eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

We understand that students and families are often just as concerned about what the school year will be like, what will be going on inside our classrooms, and what and how their students will be learning. Having the ability to quickly put learning into a visual format makes classrooms more engaging and fun for students.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

And many students feel it’s a necessary rite of passage in their pursuit of learning because the course, while discipline-specific, uncovers a fundamental set of concepts and skills that everyone can and should learn. She reflects on her final project, saying, “I no longer felt I was learning to read and write commands and scripts.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

That’s 14% of K–12 students in public schools in the United States who depend on additional—and often very specialized—services to support their ability to learn and live their lives fully. A whole-child approach to special education will help accelerate the learning of this unique population. In early 2020, 7.3

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2025

Ive seen firsthand how CTE benefits students by offering dual enrollment programs, work-based learning, and industry partnerships. This experiential learning helps students grasp medical concepts in ways that traditional education cannot.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2023

We hit on a number of topics that will affect the way educators and students teach and learn, including post-pandemic behaviors, student security, the pursuit of equitability and education, and the future of hybrid learning. Plus of course, AI, AI and yes, a little more AI.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2023

At the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning at Ulster Board of Cooperative Education Services (BOCES), we have developed the architecture to accomplish and codify a leadership approach to help schools consider how to reach our most marginalized and vulnerable students. We believe strong relationships support self-actualization.

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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. We learned,” said Sankar last week. He was most recently head of partnerships at Amira Learning.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2016

A chatbot—a computer program designed to simulate an intelligent conversation—will respond to routine student inquiries and prompt students to complete assignments, mimicking some of the tasks of a teaching assistant. Assisting the Teaching Assistants. Chatbots help get rid of some of the noise.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. Dear Bonni, You have shared often about active learning strategies and the impact they have on student learning. He suggests a simple truth about learning : “You can’t just think your way into a new way of living. Or even hundreds?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2021

Imagine a classroom where student teams are learning with a computer simulation, planning a scientific expedition to Mars. That level of personalized learning is just one vision of researchers who are harnessing artificial intelligence to improve education. How did people learn for 2,000 years? Previously, AI wasn’t up to that.”

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2020

Through their work, Murphy and his team discovered that online learning solved many of their PD challenges, and allowed them to quickly build capacity for remote learning. We learned about teacher pain points and what PD would look like if they could be the architects of their own learning.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2024

Many teacher preparation programs that prohibit paid student teaching offer no explanation for the practice; others justify it by saying that the requirement is part of the learning experience. Student teaching should be authentic and valuable. These educators stand poised to fill essential roles.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

And many students feel it’s a necessary rite of passage in their pursuit of learning because the course, while discipline-specific, uncovers a fundamental set of concepts and skills that everyone can and should learn. She reflects on her final project, saying, “I no longer felt I was learning to read and write commands and scripts.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

On its website , the company claims it has more than 700 institutional customers across the K-12, higher education and corporate learning space. In its statement, the publisher said Smart Sparrow’s technology will support its capabilities in adaptive learning and add more interactive and immersive features for its digital books.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2021

Then a teaching assistant helped feed all three of those sessions into a fourth room, making it possible to control which speaker is featured on everyone’s feed but that can draw on users in any of the Zoom sessions. No matter how big your screen, Zoom can only display up to 49 people in each session.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

That’s where artificial intelligence–powered teaching assistants might come in handy. These intelligent tools can adapt pacing based on the student’s ability … and provide targeted, corrective feedback in case the student makes mistakes, so that the student can learn from them,” states an eSchool News report released earlier this year.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Minor AI-assisted support can be thought of as simply scaffolding students learning; major AI-assisted support is a more aspirational cognitive apprenticeship , helping students see how an expert might do it. But what I do know for certain is that we must all learn how to embrace our enemies.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The human effort of educators lies in planning lessons, creating rich learning environments and, most importantly, building a deep connection with every student. The understanding of these algorithms must not be the exclusive domain of machine-learning builders. Can education, too, be uplifted by intelligent machines?

