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How Teachers Are Pondering the Ethics of AI

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Perhaps more surprisingly, the study also found that teachers evaluate the ethical implications of these tools in different ways depending on their gender. Artificial Tools, Human Judgments When EdSurge first spoke to Kohn, the lab coordinator, he was using ChatGPT as a teacher’s assistant in biology courses. The main findings?

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5 FETC 2024 sessions that grabbed our attention

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Depth in learning comes from focusing on critical thinking, evaluation of information, and tapping into students’ intrinsic curiosity. In the standardized testing era, students are too often asked to memorize facts and/or recall ideas without being expected to retain a deeper understanding of information.

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Play Is Disappearing From Kindergarten. It’s Hurting Kids.

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Initially ecstatic to start school, Truman was now red in the face from crying while my teaching assistant and I practically pried him off his mother’s leg. We were a few weeks into my first year teaching kindergarten and I had begun to think of my classroom as a warm and inviting space.

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Artificial Intelligence, Authentic Impact: How Educational AI is Making the Grade

EdTech Magazine

And in New Jersey, Slackwood Elementary School is using an AI-assisted teaching assistant called Happy Numbers to identify where students are struggling with math benchmarks and provide personalized assistance.

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How to Motivate Students to Actually Do Homework and Reading

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Susan Blum, author of the book, "Ungrading" Michelle Miller encourages us in “ Minds Online: Teaching Effectively With Technology ” to not feel like instructors have to evaluate each and every thing that a student submits to one of our classes. And I sometimes delegate some portion of the work to a teaching assistant.

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What College Students Wish Faculty and Admins Knew About Teaching

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I wish there were better ways of sharing my concerns other than at the end of the semester when you fill out those [teacher evaluations]. Do students take those evaluations seriously or do faculty take those evaluations seriously? I see for example some professors doing an informal course evaluation midway of the semester.

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How Much Artificial Intelligence Should There Be in the Classroom?

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We can build robot teachers, or even robot teaching assistants. If we can let every student and let every parent, and every teacher nearby to teach the machine, it can get smarter very quick. If the machine can learn from the internet and if everybody teaches the machine, that would be out of control. But should we?