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STEM programs can’t keep up with AI–let’s focus on Power Skills

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Key points: Schools should focus on teaching skills that have enduring value See also: Here’s why STEM Career Days are a great idea See also: Building a STEM pipeline needs to start in kindergarten For more news on STEM learning, visit eSN’s STEM & STEAM page First came headlines about AI-driven cheating.

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

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The first was defining,” he says, with experts generating a laundry list of skills and competencies considered essential for students’ future success. ISTE Standards for Students highlight digital citizenship and computational thinking as key skills that will enable students to thrive as empowered learners.

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

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In fact, it's probably the skill that you apply the most because the internet is relatively unfiltered. You have a lot of great metaphors in the book, and you argue that a problem is that people aren’t using the right kind of mental model to properly evaluate information online. And so you've got to go elsewhere.

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ISTE 2015: (Re)designing tech-infused lessons for deeper thinking

Dangerously Irrelevant

The purpose of this workshop is to help administrators and teachers assess when higher-order thinking skills and student agency factors are (or are not) present in classroom uses of technology by students and teachers. Purpose and objectives. Unfortunately, each of these is limited in terms of utilization as a lesson (re)design framework.

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Why Education Is a ‘Wicked Problem’ for Learning Engineers to Solve

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But in some sense, tying my shoelaces and brushing my teeth are perhaps two of the most important skills that I've learned. What kind of mental models do humans build of AI agents? You can build an agent and introduce it, but humans will immediately build a mental model of that AI agent.