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Engaging Students with Interactive Social Studies Simulations

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Among all the subjects taught at school, social studies remains a challenge for most teachers to teach in an engaging way. It is possible to leverage many other forms of interactive teaching methods – like social studies simulations – to achieve the desired outcomes from a lesson. Table of Contents I. What is a Simulation?

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After personal experience with cyberstalking, tech founder launches startup battling deepfake content

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(Certifi AI Photo) In January, pornographic deepfake images of Taylor Swift were viewed by millions of people on X and other social media platforms before the sites took action. No one has been identified and prosecuted for creating the graphic and sometimes violent images of Swift using artificial intelligence tools.

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Tech Trends 2024: A Chief Product Officer’s Guide to Staying Ahead

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Top Upcoming Trends CPOs in Education Technology Must Know Personalized Learning through Adaptive Learning Platforms Competency-Based Education (CBE) The Surge in Online and Blended Learning Artificial Intelligence and Gamification in Education Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) in Education II.

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Chatbots for teachers: Univ. of Washington releases free AI tool for quicker, better lesson plans

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“We’ve really designed this with and for teachers,” said Min Sun , director of Artificial Intelligence for Education in the UW’s College of Education and leader of the Colleague project. With Colleague, that exercise takes a minute or less and generates helpful new ideas.

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Sam Altman’s ouster puts a new twist into OpenAI’s complicated relationship with Microsoft

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GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was as bullish as ever about artificial intelligence and the ChatGPT maker’s latest advances when he spoke Thursday at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in San Francisco. Less than two weeks later, the OpenAI board removed him from the position.

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Music-licensing startup Audiosocket hits play on effort to get more digital creators using its products

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Founded in 2009, Audiosocket is seeing growth of its music licensing software products used by social media creators, movie production studios, and others. On TikTok, the video-sharing social giant, Audiosocket’s artists are trending, amassing more than 300 million views this year.

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High school students learn how to spot misinformation at UW’s ‘Misinfo Day’ event

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This is really useful information to help protect yourself as a teenager on social media,” said Ballard High School student Amelia Wagenbrenner. The event comes amid a continued deluge of misinformation on the internet, including popular social media platforms such as TikTok. Who knows how that may affect us 20 years down the line?”

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