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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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2025

One student became a teaching assistant, reinforcing her own knowledge while mentoring younger studentsan experience that helped her gain admission to UCs pre-med program. For more on CTE and career readiness, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

We can’t speak for every educator, but we can share just a little bit about some of the key ways we’ve already seen AI leveraged by teachers to better engage and teach students: Integrating visual learning: Today’s students live in a visual world. Leveraging a virtual teaching assistant: Teachers have a big job to do.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

In recent years, technology has played a significant role in reshaping the landscape of college teaching, and it will surely continue to do so. But the groundswell of artificial intelligence (AI) that surrounds us marks a particularly fragile moment for teaching. And doing this requires knowledge about technology and teaching.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2024

I fell in love with teaching while working as an assistant educator at a preschool 16 years ago. My classroom, where I planned to continue teaching after student teaching, even counted toward my student teaching requirement. That program made a teaching license and a master’s degree accessible. newsletters.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2023

At the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning at Ulster Board of Cooperative Education Services (BOCES), we have developed the architecture to accomplish and codify a leadership approach to help schools consider how to reach our most marginalized and vulnerable students.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2023

We hit on a number of topics that will affect the way educators and students teach and learn, including post-pandemic behaviors, student security, the pursuit of equitability and education, and the future of hybrid learning. Plus of course, AI, AI and yes, a little more AI.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 8, 2024

Together, they’ll support New York school districts in providing an on-the-job delivery pathway for Mercy’s Bachelor of Science in Teaching Students with Disabilities, B-12 program, to bring more highly qualified special education teachers into New York classrooms. According to a 2022 NCES study , 40% of U.S.

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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. With College Decision Day approaching, students are bombarded with information–rankings, brochures, campus tours, and advice from every direction.

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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

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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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

Ariana Garcia doesn’t take a break as she goes from tutoring a small group of students to teaching a social studies class at the Great Oak Charter middle school in New York City. Next year, I just want to teach,” Garcia exasperatedly tells EdSurge. She also teaches full time at Great Oaks, a gig that provides her with housing.

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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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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. To get started, what are some of the channels that currently exist, if any, for students to interact with their faculty or instructors around teaching and curriculum?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

I of course acknowledge that students are overwhelmingly using AI to cheat , and trying to catch them, much less teach them how to use it correctly, is unbelievably difficult. Today, I teach my students a set of in-class AI prompts, based on a standard model of supporting writing, on how to brainstorm, focus, and develop their ideas.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Keep teaching fresh for yourself by incorporating different case studies, materials, videos, or guest speakers (when it makes sense!). If you teach a course that fits within a large sequence, meeting with instructors to ensure the sequence makes sense. For example, maybe there is a new software youd like to learn.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

That’s where artificial intelligence–powered teaching assistants might come in handy. However, as Thomas Arnett, a writer at the Christensen Institute, explains in his report, Teaching in the Machine Age , these advances are not meant to replace teachers but help them bring students to new heights. by Eli Zimmerman.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2021

The pandemic inspired some professors to get creative in their teaching as they tried to move in-person courses online in engaging ways. No matter how big your screen, Zoom can only display up to 49 people in each session. So the class was divided into three different Zoom sessions of up to 100 students each.

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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? Recent cognitive triumphs in Jeopardy and Go have emphatically answered the question of whether machines can “think.”

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Keep teaching fresh for yourself by incorporating different case studies, materials, videos, or guest speakers (when it makes sense!). If you teach a course that fits within a large sequence, meeting with instructors to ensure the sequence makes sense. For example, maybe there is a new software youd like to learn.

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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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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

But his book, and that demo, are also attracting some pushback from teaching experts who think AI may have lots of uses in education, but that tutoring should be reserved for humans who can motivate and understand the students they work with. In fact, we said, ‘Hey, this could be really valuable in a teaching setting.’

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

Nina Radcliffe’s teaching practice was changing. Radcliffe was beginning to think more intentionally about the brain and to explicitly teach her students about how it functions. Counselors at our school began using specific names of brain structures, such as the amygdala and hippocampus, when teaching learners how to self-regulate.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I began my teaching career as a Teach For America (TFA) Corps member in Jacksonville, Florida. But very quickly, I learned that teaching in a Title I school, where a high percentage of low-income students face significant educational gaps , was far more challenging than I had anticipated.

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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. How can educators integrate productive failure into their teaching?

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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

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. And last year, the U.S.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

But the tools were also targeted at math teaching. Artificial intelligence will supply every student on the planet a talented personal tutor and every teacher an amazing teaching assistant, Khan has said. Because we all wish we had magical tools to make [teaching] easier.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

But more than that, it would be important to teach his science students how to interact with the tool for their own careers, he first told EdSurge last April. He cautioned that he couldn’t fully replace his human teaching assistants with a chatbot. It promised to increase efficiency, he argued.

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Model Teaching

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Renewal of your professional certificate in the classroom teaching service requires 100 CTLEs every five years. Individuals with a professional certificate in educational leadership service or a teaching assistant level III certificate will also require CTLEs.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

I was intrigued to learn whether the practices and approaches used to teach CS in grades K-2, which is my area of focus, would be in any way similar to those at the university level. There are various reasons for teaching computer science, but one approach that has gained traction is the idea of coding as a literacy.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Teaching in a large-size classroom differs significantly from teaching in a small-size classroom in terms of engagement, interaction, and instructional methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Oppositely, small classrooms allow for more intimate interactions, personalized feedback, and flexible teaching methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Pros of AI in Education Online tools have long been used in education, with things like an online ERD tool an effective way to teach students about complex principles such as connectors, shapes, and how diagrams work in practice, which are things they might need in their future careers. AI tutors may not pick up on nuances or social cues.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Much has been said and written about the need to teach ethics in computer science education—especially in light of major controversies such as with Facebook and Cambridge Analytica and broader concerns about the intersection of tech companies and politics.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2019

While Levy created the app to automate part of the process involved in documenting class participation, it still requires some manual assistance. For that, an instructor usually turns to teaching assistants like Erin Gregor, who record in Teachly every time a student participates. Maybe we put too much emphasis on speaking.”

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