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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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

All of (the teachers) are assessing reading artifacts, writing artifacts, research artifacts, Messer explains, with the same rubric across our building. It’s framed around this driving question: How are humans impacting the Earth from an environmental biology perspective? They also explore pseudoscience and source credibility.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

What New Research Says About Fostering a Sense of Belonging in Classrooms There are key junctures in education that are especially important for helping students feel they belong in school or college. Dissecting That Viral AI Demo With Sal Khan and His Son Should AI chatbots be used as tutors?

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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

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 14, 2022

Albright is co-founder and director of research of Kognito, a company that develops online role-play simulations to train educators and healthcare professionals to have conversations with young people on mental health, substance use, suicide prevention and LGBTQ+ issues. Credit: Screenshot of Kognito demo. territories. territories.

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ED Surge

JULY 15, 2024

But it was the chatbot that was touted as the key innovation — which relied on human moderators at AllHere to monitor some of the chatbot’s output who are no longer actively working on the project. Are they taking appropriate technical steps to make sure that data is secure and there won’t be a breach or something intentional by an employee?”

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