ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

But not everyone thinks this is a good idea, since the tech is prone to “hallucinations,” where chatbots make up facts, and there’s the bigger issue of whether any machine can fill in for a human in something as deeply personal as one-on-one tutoring. A lot of folks probably saw the recent OpenAI demo of me and my son.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

Part of that involved the question of whether schools should ban smartphones one of the biggest policy debates of the year in K-12 education. Dissecting That Viral AI Demo With Sal Khan and His Son Should AI chatbots be used as tutors? What If Myths, Metaphors and Riddles Are the Key to Reshaping K-12 Education?

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ED Surge

JULY 2, 2024

But these days, when it comes to AI, another concern has come into the spotlight: That the technology could lead to less human interaction in schools and colleges — and that school administrators could one day try to use it to replace teachers. And it's not just educators who are worried, this is becoming an education policy issue.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2024

And he says K-12 teachers frequently use materials from a range of sources including curriculum and textbooks from their schools and districts, resources they’ve gotten from colleagues or found on websites, and materials they’ve purchased from marketplaces such as Teachers Pay Teachers. Stuff before involved humans and was static.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

More than 26 members of local and national media were on hand for the splashy announcement (a detail that Carvalho noted in his remarks), and the event also featured a human dressed in a costume of the shiny animated character of Ed, which has also long been a mascot of the school district, for attendees to take selfies with.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2018

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Yet so far these tools have not really affected K-12 math classrooms. However, ultimately, these tools will meet the proficiency of human tutors, especially with the proliferation of tablets, Grom argues. Meyer suggests that these tools’ lack of that human touch may explain why they have been slow to overtake math classrooms.

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