Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2024

Feedback is an essential yet time-intensive task that artificial intelligence (AI) can effectively scale, ensuring every student receives the targeted support they need to confidently apply their learning. First, AI can think very quickly.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Or rather, an artificially intelligent tool is listening. Elinor can understand the child’s response and then make a contingent response to that,” says Mark Warschauer, professor of education at the University of California at Irvine and director of its Digital Learning Lab. It’s hard for them to sit down and watch TV with kids.”

Intelligence 218

Intelligence Study Questions Language 218

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

I predict two issues will take center stage- artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity. With AI, we have just begun to see the possibilities this technology can provide for education. Immersive technologies are rapidly reshaping how students learn.

Gamification 360

Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 360

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

How can educators prepare students for an evolving future influenced by artificial intelligence? When [AI-assisted text generators] came out, I had my kids exploring it and writing stories. They found [AI-assisted text generators] could give inspiration and ideas and motivate them to write. They used it in a future city project.

Education 198

Education Learning Intelligence Coaching 198

Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2024

Engaging in research and design work with communities of researchers, practitioners and edtech product developers has led us to define several principles we believe will assist in building learning technology that is attuned to the needs of diverse students and educators, based on modern learning principles and designed for broad adoption and scale.

Teaching 173

Teaching Technology Feedback Learning 173

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2023

With all new technology comes a great deal of trepidation that our previous ways of knowing are being lost. Last spring, my university held an emergency faculty meeting about identifying papers written using artificial intelligence.

Education 212

Education English Students Language 212

Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2023

For years, educational technology has promised to fill that gap, but that promise has remained largely unfulfilled. Now, as technology continues to evolve, a new era of personalized learning is dawning, fueled by the power of artificial intelligence. That is what you love to see as a teacher!”

Intelligence 148

Intelligence Learning Reading Grades 148

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

A company best known (and sometimes rebuked) for its plagiarism checker has just received one of the biggest checks in the education technology industry. In 2014 the company acquired Ephorus, a Europe-based plagiarism detection tool, and Lightside Labs, which provides automated feedback on student writing. Turnitin, an Oakland, Calif.-based

Plagiarism 167

Plagiarism Writing Grades Instructors 167

EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

School-wide initiatives can be seamlessly woven into an educator’s blended resources, allowing for content to be personal to their own school and classroom,” Farah writes in an Edutopia blog post. Artificial Intelligence: Smart assistants can help teachers and students use time more efficiently.

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Technology Blended Learning Lecturing Exams 167

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

We wondered about the role of AI in one specific teaching practice: assessing student learning. The AI is trying to fix the writing process and the format—fix what is already there, not trying to understand what they intended to say." Figure 1: Teacher v.

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Grades Essay Teachers Feedback 186

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2022

Trends, Tech Tools and Teaching Practices One of the top technological trends for colleges is the collection of student data, according to the report, although it notes that few institutions are using that information to bring about meaningful change.

Hybrid Learning 148

Hybrid Learning Essay Hybrid Courses Ethics 148

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2023

Tools, such as AI-powered writing assistants and language-analysis platforms, offer real-time feedback and aim to empower students to engage in self-directed learning and refine their writing and editing skills. Students who may never have paused to reflect and consider their writing can now do so at the touch of a button.

Language 148

Language Languages Art Teachers 148

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2025

From customer service chatbots to personalized shopping recommendations, artificial intelligence has become integral to our daily lives. How can we ensure that our values lead the work rather than the default values of the technology itself, which may or may not reflect our own?

Education 142

Education Academic Integrity Learning Fairness 142

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

February 5th: Group Professional Development Pick a topic: Tech infused Teacher/Classroom Writing With Tech Building Digital Citizens 20 Webtools in 20 Days Differentiation There is limited availability so sign up fast! These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Common Core, or the basic who-what-when-where-why.

Instructors 99

Instructors Authentic Assessment Plagiarism Participation 99

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Recent advancements in data analytics and artificial intelligence, however, may help teachers gain back some of those hours. I’ve taken six university courses on my own time and paid out of my own pocket to supplement my skill set in the areas of reading specialization, writing and special ed.

Teachers 144

Teachers Learning Outcomes Intelligence Knowledge 144

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2018

The speakers were Carlos Escapa (Senior Principal, AI/ML Business Development, Amazon Web Services), Vivienne Ming (Founder and CEO, Socos Labs), Matthew Ramirez (Director of Product Management, AI Writing Tools, Chegg) and Andrew Sutherland (CTO and co-founder, Quizlet).

