EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

That’s where artificial intelligence–powered teaching assistants might come in handy. Understandably, there is still some hesitation at the idea of using this technology, as education professionals fear the day robots will replace teachers. AI Solutions Drive Higher STEM Test Scores.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2024

Meanwhile, new technologies seem to flow out in an unstoppable stream. 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. And last year, the U.S.

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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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Testing Fairness Language Languages 218

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

“No teacher is going to put in 1,000 person-hours of his or her time in order to get a benefit of 200 person-hours that he or she may save,” Ashok Goel, a professor of computer science and cognitive science at Georgia Institute of Technology, told EdSurge in an interview earlier this year. See the tool in action here.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Automated Grading: AI can automate the scoring of assessment tests, homework, essays and other assignments. Reduced Teacher Workload: AI tutors, virtual teaching assistants and automated admin systems can help reduce teacher workload. Over-Reliance on Technology: AI could lead to students becoming too reliant on technology.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Equity remained front and center, too, raising issues of inequitable technology access, along with racial and socioeconomic disparities and discrimination. For over a year now, the focus has been on getting technology into the hands of students. Schools had a crash course in greater instructional technology usage during the pandemic.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The teacher’s dashboard includes useful reminders like ‘to be graded’ and ‘students who are late’ The class dashboard includes tabs for ‘today’, ‘calendar’, ‘contents’, and ‘gradebook’ Paper tests can be uploaded to the program (by taking a picture) and then shared out with students.

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Assignments Classroom Management Testing Internet 141

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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Math Mobile Devices Quizzes Teaching Assistants 157

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

Susan Blum, author of the book, "Ungrading" Michelle Miller encourages us in “ Minds Online: Teaching Effectively With Technology ” to not feel like instructors have to evaluate each and every thing that a student submits to one of our classes. And I sometimes delegate some portion of the work to a teaching assistant.

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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. What was your biggest worry then, and how did the testing go? I've always been fascinated by, ‘What could we learn potentially from technology?’

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Intelligence Teaching Assistants Laboratory Assignments 198

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2019

The use of AI in libraries has resurfaced age-old questions, such as whether technology will replace human librarians. The chatbot has been in a test phase for the past six months, and Smith admits it doesn’t always give the right answer. So far the project is in the early stages, and is still a year away from testing.

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Intelligence Questions Languages Language 167

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. Students increasingly turn to private systems to create online groups around individual college classes.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

But he always wanted to pursue a degree in computer science—he loved technology. 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!)

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The full stack of technologies and frivolous thrills one might expect to find on today’s college campuses were on full display at Educause, the. hulking gathering of higher-ed technology staff, faculty and companies. No longer, he says, does it make sense for colleges to divorce technology from teaching and learning.

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Instructors Essay Science Teaching Assistants 151

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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Teaching Syllabus Teaching Assistants Textbooks 139

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

Together, we committed to an iterative process of examining existing and emerging MBE research and continually learning, testing, reflecting and revising our practices to make sure they’re reflective of the findings. The driving goal was to create a community of practitioners who identify as learning scientists. It started with coffee.

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Education Coaching Math English 217

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

It’s called the Teaching Online Podcast, or TOPcast , and co-host Thomas Cavanagh says he is driven by his quest to figure out one of the grand challenges of higher education: how to use technology to raise the quality of instruction while lowering costs. There are things that technology can do that humans can't.

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Education Quizzes Writing Online Learning 167

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Equity remained front and center, too, raising issues of inequitable technology access, along with racial and socioeconomic disparities and discrimination. Beheshti, IEEE Senior Member, Dean of the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences at New York Institute of Technology. — Babak D.

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Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Language 282

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

What we are hearing is students are personally overwhelmed, emotionally overwhelmed—and facing financial hardship, technology issues and difficulties with child care that are preventing them from logging on,” says Tim Renick, founding executive director of the National Institute for Student Success at Georgia State University.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

“And then all the sudden we’re teaching online. If you’re in graduate school, you often work as a teaching assistant, you’re under a mentoring program, you’re taught to be a teacher. Online teaching is not necessarily the same.” But we are not given the same training that people who are taught face-to-face do.

