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What teachers want from AI

The Hechinger Report

An AI instructional coach designed to help English teachers create lesson plans and project ideas. An AI tutor that helps middle and high schoolers become better writers. These aren’t tools created by education technology companies. An AI chatbot that walks students through how to solve math problems.

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Three lessons from rigorous research on education technology

The Hechinger Report

The researchers at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab ( J-PAL ), an organization inside the economics department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, scoured academic journals, the internet and evaluation databases and found only 113 studies on using technology in schools that were scientifically rigorous.

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The science of catching up

The Hechinger Report

Research points to intensive daily tutoring as one of the most effective ways to help academically struggling children catch up. Education researchers have a particular kind of tutoring in mind, what they call “high-dosage” tutoring. The best results occur when tutoring takes place at school during the regular day.

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EdSurge’s Year in Review: The Top 10 K-12 Stories of 2021

ED Surge

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 cannot let schools be those spaces.”

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Will Teachers Listen to Feedback From AI? Researchers Are Betting on It

ED Surge

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. Copur-Gencturk spent two years building the dataset that would eventually train the AI tutor.

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‘We’re going to have to be a little more nimble’: How school districts are responding to AI

The Hechinger Report

Roschelle said he wants to see school leaders and educators experiment in ways that don’t carry big risks for students, such as changing a few lesson plans. “I I personally would advise school districts not to rush into buying a particular product, but really treat this year as a chance to educate yourself,” he said.

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PROOF POINTS: Free, no frills programs lead the class in new federal study of remote learning

The Hechinger Report

Department of Education, called the Institute for Education Sciences, commissioned a report to wade through all the studies on education technology that can be used at home in order to find which ones were proven to work. Teachers don’t have to change their existing lesson plans or textbooks to incorporate it.