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How to Help Students Avoid Getting Duped Online — and by AI Chatbots

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That's really hard for academics to wrap their heads around — that the answer to every question is not just apply deep attention, but that attention is your limited resource. A large language model (LLM) like ChatGPT isn't thinking in any sense that we normally define thinking. This person is probably not worth my time.’

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Its 2019. So Why Do 21st-Century Skills Still Matter?

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Ken Kay, CEO of EdLeader21 Figuring out how schools should respond, however, remains an open question for many communities. Frameworks provide mental models, but “don’t usually help educators know what to do differently,” argues technology leadership expert Scott McLeod in his latest book, Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning.

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What If We Stopped Calling Them Classrooms?

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The mental model of the traditional classroom is obsolete,” he told the crowd of college technology leaders. “It The conference session was pitched as a debate on the question, “Is the Classroom Dead?” Of course coming up with new language is tough. I think we should change the vocabulary,” he added.

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