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Amanda Hoover reports via Wired: Students have submitted more than 22 million papers that may have used generative AI in the past year, new data released by plagiarism detection company Turnitin shows. A year ago, Turnitin rolled out an AI writing dete… Continue reading Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AI
Harvard College is reinstating the requirement for standardized testing, reversing course on a pandemic-era policy that made them optional. It follows similar moves from elite universities like Yale, Dartmouth, and MIT. Axios reports: At Harvard, the m… Continue reading Harvard Reinstates Standardized Testing Requirement
theodp writes: From a Wednesday press release: “Code.org, in collaboration with The Piech Lab at Stanford University, launched today its AI Teaching Assistant, ushering in a new era of computer science instruction to support teachers in preparing stude… Continue reading Code.org Launches AI Teaching Assistant For Grades 6-10 In Stanford Partnership
In this Help Net Security interview, Lynn Dohm, Executive Director at Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS), talks about how the organization supports its members across different stages of their cybersecurity journey. WiCyS (pronounced Wee-Sis) is an organiz… Continue reading WiCyS: A champion for a more diverse cybersecurity workforce
A professor at Ithaca College runs part of each student’s essay through ChatGPT, “asking the AI tool to critique and suggest how to improve the work,” reports CNN. (The professor said “The best way to look at AI for grading is as a teaching assistant o… Continue reading Professors Are Now Using AI to Grade Essays. Are There Ethical Concerns?
In Communication of the ACM, Google’s VP of Education notes how calculators impacted math education — and wonders whether generative AI will have the same impact on CS education:
Teachers had to find the right amount of long-hand arithmetic and m… Continue reading AI’s Impact on CS Education Likened to Calculator’s Impact on Math Education
The US has seen a significant increase in student absenteeism since the pandemic closed schools four years ago, with an estimated 26% of public school students considered chronically absent in the last school year, up from 15% before the pandemic, acco… Continue reading Chronic Student Absenteeism Soars Across US
The latent potential for personal robotics became very real for me while I was strolling the halls of the 45th Bangkok International Motor Show this week. There are always good ideas at motor shows, except the good ideas at motor shows in developing re… Continue reading Ride-on Unicorn could be the “killer app” for kids
If necessity is the mother of invention, nostalgia must be its stepmother, or its aunt at the very least. The desire to recreate long-obsolete devices simply because they existed while …read more Continue reading A 65-in-1 the 2024 Way
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes:
Last month there was a special Google-funded edition of Highlights for Children, the 77-year-old magazine targetting children between the ages of 6 and 12. This edition was based on Google’s “Be Internet Awesom… Continue reading Google Teams with ‘Highlights’, Shows How Goofus and Gallant Use the Internet