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

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“It's a very quantitative perspective to think that just having more participants automatically makes the study better — and that's not necessarily true,” says Andrew Gillen, an assistant teaching professor in the first-year engineering program at Northeastern University.

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Graphing–9 Lesson Plans + 6 Online Resources

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It teaches: Visualization and Understanding : Graphing helps students visually represent data, functions, and relationships. Whether students pursue studies in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), social sciences, or business, they will likely encounter situations where graphing skills are essential.

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This New Census Tool Can Recruit Students into the Liberal Arts

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With humanities and social science degree completions declining over the past 10 years, college liberal arts programs should consider sharing new U.S Census Bureau salary and industry data to teach prospective students about the programs’ strong economic returns. percent between 2020 to 2030. percent from 2020 to 2030.

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Educators Team Up to Respond to Sudden Rise of ChatGPT

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There’s an emotional toil of realizing that you have to reinvent teaching." — Kevin Yee Other efforts announced by educators in recent weeks include: New York University’s Center for Responsible AI and the New York Public Library are launching the All Aboard! There’s an emotional toil of realizing that you have to reinvent teaching.

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SHAPE in Schools: Changing mindsets in support of social sciences, humanities and the arts

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SHAPE in Schools: Changing mindsets in support of social sciences, humanities and the arts Published: Social sciences, humanities and the arts are vital for addressing complex challenges, but do young people truly understand their value? What is SHAPE? Society depends on creatives just as much as scientists.

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College Writing Centers Worry AI Could Replace Them

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Many writing centers are already jumping in to experiment with new AI tools, making the case both for the continued importance of writing instruction and for their place on campus as a hub for teaching AI literacy. “I Why do we need a required writing course if AI can do everything outside stakeholders want such a course to teach?,”

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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

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Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. But it’s hardly a foregone conclusion.

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