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Does the use of artificial intelligence (AI) really help students learn? Is it better or worse or just different than more traditional and tested teaching methods? Should it not be incorporated into K-6 education? K-12? Is higher education the best place for using AI as part of the teaching and learning process? Is the endless hype and hyperbole that surrounds AI in education only a…
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Artificial intelligence (AI) and its impacts on education (K-12 and higher ed) … Follow the developing story at — Artificial Intelligence and Education Recent additions: *AI and the death of student writing: The move away from true hands-on scholarship feels tragic (The Chronicle of Higher Education; requires subscription) *The Handwriting Revolution: Five semesters after ChatGPT changed education forever, some professors are taking their classes back…
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One of the most important parts of any search for information–whether academic or for personal reasons–has always been to think critically about the information you find; to be skeptical, to not assume the information must be true and/or objective just because it happens to come from a particular source or person. No one is entirely objective. And we/human beings are easily misled. Our entire digital…
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a ubiquitous topic. Looking at social media and technology news gives the impression that the world abounds in AI experts and superusers. But that is misleading. For most of us, including those of us at the libraries of higher ed institutions facing financial and enrollment challenges, AI can seem an especially daunting topic. We should pay attention. After all, will AI…
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Keep up-to-date on science topics that matter to you. Avoid being inundated by hundreds or thousands of articles or misled by out-of-date AI-generated summaries. Get current science news from five well-known, respected sources. For Alzheimer’s disease, climate change, cancer, and other topics, use CuratedSci. Questions? Please let me know (engelk@grinnell.edu).
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Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse, University of Pittsburgh (from The Conversation) Nearly three-quarters of high school students do not get enough sleep on school nights, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The National Sleep Foundation recommends that teens sleep for eight to 10 hours per night. But various factors hinder this, including early school start times and shifts in adolescents’ circadian rhythms – the biological…
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Naomi S. Baron, American University (from The Conversation) When the company OpenAI launched its new artificial intelligence program, ChatGPT, in late 2022, educators began to worry. ChatGPT could generate text that seemed like a human wrote it. How could teachers detect whether students were using language generated by an AI chatbot to cheat on a writing assignment? As a linguist who studies the effects of…
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Records from the Science Primary Literature database provide (where available) free full text access to journal and magazine articles (example). These links are also available through the Strategian: Science Magazine and Science Bibliographies Online. Strategian provides secure and stable access to the full text (links at other sites may come and go). Questions? Please let me know (engelk@grinnell.edu).
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“Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that are free of cost and access barriers, and which also carry legal permission for open use. Generally, this permission is granted by the use of an open license (for example, Creative Commons licenses) which allows anyone to freely use, adapt and share the resource—anytime, anywhere.” “An OER can be any teaching & learning resource…
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Over the years, research has shown that going to preschool can benefit children immediately in many ways–building and strengthening academic skills plus social and personal skills like self-control and listening. Other research makes a strong economic argument and ties quality preschool to significant impacts later in life: more employment, higher earnings, more home ownership, less crime. Despite these potential benefits, preschool education is not consistently…
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