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When Mike Huckabee was the Arkansas governor in 2004, he wanted government to be more efficient. He signed a law to shut down tiny school districts with fewer than 350 students.
Over the next decade, 85 school districts merged with others, triggering the closure of 105 schools, most of them high schools.
Families and teachers protested. Some students had b...
For a few weeks last school year, a small group of students in Dayton, Ohio, regularly sat in front of laptops in conversation with a social-emotional learning chatbot named Jordan.
Unlike AI chatbots that are designed to be agreeable — and even sycophantic — Jordan presents as angsty: On the day NPR visited, the chatbot told students, “Lately, I’ve been feeling lik...
When Maycee DeJersey Gonzales replaced her tablet with a used laptop that she bought from her friend, she was grateful to do away with the smaller keyboard in favor of her new device’s larger one.
“It was terrible because the keyboard is like super close together,” she said of her old tablet.
But as she starts a new school year, the laptop is on its last...
Soon after the introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022, students figured out how to use the chatbot as an answer machine, getting it to do their school work for them. Not surprisingly, that shortcut
“You’re an idiot.” “You’re weak.”
Have you ever said critical things to yourself when you feel any emotions? If so, it may be a sign you struggle with self-worth, says psychologist Marisa Franco. That means feeling good about yourself and “treating your emotions like they matter....