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An AI tutor helped Harvard students learn more physics in less time

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A student’s view of PS2 Pal, the AI tutor used in a learning experiment inside Harvard’s physics department. Screenshot courtesy of Gregory Kestin) We are still in the early days of understanding the promise and peril of using generative AI in education. Kestin doesn’t deliver traditional lectures.

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What Can AI Chatbots Teach Us About How Humans Learn?

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These days, computing power and algorithms have advanced to the level where neuroscience and AI are helping to inform each other, and even challenge our traditional understanding of what thinking is all about, he says. What has really been revealed is that we don't understand what ‘understanding’ is,” says Sejnowski. “We

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

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Should AI chatbots be used as tutors? That question has been in the air since ChatGPT was released in late 2022, and since then many developers have experimented with using the latest generative AI technology as a tutor. The book is called “ Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing). ”

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Most college students are taking online classes, but they’re paying just as much as in-person students

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Bringing down the price of a degree was certainly a key part of the appeal when online higher education began, said Richard Garrett, co-director of that survey of online education managers and chief research officer at Eduventures, an arm of the higher education technology consulting company Encoura. Make them cheaper.

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Cheaper human tutors can be highly effective, studies show

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Teaching aides are at least as effective in tutoring as licensed teachers, and far more effective than volunteer tutors, research shows Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. And both sets of paid professionals—aides and teachers—were far more effective than volunteer tutors. But it was based on very few studies.

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Most Popular EdSurge Podcast Episodes of 2024

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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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The science of catching up

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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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