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High-speed internet is a basic necessity–not a luxury–when it comes to learning

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Americans overwhelmingly believe that high-speed internet access is a basic necessity, according to a new survey from Kajeet. Additionally, this need for connectivity is not new, as nearly 75 percent of respondents believed high-speed internet was important even before the pandemic began more than two years ago. For these 14.5

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Easy to find, not always true: Helping students evaluate AI-generated content

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The purpose of the information (and the algorithm behind it) Students must learn to question not just why a source was created, but why it was shown to them. With deepfake photographs proliferating the internet, using a reputable image data base is essential, and students must be taught how and where to find such resources.

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How to Kidproof the Internet

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How to keep children safe online is the most popular question parents ask at my school. They want to know about firewalls, filters, kidsafe desktops, nannycams, cyberbullying, internet privacy, and everything in between. Should they keep their children away from computers or just off the internet? Ask questions.

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Millions of Students With Home Internet Access Still Can’t Get Online

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Though about 12 million students in this country still lack any internet access at all—a problem cast into relief during the pandemic—there is good news: That number is steadily shrinking. A plurality of those disconnected families rely on mobile phones to get onto the internet. Others still use dial-up or have no internet at all.

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How the Internet Neighborhood is Like Any Other Community

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Thanks to the pervasiveness of easy-to-use and free web-based tools, most teachers have one or more computers in the classroom with internet access. The question is: How do they thrive in the digital world? They don’t realize that every step they take across the internet landscape is tracked and never forgotten.

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4 ways to use ChatGPT in your STEM classroom

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Using Desmos was seen as being particularly egregious, as educators feared that students may have access to the internet and may surf the web while they should be learning or during summative assessments. A few years later, the discussion changed to an argument about the pros and cons of using a Desmos calculator on their classroom iPads.

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Can AI help reduce math anxiety?

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The 16- to 18-year-old students queried are participants in this years MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge (M3 Challenge), an annual internet-based, intensive math modeling contest organized by SIAM. The survey polled 1,500 11th and 12th grade students from across the U.S. How can AI help reduce math anxiety?

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