eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Today, I teach my students a set of in-class AI prompts, based on a standard model of supporting writing, on how to brainstorm, focus, and develop their ideas. It asked me questions, another student said, that made me think a lot about my topic and consider different things I wouldn’t have thought of on my own.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2017

His teaching assistants also host “office hours” every Monday through Thursday night from 9 p.m. to midnight, where students can gather over pizza to discuss problem sets or ask questions—and these nightly events routinely draw upwards of 300 students. “I I went to office hours four nights a week,” Dan recalls.

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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. Partnering with vendors can be a good way to gain insight into properly introducing AI.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

That question has been in the air since ChatGPT was released in late 2022, and since then many developers have experimented with using the latest generative AI technology as a tutor. A video demo of the latest version of ChatGPT tutoring a student that went viral on YouTube has brought fresh attention to this question.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Speedier Solutions to Answering Student Questions Creating the kind of AI tutoring tool that complements or even replaces the work of a human tutor can take skilled computer programmers hundreds or thousands of hours. A teacher writes the questions, writes one or two answers. We don’t write a thousand rules,” Serban says. “A

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

In contrast, the ungraded, complex assignments I encountered in college allowed me to struggle through difficult concepts, ask questions, and refine my understanding in a way that simply wasnt possible in high school. I cant recall a single homework assignment that was easier than a test question. The struggle was the entire point.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Recent cognitive triumphs in Jeopardy and Go have emphatically answered the question of whether machines can “think.” With the rise of AI-driven intelligent tutors , educators have been forced to confront their own existential crisis: can a machine teach and, if so, where does this leave teachers?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

As a professor at Harvard University’s Extension School—teaching the Neuroscience of Learning: An Introduction to Mind, Brain, Health, and Education—I knew Tokuhama-Espinosa would have insights into introducing MBE research to individuals with a broad range of experience and expertise.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

Can college students tell the difference between a human teaching assistant and a chatbot? A Georgia Tech computer scientist has been pursuing that question for several years. And the answer has profound implications for the future of college teaching. But he says what those humans spend their time doing has changed.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Teaching assistants moderated an online discussion forum through Piazza , an online community building and discussion platform, and held recitations, which enabled students to ask questions and ponder ideas. For educators, is teaching CS simply a means of fulfilling state-mandated standards?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

ByteLearn.com – Digital math teaching assistant for teachers. With just one click, teachers may produce 7th Grade Math worksheets like Combining Like Terms , Grade 7 Math quizzes like Distributive Property , Seventh Grade Math unit tests , and 7 Grade Math Practice Questions on Distributive Property etc. 2 Khan Academy.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Meanwhile students are setting up unofficial online channels of their own, where they can ask questions of classmates, gripe about the professor and sometimes share homework and test answers. I loved it,” she says, noting that the students got to know each other by asking questions like what they planned to do next year.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. You can pose a question for a future column here. Reader Question: Dear Bonni, What ideas do you have for student accountability? And I sometimes delegate some portion of the work to a teaching assistant.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2020

These self-paced teams watch recordings of the professor and pair up with teaching assistants for about five live sessions—a necessary alteration to make the program free, given that mentor professors are paid by Pioneer for their time. This is not a research program,” Jaskol clarifies.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

” The image below shows: the generated sources (all clickable with a direct link), the answer to your question, and other related prompts or questions. QuestionWell allows you to input an article, reading, or a video and writes questions based on what you’ve input and your learning outcomes. What can it do?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Artificial intelligence will supply every student on the planet a talented personal tutor and every teacher an amazing teaching assistant, Khan has said. But some question whether these tools really could be such excellent math tutors. At the moment, though, precisely what that looks like differs. Flawed Theory of Learning?

