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 22, 2024

When it comes to AI in education, one edtech company stands out as a sage leader and trailblazing pioneer. Since we spoke with Malkin when he became CEO seven years ago, Carnegie has added 500 new employees, 500 part-time tutors, four new adaptive AI products, countless research projects and a new Canadian headquarters.

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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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Digital Promise

JULY 17, 2017

Human beings themselves are innately noisy and variable creatures. If each additional layer of technology we introduce adds to the variability of human data, we might well question how we fund, conduct, and interpret research involving humans and the use of technology. Change one element and the context changes. Stokes, D.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

For businesses, artificial intelligence has proven immensely profitable, by some accounts even lifting the overall amount of funding flowing to edtech last year. But the desire among some entrepreneurs to use these tools as replacements for teachers or personal tutors has provoked skepticism.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

Before transitioning to EdTech, Levine enjoyed 30 years working in various positions in K-12 and higher ed. It really demonstrates what's possible when we look at connected learning not as a luxury but as a basic human right. is excited about the newest technologies and their impact on the learning experience. No prototype.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

Amira is the invention of Amira Learning, a six-year-old edtech company that fuses voice-based artificial intelligence into reading activities, guided by an eponymous AI bot. So it’s helpful if each voice-based edtech company offers every tool these educators might need. Keep going,” Amira says, softly.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Bleak Staffing Numbers To make accelerated learning possible, schools needed enough staff to provide small-group student tutoring. Districts in the study reported staffing barriers at every level—teachers, substitutes, human resources personnel, teacher trainers.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2020

LeSiege believed his prewritten hints and explanations were helping his students and Heffernan wondered if all students might benefit from having a virtual tutor hover over their shoulders during homework time. To build the crowdsourced hint system, the researchers paid 13 teachers to write hints.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

Computerized instruction offers the promise of a technological version of a personal tutor, giving instant feedback and tailoring lessons for each child’s needs. Yet even advocates of educational technology recognize the motivating power of a human teacher to encourage a demoralized student or clear up a point of confusion.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 22, 2024

When Satya Nitta worked at IBM, he and a team of colleagues took on a bold assignment: Use the latest in artificial intelligence to build a new kind of personal digital tutor. That AI tool had pulled off some big wins, including beating humans on the Jeopardy quiz show in 2011. We’ll have flying cars before we will have AI tutors.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2022

Rwanda, an African edtech leader, plowed on with the (formerly) UN-backed One Laptop Per Child initiative without explaining how teachers should work with them. educators were dissatisfied with the training they received; only 15 percent believed they had received satisfactory training in edtech. Bart Epstein, CEO of the U.S.-based

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 28, 2021

educators that lost their gigs tutoring students in China online once that country put in new restrictions against such businesses. To fit all the billions of neurons in the human brain into our heads, they're organized so that brain regions are carefully mapped to things like vision and hearing.

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