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A principal welcomes students. Generative AI is coming to schools, leaving administrators and teachers to figure out how to implement the technologies. Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

When it comes to developing policies on AI in K‑12, schools are largely on their own

Janice Mak, Arizona State University

The current landscape of AI use in K-12 schools is highly varied because there’s little specific policy guidance from the state and federal levels.
The original Dikika child skull (left), a 3D model produced with synchrotron scanning (middle), and a model corrected for distortion during fossilisation (right). Gunz et al. (2020) / Science Advances.

Baby steps: this ancient skull is helping us trace the path that led to modern childhood

Tanya M. Smith, Griffith University; Philipp Gunz, and Zeray Alemseged, University of Chicago

Our findings reveal the slowing down of brain development in our ape-like ancestors began more than three million years ago.
The experience that babies get from eavesdropping on their mother’s conversations in utero helps their brain tune into the language that they will learn to speak once they are born. Emily Nunnell/The Conversation CC-BY-ND

Curious Kids: how do babies learn to talk?

Christa Lam-Cassettari, Western Sydney University

Using a sing song voice helps babies tell the difference between words like ‘mummy’ or ‘daddy’.

Related Topics

  1. Ancient humans
  2. Australopithecus
  3. Brain development
  4. Child development
  5. Childhood
  6. Classrooms
  7. Curious Kids
  8. Early childhood
  9. Learning
  10. Talking

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