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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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2023

Four years ago, my team and I designed, planned, and implemented a research-based, whole-child wraparound approach to special education.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2021

Other challenges are that online students don’t have the same level of interaction with instructors or teaching assistants, he explains, and lack the social interaction and peer-to-peer learning students experience by being on campus. It’s live, it’s dynamic and vibrant,” Goel says. Online learning, you’re just looking at a screen.”

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2024

Student teaching should be authentic and valuable. Paraprofessionals, unlicensed lead teachers, childcare providers, and teaching assistants like Liv make up a great pool of racially and economically diverse teacher candidates. It should not be a financial burden, particularly for people already working in the field.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2025

Its worth investigating the student-to-faculty ratio and whether professors are actively engaged in teaching or if most instruction is left to teaching assistants. Some students prefer the energy of large lecture halls, while others thrive in small, discussion-based classes.

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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. What resources are available to improve the data the AI uses to help the program work better?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

In the paradigm of Augmented Intelligence, intelligent tutors are better thought of as intelligent teaching assistants, striving to make the lives of educators easier. Today’s intelligent tutors are built to adapt to students’ individual learning needs.

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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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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

JUNE 18, 2021

Then a teaching assistant helped feed all three of those sessions into a fourth room, making it possible to control which speaker is featured on everyone’s feed but that can draw on users in any of the Zoom sessions. No matter how big your screen, Zoom can only display up to 49 people in each session.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

As one of my students put it, I didnt realize that ChatGPT is actually there for me to use as a teaching assistant. I feel confident that the work I complete with ChatGPT will not get me into trouble, because I know how to use it as an assistant rather than a replacement. Julius Caesar would be proud.

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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.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In the one-to-1000 classroom, we also have teaching assistants. And then, the local teachers can be trained to be teaching assistants, so a job that's much easier for each teacher to learn to do. A teaching assistant might offer after-school tutoring. Lectures should be given by masters.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Here is one way teachers can use AI tools to curate an entire class’s flow, its study materials, and practice tests without the aid of an army of teaching assistants.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Here’s how the competition will work : In the first stage, professors can work alone, or team up with graduate students and teaching assistants to submit ideas on how to bring ethics into existing undergraduate computer science classes.

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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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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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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 4, 2024

In fact, it's most valuable in a teaching setting because a teacher's in a class of 30, these kids are at all different levels. Well, if you had support from a teaching assistant who's also their tutor, that's kind of what Khan Academy has always aspired to be. Every teacher knows that. How do you address their individual needs?

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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.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

Unsurprisingly, some of the biggest drivers of these improved metrics include making people pay for online programs, increasing the selectivity of courses, and adding program managers and teaching assistants to follow up with learners. Here are seven practices for moving completion rates for online courses from 5 to 85 percent: 1.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

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. “It’s not something I could hand over to you or to some colleague and say, ‘Go run it in your class.’”

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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.

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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 21, 2018

While some said that AI teaching assistants could free up faculty time to work more closely with students, one participant said, “I’m afraid of losing actual communication with professors and classmates.” Some wondered whether AI would—or should—replace professors by 2030.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2022

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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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.

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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. Whether it was coding a project or working through intricate physics problems, I regularly found myself stuck. This wasnt a sign of failure; it was an essential part of learning.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

.” 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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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Artificial Intelligence: Smart assistants can help teachers and students use time more efficiently. Acting as tutors or teaching assistants, AI makes classroom time more effective and leaves educators time to address more personal needs.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

So the professor developed a backchannel tool that allows students to submit questions online during class and receive real-time answers from a teaching assistant. Karlie Wells, Samson’s teaching assistant who comes to his classes to answer student questions, agrees.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

As the grantee with the most experience in my cohort, I was given the opportunity to transition into a teacher trainer position; I found myself stepping into a new role as a mentor and coach to 14 first-year English teaching assistants.

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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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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

is an AI-powered teaching assistant designed to help teachers with lesson planning, instructional design, and generating educational content. It offers a resource generator, teaching assistant, feedback bot, and AI chat. www.eduaide.ai What can it do? Eduaide.ai

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Reduced Teacher Workload: AI tutors, virtual teaching assistants and automated admin systems can help reduce teacher workload. This saves teachers time, while giving students quicker feedback. AI can also point out areas for improvement in writing and provide personalized recommendations.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

ByteLearn.com – Digital math teaching assistant for teachers. This article will discuss some of the best tools for tutoring math online, and the way they can help teachers to improve their student’s skills. The 5 best tools for tutoring maths online are: 1.

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