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Georgia Tech Is Trying to Keep a ChatGPT-Powered Teaching Assistant From ‘Hallucinating’

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A college probably wouldn’t hire a teaching assistant who tends to lie to students about course content or deadlines. Sandeep Kakar, a research scientist at Georgia Tech “Everybody working with ChatGPT is trying to stop hallucinations,” Kakar adds, “but it is literally in the DNA of large language models.”

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The Election Is Over. Can Colleges Get Classroom Discussions Back on Track?

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But four years can pass quickly, and if colleges can’t lead productive discussions of sensitive topics in their classrooms, can we expect the discourse in future elections to be any better? The Threads discussion, on the other hand, brought out dramatically different, but equally valid, views.

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How we built a whole-child, wraparound approach to special education

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We have established “whole-child team meetings” in which our instructional staff, teachers, TAs, aides, and related service providers meet regularly to discuss student progress and reflect on our instructional practices with all experts at the table.

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That Class Where Stanford Profs Projected Hundreds of Zoom Students on a Video Wall

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Then a teaching assistant helped feed all three of those sessions into a fourth room, making it possible to control which speaker is featured on everyone’s feed but that can draw on users in any of the Zoom sessions. No matter how big your screen, Zoom can only display up to 49 people in each session.

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Teachers Are Turning to AI Solutions for Assistance

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That’s where artificial intelligence–powered teaching assistants might come in handy. After one year of using Happy Numbers, an AI-assisted teaching assistant, nearly all the students improved their scores to a 35. Artificial Intelligence Gives Teachers More Time and Specific Data. For Tacoma (Wash.)

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What Learning Python Taught Me About Computer Science Education for Young Children

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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. During in-class activities, we often collaborated in pairs or small groups.

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Why These Educators Meet Regularly to Align Instruction with Mind, Brain, and Education Research

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As an English as an additional language (EAL) support teacher at NIST International School in Bangkok, Thailand, I co-teach in four early elementary classrooms, supporting multilingual students who are developing their academic proficiency in English. toward the end of Writer’s Workshop.

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