At the end of August 2024, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Kemendikbudristek) through the Education Standards, Curriculum, and Assessment Agency (BSKAP), released a climate change education guide . This is the first concrete result of a long planning process for the integration of climate change education into formal education in Indonesia that began in mid-2023 . This guide is […] … learn more→

Title of course: Sociology, Science Fiction Film, and Artificial Intelligence What prompted the idea for the course? A colleague in the sociology department used to teach a course using a film genre from the 1940s and 1950s that presented a bleak view of modern societies. I liked the idea of using film in my classes, […] … learn more→

It’s been nearly two years since generative artificial intelligence was made widely available to the public. Some models showed great promise by passing academic and professional exams. For instance, GPT-4 scored higher than 90% of the United States bar exam test takers. These successes led to concerns AI systems might also breeze through university-level assessments. However, my recent study paints a different […] … learn more→

Is a college education still a worthwhile investment when it means taking on decades of debt? A growing portion of young Americans believe the benefits of their degrees don’t justify the price. With the Supreme Court blocking the Biden administration’s attempt to ease the burden of that debt, the situation is putting pressure on universities […] … learn more→

Gentlemen, we interfered, we interfere, and we will interfere … Carefully, precisely, surgically, and in our own way, as we know how. During our pinpoint operations, we will remove both kidneys and the liver at once. These are the words of the architect of Russian online disinformation, Yevgeny Prigozhin, speaking in November 2022, just before the […] … learn more→

The effects of bullying on teens’ mental health are well-documented. But could bullying also shape their future aspirations? Our latest research reveals that teens who are bullied in ninth grade become more pessimistic about their educational and career prospects beyond high school. Specifically, being bullied increases teens’ risk for depression, which leaves them feeling hopeless about the future. As […] … learn more→

As we close out September, universities across Canada are well into their new year of learning. An exciting change is underway. An increasing number of First Nations, Inuit and Métis students have enrolled in post-secondary studies. Many universities are aware of this growing interest in post-secondary studies among Indigenous Peoples and have actively recruited from this […] … learn more→

Is it still useful to learn foreign languages ​​when we have smartphones equipped with automatic translators? If this hypothesis is worrying, it would seem that artificial intelligence also opens new avenues for learning different languages. In 2024, artificial intelligence company Open AI introduced GPT4-o, a new large language model capable of “reasoning” and interacting with text, images, […] … learn more→

Artificial intelligence (AI) has begun to permeate many facets of the human experience. AI is not just a tool for analysing data – it’s transforming the way we communicate, work and live. From ChatGP through to AI video generators, the lines between technology and parts of our lives have become increasingly blurred. But do these […] … learn more→

Teachers can use generative AI in a variety of ways. They may use it to develop lesson plans and quizzes. Or teachers may rely on a generative AI tool, such as ChatGPT, for insight on how to teach a concept more effectively. In our new research, only the teachers doing both of those things reported feeling […] … learn more→