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What Learning Python Taught Me About Computer Science Education for Young Children

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The course—“COMP 10: Computer Science For All”—was designed specifically for non-computer science majors. Teaching assistants moderated an online discussion forum through Piazza , an online community building and discussion platform, and held recitations, which enabled students to ask questions and ponder ideas.

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A Surprising Approach to Science Labs for Online Students Boosts Access to STEM Fields

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When it comes to teaching science courses online, colleges are getting creative. But for very good reasons, there’s still a limit to the kind of hands-on science coursework that colleges can, ahem , deliver remotely. Institutions are using virtual reality programs to immerse students in laboratory simulations.

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What Learning Python Taught Me About Computer Science Education for Young Children

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The course—“COMP 10: Computer Science For All”—was designed specifically for non-computer science majors. Teaching assistants moderated an online discussion forum through Piazza , an online community building and discussion platform, and held recitations, which enabled students to ask questions and ponder ideas.

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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. But more than that, it would be important to teach his science students how to interact with the tool for their own careers, he first told EdSurge last April.

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The Next Frontier of Learning Engineering: AI That Teaches Other AI

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“No teacher is going to put in 1,000 person-hours of his or her time in order to get a benefit of 200 person-hours that he or she may save,” Ashok Goel, a professor of computer science and cognitive science at Georgia Institute of Technology, told EdSurge in an interview earlier this year.

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What One Startup Founder Learned in Her Quest to Change How Profs Communicate With Students

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After all, while some students might write in to their teacher for help, more-reserved students—perhaps more likely to be female students—might hang back or try to figure it all out by themselves. The most grounding thing was hearing from founders that it wasn't rocket science,” she said. She called her startup Piazza.

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Should Chatbots Tutor? Dissecting That Viral AI Demo With Sal Khan and His Son

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It’s an interaction that might have seemed like science fiction a couple of years ago. And we also heard from Dan Meyer, vice president of user growth at Amplify, a curriculum and assessment company, who writes a newsletter about teaching mathematics where he has raised objections to the idea of using AI chatbots as tutors.