ED Surge

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Recently, EdSurge webinar host Matthew Joseph discussed with education experts the need for assessments to measure what truly matters and power human progress. What role does assessment play in personalized learning, and how can it be used to tailor educational experiences to individual student needs?

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2024

News outlets have detailed the rollout by the Texas Education Agency of a natural language processing program, a form of artificial intelligence, to score the written portion of standardized tests administered to students in third grade and up. Like many AI-related projects, the idea started as a way to cut the cost of hiring humans.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Numerous studies (Spitzer: 1939, Cepeda et al: 2008,) into human memory have shown that memory retention can be improved by spacing out your exposure to information, so that you review the information again at the optimal moment. For more information on spaced repetition, take a look HERE.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

While AI is useful, it’s important to remember that these interactions are driven by data and lack empathy, compassion and human understanding. As information increasingly becomes currency, we must stay mindful of our humanity, knowing that our values and connections truly make us whole.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 22, 2024

That AI tool had pulled off some big wins, including beating humans on the Jeopardy quiz show in 2011. It is a deeply human process that AI is hopelessly incapable of meeting in a meaningful way. It is a deeply human process that AI is hopelessly incapable of meeting in a meaningful way. They’re tools. They’re strange tools.

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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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ED Surge

OCTOBER 1, 2024

After all, these days colleges and other education institutions are hiring a growing number of human instructional designers to help create or improve teaching materials — especially as colleges have developed more online classes and programs. The question is, can AI do that?”

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In addition to disciplinary concepts, it is important to address areas such as the appropriate use and timing of AI, the historical context of AI development, addressing biases, safeguarding the privacy of data shared with AI systems/tools, ensuring equitable access to AI tools, and taking into account environmental and human labor considerations.

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ED Surge

JUNE 17, 2024

In fact, I think it has enormous potential to augment our human creativity and to support effective teaching and learning. But too often, in discussions around AI in education, we get stuck on the notion of cheating and miss out on more interesting questions: How can these new tools make us more creative?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In most states, you can visit a website and see a map of providers in your area, along with some basic information about them — ages served, operating hours, quality rating — but details about their enrollment availability is often either not listed or long out-of-date. And sometimes that’s just an information gap.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In theory, education technology could redesign school from a factory-like assembly line to an individualized experience. Other math platforms generate data reports too, and teachers ought to be able to use them to inform their instruction. One-size-fits-all instruction may not be perfect, but it keeps the humans in the picture.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

Now all of a sudden, without asking teachers to give up their weekends to grade,” he says, “we can give all that information to the student and teacher within seconds.” It’s really contingent on hours of the day and human buy-in,” he says. Cote is not alone in pinning hopes on AI to help the teaching of civics.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2024

Writing doesn’t have that much meaning without a human audience. Finding a Balance Writing centers need to find a balance between introducing AI into the writing process and keeping the human support that every writer needs, argues Anna Mills, an English instructor at the College of Marin.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2024

In other words, the tool tended to go even further in completing an essay by adding in other information from its vast stores of training data. “So The technique is different from other attempts to focus the use of AI for education, in that the only source the myScribe bot draws from is the student’s notes rather than a wider dataset.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

At Project Information Literacy (PIL), the nonprofit independent research institute I lead, a group of library and information science and new media researchers — including myself — conduct national research about the information seeking behavior of college students and recent graduates.

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2023

Generative AI, a subset of AI that can generate new and original content, serves as a technology that amplifies our capabilities as educators and learners. Its ability to swiftly transform and transfer information surpasses previous boundaries, albeit with some initial apprehension from educators.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. This week, I spoke with experts and educators in K-12 to see what they think about these new tools.

