The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

A student’s view of PS2 Pal, the AI tutor used in a learning experiment inside Harvard’s physics department. But students learned more than twice as much in less time when they used an AI tutor in their dorm compared with attending their usual physics class in person. Kestin doesn’t deliver traditional lectures.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Likewise, this trend took off in China and grew to be worth many billions of dollars, thanks to companies like VIPKid that eventually hired upward of 100,000 foreign educators—mostly Americans—to tutor millions of kids in China. Tutoring companies have since formed and grown all over the world, from Eastern Europe to Canada, from the U.S.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

But the desire among some entrepreneurs to use these tools as replacements for teachers or personal tutors has provoked skepticism. These days, Kohn thinks of a chatbot as a sort of a TA-plus. That’s led to a frenetic rush to market educational tools as AI.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2023

creativity, collaboration, communication, critical thinking, problem solving, resiliency) and crosses multiple disciplines (e.g. And, regrettably, when it comes to education, they remain constrained by tradition. Making games cultivates a range of hard skills (e.g. coding) and soft skills (e.g.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The challenge lies in the fact that while the college essay is essentially a personal narrative, this is a genre in which students receive little experience in traditional high school curricula. Beyond that, creative writing fosters critical thinking skills , helps students generate diverse ideas , and improves mental health.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

APRIL 14, 2024

Intelligent Tutoring Systems : By simulating one-on-one tutoring experiences, AI tutors can provide instant feedback, clarify student doubts, and offer explanations tailored to individual learning styles, thereby enhancing understanding and retention.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

For example, as conferences moved to an online format, a Nicaraguan colleague and I were able to co-present a paper on decolonizing critical thinking in English teaching at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) conference in 2021.

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