Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

AI tutors, virtual assistants, and adaptive learning platforms are being adopted by schools, colleges, and universities around the world. In addition, many students are using AI to write coursework and essays, which has caused a lot of outrage. This saves teachers time, while giving students quicker feedback.

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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. She reflects on her final project, saying, “I no longer felt I was learning to read and write commands and scripts.

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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. SIGN UP: Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks!

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

And we also heard from Dan Meyer, vice president of user growth at Amplify, a curriculum and assessment company, who writes a newsletter about teaching mathematics where he has raised objections to the idea of using AI chatbots as tutors. Every teacher knows that. How do you address their individual needs?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2020

Students do inquiry-based research, write a paper and can even earn college credit through a partnership with Oberlin College. Even though the quarantine has curtailed most of their usual engagements, it can be tough to get everyone together for group Zoom calls outside the scheduled office hours with teaching assistants.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

In Susan Blum’s “ Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (And What to Do, Instead) ,” we discover that when it comes to concerns about grade inflation: “The trouble isn’t that too many students are getting As but that too many students have been led to believe the primary purpose of schooling is to get As,” she writes.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

QuestionWell allows you to input an article, reading, or a video and writes questions based on what you’ve input and your learning outcomes. is an AI-powered teaching assistant designed to help teachers with lesson planning, instructional design, and generating educational content. What can it do? www.eduaide.ai

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

After all, while some students might write in to their teacher for help, more-reserved students—perhaps more likely to be female students—might hang back or try to figure it all out by themselves. She called her startup Piazza. The system is now in place at around 2,000 colleges, and her company has raised more than $15 million.

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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. “It

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

School-wide initiatives can be seamlessly woven into an educator’s blended resources, allowing for content to be personal to their own school and classroom,” Farah writes in an Edutopia blog post. Artificial Intelligence: Smart assistants can help teachers and students use time more efficiently.

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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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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

QuestionWell allows you to input an article, reading, or a video and writes questions based on what you’ve input and your learning outcomes. is an AI-powered teaching assistant designed to help teachers with lesson planning, instructional design, and generating educational content. What can it do? www.eduaide.ai

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Multiple Choice Questions Education Teaching Assistants Learning Outcomes 110

Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

All that has led Lee to write this book and to make a stunning prediction: That in the next 15 years, close to half of today’s jobs in the US will be done by machines powered by artificial intelligence. In the one-to-1000 classroom, we also have teaching assistants. A teaching assistant might offer after-school tutoring.

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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

AUGUST 13, 2024

It’s as simple as writing something and then asking generative AI to rewrite it for a more polished version. It’s like having a teaching assistant that never sleeps! Assessment and Evaluation Tools Rubric Generator : Have AI write a rubric for an assignment you are creating for your class. Look no further.

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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. You're probably one of the only people we’ve talked to on the podcast who also writes murder mysteries. How does that work? I don't know.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

PIRG worries that these “minimum usage rates” clauses might lead to commercial course packs becoming the default in large introductory courses. “At Yet the report suggests that publishers sometimes consider their prices to be proprietary trade secrets.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

With the advent of AI, the limitations of ChatGPT are a good reminder that effective writing is human writing. How we write to our classes—even more so than what we write—is more important than ever. Conveying our “humanity” through writing, especially in digital spaces, is also something we need to model for learners.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

It’s as simple as writing something and then asking generative AI to rewrite it for a more polished version. It’s like having a teaching assistant that never sleeps! Assessment and Evaluation Tools Rubric Generator : Have AI write a rubric for an assignment you are creating for your class. Look no further.

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Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 111

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. She reflects on her final project, saying, “I no longer felt I was learning to read and write commands and scripts.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

In addition to preparing them for what to expect on the job, our program helps participants build the skills needed to successfully obtain a teaching assistant job in early childhood centers like ours, so we include coaching on workforce skills such as resume-writing and interviewing.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

She attended her classes and was a great graduate teaching assistant, teaching introductory classes to a broad array of students. Then WRITE IT DOWN! 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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Education Motivation Achievement Teaching Assistants 184

Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

They can also use multimedia and other learning tools such as Read&Write to convert text to speech when delivering student feedback, build a scavenger hunt using Google Search or use Google Cardboard to take kids on a virtual field trip or on an underwater search for sharks, engaging those children who are kinetic or visual learners.

