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

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To prepare ChatGPT to take on this role, the researchers started by prompting the AI bot to behave as it has observed professors communicating in its training data. But the interviewer asking the questions wasn’t a human researcher — it was an AI chatbot.

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Fields and fungicides: mixing microbiology and social science

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Fields and fungicides: mixing microbiology and social science. THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE. We have to consider farmers’ motivators from a social science perspective,” says human geographer Dr Ray Chan. THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE. Published: May 25, 2022. NEXT STEPS. “We Pinterest.

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Graphing–9 Lesson Plans + 6 Online Resources

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Communication of Ideas : Graphs provide a universal language for communicating ideas across different fields. Whether in mathematics, science, economics, or engineering, graphs are commonly used to convey information in a concise and understandable manner.

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

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

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A few institutions have degree programs dedicated to that kind of training, such as Husson University in Maine, which integrates classes in coding, design, math and communications. Community colleges are central to this.” 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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Why My Students Had to Embrace Their Imperfections to Learn a New Language

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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 wanted us to be in a community that felt like family, cheering each other on while becoming stronger communicators.

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

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At Project Information Literacy (PIL), the nonprofit independent research institute I lead, a group of library and information science and new media researchers — including myself — conduct national research about the information seeking behavior of college students and recent graduates.

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