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What educators can learn about effective teaching from a Harvard prof

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Harvard professor David Malan has managed to pull off a neat trick: His Computer Science 50 course is the most popular course at both Harvard and Yale. By examining his success, we can learn some important lessons about effective teaching. His teaching assistants also host “office hours” every Monday through Thursday night from 9 p.m.

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Who You Gonna Call? A Harvard Lecturer's Quest for Equitable Class Participation

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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. It was a big, big moment for me.”

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Should Chatbots Tutor? Dissecting That Viral AI Demo With Sal Khan and His Son

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It’s an interaction that might have seemed like science fiction a couple of years ago. And I've always read a lot of science fiction books about maybe that could start pushing the frontiers of and even helping us understand what is intelligence and what is consciousness. And that level of functionality isn’t yet available for users.)

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61 predictions about edtech, equity, and learning in 2022

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While I have had to readjust some of my teaching methodology, I have also come to appreciate all of the technology I learned to use this past year and plan on continuing to use it in my instruction. –Lisa Cumming, Science Teacher, Olmsted Falls High School. — Ryan Graham, Chief Technology Officer, Texthelp.

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Ghost Students: The Rise of Bots in Online Education 

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Proactive m onitoring: Regularly review online discussions, encourage student engagement, and collaborate with teaching assistants to identify potential bot activity. By taking these steps, faculty can help address the issue of bots posing as students and ensure a fair and equitable learning environment. The New York Times.

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65 ways equity, edtech, and innovation shone in 2022

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Beheshti, IEEE Senior Member, Dean of the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences at New York Institute of Technology. While I have had to readjust some of my teaching methodology, I have also come to appreciate all of the technology I learned to use this past year and plan on continuing to use it in my instruction.

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Why ‘Black Box’ Software Isn’t Ready to Teach College

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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.