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Do Chatbot Tutors Work Better When They're Upbeat — and Female?

ED Surge

Since the sudden arrival of ChatGPT just a few months ago, there’s renewed interest in using AI chatbots as tutors. So as we get to that point, we should understand, ‘What should the characteristics be of those tutors?’ ‘How Regarding gender, there is a long history of robots being programmed with female-sounding voices.

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Can Interactive Whiteboards Revitalize Online High-Dose Tutoring?

ED Surge

After the pandemic, the nationwide adoption of online high-dose tutoring was expected to address deepening educational disparities. Some school districts have opted for in-person high-dose tutoring. So, is the low effectiveness of high-dose tutoring simply due to its online nature?

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Responding to a summer of riots: Principles for teaching about sensitive issues in the history classroom

Becoming a History Teacher

But how should we approach this in the history classroom? As history teachers we often problematise controversial issues to ‘see both sides of an issue’. As always it is helpful to come back to the discipline of history and what it means to teach sensitive histories well. Grosvenor (2000, p.157),

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AI vs. humans: Who comes out ahead?

The Hechinger Report

From the first exploratory interviews I did on this topic, I was surprised to learn how deep the history of AI trying to teach went. champions, but couldn’t hack it as a tutor. The post AI vs. humans: Who comes out ahead? Q: Why did you want to explore this question of how, and in what ways, AI can replace teachers?

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One Day, AI Will Make Teaching Obsolete. As Educators, We Have a Different Role to Play.

ED Surge

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. We need human connection to develop, and schools are integral to growing those abilities in every child.

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PROOF POINTS: Schools staff up as student enrollment drops

The Hechinger Report

Schools hired additional counselors, interventionists (a fancy name for tutors), and aides, and increased their reserves of substitute teachers. By the spring of 2023, school districts had amassed more staff than at any time in history, the Edunomics Lab calculated. Other administrators are needed to manage federal grants.

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Education Needs a Reset. We Can Start by Listening to Our Teachers.

ED Surge

Here in my home state of Florida , we are arguing about how to teach history and whether we can acknowledge the gender identities of students. The human capital needed to mitigate the risk to our own children and grandchildren is in our reach.

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