EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

While teachers may always be the best line of defense for students falling behind, busy schedules don’t always permit the special attention and feedback that students need. That’s where artificial intelligence–powered teaching assistants might come in handy. by Eli Zimmerman.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

Nina Radcliffe’s teaching practice was changing. The chime she rang to remind students to take a calm breath before focusing their attention signaled that this breathing practice had become embedded into classroom culture. She wasn’t the only one. toward the end of Writer’s Workshop.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

But the tools were also targeted at math teaching. Artificial intelligence will supply every student on the planet a talented personal tutor and every teacher an amazing teaching assistant, Khan has said. Because we all wish we had magical tools to make [teaching] easier.” Does It Add Up? So what does this matter?

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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

AUGUST 7, 2018

And often that’s because there is a disconnect between what students expect from college teaching and what actually ends up happening in the classroom. To get started, what are some of the channels that currently exist, if any, for students to interact with their faculty or instructors around teaching and curriculum?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Artificial Intelligence–AI–has been around a long time, but caught everyone’s attention with the launch of generative AI, ChatGPT, and DALL-E. Reduced Teacher Workload: AI tutors, virtual teaching assistants and automated admin systems can help reduce teacher workload.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2019

However, one of the most difficult parts of personalized learning is finding the time to give each student the attention he or she needs. . Personalized learning , for example, is being rapidly adopted by educators as a key pedagogy.

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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 4, 2024

A video demo of the latest version of ChatGPT tutoring a student that went viral on YouTube has brought fresh attention to this question. In fact, we said, ‘Hey, this could be really valuable in a teaching setting.’ The book is called “ Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing). ”

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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. When we teach large classes, what approaches can we employ that will have a greater opportunity to engage students and help students learn more? You can pose a question for a future column here. What about when you have 50-60 students in a class?

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

And so they’ve designed systems, strategies and tools to better hold the attention of their students, many of whom are working adults. It just helps to have that additional guidance, support and partnering with a student, to help teach them how to manage their time. Leaders at institutions that specialize in online higher ed know this.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

When budget woes threatened faculty reductions in the anthropology department at Kansas State University, one professor decided to address the shortfall by teaching differently. The professor, Michael Wesch, has a long track record of teaching innovation. I was accidentally teaching way more people than I thought I was,” he says.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Teachers will need to learn and refine their online teaching skills and find new opportunities for working from home, allowing them a better work-life balance. And there is power in that data, not just from the perspective of ROI, but also in the potential for teaching and learning and ensuring data privacy compliance.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

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. However, while I was teaching remotely, I found it difficult to keep my home life separated. Instead of being annoyed at the disruptions, this seemed to encourage my students to pay more attention.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

Algorithms will one day play a pivotal role in teaching and learning, so colleges need to pay close attention to how they work and who builds them. Just as professors wouldn’t bring in a teaching assistant they couldn’t talk to or collaborate with, they shouldn’t adopt interactive tools that are mysterious and locked.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Teaching in a large-size classroom differs significantly from teaching in a small-size classroom in terms of engagement, interaction, and instructional methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Oppositely, small classrooms allow for more intimate interactions, personalized feedback, and flexible teaching methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022).

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

These stories also show that innovative teaching was top of mind this past year, from shaking up the way instructors teach online, to talking about race in the classroom, to experimenting with augmented and virtual reality. How Blockbuster MOOCs Could Shape the Future of Teaching. 2018’s Top 10 Countdown: HigherEd Edition 10.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 24, 2024

Instructors may find it valuable to meet and teach to students in-person, rather than creating content for the proverbial faceless void. The online segments can be scheduled in a way that helps students meet other demands of their time and attention. Hybrid versus in-person only Flexibility.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching. A lot of students are struggling emotionally this year because of the pandemic and teaching is harder than it’s ever been because of this shift.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Teaching in a large-size classroom differs significantly from teaching in a small-size classroom in terms of engagement, interaction, and instructional methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Oppositely, small classrooms allow for more intimate interactions, personalized feedback, and flexible teaching methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022).

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 24, 2024

Instructors may find it valuable to meet and teach to students in-person, rather than creating content for the proverbial faceless void. The online segments can be scheduled in a way that helps students meet other demands of their time and attention. Hybrid versus in-person only Flexibility.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

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. However, while I was teaching remotely, I found it difficult to keep my home life separated. Instead of being annoyed at the disruptions, this seemed to encourage my students to pay more attention.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

student and teaching assistant, began building his own homegrown adaptive tutoring technologies. That approach caught the attention of one of the biggest funders in the education technology industry. In 2014, the Gates Foundation awarded the company a $4.5 million grant as part of a challenge to develop digital courseware tools.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Mixed-mode classes present new challenges for faculty who are used to teaching an in-person or online class, where all the students are using one mode of access. If you are teaching a mixed-mode for the first time, your first instinct may be to conduct the course similar to other in-person classes with the remote students simply sitting in.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 13, 2025

Rather than engaging in active discourse, they tend to listen attentively to their educators and accept their viewpoints unquestioningly, even if they conflict with their knowledge and understanding. Educators can help by designating peer mentors or teaching assistants to offer guidance.

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Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

More structured than many traditional student worker positions, this role offers students access to more instructional resources in the classroom, provides students with more access to effective teaching practices, and improves student learning overall (Otero et al., under review).

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 13, 2025

Rather than engaging in active discourse, they tend to listen attentively to their educators and accept their viewpoints unquestioningly, even if they conflict with their knowledge and understanding. Educators can help by designating peer mentors or teaching assistants to offer guidance.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

What I pay most attention to is, how are these technologies going to be used to actually support the teaching and learning process. At Georgia Tech, they’re using Jill Watson as an AI teaching assistant. I think they’re going to happen simultaneously. So that is still serving in a pedagogical agent.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

I'm the world's first android teaching assistant. She talks most readily about philosophy, the subject she helps teach at Notre Dame de Namur University, a small Catholic college in California. And by exposing Maria Bot to eager learners, Barry hopes to infuse her with benevolence and nurture her teaching skills.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

At first, he stumbled and, his hands weak, relied entirely on teaching assistants to write equations on the board for him. Less attention to math meant average scores and more distaste for the subject, which never felt practical to me anyway. But more than that, he was attentive and made her feel that math was valuable.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Decades later, Stepanic teaches a standing-room-only class at the University of Virginia entitled—cue up the spooky organ music—Dracula. Stanley Stepanic: When I first came to UVA in 2005 to study for my master’s and my PhD, I was a teaching assistant to the course and was mentored by Professor Jan Perkowski. It was destiny.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

Fostering Engagement in Non-Major Biology Students through a Studio Environment Engaging students not inherently drawn to biology requires innovative teaching methods. This innovative teaching environment blends engaged lectures with hands-on, collaborative activities, with the instructor as a facilitator.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

Fostering Engagement in Non-Major Biology Students through a Studio Environment Engaging students not inherently drawn to biology requires innovative teaching methods. This innovative teaching environment blends engaged lectures with hands-on, collaborative activities, with the instructor as a facilitator.

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