Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

It actually requires some unlearning, and some changes in approach, to create an environment that better encourages students to complete assigned activities. Instructors first need to consider how we use grades in our teaching—and then explore what kinds of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations exist and persist for our students.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2024

These often have consequences in education, from an increase in cheating on assignments enabled by prose-spewing chatbots, to experiments that bring AI into classrooms as teaching assistants or even as students. Meanwhile, new technologies seem to flow out in an unstoppable stream.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

In fact, it's most valuable in a teaching setting because a teacher's in a class of 30, these kids are at all different levels. Well, if you had support from a teaching assistant who's also their tutor, that's kind of what Khan Academy has always aspired to be. We're working on them being able to assign AI-based activities.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As college classes start up this fall, instructors are handing out syllabi and pointing students to official platforms for turning in assignments and participating in class discussions. That’s what Joseph Ching, an affiliate scholar at James Madison University, has experienced.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 9, 2015

CanaryFlow is a classroom workflow platform that makes it easy for K-12 teachers to create lessons, add and grade assignments, upload resources, comment on student work or class activities, and schedule events. Features for teachers include: ability to collect, grade, distribute and collect assignments and materials.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2020

These self-paced teams watch recordings of the professor and pair up with teaching assistants for about five live sessions—a necessary alteration to make the program free, given that mentor professors are paid by Pioneer for their time. This is not a research program,” Jaskol clarifies.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

Let AI handle rubrics, tailor assignments, and give feedback. It’s like having a teaching assistant that never sleeps! Assessment and Evaluation Tools Rubric Generator : Have AI write a rubric for an assignment you are creating for your class. So, why not let AI be your overachieving, never-sleeping teaching assistant?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Core Features: Teachers can create and share assignments. Although it is most frequently used to create, collect and offer feedback on assignments (which multiple students can work on at once), Google Classroom also has tools like. Core features: Teachers can create and share assignments. Students can collaborate online.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

His teaching assistants have engaged with students in the class from places such as Ethiopia, Northern Ireland, Guatemala, Samoa and Vietnam. Some approaches I observe Wesch using in ANTH 101 are: Centering the class around 10 big ideas and linking the assignments around those same ideas.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

One document they obtained outlines a set of possible services Academic Partnerships provides that includes “utilize virtual teaching assistance,” and also talks about details including course lengths and caps on enrollment. AP does not provide any teaching assistance nor oversight of it,” she added.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

Let AI handle rubrics, tailor assignments, and give feedback. It’s like having a teaching assistant that never sleeps! Assessment and Evaluation Tools Rubric Generator : Have AI write a rubric for an assignment you are creating for your class. So, why not let AI be your overachieving, never-sleeping teaching assistant?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Automated Grading: AI can automate the scoring of assessment tests, homework, essays and other assignments. Reduced Teacher Workload: AI tutors, virtual teaching assistants and automated admin systems can help reduce teacher workload. This saves teachers time, while giving students quicker feedback.

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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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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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Artificial intelligence will supply every student on the planet a talented personal tutor and every teacher an amazing teaching assistant, Khan has said. In math, people can be hesitant to get help, says Nick Hershman, a teacher on special assignment who’s based in Beaverton, near the Portland metro area in Oregon.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Once they sign up for courses, an assigned mentor is supposed to check in on them regularly—sometimes even weekly—through a call or text or video meeting. In practice, that meant each Monday, text messages were sent reminding students about assignments due that week, along with estimates for how much time each task would likely take.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Specifically, she felt that emails between professors and students led to inequalities when it came to which students understood material or got clarifications on how to do assignments. She called her startup Piazza. The system is now in place at around 2,000 colleges, and her company has raised more than $15 million.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

McGraw-Hill and Pearon emphasized that instructors retain the freedom to decide whether to assign bundled materials to students in their classes, and those students can then choose whether to opt out. Pearson has typically seen opt-out rates below 5 percent, according to Osborne.

