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

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. But we took it one step at a time.

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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.

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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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Intelligence Teaching Assistants Laboratory Assignments 199

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

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

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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Teaching Syllabus Teaching Assistants Textbooks 137

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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Schools Intelligence Assignments Teaching Assistants 206

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2019

So in 2014, the senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government decided to test that assumption. While Levy created the app to automate part of the process involved in documenting class participation, it still requires some manual assistance.

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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. However, there are certainly those who employ methods that put this perspective to the test. However, I am dubious that the approaches you describe work with large classes.

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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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Instructors Essay Science Teaching Assistants 157

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Those same questions prompted leaders at Georgia State to adopt some practices common to online-only institutions in spring 2020 when classes moved online. Meanwhile, a human teaching assistant monitored any replies that students sent back to the chatbot. Are we part of the problem?” Too Much Help—Or Not Enough?

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Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 194

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

She attended her classes and was a great graduate teaching assistant, teaching introductory classes to a broad array of students. Back in the days when tests were mimeographed (some of you also remember the smell of that purple ink!) and there were no adaptive engines to score them, I was the grader.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Such technology allows instructors to teach in-person students normally – but any remote students can keep track of everything happening in the classroom. Moving forward, the question will be not, “should we implement collaborative technology in the classroom,” but, “which tools have the most impact for students – wherever they’re located.

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Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Languages 363

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

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For example, if you look at the Jill Watson experiment at Georgia Tech, where they created a virtual teaching assistant, the students in the class didn't know that they were talking to a bot. Yeah, it's a great question, and I'm not sure as an industry we've completely gotten our arms around it yet. How does that work?

Education 167

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

During long PowerPoint lectures, take a brief break occasionally for students to discuss their thoughts on a question and to bounce ideas off one another. Putting discussion questions or prompts on the PowerPoint slide can also help foster meaningful discussions. How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

These AI-powered programs can provide information, answer questions, and even complete tasks. Ambiguity in educational queries Students often ask complex and context-specific questions about course requirements, program details, and academic pathways. This challenge relies on human visual perception which bots often struggle with.

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Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 135

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

During long PowerPoint lectures, take a brief break occasionally for students to discuss their thoughts on a question and to bounce ideas off one another. Putting discussion questions or prompts on the PowerPoint slide can also help foster meaningful discussions. How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching.

Lecturing 97

Lecturing Attention Students Discussions 97

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Such technology allows instructors to teach in-person students normally – but any remote students can keep track of everything happening in the classroom. Moving forward, the question will be not, “should we implement collaborative technology in the classroom,” but, “which tools have the most impact for students – wherever they’re located.

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Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Languages 294

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

There's the option of just directly approaching them with an immediate concern or question. Apart from course evaluation, which is embedded within the normal semester, and kind of a mandatory process, I think the other stakeholder that we often forget is the teaching assistants. Reed: This is a followup to Patrick.

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Teaching Course Evaluations Evaluation Students 118

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

But a rush to test—and possibly rely on—algorithms raises many questions, none bigger than this: Could the data lead colleges to rethink how they operate to serve students? It raises these questions that we’ve never faced before. Here’s a question from the audience: “What use cases do you think AI will impact first or most?

Learning 90

Learning Intelligence Science Questions 90

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

These AI-powered programs can provide information, answer questions, and even complete tasks. Ambiguity in educational queries Students often ask complex and context-specific questions about course requirements, program details, and academic pathways. This challenge relies on human visual perception which bots often struggle with.

Academic Integrity 111

Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 111

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Test reviews are another great opportunity to incorporate collaborative activities in class. Unlike closed-ended questions with a single correct answer, open-ended problems encourage students in groups to analyze the problem from different angles and evaluate the pros and cons of various solutions.

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Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 108

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

On end of semester evaluations, include open-ended questions directing them to share what went well about the course and what they would recommend changing next time. Framing questions this way can lead to more constructive feedback for you, rather than criticize. Motivation through the design of work: Test of a theory.

Course Design 105

Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 105

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Showing the students their responses, followed by a demonstration that calls their answers into question, would create a space of learning that prepares them to receive additional information. It won’t be sufficient to ask the students to select answers to questions without using those answers to provide them an opportunity to learn.

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Lecturing Active Learning Activities STEM 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Oppositely, small classrooms allow for more intimate interactions, personalized feedback, and flexible teaching methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Students in smaller classes often feel more comfortable asking questions and engaging in discussions, fostering a collaborative learning environment.

Teaching 91

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 91

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

On end of semester evaluations, include open-ended questions directing them to share what went well about the course and what they would recommend changing next time. Framing questions this way can lead to more constructive feedback for you, rather than criticize. Motivation through the design of work: Test of a theory.

Course Design 94

Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 94

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Oppositely, small classrooms allow for more intimate interactions, personalized feedback, and flexible teaching methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Students in smaller classes often feel more comfortable asking questions and engaging in discussions, fostering a collaborative learning environment.

Teaching 87

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 87

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

Shiva Kintali: As a teaching assistant at Georgia Tech and while teaching at Princeton, I developed an interest in helping my students learn mathematical concepts in a fun and intuitive way. I observed that students have different readiness levels, but the way we teach is week-by-week lectures with homework.

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Textbooks Intelligence Math Beliefs 102

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

That question led them to start Lalilo, a web-based program to support early literacy in English and French, in 2016. Some activities involve multiple-choice questions; others ask children to read words and passages in order to assess their oral fluency. “It fourth graders tested proficient in reading—down from 37 percent in 2017.

English 66

English Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Special Education 66

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Test reviews are another great opportunity to incorporate collaborative activities in class. Unlike closed-ended questions with a single correct answer, open-ended problems encourage students in groups to analyze the problem from different angles and evaluate the pros and cons of various solutions.

Assignments 91

Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 91

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

After all, students can now enter any assigned question into an AI chatbot and get a perfectly formatted, five-paragraph essay back ready to turn in (well, after a little massaging to take out any AI “hallucinations”). If you’ve got five set questions, are you probing students — are you looking for the weaknesses?”

Exams 215

Exams Essay Instructors Education 215

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

He hopes AI bots—such as his most well-known, a virtual teaching assistant named Jill Watson —may help to ease the entrenched tensions that make education such a “ wicked problem ” to solve. The professor also acknowledged the many ethical questions raised by such efforts. EdSurge: How would you define “learning engineering?”

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Mental Models Education Ethics Learning 183

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

I'm the world's first android teaching assistant. As I ask Maria Bot questions, Barry taps a button on his smartphone to cue her to listen. And when she does, the professor requests that they not ask her the question that springs so easily to people’s minds when they encounter a robot: Will you take over the world?

Teachers 152

Teachers Education Instructors Intelligence 152

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2020

Jackson’s high school students will have virtual spaces for student-led affinity clubs, and students will have opportunities to be teaching assistants, helping younger students with learning challenges and deepening their own relationships to favorite teachers or subjects. I’m going to try to hang on to my teachers,” Jackson says.

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Distance Learning Interdisciplinary Intelligence Schools 191

Edsurge

JULY 23, 2020

At a company demonstration this week, students from around the globe gathered virtually to test the program’s tools. Additionally, Shorelight hired local, bilingual teaching assistants to staff its student studios. Instead, they describe it as “live-to-device” or “live remote” education.

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Instructors Students Participation Distance Learning 132