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2025

A college has a better chance of establishing a helpful and productive learning environment if it invests in its students’ well-being. Its worth investigating the student-to-faculty ratio and whether professors are actively engaged in teaching or if most instruction is left to teaching assistants.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

17, more than 100 people gathered to hear speakers present how their organizations are embracing the future of digital learning. She described the advances in cognitive science, including the work of Carol Dweck, Geoffrey Cohen, and Claude Steele, that have led her to work on creating even more supportive and effective learning environments.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Key points: With the right AI tools, teachers can enhance their classroom instruction Tracking AI in education Enhancing learning through AI and human educators For more on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Teaching is an uphill battle that grows harder and more exacting as the years roll by.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2020

I feel like learning about it in the open study dives deeper into what’s actually happening” with the pandemic, says Mosana, who attends a local public school in Brooklyn, N.Y. “We We tend to make it about the prison that’s keeping us home but we’re not really learning about what its real effects are.”

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Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

Taken together, open access admission policies and challenges to student engagement in the community college context present a unique opportunity for utilizing student workers as learning assistants. Learning assistantships also offer a range of benefits for the near peer tutors themselves. 2021; Close et al.,

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

16, 2021) – After powering through a year or more of remote and hybrid learning due to COVID, a significant share of traditional school districts are returning to familiar in-person models this school year. Even so, the advantages of online learning remain clear, particularly in the event of student quarantines. ARIZONA AND OHIO (Sept.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

But the groundswell of artificial intelligence (AI) that surrounds us marks a particularly fragile moment for teaching. In this context, educators must be especially mindful that our uses of technology do not undermine meaningful learning. And doing this requires knowledge about technology and teaching.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 14, 2024

The development of programs that not only meet the needs of working people but also guarantee their upward mobility through accessible, affordable routes is essential in the effort to improve the quality of education and assist different learners. “Online Learning and Educational Equity.” 5 (2021): 658-674. .”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2024

These often have consequences in education, from an increase in cheating on assignments enabled by prose-spewing chatbots, to experiments that bring AI into classrooms as teaching assistants or even as students. For some teachers and school leaders, it can feel like an onslaught.

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Gabriele Pinto , Baylor University Key Statement: Implementing elements of active learning into a large course may seem daunting task, but think-pair-share aided by quizzing and clickers can be done in any size classroom. 2023; Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Venus & Sharma, 2024). Image courtesy of This Is Engineering, Unsplash.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

However, since 2012—when MOOCs gained widespread recognition —instructional designers have made significant strides in designing scalable learning experiences that people successfully finish. If your goal is having more students finish a learning experience, require students to demonstrate upfront commitment.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

But that technology won’t be entirely homegrown: Chinese companies, particularly those building products or services laced with the machine learning algorithms, are increasingly playing a role in the tools that we call “AI.” Everyone should be learning from that teacher. In the one-to-1000 classroom, we also have teaching assistants.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

Can college students tell the difference between a human teaching assistant and a chatbot? And the answer has profound implications for the future of college teaching. Goel, a professor of computer science and cognitive science, and his team have refined perhaps the first robot teaching assistant, dubbed Jill Watson.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

These tools have not penetrated math classrooms to the degree that their marketing might suggest, says Dan Meyer, vice president of user growth for Amplify and the producer of Mathworlds, a popular math learning newsletter. Flawed Theory of Learning? Meyer speculates that may be because they use text-based interfaces.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

The “Getting to Know and Love Your Brain” poster on her wall, which read “breathe deep into your belly to stay calm and help your PFC (prefrontal cortex) think clearly,” prompted her first graders to get their brains ready for learning. The driving goal was to create a community of practitioners who identify as learning scientists.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 13, 2025

Many international students bring deeply ingrained learning experiences from their home countries, which may differ significantly from those in the U.S. This article explores these experiences, offering insights for educators on how to foster supportive and inclusive learning environments, particularly from an Asian perspective.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

Unfortunately, this kind of productive struggle is largely absent from K-12 education, leaving students ill-prepared with the mental resilience required to learn and adapt in college and beyond. This approach fosters a culture where students equate success with immediate correctness rather than with the process of learning.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2019

Second, students need to start learning how to design, manipulate and work alongside AI machines in order to build the foundation they need as they prepare to enter the workplace. AI may hold the potential to personalize instruction and learning. AI Can Act as A Multifaceted Digital Assistant.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Here’s how the competition will work : In the first stage, professors can work alone, or team up with graduate students and teaching assistants to submit ideas on how to bring ethics into existing undergraduate computer science classes.

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