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How Teachers Are Pondering the Ethics of AI

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A biology laboratory coordinator in an integrated science department at Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges, Kohn perceived the tool as useful. 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.

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

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. … We've always worked on software that personalizes things, videos — I still make videos — and exercises, teacher tools, in a more traditional sense, and now we're moving toward this artificial intelligence world. But I've also been fascinated by the potential of human intelligence. Every teacher knows that.

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

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But she has real ambivalence about how adaptive learning is moving from the laboratory to the classroom. 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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Andrew Ng Is Probably Teaching More Students Than Anyone Else on the Planet. (Without a University Involved.)

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It is essentially built on the reputation of its founder, Andrew Ng, who teaches all five of the courses it offers so far. Students who want proof of completion and access to all of the resources of the course—including feedback from teaching assistants—must buy a Coursera membership that costs $49 per month.

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