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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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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. His research into influence and behavioral science allows us to piece together more effective ways to persuade, or embrace change, as I would prefer. ASCD 2014 Change Daniel Pink Leadership To Sell is Human'

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How a Portrait Project Showed Teachers Through a Whole New Lens

Cult of Pedagogy

Dan, Social Science Johanna, Manager of School Facilities Ashley, English Tiffany, Math When I first started shooting, I tried to emulate Kathy Ryan’s style but, as happens with most or all creative projects, the portraits eventually took on a look of their own. Often, they contributed their own concepts or ideas for poses.

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

The Hechinger Report

My older siblings were going to nursing and medical school and all of my cousins were pursuing engineering, science and business degrees. 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?” Drawing on data from the U.S.

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PROOF POINTS: The number of college graduates in the humanities drops for the eighth consecutive year

The Hechinger Report

The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002. As the economy recovered, so did the humanities. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002.

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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.