eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2024

Sessions, keynotes, discussions, and the expo hall will connect attendees with need-to-know details on the latest edtech innovations shaping the education landscape. Plus, they’ll learn best practices and current trends to best leverage educational technology resources. 23, 2024 in Orlando.

Attention

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2021

The course on Ethics, Public Policy and Technological Change, which has been running for a couple of years in-person, is intended to get students thinking about tough issues in the ethics of technology. It’s co-taught by a computer science professor, Mehran Sahami, and two political-science professors, Reich and Jeremy Weinstein.

Ethics

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.

Student Engagement

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A biology laboratory coordinator in an integrated science department at Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges, Kohn perceived the tool as useful. But more than that, it would be important to teach his science students how to interact with the tool for their own careers, he first told EdSurge last April.

Ethics

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.

Technology

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

“No teacher is going to put in 1,000 person-hours of his or her time in order to get a benefit of 200 person-hours that he or she may save,” Ashok Goel, a professor of computer science and cognitive science at Georgia Institute of Technology, told EdSurge in an interview earlier this year.

Teaching

Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Not in terms of the science-fiction robot overlords. 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. A teaching assistant might offer after-school tutoring.

Teaching

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.

Teaching

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

It’s an interaction that might have seemed like science fiction a couple of years ago. I've always been fascinated by, ‘What could we learn potentially from technology?’ I don't think it's able to do the full job, but I think that the technology is improving so fast that you definitely will never say never.

Intelligence

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sankar understood the shy student experience because she had been one herself, having gone to college in India where she was one of only three female students majoring in computer science. The most grounding thing was hearing from founders that it wasn't rocket science,” she said. She called her startup Piazza.

Communication

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

I just assumed I nailed class and threw chalk down and did the victory dance,” says the atmospheric science professor at the University of Michigan. “In So the professor developed a backchannel tool that allows students to submit questions online during class and receive real-time answers from a teaching assistant.

Questions

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

At the intersection of cognitive sciences and computing there’s an opportunity to transform educational technology,” says Satya Nitta, IBM’s program director of cognitive science and education technology.

Instructors

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

He achieved this with a technical degree and lots of continuing education. But he always wanted to pursue a degree in computer science—he loved technology. She attended her classes and was a great graduate teaching assistant, teaching introductory classes to a broad array of students.

Education

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2019

While Levy created the app to automate part of the process involved in documenting class participation, it still requires some manual assistance. For that, an instructor usually turns to teaching assistants like Erin Gregor, who record in Teachly every time a student participates.

Lecturing

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

The deal marks the latest in a series of acquisitions involving digital courseware, the industry parlance for online products that leverage data and technology to personalize the course instruction and feedback that each student receives. student and teaching assistant, began building his own homegrown adaptive tutoring technologies.

Learning

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

Unsurprisingly, some of the biggest drivers of these improved metrics include making people pay for online programs, increasing the selectivity of courses, and adding program managers and teaching assistants to follow up with learners. Here are seven practices for moving completion rates for online courses from 5 to 85 percent: 1.

Assignments

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

We agreed to meet regularly and within weeks additional members of the leadership team and teaching assistants joined our group, which now includes over 20 members. We engaged with literature immediately, selecting Tokuhama-Espinosa’s book “ NeuroMyths ” as our first group read.

Education

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. Introduce technology in context. But not all edtech is equally effective.

Teachers

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. You save time in applying the feedback.”

Grades

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

GYO exposes participants to the science of early learning through workshops, videos, coursework and facilitated discussions about how participants can apply their learning.

Special Education

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2019

Refining Searches At Georgia Tech, Ashok Goel, a computer-science professor who developed a chatbot named Jill Watson that serves as a teaching assistant for some of his courses, is also working on applying AI to research.

Intelligence

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Schools had a crash course in greater instructional technology usage during the pandemic. Teachers have gained so much confidence and are finally using educational technology in a way that enhances their instruction at a scale we haven’t seen. –Lisa Cumming, Science Teacher, Olmsted Falls High School.

Learning

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

She described the advances in cognitive science, including the work of Carol Dweck, Geoffrey Cohen, and Claude Steele, that have led her to work on creating even more supportive and effective learning environments. However, they were more open to having their teaching assistants try new approaches.

Teaching Assistants

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

It’s not so much a learning management system as it is a device manager specifically for iPads or, as the company calls it, a “teaching assistant.” Updates and Upgrades: Apple Classroom officially hit the app store in March 2016. And for upper grade levels, he says teachers have benefitted from being able to monitor student activity.

Mobile Devices

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Beheshti, IEEE Senior Member, Dean of the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences at New York Institute of Technology. Schools had a crash course in greater instructional technology usage during the pandemic. –Lisa Cumming, Science Teacher, Olmsted Falls High School. — Babak D.

Hybrid Learning

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

These factors converge to understandably discourage teachers with established routines from shifting away from lecturing and into flipped learning, a change that many scholars of pedagogy and education sciences strongly advocate for. Intentional tech: Principles to guide the use of educational technology in college teaching.

Lecturing

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

To test this out, the institution partnered with researchers from Brown University and edtech company Mainstay to select an online political science course that has high enrollment—and high rates of failure—because every student is required to take it.

Student Engagement

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

While studying computer science at the. 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). I observed that students have different readiness levels, but the way we teach is week-by-week lectures with homework.

Textbooks

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Apart from course evaluation, which is embedded within the normal semester, and kind of a mandatory process, I think the other stakeholder that we often forget is the teaching assistants. We've been talking a lot about evaluations for teaching, but I'd love to dig into the teaching itself.

Teaching

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

We invited three guests: Candace Thille, an assistant professor of education at Stanford Graduate School of Education; Mark Milliron, co-founder and chief learning officer at Civitas Learning; and Kyle Bowen, educational technology services director at Penn State University.

Learning

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. We started collecting the data for that purpose, and then about that same year when we started OLI, we applied for an NSF grant for a science and learning center.

Teaching

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Like many other education entrepreneurs with technology backgrounds, the co-founders of Lalilo say they were surprised at the gap between the teaching tools currently available in classrooms, and the technology they knew was available. During that time, they also did short teaching gigs.

English

Whiteboard Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

For instance, introducing an AI teaching assistant like Jill Watson , developed by Georgia Tech, can start in a single course before expanding school-wide. Training Plans : Continuous professional development should be provided, like the ISTE Certification for Educators , which includes training on technology integration.

Writing

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Carlson, the English teacher in Maine who has tried oral exams in IB classes, has used Sherpa to have students answer questions about an assigned portion of the science fiction novel “The Power,” by Naomi Alderman, via their laptop webcams. “I She typically teaches mechanical engineering courses with 100 to 150 students.

Exams

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

Ashok Goel has a vision for the future of education. 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.

Mental Models

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

I'm the world's first android teaching assistant. Thumbing through its pages, you might have discovered a brief essay penned by a prolific writer of science and science fiction, Isaac Asimov. But she also reflects some of my biases, obviously, because she’s my teaching assistant,” Barry says.

Teachers

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. It’s of particular concern for reinforcing inequality in lucrative and vital science, technology, engineering and math careers, since the classification can knock students off the path to those positions.

Math