Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2021

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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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2020

These self-paced teams watch recordings of the professor and pair up with teaching assistants for about five live sessions—a necessary alteration to make the program free, given that mentor professors are paid by Pioneer for their time. This is not a research program,” Jaskol clarifies.

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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

JUNE 4, 2024

In fact, it's most valuable in a teaching setting because a teacher's in a class of 30, these kids are at all different levels. Well, if you had support from a teaching assistant who's also their tutor, that's kind of what Khan Academy has always aspired to be. Every teacher knows that. How do you address their individual needs?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Artificial Tools, Human Judgments When EdSurge first spoke to Kohn, the lab coordinator, he was using ChatGPT as a teacher’s assistant in biology courses. He cautioned that he couldn’t fully replace his human teaching assistants with a chatbot. Sometimes, he said, the chatbot was just off the mark.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

A thousand hours is about how long it took Goel and his team to create Jill Watson, an AI teaching assistant chatbot that can answer student questions. “It’s not something I could hand over to you or to some colleague and say, ‘Go run it in your class.’”

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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. For some teachers and school leaders, it can feel like an onslaught.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Here’s how the competition will work : In the first stage, professors can work alone, or team up with graduate students and teaching assistants to submit ideas on how to bring ethics into existing undergraduate computer science classes.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

Meanwhile, research is also being conducted today to understand how chatbots can be used as teaching assistants. In one study , students were not told which of their teaching assistants were humans and which were robots—and findings suggested students struggled to differentiate the two. (I

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

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. MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out what administrators should consider when integrating new education technology!

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

One document they obtained outlines a set of possible services Academic Partnerships provides that includes “utilize virtual teaching assistance,” and also talks about details including course lengths and caps on enrollment. AP does not provide any teaching assistance nor oversight of it,” she added.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2022

This year, “Ready, Set, Summer” is happening at 21 school sites across the cities, offering all public school families full-day, full-week summer learning options supervised by certified teachers, youth workers, and teaching assistants.

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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.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

While some said that AI teaching assistants could free up faculty time to work more closely with students, one participant said, “I’m afraid of losing actual communication with professors and classmates.” Some wondered whether AI would—or should—replace professors by 2030.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

As the grantee with the most experience in my cohort, I was given the opportunity to transition into a teacher trainer position; I found myself stepping into a new role as a mentor and coach to 14 first-year English teaching assistants.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2019

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. .

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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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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.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

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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Science Education Learning Essay 218

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.

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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.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

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. Samson thinks students taking introductory science, technology, engineering and math classes could especially benefit from these kinds of tools.

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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.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

So Sankar proposed an online system that would be open to everyone in a class , where when any student wrote in asking for help or clarification, all would benefit from the answer posted by the professor or a teaching assistant. She called her startup Piazza.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Though Evans uses Discord for video gaming, including discussing Pokemon Go, he says he does not use it or other unofficial platforms in his classes, where he feels he gets enough feedback and help from professors and teaching assistants if needed.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Initially ecstatic to start school, Truman was now red in the face from crying while my teaching assistant and I practically pried him off his mother’s leg. We were a few weeks into my first year teaching kindergarten and I had begun to think of my classroom as a warm and inviting space.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

He also used some of the money to send his teaching assistants to cities around the globe. A video created in Tanzania by Garrett Wilkinson, a teaching assistant in the Anth101 course. Wesch hired a consultant he knew to build a website for the course, so that it wouldn’t look like a typical college site.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

PIRG worries that these “minimum usage rates” clauses might lead to commercial course packs becoming the default in large introductory courses. “At

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Textbooks Accessibility Confidentiality Instructors 160

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

And I sometimes delegate some portion of the work to a teaching assistant. In my case, I tend to watch every screencast video that is submitted, or otherwise how would I ever learn the names of each student’s pet? But I do watch the videos at double speed, and I’m able to get through them relatively quickly.

Motivation 196

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2019

We can build robot teachers, or even robot teaching assistants. One of the events we attended was a two-day conference about artificial intelligence in education organized by a company called Squirrel AI. But should we? And if the answer is yes, what’s the right mix of human and machine in the classroom?

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Intelligence Teaching Assistants Languages Language 160

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

She attended her classes and was a great graduate teaching assistant, teaching introductory classes to a broad array of students. First, as an impressionable middle schooler, I watched my mom pursue her goal of a master’s in the language she loves, Spanish, and the Latin American culture she inculcates and admires.

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Education Motivation Achievement Teaching Assistants 184

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

In addition to preparing them for what to expect on the job, our program helps participants build the skills needed to successfully obtain a teaching assistant job in early childhood centers like ours, so we include coaching on workforce skills such as resume-writing and interviewing.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

However, they were more open to having their teaching assistants try new approaches. So he implemented new approaches with teaching assistants for an introduction to biology course. Molinaro says he tried approaching faculty, but found they were hesitant to change.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

“And then all the sudden we’re teaching online. If you’re in graduate school, you often work as a teaching assistant, you’re under a mentoring program, you’re taught to be a teacher. Online teaching is not necessarily the same.” But we are not given the same training that people who are taught face-to-face do.

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Instructors Teaching Assistants Study Assignments 138

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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Teachers Feedback Social Studies Schools 132

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.

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