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Teachers may be able to use ChatGPT to save time grading papers and writing reports.Getty Images Schools fear students will use AI to cheat, but some teachers think it's an asset for educators. Tools such as ChatGPT...

Have you ever been advised to “walk a mile in someone else’s shoes?” Considering another person’s perspective can be a challenging endeavor — but recognizing our errors and biases is key to building...

It’s early in the morning on December 27th as I write this. My three boys are asleep in their beds, dreaming–I hope–about wonderful things and re-enacting the fun we have had this week with family and friends....

This can help make learning more engaging.In the context of education, “crossover teaching” refers to the practice of incorporating aspects of multiple subject areas into a single instructional session or curricular...

Speaking UpTwo parents gave public comment last week that provided a road map on how the new school board can improve the LAUSD for its students.“We cannot continue to ignore parents’ concerns about the Division of...

Trying out ChatGPT seems to be all the rage these days in certain geek circles. I may even be late to the game but I tried a few things over the last couple of days.I started with one of my favorite little projects....

Regular readers of this blog will know that one of my favorite books ever is “How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk,” by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish. Here’s how I described it a few years...

Someone who wishes to wishes to remain anonymous writes: My son is in 11th grade. Below you’ll find a HW question which was given in my son’s statistics class. How would you answer? Ummmm, it’s hard to read that...

You can learn a lot about an organization by reading through it’s SQL files. These files contain the map of how an organization works. By reading through them, you can learn how systems come together to make a...

As a graduate student doing his master’s thesis on speech recognition at the MIT AI Lab (now the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory), Dan Huttenlocher worked closely with Professor Victor Zue....

Everyone’s seen Venn diagrams so they’re a great entry to various general issues in mathematics and its applications. The other day we discussed the limitations of Venn diagrams with more than 3 circles as an...

Many students in MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program return to the workplace primed to tackle complex operational problems. But sometimes their research sparks deep scholarly interest, and they bring...

To keep teachers in the classroom and in their communities, the industry is borrowing a practice from the medical field. Similar to how doctors spend several years immersing themselves in a hospital or clinic after...

Academic digital credentials — the cryptographically verifiable assertion that an individual holds a degree, certificate, or other credential — have been available for the better part of a decade. Yet despite the...

Why the curse of knowledge is a problem for product designers and how to manage it.We live in a world where knowledge is power. You can teach yourself anything online these days which is nice. But when you gain more...

Mike Zamansky is stirring up trouble again. OK not really his intent I’m sure but people can get defensive. I have to say that I agree in principle with most of his post at Why PD doesn't work for CSMike lists four...