Educational Technology and Social Science

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

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

As the legislative election in France approached this summer, a research team decided to reach out to hundreds of citizens to interview them about their views on key issues. But the interviewer asking the questions wasn’t a human researcher — it was an AI chatbot.

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This New Census Tool Can Recruit Students into the Liberal Arts

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APRIL 4, 2022

With humanities and social science degree completions declining over the past 10 years, college liberal arts programs should consider sharing new U.S For example, social science graduates at the Indiana college depicted in the following graph enter the “finance and insurance” industry more frequently than any other industry.

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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

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. Kelly has taught a similar modeling course for economics and social sciences for the last few years.)

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Is There Still Time to Build Equity into Virtual Reality Edtech?

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Sharing VR Resources At the University of Maryland, Ray runs the Lab for Applied Social Science Research, which uses virtual reality simulations to train police officers how to handle tough situations. “You have to build a pipeline, a labor force, that has the skill set to be able to do this,” Ray says.

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College Writing Centers Worry AI Could Replace Them

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AUGUST 12, 2024

Students may be coming with an assignment from an engineering class or a social sciences class, she says, which means writing center staff can build connections with colleagues across the college.

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What 3 Charts Can Tell Us About College Graduation Trends

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MAY 26, 2022

Department of Education College Scorecard | Data visualization by Veronica Duenas What kind of degrees are students graduating with? Business, health and social sciences are the top three programs, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Major Question Source: U.S.

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To Address Climate Anxiety, Consider How Students Get Their News on the Issue

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Class discussions about climate change news can help students see connections between their news practices and their academic work, while showing that familiarity with news is a social practice and a form of civic engagement. There is still much work to be done to help students translate climate anxiety into shared action.

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Educators Team Up to Respond to Sudden Rise of ChatGPT

ED Surge

MAY 11, 2023

The University of Michigan, in partnership with Coursera, is running a free online “ teach-out ” for educators and others who want to understand how AI chatbots work and what impact they might have on society, led by professors across disciplines including social sciences, medicine, computer science and others.

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Bringing Better STEM Education to the Rural South

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APRIL 19, 2024

The most important thing for me is to do social science that can be replicated by other people,” Schneider says, adding she hopes more HBCUs will join the project. Once implemented, researchers will also collect data and study the curriculum’s impact using the same methods as in previous studies.

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Inviting Community College Students to See Themselves as University Researchers

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I’ve never been told, ‘You got this. Good job, I’m proud of you.’ That’s something I got from him all the time.”

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Service-Learning Can Be the Bridge to Social Emotional Learning. Educators Should Embrace It.

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Integrated Actions Civics Project: developed between The UC Berkeley History Social Science Project and the Santa Clara and San Mateo county offices of education, this project offers tested strategies to support the integration of civic engagement into classrooms.

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

ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

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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To Serve All of Our Students, 'We Have to Do Something Different'

ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

And finally, sometimes it makes sense to set our local contexts aside and explore the universality of a particular content area such as math, or physics, or social science. But too often, we fail to center our local contexts, and to explore all of the assets that our neighborhoods and communities could bring to our educational mission.

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Why My Students Had to Embrace Their Imperfections to Learn a New Language

ED Surge

JULY 26, 2023

I am a social sciences and Spanish teacher and a mother of three children, and with that comes the social and self-imposed pressure to show that all the pieces of my life fit together like a shiny mosaic. I would like to believe this is a personal battle, but this drive toward perfectionism also impacts our students.

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A Decade Into Experiments With Gamification, Edtech Rethinks How to Motivate Learners

ED Surge

MAY 9, 2023

“Educators are already using CoCo to teach sophisticated concepts in geometry through interactive art projects,” she says. “Or Students have also been asked to use the platform to make presentations for English or social science classes, she adds. Or a lesson on variables through building a game where you have to keep score.”

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What Could Web3 Mean for Education?

ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Called Crypto, Culture, & Society , the group organizes courses that bring knowledge from the arts, humanities and social sciences into conversations about the Web3 world being dreamed into reality. But Bhaumik Patel thinks the learning DAO he’s part of puts a twist on the concept.

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PROOF POINTS: A spate of recent studies on the “Google effect” adds to evidence that the internet is making us dumber

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AUGUST 7, 2023

In a 2018 article , 24 researchers declared that the Google effect was one of many dubious claims in social sciences. That same year, the veracity of the Google effect was debated at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, where scholars described repeated failures.

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Announcing Our New EdSurge Voices of Change Writing Fellows

ED Surge

JULY 20, 2022

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.

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To Address Climate Anxiety, Consider How Students Get Their News on the Issue

Educators Team Up to Respond to Sudden Rise of ChatGPT

Bringing Better STEM Education to the Rural South

Inviting Community College Students to See Themselves as University Researchers

Service-Learning Can Be the Bridge to Social Emotional Learning. Educators Should Embrace It.

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

To Serve All of Our Students, 'We Have to Do Something Different'

Why My Students Had to Embrace Their Imperfections to Learn a New Language

A Decade Into Experiments With Gamification, Edtech Rethinks How to Motivate Learners

What Could Web3 Mean for Education?

PROOF POINTS: A spate of recent studies on the “Google effect” adds to evidence that the internet is making us dumber

Announcing Our New EdSurge Voices of Change Writing Fellows

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