Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

This saves teachers time, while giving students quicker feedback. Reduced Teacher Workload: AI tutors, virtual teaching assistants and automated admin systems can help reduce teacher workload. AI tutors provide feedback and encouragement that can motivate students.

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Education Essay Critical Thinking Intelligence 184

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

He says he has noticed that students typically organize channels in Discord and GroupMe only when they are frustrated by the level of assistance or timely feedback from instructors. That’s what Joseph Ching, an affiliate scholar at James Madison University, has experienced.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

These relationships have not only provided practical guidance and feedback on my teaching but have also given me emotional support during difficult times. Helping these new educators navigate their first year of teaching was one of the most rewarding experiences of my career.

Culture 204

Culture Motivation Classroom Management Teaching Assistants 204

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In addition to full slideshow lessons, Curipod has interactive activities such as co-writing a fairy tale with AI, getting feedback from a historical figure, a “convince the evil AI ruler” prompt, brain breaks, and more! It offers a resource generator, teaching assistant, feedback bot, and AI chat. Eduaide.ai

Multiple Choice Questions 124

Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Education Learning Outcomes 124

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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Teaching Instructors Teaching Assistants Counselling 146

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

Let AI handle rubrics, tailor assignments, and give feedback. It’s like having a teaching assistant that never sleeps! Giving Feedback : Using custom criteria, AI can identify areas of strength and areas for growth in student work. generates feedback based on your input. Look no further. For instance, MagicSchool.ai

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Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 119

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Streamlines feedback on student work. Although it is most frequently used to create, collect and offer feedback on assignments (which multiple students can work on at once), Google Classroom also has tools like. Streamlines feedback on student work. Number of users: More than 20 million teachers and students globally.

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Mobile Devices Assignments Feedback Quizzes 153

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. Yet many have been met with skepticism that such tools can provide as accurate or personal feedback as a human can.

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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. We learned,” said Sankar last week.

Communication 194

Communication Learning Culture Students 194

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

Let AI handle rubrics, tailor assignments, and give feedback. It’s like having a teaching assistant that never sleeps! Giving Feedback : Using custom criteria, AI can identify areas of strength and areas for growth in student work. generates feedback based on your input. Look no further. For instance, MagicSchool.ai

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 111

Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

They can also use polls, quizzes and discussion boards to facilitate classroom interaction, assess learning or capture student feedback. Brightspace Assignment Release Conditions I use Read&Write for Chrome to translate text to speech and to note feedback at intervals throughout my students’ writing process.

Teachers 133

Teachers Feedback Social Studies Schools 133

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In addition to full slideshow lessons, Curipod has interactive activities such as co-writing a fairy tale with AI, getting feedback from a historical figure, a “convince the evil AI ruler” prompt, brain breaks, and more! It offers a resource generator, teaching assistant, feedback bot, and AI chat. Eduaide.ai

Multiple Choice Questions 111

Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Education Learning Outcomes 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Law: Given that most evaluation forms are filled out at the end of the semester, a lot of students feel like, "Well even if I provide that feedback, it doesn't really benefit ourselves in that scenario." Was the faculty member or any teaching assistant involved or was that all student mediated? Michael Sano: Hi everybody.

Teaching 119

Teaching Course Evaluations Evaluation Students 119

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.

Teaching Assistants 108

Teaching Assistants Learning Beliefs Feedback 108

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

First of all, there are approaches that can help reduce grading time while still giving useful feedback to students. And I sometimes delegate some portion of the work to a teaching assistant. Instructors wish students did the work before class without needing to be awarded points for their effort.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Specifically, JCT outlines that jobs facilitating 1) skill variety, 2) task identity, 3) task significance, 4) autonomy, and 5) feedback will be the most motivating and interesting. Feedback A high level of feedback is present when an individual is provided information about their performance in a clear and timely manner.

Course Design 105

Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 105

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Depending upon the situation, the guest, the professor, a teaching assistant, or an appointed student in the class can all be good options for moderating the interactions. Additionally, the professor must ensure the guests know exactly what they are invited to observe, and how and about what they are to provide feedback.

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Lecturing Feedback Evaluation Course Design 126

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 135

Learning Textbooks Feedback Teaching Assistants 135

Faculty Focus

APRIL 13, 2025

Additionally, providing alternative avenues for communication, such as writing on sticky notes or offering anonymous feedback options, can offer students a sense of safety and anonymity when expressing their thoughts. Feedback and Revising International students may not be familiar with the process of feedback and revising their work.

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Feedback Culture Learning Students 97

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2020

When we rolled out OTIS, there was so much positive feedback from teachers about how simple it is to use. We did a full rollout of OTIS for the 2018-2019 school year, and now we have around 400 teachers and teaching assistants on the platform. Why was online PD the right approach for Hauppauge teachers and staff?

