EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

Teachers Are Turning to AI Solutions for Assistance. While teachers may always be the best line of defense for students falling behind, busy schedules don’t always permit the special attention and feedback that students need. That’s where artificial intelligence–powered teaching assistants might come in handy.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2020

Angela Terrero, a teacher assistant, approached him calmly with a visual cue in hand—a picture of a group of children sitting in chairs, which our non-verbal students recognized as “circle time.” In fact, a year ago, she wasn’t even a teacher. Eight preschoolers transitioned from play time to circle time.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

While all of these questions are valid, there’s also something to be said for making sure parents understand that AI has already been quietly in thousands of America’s classrooms–recent data shows that over 60 percent of teachers are using AI on the job –and the impact on teachers and students has been largely positive.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2023

Opening the Learning Journey We believe in an intentional focus on literacy, numeracy, and assistive technology. This model engages classroom teachers as well as reading teachers, math teachers, behavior intervention specialists, and assistive technology specialists, to name a few.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

There may be nearly a dozen adults affecting one student’s life every day when they are in the school building, including their teacher, a teaching assistant and/or an aid, a physical therapist, a speech counselor, or social worker, to mention a few others. Then we ask: Who are the adults who will be interacting with them daily?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2023

Steve Daly Ryan Lufkin Shiren Vijiasingam More Highlights from InstructureCon23: The company and Khan Academy announced a partnership that brings Canvas, the anchor of the Instructure Learning Platform, and Khan Academy’s AI-powered student tutor and teaching assistant, Khanmigo.

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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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eSchool News

AUGUST 8, 2024

. — Mercy University and BloomBoard , a leading talent development provider for K–12 school districts, today announced an innovative new partnership to help address the teacher shortage in New York. This is the first in a plan to deliver several on-the-job programs to develop and advance New York teachers.

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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 5, 2021

There are technologies now that follow how often kids are talking versus teacher talking. It could notice that kids have really quieted down and that the teacher is having to push harder, and it might change the script for what’s happening based on that.” “It might be noticing the level of excitement in the classroom.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Studies show that information and computer-assisted learning boosts academic achievement, improves learner engagement and reduces teacher burden by shaving time off the day. For teachers, technology can help create engagement and a more immersive learning experience. But not all edtech is equally effective.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

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? It is natural for teachers—or people, for that matter— to resist any technology that threatens their relevance in the world.

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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. For instance, he organizes several events throughout the semester that bring students together, such as “hackathons” and weekly lunches every Friday on the Harvard campus.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

That puts such tools out of reach for most teachers looking for new ways to provide their students with personalized support. “No A thousand hours is about how long it took Goel and his team to create Jill Watson, an AI teaching assistant chatbot that can answer student questions. One teacher can make their tutor strict.

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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 20, 2024

Reflecting on what has kept me going when so many others have left, I realize that it is the relationships I’ve built with other teachers that have sustained me. While the importance of teacher-student relationships is often emphasized, it is the bonds I’ve formed with fellow educators that have sustained my commitment to teaching.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

or middle China, you will see one teacher and 50 students, or 20 students, each behind a desk, raising their hands, and the teacher lecturing. Now obviously, there are good teachers, there are teachers who go in-depth, who tell good stories and so on. Everyone should be learning from that teacher. One-to-1000?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

A survey from the nonpartisan research organization RAND , for instance, using a nationally representative sample of teachers, noted that only 18 percent of K-12 teachers were using AI in the classroom as of fall 2023, with an additional 15 percent having tried it out. It’s not “transformative usage,” Meyer says.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2022

We are in the midst of historic teacher and substitute shortages. This year, “Ready, Set, Summer” is happening at 21 school sites across the cities, offering all public school families full-day, full-week summer learning options supervised by certified teachers, youth workers, and teaching assistants.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

We've always worked on software that personalizes things, videos — I still make videos — and exercises, teacher tools, in a more traditional sense, and now we're moving toward this artificial intelligence world. I think the safest job in all of this is that of the teacher. Every teacher knows that. I don't know.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 1, 2024

Listen to the interview with Kimberly Eckert ( transcript ): Sponsored by Edge•U Badges and EVERFI We’ve been hearing about a teacher shortage for a while now, certainly since the pandemic, and multiple studies show that many states are seeing record high numbers of teacher turnovers and vacancies.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Let’s see what the Ask a Tech Teacher team says: Pros And Cons of AI in Education Artificial intelligence (AI) is making major inroads into education. AI tutors, virtual assistants, and adaptive learning platforms are being adopted by schools, colleges, and universities around the world.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Technology is an ideal vehicle for teachers to better blend classroom instruction with learning opportunities occuring outside of the traditional school day — and outside of the brick-and-mortar school building. . Artificial Intelligence: Smart assistants can help teachers and students use time more efficiently.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

Counselors at our school began using specific names of brain structures, such as the amygdala and hippocampus, when teaching learners how to self-regulate. My class time is somewhat reduced by my role as EAL team leader, in which I support other elementary EAL teachers. But I was just one teacher and I was stuck on the how.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

Meanwhile, research is also being conducted today to understand how chatbots can be used as teaching assistants. In one study , students were not told which of their teaching assistants were humans and which were robots—and findings suggested students struggled to differentiate the two. (I

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2019

AI-enabled teaching assistants and mobile applications help educators meet that challenge, using input from students to adjust course materials through educational apps, leaving teachers time to conduct the interpersonal aspects of their curricula. K–12 Teachers Need to Bolster AI Curriculum. million humans worldwide. .

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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. ” Teacher Education Today 55, no. ” Journal of Educational Resources 46, no.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

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. Pricing: Free for teachers and students.

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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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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. “By

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

But the two faculty unions, the university’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, and the EMU Federation of Teachers, which represents adjuncts, say that the company is involved in many aspects of course design and could bring in outside online coaches for students without faculty oversight. They are NOT replacements.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

If I couldnt figure something out on my own, I had resources at my disposal: office hours, teaching assistants, or discussions with peers. A teachers role is not just to impart knowledge but also to teach students how to learn. This wasnt a sign of failure; it was an essential part of learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2023

Opening the Learning Journey We believe in an intentional focus on literacy, numeracy, and assistive technology. This model engages classroom teachers as well as reading teachers, math teachers, behavior intervention specialists, and assistive technology specialists, to name a few.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

In my doctoral work with the Tufts University DevTech Research Group —a research lab focused on how new technologies that engage children in coding, robotics and making can play a positive role in their development and learning—I explore how parents and teachers introduce these technologies to young children.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Teachers will need to learn and refine their online teaching skills and find new opportunities for working from home, allowing them a better work-life balance. This will help them focus on the quality of their lessons without the heavy financial strain that many teachers deal with today. –Dr.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2024

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