eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2023

Steve Daly Ryan Lufkin Shiren Vijiasingam More Highlights from InstructureCon23: The company and Khan Academy announced a partnership that brings Canvas, the anchor of the Instructure Learning Platform, and Khan Academy’s AI-powered student tutor and teaching assistant, Khanmigo.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2024

My classroom, where I planned to continue teaching after student teaching, even counted toward my student teaching requirement. That program made a teaching license and a master’s degree accessible. Student teaching should be authentic and valuable. My coworker Liv, meanwhile, has yet to earn her license.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2023

We design our classrooms and all spaces with intention, from color to comfort to accessibility to efficiency. Four years ago, my team and I designed, planned, and implemented a research-based, whole-child wraparound approach to special education.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2025

Consider whether youd feel more at home in an urban setting with access to internships and city life or a quieter suburban or rural campus. For students who require accommodations, accessibility services are also essential. What is the average class size, and how accessible are professors?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2021

It will also learn from the massive amounts of data generated by online students that isn’t accessible in traditional in-person classes. The initiative will also work to do what similar projects have not yet accomplished: scale up the virtual assistant program to serve millions of students.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

To keep up with this breakneck pace of innovation in virtually every sphere, educators must employ the very tools that are enabling it, using AI to create classes that are not only up-to-date but are also engaging, intellectually stimulating, and accessible to their students.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

A thousand hours is about how long it took Goel and his team to create Jill Watson, an AI teaching assistant chatbot that can answer student questions. The power to produce AI education tools in a fraction of the original time is exciting to Goel, who thinks every teacher, child and parent should have access to a Jill Watson. “I

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Faculty Focus

JULY 14, 2024

The development of programs that not only meet the needs of working people but also guarantee their upward mobility through accessible, affordable routes is essential in the effort to improve the quality of education and assist different learners. “Educational Accessibility and Upward Mobility.” 5 (2021): 658-674.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

.” National Civics Bee Teams Up With Khan Academy This year, for the first time, students who advance to the local competitions will receive free tutoring support through Khan Academy’s new AI-powered tutor and teaching assistant, Khanmigo.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Equity remained front and center, too, raising issues of inequitable technology access, along with racial and socioeconomic disparities and discrimination. More importantly, students will have better access to lessons designed specifically for their learning style. — Suren Aloyan , Co-Founder & CEO, PopUp EduTech, Inc.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

So Sankar proposed an online system that would be open to everyone in a class , where when any student wrote in asking for help or clarification, all would benefit from the answer posted by the professor or a teaching assistant. She called her startup Piazza.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

MORE FROM EDTECH: How to keep accessibility in mind for the modern K–12 classroom. On top of tools students can access from their personal devices, schools are using new types of classroom tech to expand their blended learning programs , making them even more successful. 3 Education Technologies Improve Blended Learning Initiatives.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Reduced Teacher Workload: AI tutors, virtual teaching assistants and automated admin systems can help reduce teacher workload. This could make quality education more affordable and accessible. There are many subtle complexities to teaching that AI currently cannot match. AI risks exacerbating educational inequality.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2025

Key points: This pivot presents a remarkable opportunity for teachers and society at large AI is changing the role of teaching assistants Navigation and guidance in the age of AI: 5 trends to watch For more news on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Picture your favorite teacher from your childhood.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

ByteLearn.com – Digital math teaching assistant for teachers. This makes it perfect for classroom use, as students can access it from any computer or mobile device. With numerous fantastic alternatives accessible, there is no reason not to begin tutoring maths online right now! Final thoughts.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 14, 2024

The development of programs that not only meet the needs of working people but also guarantee their upward mobility through accessible, affordable routes is essential in the effort to improve the quality of education and assist different learners. “Educational Accessibility and Upward Mobility.” 5 (2021): 658-674.

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Teaching Assistants Textbooks Special Education Education 93

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

Meanwhile, research is also being conducted today to understand how chatbots can be used as teaching assistants. In one study , students were not told which of their teaching assistants were humans and which were robots—and findings suggested students struggled to differentiate the two. (I

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2022

This year, “Ready, Set, Summer” is happening at 21 school sites across the cities, offering all public school families full-day, full-week summer learning options supervised by certified teachers, youth workers, and teaching assistants.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2019

The best bet for schools adopting AI is to define how these solutions can drive positive outcomes before allowing them access to student data. Recent Pew Research data shows that 95 percent of teens have access to a smartphone and 45 percent are online “almost constantly.” How K–12 Schools Are Using AI Tools Now.

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Intelligence Grades Education Ethics 167

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Teaching assistants moderated an online discussion forum through Piazza , an online community building and discussion platform, and held recitations, which enabled students to ask questions and ponder ideas. For educators, is teaching CS simply a means of fulfilling state-mandated standards?

