ED Surge
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Do new AI tools like ChatGPT actually understand language the same way that humans do? So he switched to neuroscience, hoping to “pop the hood” on the human brain to better understand how it works. “It It seemed to me that the brain was just as mysterious as the cosmos,” he tells EdSurge. Oh, OK, where's the nearest gas station?
A Principal's Reflections
JUNE 13, 2021
The term most often refers to school classrooms but may include any designated place of learning such as science laboratories, distance learning contexts, libraries, tutoring centers, teachers’ lounges, gymnasiums and non-formal learning spaces. Humans have the basic need for light, air, and safety. These are hardwired into our brains.
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The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
A student’s view of PS2 Pal, the AI tutor used in a learning experiment inside Harvard’s physics department. But students learned more than twice as much in less time when they used an AI tutor in their dorm compared with attending their usual physics class in person. They learned more and they liked it.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 9, 2024
Credit: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report Since the November 2022 launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, an expanding cast of AI tutors and helpers have entered the learning landscape. Ultimately, these experts envision a partnership in which AI is not called on to be a teacher but to supercharge the power of humans already doing the job.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 25, 2020
One proposal is to give them personal tutors. Normally, the idea of giving every poor child a professional tutor would seem too expensive but extreme circumstances have put big ideas on the table and policymakers are suggesting cheaper, if not exactly cheap, ways to do it. He calls it “high-dosage tutoring.”
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 30, 2018
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.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 1, 2023
One of the few replicated findings in education research is that daily, individualized tutoring during the school day really helps kids catch up academically. The problem is that this kind of frequent tutoring is very expensive and it’s impossible to hire enough tutors for the millions of American public school students who need help.
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