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May 23, 2023 • 43min

Will AI Chatbots Boost Efforts to Make Scholarly Articles Free?

For decades, proponents of open access scholarship have worked to make the research in scholarly journals freely readable to all. Will this moment of AI chatbots accelerate the effort?
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May 16, 2023 • 32min

How a Viral Video Sparked an Ongoing Discussion of Police in Schools

In 2015, a video went viral showing a white school resource officer violently flipping over a Black student in her desk and dragging her across the room before arresting her. It sparked a lawsuit against a vague South Carolina law that brings the criminal justice system into schools for minor offenses, and a nationwide discussion about systemic racism in school policing.
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May 9, 2023 • 51min

Is It Time to Rethink the Traditional Grading System?

A growing number of educators are wondering whether the grading system is hindering students rather than helping them learn. A new book explores alternative methods of marking papers in ways that encourage students to continually revise their work rather than quibble over which letter grade they deserve.
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May 2, 2023 • 44min

The Strange Past and Messy Future of 'Gifted and Talented.' (Encore Episode)

Sometime early in elementary school, kids are put on one of two paths: regular or gifted. Where did this idea come from? The answer goes back more than a 100 years, to a once-famous scholar named Lewis Terman. And it turns out his legacy, and the future of gifted programs, are still very much under debate.
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Apr 25, 2023 • 45min

Why All Teachers Need Training in Mental Health and Social Work

These days teachers need some basic training in a number of fields, including mental health and social work, to be effective in the classroom, argues Stephanie Malia Krauss, author of a new book about the importance of teaching holistically in this time of pandemic and social unrest.
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Apr 18, 2023 • 28min

What Does Gen Z Want From Education?

With every new generation of students there’s an effort to understand what’s different about them, and what motivates them as they enter society and the workforce. For Gen Z, a key factor is their skills in organizing on social media and interest in working across traditional partisan divides on issues like gun control, environmental protection and racial justice, argues Timothy Law Snyder, president of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, who calls them the “solidarity generation.”
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Apr 11, 2023 • 46min

Did Liberal Arts Colleges Miss a Chance to Become More Inclusive After the Pandemic?

Two longtime professors hoped the pandemic would reset the small liberal arts colleges where they taught. So they wrote a book-length manifesto laying out a vision for making the colleges more accessible — and true engines of social mobility. Three years into the pandemic, they reflect on how that’s going.
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Apr 4, 2023 • 46min

Is Improving Reading Instruction a Matter of Civil Rights?

A new documentary called 'The Right to Read' follows an educator and activist pushing to require schools to offer reading instruction that has been proven effective, calling it a matter of civil rights. But the main character in the film started out reluctant to participate. Here’s why, and what he hopes comes of the film.
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Mar 28, 2023 • 38min

An Inside Look at the ‘Student Disengagement Crisis’ (Encore Episode)

EdSurge visited large lecture classes to get a sense of what college feels like now that COVID is more under control after years of pandemic disruptions. Students and professors say that years of remote instruction—often referred to as ‘Zoom University’—has left many students more likely to get distracted by their devices, or to place less value on class, thinking they can get whatever is happening in classrooms on their own.
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Mar 21, 2023 • 42min

Inside the Quest to Detect (and Tame) ChatGPT

Even before ChatGPT was released, AI experts were exploring how to detect language written by this new kind of bot. On this week’s EdSurge Podcast, we talk with one of those experts, and others who are seeking to build guardrails to help educators successfully adapt to the latest AI technology.

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