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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. Magic Switch: Reformat your class assignments, projects, and more. www.eduaide.ai Eduaide.ai

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Survey data from Best Colleges reveals that as of March this year, 22 percent of students admitted using ChatGPT to complete an assignment or exam, with 57 percent indicating they intend to use AI tools for future coursework. Or how they might feel if their instructor used ChatGPT to provide feedback on their assignments?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Rebecca Stout remembers the time she got a call from Saudi Arabia at midnight from one of her online students looking for help on an assignment. It was just one example of how she—and many online instructors—feel like they must be always on call when they teach an online course. And then all the sudden we’re teaching online.

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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. To use Gradescope, a grader scans exams or assignments into the platform and each question is given a rubric.

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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. Magic Switch: Reformat your class assignments, projects, and more. www.eduaide.ai Eduaide.ai

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

And for students, Wesch organized the course not as a series of traditional assignments, but as a set of 10 challenges that introduce basic concepts of anthropology. He also used some of the money to send his teaching assistants to cities around the globe. embassy to get him out.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Survey data from Best Colleges reveals that as of March this year, 22 percent of students admitted using ChatGPT to complete an assignment or exam, with 57 percent indicating they intend to use AI tools for future coursework. Or how they might feel if their instructor used ChatGPT to provide feedback on their assignments?

Minute Papers 119

Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 119

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

After they all read a case, such as whether the Harvard Law School shield should be abandoned because it is based on the family crest of an 18th-century slaveholder, they all logged on to a chat room where they were each assigned a pseudonym. Full disclosure, I was a fellow at the center in 2013 and served as a teaching assistant for Nesson.)

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A teacher presents a concept, offers examples, assigns homework, and then reviews the assignments once submitted. We might soon see virtual AI teaching assistants that can offer real-time support to students, seamlessly integrating with the classroom environment. For instance, consider the traditional classroom scenario.

Intelligence 122

Intelligence Ethics Feedback Assignments 122

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Depending upon the situation, the guest, the professor, a teaching assistant, or an appointed student in the class can all be good options for moderating the interactions. When adapting a course—or designing a new one—to be offered online, consider classroom guests as course content that is as essential as the assigned readings.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

You could also include reminders of any tasks or assignments that need to be completed in the first week. Shanda Hood is a teaching assistant professor at the University of Arkansas. At any rate, this is a good way to show the students that you are there and that you are paying attention right from the start.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

He pointed to a recent computer science class at Georgia Tech, where the professor had teaching assistants and a computer respond to student questions—without telling the students that they might be interacting with a machine. The bot, “Jill Watson,” passed the Turing test—students thought they were interacting with a human TA.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 31, 2016

CanaryFlow is a classroom workflow platform that makes it easy for K-12 teachers to create lessons, add and grade assignments, upload resources, comment on student work or class activities, and schedule events. Features include: ability to grade, distribute, and collect assignments and materials. CanaryLearning .

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Assignments Testing Grades Classroom Management 84

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A teacher presents a concept, offers examples, assigns homework, and then reviews the assignments once submitted. We might soon see virtual AI teaching assistants that can offer real-time support to students, seamlessly integrating with the classroom environment. For instance, consider the traditional classroom scenario.

Intelligence 111

Intelligence Ethics Feedback Assignments 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Apart from course evaluation, which is embedded within the normal semester, and kind of a mandatory process, I think the other stakeholder that we often forget is the teaching assistants. Was the faculty member or any teaching assistant involved or was that all student mediated?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Brightspace Assignment Release Conditions I use Read&Write for Chrome to translate text to speech and to note feedback at intervals throughout my students’ writing process. Students did better by the end which saved hours when it came time to the final assessments.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

How an Experimental Online Course Helped One Anthropology Department Keep a Professor and a Half When budget cuts threatened to close the anthropology department at Kansas State University, one professor, Michael Wesch, fought back—by changing up his teaching. As with most experiments, not everything went according to plan.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In a class, an example might be only having students submit a discussion board post for every assignment. Use assignments as feedback about how the material is landing with students. An example of a job that is low in skill variety is that of a typical manufacturing line. The same motion is used over and over again to perform the work.

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Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 105

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Depending upon the situation, the guest, the professor, a teaching assistant, or an appointed student in the class can all be good options for moderating the interactions. When adapting a course—or designing a new one—to be offered online, consider classroom guests as course content that is as essential as the assigned readings.

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Lecturing Feedback Evaluation Course Design 110