Researchers detect “cognitive surrender” in answering math word problems, with many students seemingly completing assignments faster while learning less from them, according to an article in The Hechinger Report. This conclusion comes from one of
Technology should make teachers’ work lives easier and their impact more powerful, not have kids spend more time on screens, writes Abbas Manjee, co-founder of Kiddom, an education technology company, and a former high school
My teaching tenure of almost three decades, mostly teaching seniors about civics, has overlapped with the rise of trends now engulfing our educational system: I have watched my students embrace smartphones, social media, online learning
Concerns keep growing that students’ critical thinking skills are weakening due to the use of artificial intelligence, and media literacy is at the center of how to address those concerns, according to an Education Week article.
Students don’t have to use an artificial intelligence program to learn about AI, according to an Education Week article. “Unplugged AI” leverages paper and other analog tools to teach about rapidly advancing technology. “Unplugged” activities
A recent survey illustrates the rapid growth of artificial intelligence guidelines in K-12 schools, though implementation still faces numerous barriers, according to an article in EdSurge. Almost four out of five districts (79%) now have
Offering AI tutoring tools to students is not enough to create meaningful engagement and improve reading outcomes, according to a recent Stanford University study cited in a K-12 Dive article. Only about 61% in one school
Educators are exploring ways to leverage AI to support social-emotional learning, according to an article in Education Week. “AI should reduce the barriers to human connection and really make a point to allow students to
A new privacy debate is emerging around more sensitive information that could be harvested by AI-powered tools: neural data, writes Julia Gilban-Cohen, a staff writer for the Center for Digital Education, in a GovTech article.
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