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If you are looking for an answer to the question What is Artificial Intelligence? and you only have a minute, then here's the definition the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence offers on its home page: "the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines."

However, if you are fortunate enough to have more than a minute, then please get ready to embark upon an exciting journey exploring AI (but beware, it could last a lifetime) …

Balancing Teaching CS Efficiently with Motivating Students

Communications of the ACMMay-24-2017, 21:30:16 GMT

A computing educator has to balance teaching efficiently and motivating the student. Efficient teaching means teaching abstractly, emphasizing practice, and preferring direct instruction over having students "figure it out." Motivating the student means giving the students authentic situations, real-world complexity, and reasons to practice. I recently wrote an essay describing this tension (http://bit.ly/2nFRuGZ). Herbert Simon (one of the three authors of the Science article first answering the question "What is Computer Science?"; http://bit.ly/2nFIzpf)

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Industry: Education > Curriculum > Subject-Specific Education (0.32)

Technology: Information Technology > Artificial Intelligence (0.51)

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