Education

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A UC Berkeley-led study revealed that disparities in the share of Black and Latino students admitted to America's elite colleges and universities have endured and even widened over the last 40 years. The study, "Shifting Tides: The Evolution of Racial Inequality in Higher Education from the 1980s through the 2010s," was…

In California, a high school teacher complains that students watch Netflix on their phones during class. In Maryland, a chemistry teacher says students use gambling apps to place bets during the school day.Around the country, educators say students routinely send Snapchat messages in class, listen to music and shop online, among countless other examples of how smartphones distract from teaching and learning.The hold that phones have on adolescents in America today is well-documented, but teachers say parents are often not…

USC researchers have created a low-cost, accessible learning kit to help college and high school students build their own "robot friend." Credit: James Kim / USC From smart virtual assistants and self-driving cars to digital health and fraud prevention systems, AI technology is transforming almost every aspect of our daily lives—and education is no different. For all its promise, the rise of AI, like any new technology, raises…

Imagine “Libs of TikTok,” but created by a state government to pillory public school teachers.  That’s the gist of a new project launched by Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R), who has created a portal called “Eyes on Education” that encourages members of the public to tattle on teachers they believe are pushing woke content on kids. Eyes on Education enables self-styled whistleblowers to submit evidence to the state of “objectionable curricula, policies, or programs.” And the site presents a selection…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain How do young people find their way to music-making? Researchers Anna Kuoppamäki from the University of the Arts Helsinki and Fanny Vilmilä from the Finnish Youth Research Network identified factors that had a significant impact on the formation of the musical life courses of the young people interviewed in their study. …

On Thursday morning, news broke that someone was going around selling student data from the University of Michigan to tech workers that build AI chatbot tech. An employee at Google DeepMind, the company’s AI research hub, said they’d gotten an offer for recordings of lectures, student discussions, and office hours, as well as essays written by seniors and grad students all available for a paltry licensing fee. Now, the University says it was all a misunderstanding, that students gave their consent, and there’s nothing to…

The boy hated himself.Six months into his first year in high school, he dropped out. For more than a year, he isolated himself in his Huntington Beach bedroom where he became addicted to video games and anonymously vented his anger online with racist and misogynistic screeds, haunted by suicidal thoughts and fantasies about hurting others. His health deteriorated as he binged on pepperoni pizza, grew obese and developed terrible rashes. Then Ben Chida ventured out of his room.Today, Chida, 38, is Gov. Gavin Newsom’s…

Image Source : PIXABAY Tablet EPIC Foundation (Not-for-profit) has launched the first Indian-designed tablet for education which is AI-enabled. The indigenously manufactured education tablet has been designed by VVDN Technologies in collaboration with MediaTek India and CoRover.ai, the tablets come embedded with unique features of repairability and come with the…

Bibliometric analysis of search results. Credit: British Journal of Educational Technology (2023). DOI: 10.1111/bjet.13413 Artificial intelligence and natural language processing technologies are driving the use of pedagogical conversational agents with empathic capabilities. They are virtual tools (e.g., chatbots) that are able to evoke an empathetic reaction in the student while helping them develop their skills.…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Early childhood educators need more support to deliver positive outcomes for Australia's most vulnerable children—including migrant and refugee children—say early childhood experts at the University of South Australia. In a new study published in the Early Childhood Education Journal, researchers found that childcare…