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Should Chatbots Tutor? Dissecting That Viral AI Demo With Sal Khan and His Son

ED Surge

A video demo of the latest version of ChatGPT tutoring a student that went viral on YouTube has brought fresh attention to this question. The kind of math that we saw on there,” Meyer said, referring to the demo, “was an operational problem well summarized in a single diagram that results in a single number.

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Blended Learning: Designing a Whole Group Rotation with StudySync

Catlin Tucker

So my job as a blended learning coach is to help teachers take what they have and create dynamic blended lessons that weave together online and offline elements. I use StudySync with my students and want to model what this process looks like with a StudySync lesson. Below are the resources mentioned in the video above.

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As More AI Tools Emerge in Education, so Does Concern Among Teachers About Being Replaced

ED Surge

Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, recently posted a video demo of him using a prototype of his organization’s chatbot Khanmigo, which has these features, to tutor his teenage son. The technology shown in the demo is not yet available, and is at least six months to a year away, according to Khan.

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Should Educators Put Disclosures on Teaching Materials When They Use AI?

ED Surge

Watkins says that a few months ago, when he saw a demo of a new feature in a popular learning management system that uses AI to help make materials with one click, he asked a company official whether they could add a button that would automatically watermark when AI is used to make that clear to students.

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Latest AI Announcements Mean Another Big Adjustment for Educators

ED Surge

Meanwhile, educators also have scores of new edtech products to review that promise to save them time on lesson planning and administrative tasks thanks to AI. Several demos last month by OpenAI , Google, and other companies honed in on educational uses of their latest chatbots.

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Could the Bridge Across the Digital Divide Be Paved With TV Signals?

ED Surge

Now, we're ready to help teachers seamlessly create lesson plans and send them out to all students — even those who don't have broadband. IEI learner dashboard demo Where does datacasting fit on the road to universal broadband? And the best part is nothing changes for the teacher. IEI teacher dashboard "Nothing changes."

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Guest Post: The Missing Piece: What Most Edtech Companies Need & Only a Few Have

Digital Promise

When schools interview a candidate for a teaching position, they ask for a lesson plan that makes clear what the teacher is doing in a demo lesson and why. Without lesson plans and curriculum maps, a teacher’s effectiveness is deeply undermined. These are the right questions to be asking.

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