Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

QuestionWell allows you to input an article, reading, or a video and writes questions based on what you’ve input and your learning outcomes. is an AI-powered teaching assistant designed to help teachers with lesson planning, instructional design, and generating educational content. What can it do? www.eduaide.ai

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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

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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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

It’s as simple as writing something and then asking generative AI to rewrite it for a more polished version. Let AI handle rubrics, tailor assignments, and give feedback. It’s like having a teaching assistant that never sleeps! generates feedback based on your input. Look no further. For instance, MagicSchool.ai

Syllabus 119

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

QuestionWell allows you to input an article, reading, or a video and writes questions based on what you’ve input and your learning outcomes. is an AI-powered teaching assistant designed to help teachers with lesson planning, instructional design, and generating educational content. What can it do? www.eduaide.ai

Multiple Choice Questions 111

Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Education Learning Outcomes 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 132

Teachers Feedback Social Studies Schools 132

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

It’s as simple as writing something and then asking generative AI to rewrite it for a more polished version. Let AI handle rubrics, tailor assignments, and give feedback. It’s like having a teaching assistant that never sleeps! generates feedback based on your input. Look no further. For instance, MagicSchool.ai

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 111

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

Teaching 145

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

With the advent of AI, the limitations of ChatGPT are a good reminder that effective writing is human writing. How we write to our classes—even more so than what we write—is more important than ever. Conveying our “humanity” through writing, especially in digital spaces, is also something we need to model for learners.

Culture 122

Culture Communication Writing Languages 122

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.

Mobile Devices 152

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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.

Grades 92

Grades Exams Instructors Feedback 92

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 97

Feedback Culture Learning Students 97

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

APRIL 20, 2023

With the advent of AI, the limitations of ChatGPT are a good reminder that effective writing is human writing. How we write to our classes—even more so than what we write—is more important than ever. Conveying our “humanity” through writing, especially in digital spaces, is also something we need to model for learners.

Culture 98

Culture Communication Writing Languages 98

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 118

Teaching Course Evaluations Evaluation Students 118

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 4, 2022

You may have to experiment and adjust how you write or put together slides so that they’re accessible by both your in-person and online students. 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.

Feedback 105

Feedback Minute Papers Mobile Devices Discussions 105

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. Monitoring and Evaluation Effectiveness Assessment : Regular feedback sessions with stakeholders can help evaluate AI tools impact.

Writing 52

Writing Ethics Schools Intelligence 52

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Or how they might feel if their instructor used ChatGPT to provide feedback on their assignments? Keeping tabs can be challenging, so consider enlisting the help of a teaching assistant or student to report in periodically. You might ask what skills or knowledge students believe are critical in the age of AI?

Minute Papers 134

Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 134

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.

Assignments 108

Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 108

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Or how they might feel if their instructor used ChatGPT to provide feedback on their assignments? Keeping tabs can be challenging, so consider enlisting the help of a teaching assistant or student to report in periodically. You might ask what skills or knowledge students believe are critical in the age of AI?

Minute Papers 119

Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 119

Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 6, 2025

How well students know how to complete a lab report relies heavily on the feedback that previous instructors were willing to give to help students improve. Next we added the abstract with guidelines on how students should write it so that it gives a snapshot view of the lab report. We also aimed to close the loop.

Laboratory 52

Laboratory Instructors Feedback Writing 52

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.

Assignments 91

Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 91

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2023

Ideas for manageable connection principles include getting to know each other, empathy, communication, and feedback. This can be included in the syllabus, emails, assignments, and feedback. Some students prefer this to email when discussing things like feedback, assignments, or personal difficulties.

Instructors 59

Instructors Syllabus Assignments Feedback 59

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

What I pay most attention to is, how are these technologies going to be used to actually support the teaching and learning process. At Georgia Tech, they’re using Jill Watson as an AI teaching assistant. And I would actually think the Jill Watson example is also an example of that.

Learning 90

Learning Intelligence Science Questions 90

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. The other thing that when people write about my work, they often put as a big headline, "She's trying to replace us with computers."

Teaching 91

Teaching Ethics Textbooks Laboratory 91

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. Like in many other cases, it was born of a feedback loop. Tracking Math Identities Snyder, Holifield’s former teaching assistant, says she identifies as a non-math person.

Math 180

Math Beliefs Teaching Assistants Culture 180

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. Additionally, Shorelight hired local, bilingual teaching assistants to staff its student studios.

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