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ED Surge

JUNE 22, 2023

At stake is whether it is even possible to tame so-called “large language models” like ChatGPT, which are usually trained with information drawn from the internet and are designed to spit out answers that fit predictable patterns rather than hew strictly to reality. So Ashok K. Those courses enroll between 100 and 370 students each.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

These stories of resilience and triumph allowed me to see my own humanity as a Black person, something I later realized I desperately needed. I needed to learn about my people in order for me to see my own humanity, and for the students I’ve taught over the past 13 years, I know this to be true.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2023

It’s a free AI chatbot that can spit out long-form answers to just about any question, in a way that sounds eerily human. Unlike a Google search, the new tool can deliver full paragraphs of information, and it does so in a way that seems like the AI is having a conversation with you. By now you’ve probably heard of ChatGPT.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

One of the great debates in education spans more than two millennia. Plato wrote that his teacher Socrates fretted that writing things down would cause humans to become ignorant because they wouldn’t have to memorize anything. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Around 370 B.C., When we need it, we will look it up.”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Without any human touch, the memo would not have received a passing grade because it was too high-level and didn’t provide a literature review with proper citations. Especially since it’s difficult if not impossible, given the current limitations of AI detectors , to distinguish AI- versus human-produced content.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Access to high-quality education is widely recognized as a pivotal tool for alleviating poverty, mitigating the spread of disease and malnutrition, fostering children's overall welfare and empowering women. We take a bottom-up approach to education technology in a way that is contextual and responsible.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 20, 2024

million followers) welcoming teachers to share their school supply lists, along with a bit of humanizing information like where they live and what they teach, in a Google form. So it's more meaningful for people to have a little more information when there are so many [lists]. I love music,’ or, ‘Oh, that's my town.’

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

New information felt inaccurate, but old information felt useless. It was not a real human being, no matter how real the conversation may have felt, and that he was safe. In human conversation, a person often pauses and thinks for a while before answering a deep question. I decided we’d continue together.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 10, 2023

But it’s not because students aren’t good at critical thinking, argues Mike Caulfield, a research scientist at University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. EdSurge: In the book you argue that one of the most important things to do when sorting through information online is what you call “critical ignoring.”

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Yet, with significant findings in key areas related to neuroscience and technology, educators are now one step closer to understanding the biological and environmental underpinnings of the learning process, a review of which may serve as a starting point for discussions and reconsideration of novel instructional methods.

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2023

At the beginning of this school year, I facilitated a professional development (PD) session with middle school teachers about how to use education technology tools for deeper learning. Our inquiry not only shifted my focus from learning history to becoming a historian, but it also shifted my identity.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Primarily, for instance, it stresses that humans should be placed “firmly at the center” of AI-enabled edtech. In this, it echoes the White House’s previous “blueprint for AI,” which emphasized the importance of humans making decisions, in part to alleviate concerns of algorithmic bias in automated decision-making.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2023

In fact, Patrick Suppes, a Stanford University philosophy professor and pioneer of computerized tutoring, said in 1966 that students would someday have “the personal services of a tutor as well informed and as responsive as Aristotle.” Well, that virtual Aristotle is here. What might be some responses that disagree with that idea?”

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Think of interoperability as the plumbing and access to information and ease of use as the hot shower that we can enjoy by simply turning on the tap. Schools are awash in valuable data about students, creating the potential for educators to access a profile of the “whole child.”

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me.

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ED Surge

JULY 13, 2022

As a student acts and speaks, his or her avatar will perform in front of a virtual audience, but other humans in the room won’t see the virtual theater that the student sees. Shakespeare-VR is designed for a student to experience while wearing a VR headset. The performance essentially takes place in private.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The funds are allocated to the Department of Health and Human Services to be disbursed through the local Smart Start partnerships for affected child care centers and family child care homes. These $25,000 grants are being awarded on a rolling basis and should be for “frontline human service needs,” according to the CFWNC website.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

The Teacher Ready project team prioritized the need for evidence-based guidelines for decision-makers to make more informed purchases. Whether making decisions for a large district or one classroom, this framework provides educators with foundational criteria from which to assess edtech products.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Research in psychology has led to a clearer picture of common pitfalls in human reasoning — instincts people are wired to make that may have helped our caveman ancestors but that now lead people to make biased decisions or incorrect assumptions. Is it because of all the information flowing at all of us these days?

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