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Left, right, and transgender youth

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This post is part 2 of a series. in part 1 In this series, we looked at how Democrats are approaching the issue of transgender teens and highlighted where they’re getting it right and where they might be getting it…

The role of models in interpersonal communication

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Communication models are frameworks that explain the process of communication according to various simplified models that make the multifaceted nature of communication concrete and understandable. One of the oldest and most simplified communication models is the so-called “sender-receiver” model developed…

Are you reading facts that upset you?

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This blog introduces fallacies for the logic-based “Cardinal Fallacies” list. treatment. I call this a fallacy Fallacy of reading facts This is because it involves (often unintentionally) embedding value judgments in the premises of affective reasoning that are supposed to…

When AI becomes your learning companion

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Posted by: Renisha Gerin just imagine teen She sat at her desk, staring at an impossible algebra problem. Instead of waiting until the next day’s class or calling a friend, she asks questions. artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Within seconds, she…

What first year students should belong to

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Co-author Dr. Kelly Ann Allen, Kathy Hudson Members of our research team gave 5-year-old children crayons and asked them to draw something that made them feel like they belonged at school. She drew herself surrounded by Lego blocks. “When I…