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Teachers are burning out. Can AI help?

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A similar question was asked by McKinsey three years ago , right before the worldwide pandemic caused the lowest reading and math scores in 30 years. By simply sharing a link to a textbook or by uploading a PDF, the AI then auto-creates well-designed slides that teachers tweak to use for sleek lesson presentations.

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Top Hat Buys Canadian Textbook Business to Compete With Publishers in Digital Courseware

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The term comes from the physical devices that other companies used to sell, where students literally pressed buttons to respond to multiple-choice questions. The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. The question is: ‘How well can Top Hat do it?’” billion in 2018.

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Schools Drop Acellus Learning Platform Over ‘Glaring’ Offensive Content

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The content in question includes a first-grade language arts video lesson that shows an Acellus instructor teaching about the letter “G.” That means evaluating the curriculum’s illustrations, questioning the story lines, looking at the narratives laid out and the lifestyles depicted to scan for bias. “It didn’t sit well with us.”

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How AI Can Help Educators Test Whether Their Teaching Materials Work

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That’s the question posed by a group of researchers who developed a free tool they call the Adaptive Experimentation Accelerator. One example in particular is getting students that are taking, say, an online chemistry course to create a multiple choice question for us.

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LearnWith.AI Launches TeachTap, the first AI-powered learning app for AP exam prep and high school courses

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The app offers a personalized feed of entertaining and educational videos, images, questions, and memes, ensuring that students remain engaged while mastering the material. For example, Albert Einstein can “rap” a physics lesson, but the underlying lesson would be the same as learning it through a textbook.

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?What Makes a Smart Course ‘Smart’?

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In the early days of "course cartridges”—an LMS feature that allowed instructors to plug published content right into their courses—online courses were essentially digitized versions of static (textbook) content. Smart courses aren’t just about simple plug and play or digitized textbook content. Is that adaptive? A good experience?

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Achieve3000 updates blended learning, differentiated instruction tools

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Additionally, the redesigned homepage allows teachers to develop and strengthen students’ writing skills by quickly and easily providing feedback and assigning grades to Thought Questions at point of use. Textbook Alignment Courses. State-Customized Solutions. Rostering and Data Integration.