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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. Arjun Singh knows the feeling well. You save time in applying the feedback.”

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

With the advent of AI, the limitations of ChatGPT are a good reminder that effective writing is human writing. How we write to our classes—even more so than what we write—is more important than ever. Conveying our “humanity” through writing, especially in digital spaces, is also something we need to model for learners.

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Culture Communication Writing Languages 98

Whiteboard Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

For instance, introducing an AI teaching assistant like Jill Watson , developed by Georgia Tech, can start in a single course before expanding school-wide. Writing an AI Policy for Your School: A Guide for School Leaders The Whiteboard Blog - Education, Technology, AI and Science CPD and Support

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

In other words,” writes EdSurge writer Jeffrey R. Young, Andrew Ng probably teaches more people than anyone else on the planet.” The EdSurge columnist writes: “If virtual education fails to succeed with poor students, then it will merely replicate the severe economic imbalance that is already the shame of the nation’s campuses.”

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

Reading, writing and AI—that turned out to be the winning combination for startup, WriteLab. They started the company to solve a challenge that they both knew well: how to provide fast and actionable feedback to writing students. Writing tools are particularly interesting to the company. Educators have appreciated their work.

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Feedback Writing Teaching Assistants Math 82

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

It’s not so much a learning management system as it is a device manager specifically for iPads or, as the company calls it, a “teaching assistant.” Updates and Upgrades: Apple Classroom officially hit the app store in March 2016. The platform is also integrated with Microsoft tools like.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

He pointed to a recent computer science class at Georgia Tech, where the professor had teaching assistants and a computer respond to student questions—without telling the students that they might be interacting with a machine. It’s one thing to be ask students to write a document or take a test. What Keeps A Futurist Optimistic?

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

However, some professors are enthusiastic and see possibilities for brainstorming, breaking blocks to writing, and creating first drafts—essentially preparing students for the world where these technologies are now everyday life. The discourse regarding the position of AI-generated writing in academia is in its early stages.

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Intelligence Critical Thinking Academic Integrity Peer Review 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

However, some professors are enthusiastic and see possibilities for brainstorming, breaking blocks to writing, and creating first drafts—essentially preparing students for the world where these technologies are now everyday life. The discourse regarding the position of AI-generated writing in academia is in its early stages.

Intelligence 98

Intelligence Critical Thinking Academic Integrity Peer Review 98

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Keeping tabs can be challenging, so consider enlisting the help of a teaching assistant or student to report in periodically. This allows students to generate conversations with their peers and to surface concerns and opinions from individuals and the collective.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 13, 2025

Additionally, providing alternative avenues for communication, such as writing on sticky notes or offering anonymous feedback options, can offer students a sense of safety and anonymity when expressing their thoughts. Educators can help by designating peer mentors or teaching assistants to offer guidance. References Hsu, C.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Meanwhile, a human teaching assistant monitored any replies that students sent back to the chatbot. It’s not writing papers for them,” Renick says. “It Students could access chatbot quizzes ahead of exams to help assess their level of understanding. The chatbot is not doing the coursework for the students.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 13, 2025

Additionally, providing alternative avenues for communication, such as writing on sticky notes or offering anonymous feedback options, can offer students a sense of safety and anonymity when expressing their thoughts. Educators can help by designating peer mentors or teaching assistants to offer guidance. References Hsu, C.

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Feedback Culture Learning Students 89

Edsurge

MAY 4, 2023

And when 43 students finally arrived, Austin, along with two teaching assistants, led their organic chemistry lab. It’s a model somewhat similar to an older style of hybrid learning, which predates the pandemic-era use of that term and is common to low-residency MBA and creative writing graduate programs designed for working adults.

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