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

ED Surge

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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PROOF POINTS: Many schools are buying on-demand tutoring but a study finds that few students are using it

The Hechinger Report

Like hundreds of school districts, Aspire purchased an online tutoring service for the spring of 2021 to help these students. Students could log in to the tutoring service, called Paper , whenever they wanted, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and connect with a tutor to help with schoolwork in any subject.

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How Three Organizations Are Using GenAI to Advance Equity—and Combating Bias within It

Digital Promise

When product developers at UPchieve, a nonprofit that connects students with free math tutoring powered by human volunteers, began evaluating AI tools to power a system for forecasting student performance, they expected to find serious problems with bias. Check out last week’s post here.

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Researchers combat AI hallucinations in math

The Hechinger Report

I also worry about teachers using ChatGPT and other generative AI models to write quizzes or lesson plans. The Berkeley researchers took advantage of the fact that ChatGPT, like humans, is erratic. Kids could memorize incorrect solutions that are hard to unlearn, or become more confused about a topic. Now we have the opposite.

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I’m a Teacher, Will Artificial Intelligence Help Me?

Digital Promise

The goal of AI is to create machines that can mimic human capabilities. While AI has come a long way since the 1950s when the term was coined and work on Intelligent Tutoring Systems began, it simply cannot replace a teacher in the classroom. What is AI and What Can it Do for Teachers? Example: A Digital Assistant for The Classroom.

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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 Need to Make Schools Human Again.

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Human Meets AI: Helping Educators Navigate Their Emotions About Technological Change

ED Surge

Understanding the Psyche of Technological Resistance in the Education Workforce Resistance to change, especially technological change , is fundamentally anchored in our human psychology. Typically, humans have an inclination toward safety and the predictability of routine, avoiding the uncertainty that comes with new terrain.