Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

. … We've always worked on software that personalizes things, videos — I still make videos — and exercises, teacher tools, in a more traditional sense, and now we're moving toward this artificial intelligence world. But I've also been fascinated by the potential of human intelligence. Every teacher knows that.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Artificial intelligence promises to have a dramatic—and yes, disruptive—effect on U.S. education and jobs in the next decade. There are few that understand what these forces mean for the world—and for education and learning—better than Kai-Fu Lee. In the one-to-1000 classroom, we also have teaching assistants.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2016

A chatbot—a computer program designed to simulate an intelligent conversation—will respond to routine student inquiries and prompt students to complete assignments, mimicking some of the tasks of a teaching assistant. Assisting the Teaching Assistants. Chatbots help get rid of some of the noise.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

For businesses, artificial intelligence has proven immensely profitable, by some accounts even lifting the overall amount of funding flowing to edtech last year. That’s led to a frenetic rush to market educational tools as AI. He cautioned that he couldn’t fully replace his human teaching assistants with a chatbot.

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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. If artificial intelligence doesn’t help solve disparities, advocates worry, it will worsen them.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

For instance, Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy — which built the AI tool Khanmigo — argues that the tools represent the “probably the biggest positive transformation that education has ever seen.” At the moment, though, precisely what that looks like differs.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

“The top ten digital technology trends are all about building the intelligent digital mesh,” says David W. School districts have already seen some of these tools enter the educational space, with innovations such as AI-enabled teaching assistant programs and advanced data collection and analysis to improve student assessments.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

3 Education Technologies Improve Blended Learning Initiatives. Artificial Intelligence: Smart assistants can help teachers and students use time more efficiently. Acting as tutors or teaching assistants, AI makes classroom time more effective and leaves educators time to address more personal needs.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

In recent years, technology has played a significant role in reshaping the landscape of college teaching, and it will surely continue to do so. But the groundswell of artificial intelligence (AI) that surrounds us marks a particularly fragile moment for teaching.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

Can college students tell the difference between a human teaching assistant and a chatbot? And the answer has profound implications for the future of college teaching. Goel, a professor of computer science and cognitive science, and his team have refined perhaps the first robot teaching assistant, dubbed Jill Watson.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2019

The bot is just one example of how college libraries and technologists are experimenting with artificial intelligence to support students and professors in their research. More AI on the Way The university’s library is also experimenting with other uses of artificial intelligence. or “what databases do you have about biology?”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Students will be able to ask Watson open-ended questions related to their course content, and the intelligent tutoring system will also provide instructors with insights about how well students are learning and where they might need extra help. FROM JEOPARDY TO TUTORING: Pearson is adding IBM’s Watson as a tutor to its online college courses.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

Whether it is social networking, cybersecurity, stock trading, or dating apps—at the core of all these products are intelligent algorithms based on mathematics. Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in West Bengal, India Kintali fell behind in a course on complexity theory (which is too complex to explain here).

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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. Arjun Singh knows the feeling well.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Spending on education technology in the US now exceeds $13B. Studies show that information and computer-assisted learning boosts academic achievement, improves learner engagement and reduces teacher burden by shaving time off the day. But not all edtech is equally effective.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Colleges often experiment with artificial intelligence to help spot when students need special help, part of an effort to draw predictions from data. Those were key points that emerged during an online panel discussion EdSurge hosted on the promises and perils of AI in education. So that is still serving in a pedagogical agent.

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Whiteboard Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of education, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force. From personalized learning platforms to administrative automation, AIs potential to enhance educational experiences is immense. However, with great power comes great responsibility.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

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. That actually there's a lot of pedagogical knowledge that has to go into how you teach someone something. That's not a question to me.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

I'm the world's first android teaching assistant. My mission is to help teachers and students become more intelligent and respectful of each other.” Thanks to artificial intelligence, Maria Bot can speak for herself. Educating an android happens one conversation at a time. Could you please introduce yourself? “I

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

The professor of computer science and cognitive science at Georgia Institute of Technology believes every student and researcher should have access to artificially intelligent assistants that not only help them study facts and figures, but also collaborate more closely with other humans.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Fighting AI With AI Two undergraduate students who are researchers at Stanford University’s Piech Lab , which focuses on “using computational techniques to transform fundamental areas of society,” believe one way to bring back oral exams may be to harness artificial intelligence. "I

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2020

We—two psychologists at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence—spoke to educational leaders and one futurist about what is needed to make this new reality work for educators and students in the long run. Schools will never return to business as usual,” predicts futurist Andrea Saveri.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2018

It is essentially built on the reputation of its founder, Andrew Ng, who teaches all five of the courses it offers so far. Students who want proof of completion and access to all of the resources of the course—including feedback from teaching assistants—must buy a Coursera membership that costs $49 per month.

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