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Will Teachers Listen to Feedback From AI? Researchers Are Betting on It

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Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. Her application is called TalkMoves, and a version of Jacob’s research is now being used by the tutoring company Saga Education to train first-time tutors.

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Dental discoveries: How is dental research improving oral health?

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Dental discoveries: How is dental research improving oral health? Dental scientists at the Iowa Institute of Oral Health Research at the University of Iowa , USA, are studying various aspects of oral health and healthcare, to improve dental practices and keep our teeth and mouths healthy. How do bacteria cause periodontitis?

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How can we make future places healthier spaces?

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This project is investigating how computing, the internet of things and data science can generate information that people can use to make their future places healthier. DATA SCIENCE – encompasses preparing data for analysis, including cleansing, aggregating and manipulating the data to perform advanced data analysis.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

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Differential treatment is an example of how economic theories can shape public policies and individual’s opportunities. Regardless of whether differential treatment is considered fair, the efficiency rationale gives researchers and policymakers another way to look at how and why public policies should consider socio-economic factors.

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Plugging in: directly linking the brain to a computer

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He has several decades of experience at the forefront of human-machine collaboration and sees a bright future for brain-computer interfaces. CT Lin supervising brain-robot interface research. Dr Fred Chang (right) and Daniel Leong in CT’s team performing brain-robot interface research. How do BCIs work?

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Bias, assumptions and emotions: why we think what we think

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Though there is a long path ahead, his research into why we make the decisions we do is helping to pave the way for such machines in the future, by applying these cognitive processes in artificial systems. Ultimately, good science has a lot to do with playing and exploring, and I’m able to do that with my research and the people around me.

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Helping social studies teachers to teach data literacy with Teaspoon languages

Computing Education Research Blog

We have a chapter in the new book by Aman Yadav and Ulf Dalvad Berthelsen Computational Thinking in Education: A Pedagogical Perspective. This is the publication where we introduce the idea of Teaspoon Languages. The great idea is to build familiarity and confidence in programming by showing students real computer science every year.

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