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Thousands of students heading into the new school year will arrive in classrooms from kindergarten to highschool alongside a new tutoring assistant: a large language model. As CNN noted today, the education nonprofit service Khan Academy, is expanding its Khanmigo AI access to over 8,000 educators and K-12 students as part of its ongoing pilot […]
Against a nationwide backdrop of book bans and censorship campaigns, Iowa educators are turning to ChatGPT to help decide which titles should be removed from their school library shelves in order to legally comply with recent Republican-backed state legislation, PopSci has learned. According to an August 11 article in the Iowa state newspaper The Gazette, […]
It might sound daunting but even as adults, we’re perfectly capable of learning two languages simultaneously. This is how to go about it.
The space shuttle Endeavour will be displayed as if in launch configuration, with boosters and a tank, at the California Science Center.
This article was originally published on Undark. The transition to online learning in the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic was, by many accounts, a failure. While there were some bright spots across the country, the transition was messy and uneven—countless teachers had neither the materials nor training they needed to effectively connect with students […]
You may not be an air traffic controller or a trauma surgeon, but hearing how workers with those jobs handle stress can help you stay calm.
The forest school trend is catching steam in Europe and the US. Can nature-based education also offer a climate change lesson for young kids?
Fluorescence microscopes often thousands of dollars, but researchers figured out a way to make a cost-effective alternative.
Prison-education programs run by volunteer astronomers in Washington and New Jersey improve science literacy among adult and juvenile populations.