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Instructors Teaching Assistants Study Assignments 143

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

However, there are certainly those who employ methods that put this perspective to the test. 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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Learning Students Assignments Participation 162

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. Arjun Singh knows the feeling well.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

This tool is best utilized for generating thinking questions rather than testing for right or wrong answers, helping to minimize student anxiety. With the rise of modern technology, countless online tools are now available to help students stay engaged in the classroom. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 51(1), 46-58.

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Lecturing Attention Students Discussions 104

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

And often that’s because there is a disconnect between what students expect from college teaching and what actually ends up happening in the classroom. 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.

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Teaching Course Evaluations Students Evaluation 117

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

This tool is best utilized for generating thinking questions rather than testing for right or wrong answers, helping to minimize student anxiety. With the rise of modern technology, countless online tools are now available to help students stay engaged in the classroom. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 51(1), 46-58.

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Lecturing Attention Students Discussions 97

Edsurge

MAY 4, 2023

ASU couldn’t test this theory by delivering chemicals to students who study online. And when 43 students finally arrived, Austin, along with two teaching assistants, led their organic chemistry lab. But what if instead the university brought remote students to the chemicals — and to campus?

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Science Accessibility STEM Laboratory 188

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in West Bengal, India Kintali fell behind in a course on complexity theory (which is too complex to explain here). Kintali spoke with EdSurge about why he created TrueShelf, why technology can never replace teachers, and what led him down this path in his career. Shiva Kintali, TrueShelf CEO.

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Textbooks Intelligence Math Beliefs 103

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Utilizing CAPTCHA responses to differentiate humans from bots CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a widely employed tool for distinguishing between human users and automated programs. This challenge relies on human visual perception which bots often struggle with.

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Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 135

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? How can these kinds of technologies be used to help our students have deeper conversations online? I think they’re going to happen simultaneously.

Learning 86

Learning Intelligence Science Questions 86

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 31, 2016

paper tests can be uploaded (by taking a picture) and then shared out with students. If students took a paper test, they can take a picture of it and then share that with the teacher for grading. classes can be shared with teaching assistants and co-teachers. classes can be shared with teaching assistants and co-teachers.

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Assignments Testing Grades Classroom Management 75

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

This setting typically requires the use of technology, structured activities, and clear organization to manage the diverse needs of a larger audience. Oppositely, small classrooms allow for more intimate interactions, personalized feedback, and flexible teaching methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022).

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

This setting typically requires the use of technology, structured activities, and clear organization to manage the diverse needs of a larger audience. Oppositely, small classrooms allow for more intimate interactions, personalized feedback, and flexible teaching methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022).

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Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 85

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Where flexibility of how a project is completed can be given, encourage students to try something new or try a new technology to implement their idea. She recently received K-States 2023 Global Campus Excellence in Online Teaching Award in recognition for her teaching practices. References Hackman, J. R., & Oldham, G.

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Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 102

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Like many other education entrepreneurs with technology backgrounds, the co-founders of Lalilo say they were surprised at the gap between the teaching tools currently available in classrooms, and the technology they knew was available. fourth graders tested proficient in reading—down from 37 percent in 2017.

English 65

English Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Assistants Special Education 65

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Utilizing CAPTCHA responses to differentiate humans from bots CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a widely employed tool for distinguishing between human users and automated programs. This challenge relies on human visual perception which bots often struggle with.

Academic Integrity 111

Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Where flexibility of how a project is completed can be given, encourage students to try something new or try a new technology to implement their idea. She recently received K-States 2023 Global Campus Excellence in Online Teaching Award in recognition for her teaching practices. References Hackman, J. R., & Oldham, G.

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Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 92