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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. by Dominik Dresel Amazon’s efforts to expand its footprint in K-12 education through digital tools have largely fizzled. Jeff Bezos Wants to Go to the Moon.

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

Digital Promise

Given the rapid advances in AI and the momentum in the education field to understand how these technologies can support teaching and learning, last year the Gates Foundation launched a pilot initiative to provide funding to test new AI ideas that are in support of equitable K-12 mathematics outcomes. Check out last week’s post here.

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FAQ: The Station Rotation Model

Catlin Tucker

The station rotation model is a popular K-12 blended learning model that rotates students through a series of stations or learning activities. In the early stages of designing my station rotation lessons, I was frustrated by the lesson planning process because I found every station built on the station before.

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The pandemic’s remote learning legacy: A lot worth keeping

The Hechinger Report

While the end of the pandemic is likely still months off, the White House has called for most K-8 schools to reopen by May, with in-person instruction at least one day a week, prolonging the possibility of distance learning. Grades K-5 in the district are in person, but middle and high schools are mostly hybrid.

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Reframing ed tech to save teachers time and reduce workloads

The Hechinger Report

For much of the previous decade, advocates of education technology imagined a classroom where computer algorithms would differentiate instruction for each student, delivering just the right lessons at the right time, like a personal tutor. They calculate that weekly grading could be cut in half from six to three hours.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

I really don’t think that they’re growing,” said Brown, who’s also president of the National Tutoring Association. “I Teaching experts say that will mean slowing down to fill in knowledge gaps —detouring from lesson plans, adding extra periods for tutoring, and more. I think this is a lost school year for most kids.”.

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