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2019

AI-enabled teaching assistants and mobile applications help educators meet that challenge, using input from students to adjust course materials through educational apps, leaving teachers time to conduct the interpersonal aspects of their curricula. Access the full report here.). “It

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Users (students and teachers) can access materials and submit work using the camera, Google Drive, or Dropbox. ability to access and import over 53 different file types (such as MS Office, Google Docs, images, PDFs, and more) from the digital device’s camera, Google Drive, Dropbox and other cloud locations.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

Unsurprisingly, some of the biggest drivers of these improved metrics include making people pay for online programs, increasing the selectivity of courses, and adding program managers and teaching assistants to follow up with learners. Here are seven practices for moving completion rates for online courses from 5 to 85 percent: 1.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Equity remained front and center, too, raising issues of inequitable technology access, along with racial and socioeconomic disparities and discrimination. More importantly, students will have better access to lessons designed specifically for their learning style. Access to interactive experiences, 3D drawings, site visits, etc.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

is an AI-powered teaching assistant designed to help teachers with lesson planning, instructional design, and generating educational content. It offers a resource generator, teaching assistant, feedback bot, and AI chat. www.eduaide.ai What can it do? Eduaide.ai Turn your ideas into ready-to-use presentations.

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Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Education Learning Outcomes 124

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2020

They love that they don't lose time with their students and can access learning on their own terms. We did a full rollout of OTIS for the 2018-2019 school year, and now we have around 400 teachers and teaching assistants on the platform. And it's teacher-created content; that's enormous credibility-wise.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Initially ecstatic to start school, Truman was now red in the face from crying while my teaching assistant and I practically pried him off his mother’s leg. We were a few weeks into my first year teaching kindergarten and I had begun to think of my classroom as a warm and inviting space.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2019

Many print books have moved to off-site storage facilities to free up space for studying—or to make room for computers that can now access the vast store of information now available online and in subscription databases. And who will have access to the data about what students and scholars are looking for when the librarian is a robot? “I

Intelligence 167

Intelligence Questions Language Languages 167

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For example, if you look at the Jill Watson experiment at Georgia Tech, where they created a virtual teaching assistant, the students in the class didn't know that they were talking to a bot. The iron triangle is access, cost and quality. Or you're going to reduce access. How does that work? It has been our premise here.

Education 167

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eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2023

We design our classrooms and all spaces with intention, from color to comfort to accessibility to efficiency. Four years ago, my team and I designed, planned, and implemented a research-based, whole-child wraparound approach to special education.

Special Education 161

Special Education Education Assistive Technology History 161

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

He also used some of the money to send his teaching assistants to cities around the globe. A video created in Tanzania by Garrett Wilkinson, a teaching assistant in the Anth101 course. It was an unexpected result of trying to make an anthropology textbook accessible for as many people as possible. “I

Textbooks 162

Textbooks Teaching Assistants Instructors Exams 162

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

is an AI-powered teaching assistant designed to help teachers with lesson planning, instructional design, and generating educational content. It offers a resource generator, teaching assistant, feedback bot, and AI chat. www.eduaide.ai What can it do? Eduaide.ai Turn your ideas into ready-to-use presentations.

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Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Education Learning Outcomes 109

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Students may feel relief as they hand in an exam, but the moment marks the beginning of stress and anxiety for instructors and teaching assistants, who may need to grade hundreds of tests in a short time. Arjun Singh knows the feeling well. But instead of looking at all 100 [exams], I’m looking closely at 15.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Students and teachers using the platform have access to and work within Google Suite products including Docs, Sheets, Slides and more. It’s not so much a learning management system as it is a device manager specifically for iPads or, as the company calls it, a “teaching assistant.”

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Data has indicated that value placed on personal faculty-student interactions by instructors is a more prevalent indicator of instructor accessibility than simply being present during regularly scheduled office hours (Wilson, Wood, & Gaff, 1974). Shanda Hood is a teaching assistant professor at the University of Arkansas.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Teaching assistants moderated an online discussion forum through Piazza , an online community building and discussion platform, and held recitations, which enabled students to ask questions and ponder ideas. For educators, is teaching CS simply a means of fulfilling state-mandated standards?

Science 148

Science Education Learning Essay 148

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

West summarizes their overall attitude as: “Tell me what data is available, give me access to it, give me the time to use it, and give me guidance in using it.”. based developer of Ally, a tool that makes digital content more accessible for learners with special needs. BLACKBOARD'S NEW FRONTEER: Blackboard acquired Fronteer , the U.K.-based

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