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Is It Ethical to Run Learning Experiments On Students Without Their Knowledge?

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Providing the Spark Jenessa Peterson, director of learning engineering at the Learning Agency, touched off the discussion in a Google Group run by her organization with the question: Is A/B testing between two benign conditions without participants' knowledge OK? Peterson asks on the message board. We’re always running experiments.

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How to Become a Citizen Scientist

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Citizen scientists come from all walks of life and have made invaluable contributions to scientific knowledge and understanding. From pondering over simple natural processes such as the transitions between day and night to complex genomic studies , science has come a long way.

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ChatGPT in the Co-creation Process for Applied Research Projects 

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Nevertheless, educators are already employing ChatGPT and other AI-assisted tools for skills enhancement in teaching and research (Crompton and Burke, 2023). In their research projects, my students co-create at three levels: student-client, student-supervisor, and student/supervisor-AI assistant. Frontiers in Environmental Science 10.

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Taking a Tech Break and Unplugging From Classroom Technology

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Increases Focus and Attention Numerous studies have examined the impact that screen time has had on a child’s attention and concentration and have found that excessive screen time is associated with attention problems such as distracted focus and reduced concentration. Here are a few of the benefits.

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Teaching Through a Lens of Compassion: Strengthening Pre-service Teachers’ Math Muscles

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Until one day, you find yourself studying as a preservice teacher, enrolled in a mathematics content course that you are required to pass to obtain your teaching degree. By acknowledging the individual experiences PSTs bring, we hope to foster a sense of community where co-construction of knowledge can take place.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

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Another thing I’ve observed in higher education is a fishbowl, where students come and swim around in our courses and in our academic curriculum, but they fail to do anything with that knowledge outside of the context of the learning environment itself. For classroom use, participants use a camera to respond to a prompt.

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ChatGPT in the Co-creation Process for Applied Research Projects 

Faculty Focus

Nevertheless, educators are already employing ChatGPT and other AI-assisted tools for skills enhancement in teaching and research (Crompton and Burke, 2023). In their research projects, my students co-create at three levels: student-client, student-supervisor, and student/supervisor-AI assistant. Frontiers in Environmental Science 10.

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