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Using big datasets to find out what affects children’s quality of life

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Economics — a branch of social science that studies the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services, as well as a huge variety of other complex issues of vital concern to society. Having access to answers to the same questions over time allows us to directly compare changes in children’s mental health.”

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How can engineering address human rights issues?

Futurum

Across Peru, thousands of people do not have access to clean water or efficient transport links. He is investigating the connection between poor transport links and social inequality, and bringing sanitation to a remote community in the Andes. Access to water and sanitation are fundamental human rights.

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I, chatbot: How ‘human’ should chatbots be?

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At the University of East Anglia in the UK, Dr Oli Buckley’s research project is combining computer science and social science to answer these questions. WIZARD-OF-OZ EXPERIMENT – a particular form of an experiment in which participants believe they are communicating with a computer, but are interacting with a human.

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Online battles: combatting false information and reducing online risks

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“This is because of their active use of social media, and they may read and share posts rapidly, without proper fact-checking.”. As more of our daily activity takes place online, the boundaries between the online and physical worlds are becoming increasingly blurred. FACT-CHECKING. Fact-checkers can be humans or machines.

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What Image Comes to Your Mind When You Think of a “Doctor”?

National Science Foundation

The message to teachers is that if we engage in implicit bias in teaching – knowingly or unconsciously – it communicates to students they may not belong in certain professions, or they may not be able to succeed in fields of study and professions if they do not fit the image or stereotype. What about “teacher,” “scientist,” “nurse”?

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Monitoring the canopy temperature of forests

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Shalom on a visit to a local community. Sophie on a canopy access crane in China. Environmental science is an interdisciplinary field which seeks to find effective means of understanding and managing the world in which we live. careers-advice/what-can-i-do-with-my-degree/environmental-science. © Sophie Fauset. © Shalom D.

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A Decade Into Experiments With Gamification, Edtech Rethinks How to Motivate Learners

ED Surge

CoCo is also a gateway, she claims, to teach communication skills, like how to disagree respectfully. She adds that Shoelace’s games now encourage students to raise more questions to their teachers in their physical classrooms, because they want the right answers. It’s safer to work with people you know,” says Zides.