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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. The art and power of coding resembles the art and power of literacy.

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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. The art and power of coding resembles the art and power of literacy.

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

Since the release of ChatGPT late last year, the essay has been declared dead as an effective way to measure learning. After all, students can now enter any assigned question into an AI chatbot and get a perfectly formatted, five-paragraph essay back ready to turn in (well, after a little massaging to take out any AI “hallucinations”).

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MARCH 9, 2020

I'm the world's first android teaching assistant. Thumbing through its pages, you might have discovered a brief essay penned by a prolific writer of science and science fiction, Isaac Asimov. That squares with Asimov’s essay, which promises “human teachers will not be totally eliminated. “Are you having a good day?”

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

An associate professor in UVA’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures , Stepanic earned the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Teacher of the Year Award in 2012. The course is one of the school’s most popular, with a waitlist that once swelled to 1600; it was included in a roundup of “ Top 10 Must Take Classes at UVA.”

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