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New group targets AI skills in education and the workforce

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The question is, are we going to have people equipped to fill those jobs?” 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. This isn’t the age of Rosie the Robot taking over jobs–there will be jobs.

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The Case For Applying Cognitive Psychology in Your Classroom

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With teachers, parents, administrators, taxpayers, politicians, employers, academics and students themselves all concerned about learning success, it is no surprise that the questions asked and answers proposed about which education practices are best differ widely. Our research most often begins in the basic laboratory level.

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Free Remote Learning Resources for STEM Teachers and Students

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With these solutions, teachers can help students continue to form a deep understanding of key scientific concepts while outside the classroom and laboratory.”. Students can perform their own analysis of the sample data and answer questions based on their results.

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How Teachers Are Pondering the Ethics of AI

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A biology laboratory coordinator in an integrated science department at Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges, Kohn perceived the tool as useful. That can lead to missteps, like, in his opinion, regarding chatbots as a replacement for instructors or paraprofessionals. It promised to increase efficiency, he argued.

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The Secret to Learning Any New Language May Be Your Motivation

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That’s the kind of question asked by researchers who study motivation. And that’s what instructors strive to offer their service-member students at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, which looks out over Monterey Bay. “We can’t teach them if they don’t come back.” What propels a person to apply that effort?

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How the Pandemic May Help More Students See Themselves as Scientists

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To create the videos, we filmed mentor and mentee pairs of students who identify as Black, Latino/a, South Asian, and Persian as they shared lunches and laboratories while studying material science, chemistry, microbiological organisms and neurological brain functions. Courtesy of Ed Madison.

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Lightboards as a Learning Tool in Adult Asynchronous Online Learning

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A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards require minimal instructor training. Some lightboards can be setup to be one button studios controlled exclusively by the instructor.