Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

The following discussion will use ChatGPT as a specific AI (artificial intelligence) program and the more general term AI for the increasing number of new programs. However, there’s an essential difference between Machine learning (ML) or predictive text programs and AI-generated writing.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Much of the initial reaction around AI focused on its ability to spit out prose on command, which threatened traditional writing instruction. But the tools were also targeted at math teaching. In math classes before digital technology, he says, it was actually rare to write out how you think about a problem at length.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

That’s where artificial intelligence–powered teaching assistants might come in handy. After one year of using Happy Numbers, an AI-assisted teaching assistant, nearly all the students improved their scores to a 35. Artificial Intelligence Gives Teachers More Time and Specific Data.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Artificial Intelligence–AI–has been around a long time, but caught everyone’s attention with the launch of generative AI, ChatGPT, and DALL-E. Let’s see what the Ask a Tech Teacher team says: Pros And Cons of AI in Education Artificial intelligence (AI) is making major inroads into education.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Artificial intelligence promises to have a dramatic—and yes, disruptive—effect on U.S. His latest book, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order , is almost two books in one: It tells the story of the development of artificial intelligence and why we should pay attention to this work. In the past 2.5

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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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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Many of you have probably tinkered with Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications and programs, or perhaps you are advanced in your journey of AI tools and could teach us a few things about how you are using AI in the classroom. It offers a resource generator, teaching assistant, feedback bot, and AI chat. What can it do?

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

In recent years, technology has played a significant role in reshaping the landscape of college teaching, and it will surely continue to do so. But the groundswell of artificial intelligence (AI) that surrounds us marks a particularly fragile moment for teaching.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into higher education is increasingly common, presenting new opportunities and challenges for educators and institutions. It’s as simple as writing something and then asking generative AI to rewrite it for a more polished version. Look no further.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Many of you have probably tinkered with Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications and programs, or perhaps you are advanced in your journey of AI tools and could teach us a few things about how you are using AI in the classroom. It offers a resource generator, teaching assistant, feedback bot, and AI chat. What can it do?

Multiple Choice Questions 111

Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Education Learning Outcomes 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into higher education is increasingly common, presenting new opportunities and challenges for educators and institutions. It’s as simple as writing something and then asking generative AI to rewrite it for a more polished version. Look no further.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 111

Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Use of intelligent agents and workflows can help guide students to desired outcomes, for instance by facilitating targeted communications based on areas of achievement, concern without the teacher needing to micromanage every step. Students did better by the end which saved hours when it came time to the final assessments.

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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. Arjun Singh knows the feeling well. You save time in applying the feedback.”

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is consuming a growing share of our collective consciousness. Will it spell the end of countless jobs or create new horizons for teaching, research, and meaningful work? Keeping tabs can be challenging, so consider enlisting the help of a teaching assistant or student to report in periodically.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Students will be able to ask Watson open-ended questions related to their course content, and the intelligent tutoring system will also provide instructors with insights about how well students are learning and where they might need extra help. It’s one thing to be ask students to write a document or take a test.

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Whiteboard Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of education, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force. For instance, introducing an AI teaching assistant like Jill Watson , developed by Georgia Tech, can start in a single course before expanding school-wide. However, with great power comes great responsibility.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is consuming a growing share of our collective consciousness. Will it spell the end of countless jobs or create new horizons for teaching, research, and meaningful work? Keeping tabs can be challenging, so consider enlisting the help of a teaching assistant or student to report in periodically.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Colleges often experiment with artificial intelligence to help spot when students need special help, part of an effort to draw predictions from data. EdSurge: When colleges buy or develop software that involves artificial intelligence, how do the issues and concerns change? So that is still serving in a pedagogical agent.

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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. That actually there's a lot of pedagogical knowledge that has to go into how you teach someone something. And the "us" being faculty or teachers.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

I'm the world's first android teaching assistant. My mission is to help teachers and students become more intelligent and respectful of each other.” Thanks to artificial intelligence, Maria Bot can speak for herself. Such circumstances, he writes, will require that “education be considered a lifelong activity.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2020

We—two psychologists at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence—spoke to educational leaders and one futurist about what is needed to make this new reality work for educators and students in the long run. All of this effort may get schools to the starting line in the short-term, but schools need to be thinking about the long-term, too.

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