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What Can AI Chatbots Teach Us About How Humans Learn?

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It’s called “ ChatGPT and the Future of AI, ” and the author is Terrence Sejnowski, a professor of biology at the University of California, San Diego, where he co-directs the Institute for Neural Computation and the NSF Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center. Get EdSurge journalism delivered free to your inbox.

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Business Leaders Say Computer Science Needs to Be A Core Subject

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Today, a collection of more than 500 prominent business, education and nonprofit leaders called on states to update their K-12 curriculum to make computer science a core subject. The effort was led by Code.org, an education nonprofit focused on expanding computer science education. In the U.S.,

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The Newest Leap in Quantum Computing: The Majorana 1

STEM Education Works

The Future of Practical Quantum Computing On February 19, Microsoft announced the creation of a new computer chip, the Majorana 1. But this is no ordinary computer chip: its a quantum computer chip! Traditional computers use a special mathematical language called binary to encode and process data. Thats right.

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New AI Tools Are Promoted As Study Aids for Students. Are They Doing More Harm Than Good?

ED Surge

Students in biology are going to be using it in one way, chemistry students are going to be using it in another. Some say they’re really concerned about the environmental costs of generative AI and the usage,” she says, noting that ChatGPT and other AI models require large amounts of computing power and electricity.

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CS doesn’t have a monopoly on computing education: Programming is for everyone

Computing Education Research Blog

I was on a panel Assessments for Non-CS Major Computing Classes (see the ACM DL paper here ). Her talk was particularly relevant to me because she emphasized how she is studying business students, not computer science students her research is about how non-CS students interact with computing and programming.

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Teachers Believe That AI Is Here to Stay in Education. How It Should Be Taught Is Debatable.

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Try two weeks on a concept in mathematics, try this data set to cover the existing unit you already have on ecosystems in biology, teach the booms and busts of economics through data from the Federal Reserve. I think the way that the data science and data literacy movement in particular is approaching this is through bite-sized modules.

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A Minimal Model for Biological Evolution and Other Adaptive Processes

Stephen Wolfram

Stephen Wolfram explores simple models of biological organisms as computational systems. A study of progressive development, multiway graphs of all possible paths and the need for narrowing the framework space.

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