Health workers are using smartphones and AI tools to spot low-birth-weight babies in India. usinesses and nonprofits are finding novel ways to employ artificial intelligence in the developing world, using the tools to improve agriculture yields, infant health care, and … Continue reading How artificial intelligence is helping farmers and babies in the developing world
Last month I kicked off a training on ways to use language as an asset to unleash the critical thinking potential of English learners with a question: Why do so many educators struggle to teach critical thinking to English learners? … Continue reading Forget Implicit Bias, Let’s Talk about Explicit Bias in Education
Intentionally fostering collaboration in the classroom has a variety of benefits, including increasing students’ level of academic engagement. Collaboration and socialization are key aspects of any workplace. Professionals across disciplines and industries collaborate, debate, and share. In the classroom, healthy socialization … Continue reading Creating Space for Collaboration
Excerpted from “Four-Dimensional Education: The Competencies Learners Need to Succeed,” by Charles Fadel, Bernie Trilling and Maya Bialik. The following is from the section, “Metacognition—Reflecting on Learning Goals, Strategies, and Results.” Metacognition, simply put, is the process of thinking about thinking. It … Continue reading The Role of Metacognition in Learning and Achievement
Students can learn how to use social media responsibly through teacher modeling and shared responsibility for posting. Given the reality that most teens have smartphones and use social media daily, how can schools help support digital citizenship and the ethical and responsible … Continue reading Using a Social Media Account With Your Class
The council lasted barely more than a week, after thousands of Google employees signed a petition calling for the removal of one member. The original plan: The Advanced Technology External Advisory Council was set up to “guide responsible development of AI” projects within Google. It had eight members, … Continue reading Google has now cancelled its AI ethics board after a backlash from staff
Modern scientific discoveries can shake the foundational truths we hold as a society; and new brain science, in particular, raises interesting and difficult ethical issues. Neuroethics is the field that aims to address these problems head on, as a guide … Continue reading Neuroethics Asks the Difficult Questions
In the past two decades, autism diagnoses have soared—but new research shows that girls have frequently been overlooked, leaving them without crucial support. On a recent hot summer afternoon, eight women sat at a table drawing and crafting at Felicity House, … Continue reading The Missing Autistic Girls
There are many ways parents can use technology and video games to motivate learning and facilitate family time with joint media use. The Pokémon Go craze, which got 21 million active players to get outside and explore in the real world, is … Continue reading Best Free Apps That Take Kids from “Screen” to “Green”
MEMORIES OF MIDDLE school likely conjure up all sorts of thoughts and emotions. “Productive STEM learning” is probably low on the list. But on Tuesday, Lego is introducing a new coding and robotics set called Spike Prime that it hopes will break through … Continue reading LEGO’S NEWEST SET LETS KIDS BUILD ROBOTS—AND CONFIDENCE
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