eSchool News

MAY 6, 2024

The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Commission on Artificial Intelligence in Education is chaired by South Carolina Gov. We have a plan and we’re ready to progress that plan,” said Calvin McNeil, an Advanced Placement computer science instructor with the University of Florida. Henry McMaster and is co-chaired by Brad D.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 21, 2024

Like many of our colleagues, the emergence of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence sites initially created a mild panic. Students regularly shared they were not interested in using a generative intelligence site to complete their work—they were not ready to trust AI with their learning, and more specifically, course grades.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Once imagined only in science fiction, artificial intelligence now powers much of the technology we interact with every day—from smart home devices to cognitive assistants to media recommenders. Many teachers and education leaders select and use AI-powered tools despite little background in computer science or artificial intelligence.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As the nation’s premier middle school science competition, the annual 3M Young Scientist Challenge invites students in grades 5-8 to compete for an exclusive mentorship with a 3M scientist, a $25,000 grand prize, and the chance to earn the title of “America’s Top Young Scientist.” 3M.com or on Twitter @3M or @3MNews. .

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2025

Petals and Pixels: Flowers in Tech-Savvy Classrooms Imagine a classroom where sunflowers nod on a windowsill during a coding lesson, or a science lab where students dissect daisies while a tablet app tracks their findings. Daisies : Simple and sturdy, great for science dissections. Theyre a bridge to community too.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 21, 2024

Like many of our colleagues, the emergence of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence sites initially created a mild panic. Students regularly shared they were not interested in using a generative intelligence site to complete their work—they were not ready to trust AI with their learning, and more specifically, course grades.

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Intelligence Critical Thinking Learning Assignments 103

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

During Engineers Week, engineering societies, universities, companies, and other organizations organize workshops, competitions, seminars, outreach programs to schools, career fairs, and networking events. Looking for resources for your students? Looking for resources for your students?

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Emerging technologies, like artificial intelligence, may be able to help. Artificial intelligence to personalize, not standardize assessments Technology has long shaped schools’ approach to assessment.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

For education startups, the National Science Foundation has provided what may be the closest thing: upwards of $20 million every year to support their research and development efforts. There is no such thing as free money. There’s plenty of paperwork involved, of course. It is not in the spirit of NSF’s own guidelines or mission.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

During Engineers Week, engineering societies, universities, companies, and other organizations organize workshops, competitions, seminars, outreach programs to schools, career fairs, and networking events. Looking for resources for your students? Looking for resources for your students?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2021

the winner of the 2021 3M Young Scientist Challenge ( #YoungScientist ), the nation’s premier middle school science competition. Sarah created Spark Care+, an innovation that personalizes music therapy treatment for mental health improvement using artificial intelligence (AI), skin response (GSR) and photoplethysmography (PPG).

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

It’s an interaction that might have seemed like science fiction a couple of years ago. We've always worked on software that personalizes things, videos — I still make videos — and exercises, teacher tools, in a more traditional sense, and now we're moving toward this artificial intelligence world.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

One of the $1,000 scholarship winners, Selina Tran from Fontbonne The Early College of Boston, took AP Computer Science Principles , AP Computer Science A , and AP Statistics. Her choice to take a VHS Learning Sociology course led her to discover she had an affinity for social science, something she had never taken before.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2019

For better or worse, advanced technologies like artificial intelligence has captured the public’s, policymakers’, and big business’ imaginations. I see four AI use and ethics trends set to disrupt classrooms and conference rooms. Public concern will lead to AI regulations. But we must understand this tech too.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

But as EdSurge has previously noted, the science behind speech recognition for children has begun to come of age, enabling educational applications that have piqued the interest of edtech developers , educators and researchers alike. In prior years, such a vision may have seemed far fetched.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

Many colleges, aware of the changing needs of the student population today, are installing collaborative maker spaces, student-run print shops, convenience stores, and in a science-fiction departure at UC Berkeley, robot-run food delivery to busy students. A fairly common occurrence at many of the nation’s colleges and universities.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Developed with learning science, psychometrics and artificial intelligence, Imbellus is a digital, scenario-based assessment set in the context of the natural world. Kantar wanted to break all the rules of assessment. The vision she had then, and is in pursuit of now, is a radical one. But it has support—and not just from investors.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2025

Education in the 21st century is obsessed with assessing children, attempting to measure every aspect of their intelligence, learning and growth. In the book, you frame relational intelligence as the foundation of children's healthy development and eventual success. The way I define relational intelligence is fairly simple, actually.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2025

From customer service chatbots to personalized shopping recommendations, artificial intelligence has become integral to our daily lives. Equity/Fairness How can we ensure that those who are furthest from opportunity benefit as much as those with more access, power and privilege? But we must also address teacher readiness to succeed.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

But Miller and other skeptics wonder whether the science behind these tools is sound, and ask if students’ data should exert so much control over their destinies. Strategies for Fair and Effective College Admissions,” says she’s not sold on handing admissions decisions over to technology. Yet Zwick, author of the book “Who Gets In?

