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Persuasion as a Catalyst for Change

A Principal's Reflections

His presentation focused on the research presented in his new book To Sell is Human. All ideas and information can be fact checked immediately as society continues to become more connected by the day. There is no longer a monopoly on information. Instead of information imbalance there is information parity.

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

ED Surge

But the interviewer asking the questions wasn’t a human researcher — it was an AI chatbot. In the following, you will conduct an interview with a human respondent to find out the participant’s motivations and reasoning regarding their voting choice during the legislative elections on June 30, 2024, in France, a few days after the interview.”

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OPINION: Ask not what can be done with a humanities degree

The Hechinger Report

A just-under-the-surface skepticism about the usefulness of a humanities degree as job preparation. What can’t you do with a humanities degree?” So there was always an edge to that question every time it came up at family gatherings. Drawing on data from the U.S.

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Designing and Facilitating Learning for an Alternating A-B Hybrid Schedule

Catlin Tucker

I recommend teachers pull any learning activity that will benefit from human interaction, peer support, and social learning into synchronous time. For example, a social science teacher covering early American history could complement that work with a question like, “ What did it mean to be an American?

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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Digital Promise

The point is that the connections between humanities and science have been lost in today’s separation of disciplines. Indeed, a recent report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences discovered that humanities and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) training majors largely dwell in different silos.

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PROOF POINTS: Professors say high school math doesn’t prepare most students for their college majors

The Hechinger Report

None of that math may be necessary for the vast majority of undergraduates who don’t intend to major in science or another STEM field. I felt that it really gave me breadth as a human being.” This story also appeared in Mind/Shift But those same students don’t have many of the math skills that professors think they actually do need.

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

Subjects like this provide “a more responsible and informed approach that is about creating justice and about righting the wrongs of the past,” she says. Any time they see an opportunity to attack particularly the humanities and the social sciences, that’s what they’ll go after.”.