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

APRIL 28, 2017

Ariana Garcia doesn’t take a break as she goes from tutoring a small group of students to teaching a social studies class at the Great Oak Charter middle school in New York City. Next year, I just want to teach,” Garcia exasperatedly tells EdSurge. She also teaches full time at Great Oaks, a gig that provides her with housing.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Education technology has a public relations problem. At a time when educators need assurances that digital innovations will work for them, the fundamental premise of this technology may imply just the opposite. In a space where words carry wide currency, our choice of language matters.

Intelligence 167

Intelligence Education Teaching Assistants Knowledge 167

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

And often that’s because there is a disconnect between what students expect from college teaching and what actually ends up happening in the classroom. To get started, what are some of the channels that currently exist, if any, for students to interact with their faculty or instructors around teaching and curriculum?

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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.

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Attention STEM Assistive Technology Critical Thinking 279

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2021

The pandemic inspired some professors to get creative in their teaching as they tried to move in-person courses online in engaging ways. No matter how big your screen, Zoom can only display up to 49 people in each session. So the class was divided into three different Zoom sessions of up to 100 students each.

Ethics 205

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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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I began my teaching career as a Teach For America (TFA) Corps member in Jacksonville, Florida. I was part of a cohort of about 100 first-year educators, all united by a common mission: to serve under-resourced and underserved schools. By the end of that first semester, 10 of my colleagues had already left the program.

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Culture Motivation Classroom Management Teaching Assistants 202

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

Nina Radcliffe’s teaching practice was changing. Radcliffe was beginning to think more intentionally about the brain and to explicitly teach her students about how it functions. Counselors at our school began using specific names of brain structures, such as the amygdala and hippocampus, when teaching learners how to self-regulate.

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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. And last year, the U.S.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Teachers will need to learn and refine their online teaching skills and find new opportunities for working from home, allowing them a better work-life balance. Schools had a crash course in greater instructional technology usage during the pandemic. –Jason Carroll, Chief Product Officer, Texthelp.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

But the tools were also targeted at math teaching. 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.” Because we all wish we had magical tools to make [teaching] easier.”

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Using an online platform, Farah developed a way for teachers to share instructional videos and online resources with students, throwing out the need for traditional, lecture-style teaching and replacing it with time for students to work on individual and group projects that they care about.

Technology 167

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

The book is called “ Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing). ” In fact, we said, ‘Hey, this could be really valuable in a teaching setting.’ 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.

Intelligence 196

Intelligence Teaching Assistants Laboratory Assignments 196

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

I was intrigued to learn whether the practices and approaches used to teach CS in grades K-2, which is my area of focus, would be in any way similar to those at the university level. There are various reasons for teaching computer science, but one approach that has gained traction is the idea of coding as a literacy.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

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. He cautioned that he couldn’t fully replace his human teaching assistants with a chatbot. It promised to increase efficiency, he argued.

Ethics 195

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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

MAY 18, 2017

Algorithms will one day play a pivotal role in teaching and learning, so colleges need to pay close attention to how they work and who builds them. 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.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. Instructors first need to consider how we use grades in our teaching—and then explore what kinds of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations exist and persist for our students. And I sometimes delegate some portion of the work to a teaching assistant.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2022

This was also the year when schools became the centerpiece of America’s culture wars —with educators being regularly accused of and reported for teaching divisive topics , infringing on parental rights , and—in most recently—being labeled as “groomers” and accused of pedophilia.

Learning 212

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2019

With help from students and Harvard staff, Levy created an app, Teachly , to help educators like himself to involve students more equitably in their classes. While Levy created the app to automate part of the process involved in documenting class participation, it still requires some manual assistance. She hasn’t used Teachly.

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Much has been said and written about the need to teach ethics in computer science education—especially in light of major controversies such as with Facebook and Cambridge Analytica and broader concerns about the intersection of tech companies and politics.

Ethics 120

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

“We’re calling for a halt to these programs until faculty and other university stakeholders can conduct a thorough review,” said Daric Thorne, a graduate assistant and president of the EMU Federation of Teachers, during a press briefing on Wednesday. It represents a de-skilling of the teaching profession.” They are NOT replacements.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It’s a practice that has gone on for years, but teaching experts say it intensified during pandemic campus shut-downs, when students were looking for ways to connect. Students increasingly turn to private systems to create online groups around individual college classes.

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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 plans to do some teaching at local colleges in Colorado, where she now lives.

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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.

Assignments 167

Assignments Teaching Assistants Motivation Failure 167

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

When budget woes threatened faculty reductions in the anthropology department at Kansas State University, one professor decided to address the shortfall by teaching differently. The professor, Michael Wesch, has a long track record of teaching innovation. I was accidentally teaching way more people than I thought I was,” he says.

Textbooks 159

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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

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. to the idea of bringing in robots for some teaching functions. But should we? It’s vision felt unusually utopian.

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Intelligence Teaching Assistants Language Languages 155

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

It was just one example of how she—and many online instructors—feel like they must be always on call when they teach an online course. Stout researches burnout and oversees around twenty adjuncts who teach online. Well, we know the reality: it’s very difficult to do that, and that’s not really what online teaching is.”

Instructors 144

Instructors Teaching Assistants Study Assignments 144

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. When we teach large classes, what approaches can we employ that will have a greater opportunity to engage students and help students learn more? You can pose a question for a future column here. What about when you have 50-60 students in a class?

Learning 161

Learning Students Assignments Participation 161

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching. This year’s 6th most-read story focuses on the predictions educators and industry experts made for learning in 2022.

Hybrid Learning 288

Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Languages 288

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

Textbooks 166

Textbooks Accessibility Confidentiality Instructors 166

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.

Education 192

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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. .

Intelligence 167

Intelligence Grades Education Ethics 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

No longer, he says, does it make sense for colleges to divorce technology from teaching and learning. An unusual survey conducted at colleges across Australia asked professors what kind of data would help them teach better. WHAT DO PROFESSORS WANT FROM LEARNING ANALYTICS?

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