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Both Humans and Technology Are Noisy: How Do We Move Forward?

Digital Promise

Over the years, I’ve been involved in developing research programs and projects in education technology, games, and virtual reality. As I’ve developed my thinking around funding and conducting research in learning technologies, I always come back to an unpublished technical report written by one of my early mentors in the Navy.

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Federal Government Launches First-of-Its-Kind Center for Early Childhood Workforce

ED Surge

And the early childhood educators who remain in the field have done so despite low wages, rising inflation and high-stress working conditions. It felt like the right time for the federal government to have an explicit focus on this — and one that is cross cutting,” Hamm tells EdSurge. government.

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Want Students to Flourish? Teach Human Ecology

ED Surge

It protected health and mental stability and delivered the confidence that you had some control over human failure, at least within your own four walls. Home Econ then became Family and Consumer Science, and now it’s called Human Ecology. Schools have an educational obligation to teach people about meeting human needs and coexisting.

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OPINION: America should learn from Europe and adopt tougher regulations on artificial intelligence

The Hechinger Report

This will require action from all sides — policymakers, education leaders and education technology developers themselves. When it comes to AI, we can’t afford the same wait-and-see approach many governments took to regulating social media. I now also chair Ireland’s first A.I.

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How a New Approach to Early Childhood Could Avert a ‘Public Policy Catastrophe’

ED Surge

The period from prenatal to age 3 is a uniquely consequential window of human development during which the fundamental architecture of the brain is “wired.” Our two major political parties have gone back and forth about the size of government. And to me this is a slam dunk case for how we shrink the size of government.

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What If Finding Child Care Online Were as Easy as Making a Dinner Reservation?

ED Surge

Making Connections Iowa’s old search system could tell families where early care and education programs were. That wasn’t the issue, says Ryan Page, director of child care for the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services. The problem was families couldn’t see availability. “I I jokingly call us a supply optimizer,” she says.

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Is It Fair and Accurate for AI to Grade Standardized Tests?

ED Surge

News outlets have detailed the rollout by the Texas Education Agency of a natural language processing program, a form of artificial intelligence, to score the written portion of standardized tests administered to students in third grade and up. Like many AI-related projects, the idea started as a way to cut the cost of hiring humans.

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