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

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As the legislative election in France approached this summer, a research team decided to reach out to hundreds of citizens to interview them about their views on key issues. But the interviewer asking the questions wasn’t a human researcher — it was an AI chatbot.

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17 K-8 Digital Citizenship Topics

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Education is no longer contained within classroom walls or the physical site of a school building. Students can use Google Earth to take a virtual tour of a zoo or a blog to collaborate on class research. Learning isn’t confined to the eight hours between the school bells chimes or the struggling budget of an underfunded program.

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Unconventional Research Sites to Inspire Students

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Pew Research recently reported that about half of Americans regularly get their news from social media. So when it comes to research, are you still directing kids toward your grandmother’s resources — encyclopedias, reference books, and museums? So why do students turn to it for news?

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If Smart Glasses Are Coming, What Will That Mean for Classrooms?

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Mark Zuckberberg, Meta’s founder and CEO, held up what he described as the first working prototype of Orion, which lets wearers see both the physical world and a computer display hovering in the field of vision. This is the physical world with holograms overlaid on it.” For educators, this might not come as welcome news.

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Relationships Are Key to Kids’ Growth — And They’re in Crisis, Expert Says

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11, she unearths troves of research and threads together narratives from around the globe to back up an idea that she has long known to be true in her own life. She has these dual researcher and practitioner hats. Many researchers have looked at the intersection of play and the number of friendships, and there is a clear connection.

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For Girls to Succeed in STEM, Confidence Matters as Much as Competence

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Their researchers found that while girls who say they’re interested in STEM grew by 10 percentage points to 55 percent, compared to survey results five years prior, the number of girls who describe themselves as confident or smart enough to earn their dream job has plummeted. “We STEM fields also have a messaging problem.

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Diving Deeper Into the Effects of Smartwatches on Kids, Schools and Families

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That’s what EdSurge senior reporter Emily Tate Sullivan found when she spent months researching the recent boom in smartwatches for kids, for a feature story that EdSurge co-published with WIRED magazine last week. The worst case scenario in the minds of the parents I talked to is just always looming,” she says. The fear is pervasive.

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