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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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. I cant recall a single homework assignment that was easier than a test question. A teachers role is not just to impart knowledge but also to teach students how to learn.

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Failure Assignments Education Secondary Education 174

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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Teaching Course Evaluations Evaluation Students 121

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. Instructors first need to consider how we use grades in our teaching—and then explore what kinds of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations exist and persist for our students. And I sometimes delegate some portion of the work to a teaching assistant.

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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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Schools Intelligence Assignments Teaching Assistants 209

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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Education Coaching Math English 217

eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2024

In the standardized testing era, students are too often asked to memorize facts and/or recall ideas without being expected to retain a deeper understanding of information. Depth in learning comes from focusing on critical thinking, evaluation of information, and tapping into students’ intrinsic curiosity.

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Attention STEM Assistive Technology Critical Thinking 282

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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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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Education Essay Critical Thinking Intelligence 183

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. Maybe we put too much emphasis on speaking.”

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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. And there is power in that data, not just from the perspective of ROI, but also in the potential for teaching and learning and ensuring data privacy compliance.

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Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Language 363

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 144

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

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. ByteLearn.com – Digital math teaching assistant for teachers. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. 2 Khan Academy.

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Math Mobile Devices Quizzes Teaching Assistants 157

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. What was your biggest worry then, and how did the testing go? Every teacher knows that.

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Intelligence Teaching Assistants Laboratory Assignments 201

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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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.

Course Design 87

Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 87

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

It was just one example of how she—and many online instructors—feel like they must be always on call when they teach an online course. Stout researches burnout and oversees around twenty adjuncts who teach online. Well, we know the reality: it’s very difficult to do that, and that’s not really what online teaching is.”

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Instructors Teaching Assistants Study Assignments 146

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

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!) and there were no adaptive engines to score them, I was the grader.

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Education Motivation Achievement Teaching Assistants 194

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. 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 163

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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Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 82

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2019

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. One recurring glitch is when the system misunderstands the question.

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Intelligence Questions Language Languages 167

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching. A lot of students are struggling emotionally this year because of the pandemic and teaching is harder than it’s ever been because of this shift.

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Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Language 294

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

It just helps to have that additional guidance, support and partnering with a student, to help teach them how to manage their time. It just helps to have that additional guidance, support and partnering with a student, to help teach them how to manage their time.” Too Much Help—Or Not Enough?

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Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 201

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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Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 79

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

No longer, he says, does it make sense for colleges to divorce technology from teaching and learning. An unusual survey conducted at colleges across Australia asked professors what kind of data would help them teach better. The bot, “Jill Watson,” passed the Turing test—students thought they were interacting with a human TA.

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Instructors Essay Science Teaching Assistants 153

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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Grades Exams Instructors Teaching Assistants 99

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. If you're teaching 12 students, then you kind of don't need the big data.

Education 167

Education Quizzes Writing Online Learning 167

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. CalMatters.

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Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 135

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

For instance, research shows that adding visuals to our PowerPoint presentations can help students process the information we are teaching (Mayer, 2002), but more importantly, we must focus on keeping the students attentive in the first place. How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching. Brown-Kramer, C.

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Lecturing Attention Students Discussions 102

Edsurge

MAY 4, 2023

When it comes to teaching science courses online, colleges are getting creative. 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.

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Science Accessibility STEM Laboratory 191

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Teaching is a dynamic endeavor. Test reviews are another great opportunity to incorporate collaborative activities in class. Shanda Hood is a teaching assistant professor for the Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Arkansas. As instructors, we are continually looking for ways to grow and improve.

Assignments 104

Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 104

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

For instance, research shows that adding visuals to our PowerPoint presentations can help students process the information we are teaching (Mayer, 2002), but more importantly, we must focus on keeping the students attentive in the first place. How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching. Brown-Kramer, C.

Lecturing 94

Lecturing Attention Students Discussions 94

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.

Assignments 84

Assignments Testing Grades Classroom Management 84

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. CalMatters.

Academic Integrity 111

Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 111

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

Shiva Kintali: As a teaching assistant at Georgia Tech and while teaching at Princeton, I developed an interest in helping my students learn mathematical concepts in a fun and intuitive way. I observed that students have different readiness levels, but the way we teach is week-by-week lectures with homework.

Textbooks 107

Textbooks Intelligence Math Beliefs 107

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Teaching is a dynamic endeavor. Test reviews are another great opportunity to incorporate collaborative activities in class. Shanda Hood is a teaching assistant professor for the Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Arkansas. As instructors, we are continually looking for ways to grow and improve.

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Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 84

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This piece will suggest a few simple ideas that teachers of introductory STEM classes may implement in their course design to turn their lectures into active learning experiences for a large student body, without needing to completely revisit and change their whole teaching style. Image courtesy of This Is Engineering, Unsplash. Buil et al.,

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