How One Woman Became the Scapegoat for America’s Reading Crisis
Lucy Calkins was an education superstar. Now she’s cast as the reason a generation of students struggles to read. Can she ...
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Can AI review the scientific literature — and figure out what it all means?
This is the basis for specialized, AI-powered science search engines such as Consensus and Elicit. Most companies do not ...
Computational method pinpoints how cause-and-effect relationships ebb and flow over time
A new computational method can identify how cause-and-effect relationships ebb and flow over time in dynamic real-life systems such as the brain.
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AI Can Save Humanity—Or End It
The age of Homo technicus could generate profound intellectual advances and solutions to our gravest problems. But first we need to ensure that it doesn’t kill us off.
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Why we are all lab rats in the digital world
Whenever we go online, we might find ourselves part of an experiment — without knowing it. Digital platforms track what users ...
Revealing Secrets Of Large Language Models And Generative AI Via Markov Chain Mathematics
No one can say for sure what's happening inside generative AI LLMs. Some believe that the mathematical statistical method of Markov chains is the key. Here's the scoop.
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It’s Not Too Late to Read That Entire Book With Your Students
View the full episode transcript. When former educator Danielle Bayard Jackson was called into the principal’s office, she was told to stop reading whole books with her students. She was advised to ...