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Humane Ingenuity 40: In Sight

Dan Cohen

Human sight is not even close to a representation of the world around us, with the eye like the megapixel sensor at the heart of a digital camera. For those new to Humane Ingenuity , that means that you can now access back issues on my own domain, and that’s also where you can subscribe (as always, for free) to the newsletter.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education. The 18th-century Jaquet-Droz automatamechanical dolls mimicking human actionsfurthered this vision (Riskin, 2016). This echoes Karel apek’s R.U.R.

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What Job Design Can Teach Us About Course Design

Faculty Focus

2007; Oldham & Hackman, 2010). Prior to joining K-State in 2020, she worked in industry, advising on a variety of safety, leadership, and human resource data analysis projects. Organizational behavior and human performance , 16 (2), 250-279. Finally, the limits of too much enrichment are not known. References Hackman, J.

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Maximizing Student Engagement During Live Online Seminars

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One way to incorporate human engagement is through a synchronous seminarnothing beats live interaction, where learners and educators can convene for a meaningful exchange. Gough began her teaching career in higher education in 1991 and facilitated the transition of ground campus courses to online courses in 2007.

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Tired of Awkward Silences? Upgrade your Think-Pair-Share

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Dr. Ashley Harvey is a professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at Colorado State University (CSU). Since 2007, she has taught more than 10,000 students across 15 different courses in over 150 undergraduate and graduate sections.

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Study: Outcomes of Students in Policy Debate Programs Linked to ELA Improvements and Postsecondary Enrollment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The study – published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) – examined data of students in Boston Public Schools during the 2007–08 to 2017–18 school years, of which 3,515 took part in the Boston Debate League. The impact was almost entirely concentrated among reading subskills that involve more analysis and argumentation.”

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The Potential of AI and ChatGPT: Empowering Learning and Communication in the Digital Age 

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AI technologies are designed to simulate human intelligence and perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as understanding natural language and engaging in interactive conversation. The integration of AI in education holds great potential for transforming teaching and learning experiences (Hussain et al.,

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