ED Surge

OCTOBER 29, 2024

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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ED Surge

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Esports programs are growing at colleges across the country for their ability to attract and engage students—just like traditional sports. But higher education serves all kinds of students, and the gaming community isn’t exactly known as a bastion of inclusivity (remember Gamergate ?). They just help each other.

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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. Collier’s contention that technology allows the teacher to spend more time working with some students individually is backed up by research. DeVonté Trask, 11.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2024

Experiments should examine how “AI tutors” provide personalized feedback and explore the impact on learning and attitude-related outcomes for students, and how these outcomes compare to those achieved with more traditional resources.

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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. It’s also somewhat eclipsed conversations about the ethics of how these tools are implemented, according to one observer.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

million , and the company has shed other assets—including its popular tutoring business, TutorMe, which it sold to GoGuardian for $55 million in May. The announcement that Zovio would sell its OPM was made during an earnings call in which Zovio’s leadership reported second-quarter losses of $4.7 Zovio’s situation is in part unique.

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ED Surge

JULY 9, 2024

The 10 future teachers we interviewed span different geographies, backgrounds, education experiences and motivations. Some took a traditional path, from high school straight to college and then the classroom. Each story — each person — is unique.

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ED Surge

MAY 31, 2022

Responding to some of EdSurge’s coverage in the Biz newsletter, Atin Batra, founder and general partner at 27 Ventures, an early investor in companies like the livestream tutoring platform Fiveable , wanted to offer an alternative perspective. The news might lead you to think edtech’s future is marked by doom and gloom.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Magnet Elementary School , is excited about the prospect of redesigning traditional approaches to assessment and instruction. The data platform can also be used to support peer tutoring. How can we personalize things that have historically been standardized to see if they meet every individual learner’s needs?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2023

The new Khan World School pitches itself as a way for self-motivated students to break out of the traditional classroom. And its advertising materials emphasize the community component , with daily seminars, small group tutorials and peer tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

And while teachers, principals, district leaders and parents forced to shift to virtual learning are eager for an end to the emergency measures, many are already looking ahead and considering which education solutions have worked well, and what parts of public schooling should be permanently altered. Learning from Lockdown.

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2022

Traditional teaching uses class time to introduce students to concepts, which they then engage with on their own through homework. Similar systems could work for embedded tutoring, health and wellness and advising, says Roeger of Elgin Community College.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

AI-driven avatars and virtual tutors enable personalized learning experiences , catering to individual learning styles. Geographical barriers are dissolved , granting global access to high-quality education for students from diverse backgrounds. But the drawbacks of the experience were mainly technical.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2023

And, regrettably, when it comes to education, they remain constrained by tradition. Blending intelligent tutoring and personalized feedback, the Primer covers a wide variety of relevant academic subjects, along with social-emotional and critical-thinking skills.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The challenge lies in the fact that while the college essay is essentially a personal narrative, this is a genre in which students receive little experience in traditional high school curricula. Investing in our students' creative writing education is essential for their lifelong success.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

As a former tutor, I served PreK-12th grade students who learned the very histories I had to reconstruct my mind to accept years later. Her company, Reconstruction , hosts virtual classes that situate African Americans in a powerful, creative, and resilient light.

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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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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2023

Working with one of the program’s tutors also boosted his skills in math, a subject he doesn’t enjoy very much. The best after-school programs, advocates say, involve partnerships with community-based organizations and do not mimic the routine and structure of a traditional classroom.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

While Code Next’s classes don’t necessarily rely on traditional mathematics, some parents wonder what benefit comes to students for whom higher education may seem unobtainable. In eighth grade, only 19 percent of Oakland Unified School District students were grade-level proficient in math, compared to 29 percent of students statewide.

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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. School district leaders have taken note, developing multi-year adoption plans for their schools.

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ED Surge

MAY 4, 2023

Yet how we devised the traditional education system, they can’t be accepted the way they are. Online education opens the door to be inclusive,” Austin says. Yet Krip did so well that she became a chemistry tutor for other students. “I They are courageous to return to school. I remember being terrified,” Krip says. “I

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

Rapidly changing technology, particularly the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education has positioned faculty and leaders with a pivotal decision to make: Stick with the known comfort of traditional methods or experiment with the enticing, yet intimidating, potential of AI.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Likewise, this trend took off in China and grew to be worth many billions of dollars, thanks to companies like VIPKid that eventually hired upward of 100,000 foreign educators—mostly Americans—to tutor millions of kids in China. Here’s my top advice for tutors, parents and anyone looking for a program worthy of investing in.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

And they had examples they could have called to mind, such as the metaverse, a high-tech concept for a virtual world that promised to revolutionize education before calming expectations. Much of the initial reaction around AI focused on its ability to spit out prose on command, which threatened traditional writing instruction.

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ED Surge

APRIL 17, 2024

Referred to as AI-powered reading coaches, assistants or tutors, these tools use generative AI to provide learners with personalized reading practice, stories, feedback and support. While the latter may entertain, the former serve to educate. Recently, a new kind of tool has emerged.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

However, after listening to a TED Talk featuring Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy , demonstrating the use of AI tutors in his school, I realized that my days of teaching traditional math content and language arts skills are numbered. I assumed we’d work around it, or better yet, incorporate it in meaningful ways.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The nonprofit’s curriculum is also part of statewide tutoring programs in Tennessee and Texas. One such proposal is to bring data science into high school math curriculum while deemphasizing more-traditional math pathways. Those lessons are free for students and teachers, Zearn is quick to point out.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

What we are reading All-charter no more: New Orleans opens its first traditional school in nearly two decades My colleague, Ariel Gilreath, reports on the opening of the first traditional school run by the New Orleans school district since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city. There is no right way to be a boy or a girl.”

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