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Researchers Try Using AI Chatbots to Conduct Interviews for Social Science Studies

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The chatbot interviewer is part of an experiment by two professors at the London School of Economics, who argue that AI could change the game when it comes to measuring public opinion in a variety of fields. “It It could really accelerate the pace of research,” says Xavier Jaravel, one of the professors leading the experiment.

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This New Census Tool Can Recruit Students into the Liberal Arts

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With humanities and social science degree completions declining over the past 10 years, college liberal arts programs should consider sharing new U.S Census Bureau salary and industry data to teach prospective students about the programs’ strong economic returns. percent between 2020 to 2030. percent from 2020 to 2030.

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Do Online Degrees Lead to Jobs as Reliably as Traditional Ones?

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Two theories proposed by notable twentieth-century scholars stand out—one by James Samuel Coleman, an American sociologist who worked at the University of Chicago, and the other by French structuralist Pierre Bourdieu, who taught at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris.

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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

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In the end, Kelly of Harvard says, the dream is to have similar courses that integrate calculus concepts in life sciences, economics, social sciences, physical sciences and engineering taught at colleges and high schools. But it’s hardly a foregone conclusion.

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Educators Team Up to Respond to Sudden Rise of ChatGPT

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In the past few weeks, education groups, schools and colleges have teamed up to offer resources for educators and draft policy papers in response to the sudden rise of so-called generative AI tools, chatbots that can compose answers to questions that sound like they are written by a human.

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Announcing Our New EdSurge Voices of Change Writing Fellows

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Matt Homrich-Knieling (he/him), youth organizer with MIStudentsDream, a Detroit-based coalition focused on immigration and education justice, and former middle school English language arts teacher. Avery Thrush (she/her), sixth grade science teacher at STEM Prep Academy in Nashville, Tennessee.