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Learning Culture Failure Disabilities 157

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

She uses the video system to offer comments and feedback to students regularly since she cannot meet them all in person. Instead, the partner district is positioning the residents as teaching assistants in the district, providing them with a $23,000 salary. Turk has 15 students in different districts and states.

Teaching 132

Teaching Social Studies Teaching Assistants Participation 132

Faculty Focus

APRIL 13, 2025

Additionally, providing alternative avenues for communication, such as writing on sticky notes or offering anonymous feedback options, can offer students a sense of safety and anonymity when expressing their thoughts. Feedback and Revising International students may not be familiar with the process of feedback and revising their work.

Feedback 93

Feedback Culture Learning Students 93

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 4, 2022

All of this also requires feedback from both of your audiences. But what you don’t see is the feedback the host gets from the director and staff of the show. This acts as a stand-in for the remote audience since the host can’t see any online reactions, and the director often provides feedback to the host during commercial breaks.

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Feedback Minute Papers Mobile Devices Discussions 105

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

His teaching assistants have engaged with students in the class from places such as Ethiopia, Northern Ireland, Guatemala, Samoa and Vietnam. These structured experiences allow Spencer to identify when students misunderstand concepts early on, before they have gone too far into the case without receiving feedback.

Learning 163

Learning Students Assignments Participation 163

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Specifically, JCT outlines that jobs facilitating 1) skill variety, 2) task identity, 3) task significance, 4) autonomy, and 5) feedback will be the most motivating and interesting. Feedback A high level of feedback is present when an individual is provided information about their performance in a clear and timely manner.

Course Design 94

Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 94

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

Demonstrate our enthusiasm for teaching the course. Share former students’ feedback about the course. Informally, survey students anonymously for feedback about your communication style in the classroom. Let students know something about us. Acknowledge our interest in meeting and learning from them.

Culture 122

Culture Communication Writing Language 122

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Depending upon the situation, the guest, the professor, a teaching assistant, or an appointed student in the class can all be good options for moderating the interactions. Additionally, the professor must ensure the guests know exactly what they are invited to observe, and how and about what they are to provide feedback.

Lecturing 110

Lecturing Feedback Evaluation Course Design 110

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The feedback loop, though vital, is time-delayed. This instantaneous feedback and support prevents these gaps from snowballing into more considerable challenges. We might soon see virtual AI teaching assistants that can offer real-time support to students, seamlessly integrating with the classroom environment.

Intelligence 122

Intelligence Ethics Feedback Assignments 122

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

Shiva Kintali: As a teaching assistant at Georgia Tech and while teaching at Princeton, I developed an interest in helping my students learn mathematical concepts in a fun and intuitive way. I observed that students have different readiness levels, but the way we teach is week-by-week lectures with homework.

Textbooks 103

Textbooks Intelligence Math Beliefs 103

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The feedback loop, though vital, is time-delayed. This instantaneous feedback and support prevents these gaps from snowballing into more considerable challenges. We might soon see virtual AI teaching assistants that can offer real-time support to students, seamlessly integrating with the classroom environment.

Intelligence 111

Intelligence Ethics Feedback Assignments 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Additionally, feedback loops in educational contexts where students inadvertently provide incorrect information during interactions with chatbots can reinforce inaccurate patterns and perpetuate hallucinations in subsequent interactions. Despite the potential benefits in classroom settings, their use also raises concerns.

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Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 135

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

This has meant conversations with us about streamlining feedback to teachers and increasing teacher-teacher collaboration. We’re discussing how to strategically implement video feedback “now” and replicate successful models from other districts. –Adam Geller, Founder and CEO, Edthena.

Learning 363

Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Languages 363

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

Demonstrate our enthusiasm for teaching the course. Share former students’ feedback about the course. Informally, survey students anonymously for feedback about your communication style in the classroom. Let students know something about us. Acknowledge our interest in meeting and learning from them.

Culture 98

Culture Communication Writing Language 98

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Offer periodic feedback for improvement along the way. Shanda Hood is a teaching assistant professor for the Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Arkansas. Aysa Galbraith is a teaching associate professor for the College of Engineering at the University of Arkansas.

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Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 108

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

One study found that students perceived the phone polls as engaging, making them think and providing feedback on their learning (Voelkel & Bennett, 2014). Teachers also highlighted the benefits of using polling, noting how valuable it was to see student responses in real time to assess understanding and adjust their teaching as needed.

Lecturing 105

Lecturing Attention Students Discussions 105

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Oppositely, small classrooms allow for more intimate interactions, personalized feedback, and flexible teaching methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Regular feedback loops, like short quizzes or reflective journals, can also help instructors gauge understanding and adapt their teaching as needed.

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Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 91