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The Opportunities and Drawbacks of AI-Powered Reading Coaches, Assistants and Tutors

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Referred to as AI-powered reading coaches, assistants or tutors, these tools use generative AI to provide learners with personalized reading practice, stories, feedback and support. Contrary to these findings, AI-powered reading coaches seem designed to prioritize encouraging external motivation.

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4 lessons learned about AI in 2023

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In January 2023, about one month after the release of ChatGPT, there were already stories about colleges switching to “pen-and-paper” tests to battle the AI bots. You can use it to generate quizzes and students can use it to answer the quizzes, so why do we even matter as educators? What is our role as a teacher?

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15 edtech startups selected for the inaugural AWS Education Accelerator

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Murrieta, CA Oblio is improving the university admissions process with an innovative AI tool designed to help admissions officers, faculty, staff, and coaches send hyper-personalized emails, streamline communication, and embrace multilingual inclusivity. Oblio, Inc. Quizard AI, Inc.

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The case for ChatGPT as the ultimate educator’s toolkit

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Some believe it will cripple the education system and replace human workers ; others denounce ChatGPT as a free essay-writing and test-taking tool that makes it laughably easy to cheat on assignments, while the validity of responses generated by ChatGPT has also been called into question.

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Newark Public Schools considers new AI tutor chatbot for districtwide use

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The district was among the first in the country to test the chatbot called Khanmigo, an AI program developed by online learning giant Khan Academy that is designed for classrooms and acts as a tutor for students and an assistant for teachers.

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Alexa Goes to ISTE: Edtech Companies—and Teachers—Debut New Skills for Learning

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The nonprofit ACT, which is best-known for its standardized college entrance test, privately demonstrated its new skill on an Amazon Echo Dot. The ACT skill, which provides general information about the exam and can help students prepare for the test, will be available to the public this fall. Alexa, when is the next ACT test date?

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How 3 Techniques From Cognitive Psychology Reinvigorated My Math Classroom

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If a college baseball coach wants to improve the hitting average of his team, what should he do in batting practice? Some of my most brilliant students have grappled to comprehend concepts, to remember processes and to perform well on tests. Every spring, I start gauging the amount of time I have remaining until the tests arrive.

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