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Teachers Believe That AI Is Here to Stay in Education. How It Should Be Taught Is Debatable.

ED Surge

Thats up from just 6 percent in 2024. I rarely say 100 percent to anything, but I think the answer is 100 percent, Adams, senior manager of Corporate Citizenship at Samsung, says of the proportion of students who will use AI at work in the future.

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Why ‘Brain Rot’ Can Hurt Learning — and How One District Is Kicking It Out of School

ED Surge

Id wanted to get a kids perspective on brain rot, Oxford University Press 2024 word of the year that describes both low-quality video content and what seemingly happens to the mind after watching too much of it. I was recently sitting with my friends 9-year-old son, Guillermo, as he teed up a YouTube video on the TV.

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How AI Can Foster Creative Thinking in the Classroom and Beyond

ED Surge

Johnsrud How do AI literacy and creative thinking equip students for future job market demands? The 2024 Work Trend Index Report found that 66 percent of industry leaders wouldn't hire someone without AI skills. In just a few years, AI skills have become essential. It's amazing how quickly this has become a hiring dealbreaker.

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Why Educators Should Lean in to AI to Better Support Students

ED Surge

To shift AI toward being a more neutral, individual-oriented tool, educators can commit to teaching and supporting the use of gender decoders, which are algorithms that detect a lack of gender inclusivity, and other modalities aimed at achieving design balance.

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His Teachers Showed Him Why History Matters. Now He Wants to Pay That Forward.

ED Surge

That gives me pause because I’m in a teacher education program preparing to go into teaching at a time when so much is changing. I came to Clemson University and the teacher education program during COVID-19. I'll be leaving in 2024. I don't think change is necessarily a bad thing. Change can also be hopeful.

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OPINION: Some advice for president-elect Donald Trump: Invest in AI literacy across K-12 education

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Donald Trumps election for a second term marks a significant shift in American policy direction, even though education efforts were not a key focus of the 2024 election. The education technology industry has already witnessed firsthand how AI helps teachers and engages students in ways that make learning more personalized.

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