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How Students Use Unofficial Online Backchannels for Classes

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Concerns About Cheating The biggest concern many professors have about these unofficial online platforms is whether students use them to cheat, both Zachmeier and McNamara acknowledge, by sharing answers on homework or exams. As the anonymous user wrote: “If you are looking to cheat, then this is honestly the worst way to do it.

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Blending in Technology Boosts K–12 Instruction

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In California, students at Chula Vista Elementary School District’s Salt Creek Elementary improved their scores by 137 percent over the state average on California’s performance exams in the first year of introducing a blended learning program. . 3 Education Technologies Improve Blended Learning Initiatives.

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This Program Is Building a Pipeline of Special Education Teachers

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Our goal was to recruit a diverse cohort of aspiring teacher assistants and design a program that went beyond certification exam preparation to prepare them for what they’ll encounter in special education classrooms. The remainder includes professional development sessions, mandated state training and job search preparation.

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How This Famed Chinese Venture Capitalist Thinks AI Will Reshape Teaching

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In the one-to-1000 classroom, we also have teaching assistants. And then, the local teachers can be trained to be teaching assistants, so a job that's much easier for each teacher to learn to do. But the benefit is that the system will know the comprehension level of the students, not just by how they do on exam.

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Gradescope Raises $3.75M to Speed Up Grading in Higher Ed

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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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As Student Engagement Falls, Colleges Wonder: ‘Are We Part of the Problem?’

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Students could access chatbot quizzes ahead of exams to help assess their level of understanding. Meanwhile, a human teaching assistant monitored any replies that students sent back to the chatbot. It’s not getting them the answers when taking the midterm exam. The chatbot is not doing the coursework for the students.

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Artificial Intelligence, Authentic Impact: How Educational AI is Making the Grade

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As RAND senior policy researcher Robert Murphy notes in a post for Education Week , “maybe 10 percent, 20 percent, 40 percent of the time [the system] will get it wrong ,” making AI in schools an excellent supplemental tool, but no replacement for teachers. .