Education 117

Education Learning Writing Intelligence 117

Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Technology Helps Teachers Engage—and Save Time Day-to-day within the classroom technology can be instrumental in helping teachers engage and excite learners and shave time off a busy day. Students did better by the end which saved hours when it came time to the final assessments.

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Teachers Feedback Social Studies Schools 140

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2020

I saw the writing on the wall for us that week,” says Mike Teng, CEO of Swing Education. The test is proctored by both humans and artificial intelligence. But on July 17, Gavin Newsom, governor of California, where Swing is based, announced strict guidelines that mean most schools will likely stay closed for the fall. “I

English 206

English Exams Testing Language 206

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In this case, whether pulling insight specifically from a lecture or digging deeper into the curriculum with additional insight from ChatGPT, the learner is still understanding, analyzing, and writing the assignment. Learn about AI. Artificial Intelligence is impacting the workforce skills our students will need.

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Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130

Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2019

In general, each check that Owl writes could be in the range of $5 million to $40 million. These days, he quips, nearly every startup pitch includes a mention of artificial intelligence. At least half of the investments from this new fund will be earmarked for Series A deals, says Owl’s co-founder and managing director, Tory Patterson.

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Intelligence STEM Evaluation Attention 105

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

The launch of the artificial intelligence (AI) large language model ChatGPT was met with both enthusiasm (“Wow! This tool can write as well as humans”) and fear (“Wow…this tool can write as well as humans”). Politicians are using ChatGPT to write bills (e.g., “ AI wrote a bill to regulate AI.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

The launch of the artificial intelligence (AI) large language model ChatGPT was met with both enthusiasm (“Wow! This tool can write as well as humans”) and fear (“Wow…this tool can write as well as humans”). Politicians are using ChatGPT to write bills (e.g., “ AI wrote a bill to regulate AI.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2016

We argued about adaptive-learning technologies or interviewed senior advisors in the Department of Education, and wrote essays asking, “ Do virtual environments hinder democratic participation? ” “ Why adaptive learning? My professor assumed someone like me would never use language like that. Personal blog).

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2017

million in prizes to teams developing new ideas in conversational artificial intelligence. At Utah State University, for instance, officials installed an Echo Dot in one classroom that is used by a visually impaired instructor, according to Kevin Reeve, the university’s director of teaching and learning technologies.

Instructors 107

Instructors Quizzes Internet Intelligence 107

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

I predict two issues will take center stage- artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity. With AI, we have just begun to see the possibilities this technology can provide for education. Immersive technologies are rapidly reshaping how students learn.

Gamification 130

Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 130

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Students have always questioned the value of the content, assignments, and activities in their courses (“Why do I have to learn this?!”). Now, students are wondering why they have to do assignments that AI chatbots could do for them, especially when AI could do the work, like write an essay or research paper, in just a few seconds.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Students have always questioned the value of the content, assignments, and activities in their courses (“Why do I have to learn this?!”). Now, students are wondering why they have to do assignments that AI chatbots could do for them, especially when AI could do the work, like write an essay or research paper, in just a few seconds.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2023

Teachers will have to be more transparent about what they’re expecting students to learn from an assignment,” says Dembo. If it’s a routine task, like writing five paragraphs of summary, AI can easily reproduce that. “Students are just as worried about this [critical thinking loss].

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Coaching Teachers Schools Ethics 148

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 23, 2025

Thats why success in online learning doesnt just rely on intelligence or curriculum. Instead of aiming to complete the assignment, students should learn to divide the task into clear, actionable steps. Writing the introduction becomes one task. Technology plays a dual role. It depends on strategy.

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Study Online Learning Learning Motivation 52

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

They assume that parents, educators and yes, reporters will give learning technologies the same benefit of the doubt that we afford to movie or online shopping recommendation engines. Looming on the horizon are efforts to apply machine learning and artificial intelligence to education—ideas that are even more opaque and obscure.

Learning 130

Learning Fairness Intelligence Questions 130

eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2025

The key is that we maintain rigorous standards of quality–and create clear guardrails around the ethical use of AI at a time when increasingly sophisticated models are blurring the lines between human design–and artificial intelligence. — Janine Walker-Caffrey , Ed.D.,

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