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Big Deals—Khan Academy Boosts National Civics Bee, AI Tackles Campus Safety, and Stanford Offers Online Math

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.” National Civics Bee Teams Up With Khan Academy This year, for the first time, students who advance to the local competitions will receive free tutoring support through Khan Academy’s new AI-powered tutor and teaching assistant, Khanmigo.

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5 Tech Tools for Math Class

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I’ve updated Ask a Tech Teacher’s list of ten math tools we posted in 2016 to be shorter and with a new option. I think this will better reflect what’s going on today in our classrooms: It can be difficult to teach math, but with the proper tools, it can often be made easier. 2 Khan Academy. 3 IXL Learning.

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Is There a Problem With ‘Mathbots’?

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But the tools were also targeted at math teaching. Yet so far these tools have not really affected K-12 math classrooms. In math classes before digital technology, he says, it was actually rare to write out how you think about a problem at length. Instead, math classes involve sketching a lot of graphs and shorthand.

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

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In it, Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, which has been building a tutoring tool with ChatGPT, sits watching his 15-year old son Imran learn a math concept from a talking version of the chatbot running on an iPad, which can also see what the student is typing on the tablet. It was making math errors. It could be used to cheat.

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What Learning Python Taught Me About Computer Science Education for Young Children

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With the increasing push to create and adopt K-12 CS standards across the country and the growing popularity of CS courses in higher education, I wondered whether taking COMP 10 would make me think differently about what it means to teach and learn coding. During in-class activities, we often collaborated in pairs or small groups.

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The Future Is Adaptive: An Interview with TrueShelf’s Shiva Kintali

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TrueShelf , an adaptive learning platform that lets students learn mathematical concepts by helping them solve an unlimited number of math problems and real-world puzzles that get progressively harder as their skills develop. EdSurge: What prompted you to develop an adaptive approach to learning math? Shiva Kintali, TrueShelf CEO.

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Strategies for Increasing Instructor Presence

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Student perceptions of their instructors’ attitude toward them has been shown to be a predictor of student motivation (Wilson J. Shanda Hood is a teaching assistant professor at the University of Arkansas. She currently serves as course coordinator for MATH 2043 Survey of Calculus. References Schudde, L.