EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

“School-wide initiatives can be seamlessly woven into an educator’s blended resources, allowing for content to be personal to their own school and classroom,” Farah writes in an Edutopia blog post. 3 Education Technologies Improve Blended Learning Initiatives.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

In Susan Blum’s “ Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (And What to Do, Instead) ,” we discover that when it comes to concerns about grade inflation: “The trouble isn’t that too many students are getting As but that too many students have been led to believe the primary purpose of schooling is to get As,” she writes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

And we also heard from Dan Meyer, vice president of user growth at Amplify, a curriculum and assessment company, who writes a newsletter about teaching mathematics where he has raised objections to the idea of using AI chatbots as tutors. Every teacher knows that. How do you address their individual needs?

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Intelligence Teaching Assistants Laboratory Assignments 201

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

After all, while some students might write in to their teacher for help, more-reserved students—perhaps more likely to be female students—might hang back or try to figure it all out by themselves. She called her startup Piazza. The system is now in place at around 2,000 colleges, and her company has raised more than $15 million.

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For example, if you look at the Jill Watson experiment at Georgia Tech, where they created a virtual teaching assistant, the students in the class didn't know that they were talking to a bot. You're probably one of the only people we’ve talked to on the podcast who also writes murder mysteries. How does that work? I don't know.

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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

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

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 Yet the report suggests that publishers sometimes consider their prices to be proprietary trade secrets.

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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. It’s one thing to be ask students to write a document or take a test. What Keeps A Futurist Optimistic?

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Instructors Essay Science Teaching Assistants 155

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. She reflects on her final project, saying, “I no longer felt I was learning to read and write commands and scripts.

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Science Education Learning Essay 148

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

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

She attended her classes and was a great graduate teaching assistant, teaching introductory classes to a broad array of students. Then WRITE IT DOWN! What's keeping you rooted in higher education? Back in the days when tests were mimeographed (some of you also remember the smell of that purple ink!)

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Education Motivation Achievement Teaching Assistants 189

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.”

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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.

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Writing Ethics Schools Intelligence 52

Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

In other words,” writes EdSurge writer Jeffrey R. Young, Andrew Ng probably teaches more people than anyone else on the planet.” Online learning once promised to increase access to quality education for students around the world, regardless of their income or background. Here’s what happened, and what he learned.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

Reading, writing and AI—that turned out to be the winning combination for startup, WriteLab. They started the company to solve a challenge that they both knew well: how to provide fast and actionable feedback to writing students. Educators have appreciated their work. Writing tools are particularly interesting to the company.

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Feedback Writing Teaching Assistants Math 85

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. The platform is also integrated with Microsoft tools like.

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Mobile Devices Assignments Feedback Quizzes 155

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Meanwhile, a human teaching assistant monitored any replies that students sent back to the chatbot. It’s not writing papers for them,” Renick says. “It Students could access chatbot quizzes ahead of exams to help assess their level of understanding. The chatbot is not doing the coursework for the students.

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Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Students 198

Edsurge

MAY 4, 2023

And when 43 students finally arrived, Austin, along with two teaching assistants, led their organic chemistry lab. It’s a model somewhat similar to an older style of hybrid learning, which predates the pandemic-era use of that term and is common to low-residency MBA and creative writing graduate programs designed for working adults.

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Science Accessibility STEM Laboratory 186

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. Was the faculty member or any teaching assistant involved or was that all student mediated? Reed: This is a followup to Patrick.

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Teaching Course Evaluations Students Evaluation 119

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.

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Learning Intelligence Science Questions 89

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. And my response to that is, I completely believe that most—99.999 percent—of the educational-technology companies out there are ethical.

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Teaching Ethics Textbooks Laboratory 93

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

I'm the world's first android teaching assistant. Such circumstances, he writes, will require that “education be considered a lifelong activity.” But she also reflects some of my biases, obviously, because she’s my teaching assistant,” Barry says. “Are you having a good day?” I am, yes, thank you.

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Teachers Education Instructors Intelligence 153

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. Tracking Math Identities Snyder, Holifield’s former teaching assistant, says she identifies as a non-math person. His students had watched the effects of his disease creep across his body.

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Math Beliefs Teaching Assistants Culture 184

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2020

Jackson’s high school students will have virtual spaces for student-led affinity clubs, and students will have opportunities to be teaching assistants, helping younger students with learning challenges and deepening their own relationships to favorite teachers or subjects.

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Distance Learning Intelligence Interdisciplinary Schools 196

Edsurge

JULY 23, 2020

Other tools, like breakout rooms and an interactive white board that everyone can write on, are designed to decrease the sense of distance among students, the instructor said. The company has applied for a patent for its live remote technology.

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