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2017

Rose, age 42, is a developmental psychologist who studies development, intelligence and learning and teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Rather than compare achievement or intelligence to a single number, Rose writes that a multidimensional perspective can set us all up for success. So everybody is a special snowflake?

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Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence tool that was released in November 2022. Let Artificial Intelligence (AI) do the hard work while we focus on the best parts of teaching and learning: creative thinking, problem solving, and developing 21 st century learning skills. Every time I use ChatGPT, I am amazed at its capability.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Climate change is front and center among our concerns, but so is automation and artificial intelligence. That may be one of the themes through which you learn about science, economics and geography. So rather than studying geography, science, history, and economics separately, you integrate these around a theme.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has ushered in a new era for community college education, presenting both exciting possibilities and complex challenges. Emotional Intelligence: AI lacks the emotional intelligence and empathy necessary to provide effective support and guidance to students.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has ushered in a new era for community college education, presenting both exciting possibilities and complex challenges. Emotional Intelligence: AI lacks the emotional intelligence and empathy necessary to provide effective support and guidance to students.

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Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 109

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Adaptive Learning As with a pinwheel set in motion, insights from many disciplines—artificial intelligence, cognitive science, linguistics, educational psychology and data analytics—have come together to form a relatively new field known as learning science, propelling advances in a new personalized practice—adaptive learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 8, 2023

Most people believe basic human qualities like intelligence and talent are fixed traits: nature supersedes nurture. If they fail at the Science Fair, they’ll fall in love with art instead. .” So nearly everyone agrees this type of cerebral approach is important to real learning but few know how to make it happen.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

My children are now on regular video chats, as is my husband, a middle school science teacher. A fair warning when playing Minecraft Earth, especially while walking: The app is a significant battery hog unless you turn on battery saver mode. I felt the pressure to keep up, so I decided to start mining for items around my town.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence tool that was released in November 2022. Let Artificial Intelligence (AI) do the hard work while we focus on the best parts of teaching and learning: creative thinking, problem solving, and developing 21 st century learning skills. Every time I use ChatGPT, I am amazed at its capability.

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Education Academic Integrity Fairness Exams 98

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

This philosophy does not provide equity and fairness. Students were presented with the article at their level and it allowed the basic skills students to hold an intelligent conversation and generate their own questions about the text. Our science teachers use it, our social studies teachers use it. Literacy is everywhere.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Cultivating this mindset is vital for students as it offers them a broader perspective and a sense of fairness, empowering them to confront challenges with resilience and optimism. Emotional intelligence: An appreciative mindset motivates students to be more understanding and empathetic toward their peers and others around them.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

The race to outsmart artificial intelligence is on as educators try to prevent the coming semester from devolving into, as one professor put it, a “ homework apocalypse.” Still, he knows that some computer-science professors want their intro students to learn to code without AI support.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

Our basic understanding of science, mathematics, humanities and the social sciences is being reshaped at a dizzying pace. Not only do we need to upskill in our current jobs, but we need to be mindful that the jobs that really matter in an era of automation and artificial intelligence may not be those that we think they are.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Cultivating this mindset is vital for students as it offers them a broader perspective and a sense of fairness, empowering them to confront challenges with resilience and optimism. Emotional intelligence: An appreciative mindset motivates students to be more understanding and empathetic toward their peers and others around them.

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Instructors Students Motivation Intelligence 114

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

With the students’ ease of access to artificial intelligence tools and the unprecedented speed and accuracy that these tools can generate assignments for students, teaching professionals have to respond immediately and effectively to this new reality so they ensure that what students deliver is their own production, not that of an AI tool.

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Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 133

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

While ChatGPT seems to have sprung up overnight to dominate current headlines, legislative discussions, and professional debates—ranging from doomsday predictions to practical celebrations related to improved efficiency with menial labor tasks—the introduction of this online Artificial Intelligence (AI) program can be traced back to 2018.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

With the students’ ease of access to artificial intelligence tools and the unprecedented speed and accuracy that these tools can generate assignments for students, teaching professionals have to respond immediately and effectively to this new reality so they ensure that what students deliver is their own production, not that of an AI tool.

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