Topic: student engagement
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Google's New AI Games Teach Kids Essential Tech Skills
Google has launched AI Quests, an educational initiative featuring interactive online games for students aged 11-14 to introduce practical AI applications in fields like climate science and healthcare. Developed with Stanford Accelerator for Learning, the program uses gamified learning and real-w...
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KnowBe4 Trains One Million Students in Cybersecurity Milestone
KnowBe4's Student Edition program has educated one million students on essential digital safety topics, preparing them for online protection and professional roles while helping schools combat cyber threats. The initiative fosters a global security culture in education, with the company training ...
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ChatGPT Introduces New Study Mode for Better Learning
OpenAI launched Study Mode for ChatGPT to enhance student learning by prompting questions instead of direct answers, promoting critical thinking. Schools are balancing AI's educational benefits with concerns about overreliance, as studies show differences in brain activity with AI-assisted learni...
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Google's New Tool Personalizes Your Learning - Here's How
Google has introduced an experimental AI-powered educational tool called Learn Your Way, which personalizes learning by adapting content to a student's grade level and interests through varied formats like text, quizzes, and audio. Early testing showed that students using the tool scored an avera...
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AI in Education: Bridging or Widening the Inequality Gap?
AI in education presents a dual potential: it can either help close achievement gaps by providing scalable tutoring or widen them if access and implementation are not equitable. While AI tools offer personalized, on-demand academic support that could address the "2 Sigma Problem" of inaccessible ...
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Teachers Embrace AI to Enhance Classroom Learning
Teachers are using AI like ChatGPT to spark ethical debates and critical thinking in classrooms, as seen in a Texas high school where students questioned AI's clinical reasoning in a survival scenario. AI tools are accelerating in education, helping teachers with tasks like quiz creation and less...
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Columbia Deploys AI to Ease Campus Tensions
Columbia University is testing an AI tool called Sway to mediate sensitive student discussions on topics like racial justice and the Israel-Palestine conflict, aiming to foster more respectful dialogue. The initiative follows campus unrest and a settlement related to combating antisemitism, thoug...
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Mexico's 2026 World Cup Plan: Resale Platform and Tourism App
The Mexican government's "Mexico 2026 Social World Cup" project aims to use the 2026 FIFA World Cup to drive economic growth, promote culture, and foster social development, creating a lasting legacy beyond the event itself. Key initiatives include a secure ticket resale platform, the "Conoce Méx...
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