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How Crucial Is Artificial Intelligence to the Rise of Ed Tech?

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Parents, students, teachers and administrators had to remain flexible, adjust to virtual learning environments and adopt new digital technologies to facilitate learning. A primary example of ed tech is artificial intelligence (AI), which has already proven itself as a highly useful, effective tool with various applications and benefits.

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How Can Teachers Prepare Students for an AI-Driven Future?

ED Surge

Recently, EdSurge spoke with Chelsey McClelland, a third-year social studies teacher at Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis who recently completed the ISTE U course Artificial Intelligence Explorations for Educators. Watch to learn more about the ISTE U course Artificial Intelligence Explorations for Educators.

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How AI Can Address Critical Challenges Facing Higher Education

ED Surge

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being integrated into higher education to address challenges such as personalized learning and operational efficiency. Students who choose that route expect greater flexibility, personalization and real-world relevance in their education. AI is pervasive in everything we do.

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This Program Is Empowering the Next Generation of Computational Thinkers

ED Surge

We’ve developed a comprehensive and flexible curriculum intended for mass adoption. Global Benchmarking of Computational Thinking Education in Primary Schools. PD will be scaled to build teacher capacity for the whole primary education sector. I think this is why CoolThink has become so relevant. Let’s discuss that idea further.

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Plant polymers as plastic alternatives

Futurum

With these lessons learnt, the team is now setting up a company which will have the resources and flexibility to work with other companies on short timescales. Nowadays, it encompasses artificial intelligence (AI), the brain-computer interface, synthetic biology, and even social and ethical analysis.

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Modelling minds: can computers mimic human intelligence?

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While many animals display specialised forms of intelligence, humans are flexible and creative when dealing with unfamiliar circumstances as our brains have the capacity for adaptive learning. Understanding how the human brain functions so efficiently and flexibly remains one of the greatest mysteries of science.

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Morph with the wind: shape-changing buildings

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Buildings are also becoming taller and more flexible, as lighter building materials and more sophisticated designs are developed, but wind-induced vibrations only get stronger and more serious with height. Over time, the controller builds a ‘memory’ of the positions that work best for any particular wind flow condition.”. A BONUS PROJECT AIM.