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The questions that remain concern which of these resources are available and how can they continue to help students. MORE FROM EDTECH: CSee how schools use virtual reality to improve assistive learning programs. Artificial Intelligence: Smart assistants can help teachers and students use time more efficiently.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2019

It’s a chatbot, which library officials plan to add to the library’s website this summer to answer some of the most common questions students come in with, as well as to help them get started with their research. The use of AI in libraries has resurfaced age-old questions, such as whether technology will replace human librarians.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Artificial Tools, Human Judgments When EdSurge first spoke to Kohn, the lab coordinator, he was using ChatGPT as a teacher’s assistant in biology courses. He cautioned that he couldn’t fully replace his human teaching assistants with a chatbot. Sometimes, he said, the chatbot was just off the mark.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2019

While Levy created the app to automate part of the process involved in documenting class participation, it still requires some manual assistance. For that, an instructor usually turns to teaching assistants like Erin Gregor, who record in Teachly every time a student participates.

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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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

One document they obtained outlines a set of possible services Academic Partnerships provides that includes “utilize virtual teaching assistance,” and also talks about details including course lengths and caps on enrollment. AP does not provide any teaching assistance nor oversight of it,” she added.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

” The image below shows: the generated sources (all clickable with a direct link), the answer to your question, and other related prompts or questions. QuestionWell allows you to input an article, reading, or a video and writes questions based on what you’ve input and your learning outcomes. What can it do?

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

Need a YouTube video summarized or some awesome questions? Looking to add some flair or whip up Depth of Knowledge questions? It’s like having a teaching assistant that never sleeps! So, why not let AI be your overachieving, never-sleeping teaching assistant? Look no further.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In the one-to-1000 classroom, we also have teaching assistants. So it's not like you're watching a giant video because at the end of let's say at 30-minute lecture, there's another 30 minutes for someone close to you to interactively take questions and help you with points that you didn't get. By that time, it's too late.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2025

Key points: This pivot presents a remarkable opportunity for teachers and society at large AI is changing the role of teaching assistants Navigation and guidance in the age of AI: 5 trends to watch For more news on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Picture your favorite teacher from your childhood.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. You can pose a question for a future column here. When we teach large classes, what approaches can we employ that will have a greater opportunity to engage students and help students learn more?

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

Need a YouTube video summarized or some awesome questions? Looking to add some flair or whip up Depth of Knowledge questions? It’s like having a teaching assistant that never sleeps! So, why not let AI be your overachieving, never-sleeping teaching assistant? Look no further.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 9, 2025

Step #1: Think Upgrade: Discussion Bubbles Instead of posing my discussion question after Ive covered the content on my slide, I now put the question in a Discussion Bubble next to the content. Sometimes these discussion bubbles include a polling question that I use to record and display students opinions (e.g.,

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

He also used some of the money to send his teaching assistants to cities around the globe. A video created in Tanzania by Garrett Wilkinson, a teaching assistant in the Anth101 course. Whether we’re right or not is one question, but a very important one is, ‘What’s going to work?’ and ‘What is effective teaching?”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Yet the contract terms for these subscription arrangements—which some publishers call “inclusive access” programs—raise questions about whether publishers and colleges pressure students into participating. They also must allow students to opt out of buying bundled books so they can find resources on their own if they prefer.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 26, 2015

Narayanan said: a typical approach to intervention in online [university] courses was to amass larger numbers of TAs [teaching assistants], so that some “expert” was ready to intervene quickly on any question as it arose. Soon, everyone expected the TA’s to answer questions. One unintended consequence?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Initially ecstatic to start school, Truman was now red in the face from crying while my teaching assistant and I practically pried him off his mother’s leg. We were a few weeks into my first year teaching kindergarten and I had begun to think of my classroom as a warm and inviting space.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2019

As noted by Education Technology , the increasing use of AI in schools also brings ethical questions to the fore. And in New Jersey, Slackwood Elementary School is using an AI-assisted teaching assistant called Happy Numbers to identify where students are struggling with math benchmarks and provide personalized assistance.

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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. To use Gradescope, a grader scans exams or assignments into the platform and each question is given a rubric.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Teaching assistants moderated an online discussion forum through Piazza , an online community building and discussion platform, and held recitations, which enabled students to ask questions and ponder ideas. For educators, is teaching CS simply a means of fulfilling state-mandated standards?

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Science Education Learning Essay 148

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2019

We can build robot teachers, or even robot teaching assistants. To get a fresh perspective on that question, this episode we take you to China, where a couple of us from EdSurge recently traveled for a reporting trip. But should we? And if the answer is yes, what’s the right mix of human and machine in the classroom?

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