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AI and Writing Essays: Pros and Cons, How Will Students Learn to Write if an AI Writes It for Them?

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This technology will transform education by personalizing learning and meeting various student demands. AI writing helpers’ real-time feedback on grammar, vocabulary, coherence, and argument structure is their crucial draw. AI’s influence in essay writing is growing, highlighting both advantages and significant issues.

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iCivics Offers Tons of Free Resources and Tools to Promote Civics Education

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Examples of featured curriculum units include: Foundations of Government, Legal Reference Library, Road to the Constitution, Influence Library, Civil Rights, Citizenship and Participation, News Literacy, International Affairs, Government and the Market, Geography Library, Persuasive Writing, and many more.

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How Minecraft Teaches Reading, Writing and Problem Solving

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This might include geology, geography, chemistry, or another topic. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. I want to see their creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving in action. Do you see what I’m doing?

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Should you Teach Typing? And Does it Work?

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It has become a familiar argument between those who believe children intuitively learn to type (“see them on smartphones and iPads–they don’t need help”) and those of us who believe instruction makes them better, faster. This topic that is close to my tech teacher soul.

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Prosecuting rap: can we get racial discrimination out of the courtroom?

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DEFENCE – (in court) the argument that the accused person should not be found guilty. DEFENCE – (in court) the argument that the accused person should not be found guilty. One important issue facing the next generation of legal researchers will be the impact of technology , potentially including virtual trials. Learn more here.

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Winds of change: using dust in Antarctic ice to understand past climates

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Through evaluating evidence and mapping out arguments, students can practice this important aspect of scientific communication. Understanding how to find and safely extract the elements needed for green technologies will play a key role in this shift. The expertise of geologists will be critical for the transition to clean energy.

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The Latest from Our R&D Pipeline: Version 13.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

Relativity also isn’t important in geography, but it is in astronomy. The Wolfram Language has had integrated neural net technology since 2015. For example, you might have a function with several arguments that are each large expressions. This compiles a function assuming that its argument x is an 8-bit integer: &#10005.