ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

After the pandemic, the nationwide adoption of online high-dose tutoring was expected to address deepening educational disparities. Additionally, it gained attention for its ability to provide high-quality education in regions with inadequate supplies of teachers, especially in higher-grade STEM education.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

Topics around how AI fits into education continued to draw listeners this year, including our interview with Sal Khan, founder of the nonprofit Khan Academy, about his groups new AI chatbot tutor. Should Chatbots Tutor? Dissecting That Viral AI Demo With Sal Khan and His Son Should AI chatbots be used as tutors?

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2024

And in the past, administrators at some colleges have replaced their services with all-encompassing tutoring centers or third party organizations, Wynn Perdue adds. Writing doesn’t have that much meaning without a human audience. AI can serve as a supplement to a human tutor, Mills says.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Millions of students across the United States spent their summers in learning and enrichment programs, many of which employed intensive tutoring designed to bring math and reading scores up to grade level. That experience showed me that high-dosage tutoring can't be the only tool we offer students after the disruptions of COVID-19.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

Understanding the Psyche of Technological Resistance in the Education Workforce Resistance to change, especially technological change , is fundamentally anchored in our human psychology. This dynamic is significantly magnified within the education workforce. It’s not indicative of weakness or failure.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Community-based organizations, libraries, adult education programs, and community colleges across our Beacons are working together to incorporate technology to support their learners. When we talk with educators around the country, most, if not all, are clamoring for ways to best leverage education technology.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2023

Oftentimes, when it comes to technology and new innovations, folks move to a “good” or “bad” binary. If I’m in need of a tutor, or an editor, or a professor’s help, is that not “receiving assistance from another person”? In this case, not only is this tutor available on demand, but it’s also approachable, and mostly importantly, free.

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Digital Promise

JULY 17, 2017

Over the years, I’ve been involved in developing research programs and projects in education technology, games, and virtual reality. As I’ve developed my thinking around funding and conducting research in learning technologies, I always come back to an unpublished technical report written by one of my early mentors in the Navy.

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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. Researchers are starting to see good results in using differentiated practice work in combination with tutoring. One-size-fits-all instruction may not be perfect, but it keeps the humans in the picture.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

Also: Our continued coverage of the collapse of China’s online tutoring market, and its global ramifications, became required reading for anyone interested in education. Some will keep tutoring, even if they are driven underground or are forced to take lower rates. We Need to Make Schools Human Again.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 1, 2024

There’s a push among AI developers to create an AI tutor , and some see that as a key use case for tools like ChatGPT. But one longtime edtech expert sees an even better fit for new AI chatbots in education: helping educators design course materials for their students. The question is, can AI do that?”

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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. Related: Three lessons from rigorous research on education technology.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Generative AI has stormed into education. Most of its applications, though, are either geared toward students (better tutoring solutions, for instance), or aimed at making quick, on-the-spot lesson plans for teachers. The makers of these AI tools believe that technology can help stem the tide out of the profession.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

For edtech firms, this partly means figuring out how to prevent their bottom line from being hurt, as students swap some edtech services with AI-powered DIY alternatives , like tutoring replacements. Primarily, for instance, it stresses that humans should be placed “firmly at the center” of AI-enabled edtech.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2020

For much of the previous decade, advocates of education technology imagined a classroom where computer algorithms would differentiate instruction for each student, delivering just the right lessons at the right time, like a personal tutor. Higher Education. So it was interesting to see McKinsey & Co., Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

MAY 22, 2024

After starting with MATHia , an adaptive AI tutor that personalizes instruction for middle and high school students, Carnegie Learning branched out last year into AI-based tools for literacy, languages, tutoring and even professional learning for teachers and leaders. And grow, they have.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

That’s led to a frenetic rush to market educational tools as AI. But the desire among some entrepreneurs to use these tools as replacements for teachers or personal tutors has provoked skepticism. He cautioned that he couldn’t fully replace his human teaching assistants with a chatbot.

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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

MARCH 6, 2023

EdSurge: How does Qualcomm fit into the equation of advancing the education sector? It really demonstrates what's possible when we look at connected learning not as a luxury but as a basic human right. Connectivity is probably how Qualcomm offers the greatest impact in education. No prototype. It made such a difference!

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

Parents with means have always known that classroom learning isn’t enough, and have ensured their children have access to enrichment programs, mentors, internships, technological tools and private tutors. Most schools across the United States use some form of education technology.

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

These strategies have taken root in efforts by district leaders, often in partnership with university-based teacher education programs, to “grow-their-own” teachers or source tutors for more emergent interventions. Our national reset of an educational system that has been failing too many students for too long is long overdue.

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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

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. The best teacher is going to be the human teacher. Related: Choosing personalized learning as a strategy for educational equity. Higher Education. Weekly Update.

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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

MAY 17, 2022

Medicine and nursing programs have been natural fits, but some in the humanities are experimenting too, such as in architecture and film. Similar systems could work for embedded tutoring, health and wellness and advising, says Roeger of Elgin Community College.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2021

In many cases, she said, “they’re getting an education that’s largely created by a whole other entity that may or may not have good outcomes.”. Educational technology: $16 billion. They spend $16 billion annually on educational technology , projected to rise to $20 billion by 2024, BMO Capital Markets estimates.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

With better understanding, they can take action — invest in a tutor if the problem is isolated, for example, or demand that their district spend more on reading programs if the issue is widespread. Higher Education. For example, is only their child reading below grade-level or are a majority of the students? Sign up for our newsletter.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

Voice technology — especially the use of an AI bot that talks back to the learner — has injected reading practice with the kind of feedback that was only possible with one-on-one tutoring before. Meanwhile, SoapBox’s website claims high efficacy for its patented speech recognition technology.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

Projects include making animations, creating statistical databases of favorite sports teams and designing programs that can identify pneumonia in scans of human lungs. Teenagers come to the lab to develop their own projects under the tutelage of Google employees and Code Next’s academic coaches.

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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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ED Surge

JULY 11, 2023

Bier and others involved in the project say that they are testing the approach in a variety of educational settings, including public and private K-12 schools, community colleges and four-year colleges. I would say you always need human eyes on whatever the output from whatever generative AI you're using.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

A human would likely never spot such complex patterns. The human element. But he said the reality is more students than ever are graduating in the toughest majors, thanks to better support, like tutoring. There’s really no culture of informed consent when it comes to educational technologies and higher education.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2023

After a year of short-burst tutoring, more than double the number of kindergarteners hit an important reading milestone. Researchers are tracking the children to see if the gains from this cheaper and quicker version of high-dosage tutoring are long lasting and lead to more third graders becoming proficient readers. Some exceed $4,000.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2022

“Educators were kept engaged through WhatsApp groups and sent videos of themselves teaching post-training,” says Rewane. What’s Next Edtech firms relying on teachers and tutors to support their business models often take a highly personalized approach to training.

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ED Surge

MARCH 11, 2024

The analysis found that the presence of print collections didn’t drive library usage, but the presence of “student success” partners and services like writing and tutoring centers did. They published their findings in a report in Trendline in December 2023. He’s also the vice chair of ACRL’s New Roles and Changing Landscapes committee.

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