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ChatGPT: Educational Friend or Foe?

The Scholarly Teacher

Keywords: Evolving Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Student Learning, Assessment What Is ChatGPT? Ask ChatGPT to write a paragraph about metacognition, solve a math problem, or summarize a book chapter, and it scours the web and responds to your request. ChatGPT has caused quite a stir in education, and for good reason.

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Driving Global Economic Success Through Diversity and Prosperity in STEM Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Multiple academic studies have demonstrated that encouraging children to pursue a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) career gives them a distinct business advantage later in life. As the world becomes increasingly digitalized and reliant on technology, the demand for STEM skills and careers is growing rapidly.

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The Next Chapter for Public Libraries: How Current and Future Trends are Shaping the Libraries of Tomorrow

Clark Nesxen

Over the last few years, public libraries have transitioned from being buildings that only store and lend books to being fully featured community centers. However, only some have access to computers or even the internet. The pandemic exacerbated an issue in which individuals were being increasingly isolated through technology.

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Here is why generative AI bans will not work

University Business

The best—and probably only—approach is going to be developing policies where students are allowed to use AI tools to do their research, while ensuring that they continue to synthesize information and learn during the process, rather than simply cheat on their assignments. What new tools does AI need?

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Backlash as a university says its library will be 'all digital'

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Five hundred of the approximately 5,000 students across the three soon-to-be-merged institutions responded, and those students indicated, “We want information as quickly as possible, and digital is better,” according to Grewal. Still, UC Merced sought to create a model for a 21st-century academic research library.

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ChatGPTeaching or ChatGPCheating? Arguments from a semester with large language models in class (Part 1)

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Like with previous computational techniques attached to educational purposes (computer-aided design, spellcheck, text prediction, Wikipedia articles, search engines), Generative AI applications’ use in education carries all bias bugs baggage of algorithmic persuasion and convincing power (Little Britain: “the computer says no!”)

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5 High Tech Solutions that Enable High Touch Campus Experiences

University Business

It’s no great revelation that today’s students are digital natives and view technology as an intrinsic part of how they navigate the world. However, despite their preference for using digital technology to complete day-to-day tasks, they crave interpersonal connections and relationship building.