an apprenticeship As students dig deeper into the topics we study–of poverty, race, gender, and ethics–they realize just how complex they really are. As one of my students put it, I didnt realize that ChatGPT is actually there for me to use as a teaching assistant.

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What Gartner’s Top Tech Trends for 2019 Mean for Education

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School districts have already seen some of these tools enter the educational space, with innovations such as AI-enabled teaching assistant programs and advanced data collection and analysis to improve student assessments. Digital Ethics and Privacy. Autonomous Things. Augmented Analytics. AI-Driven Development. Digital Twins.

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