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PROOF POINTS: The life of an online tutor can resemble that of an assembly line worker

The Hechinger Report

Leo Salvatore is one of 3,000 online tutors for the company Paper, whose business has boomed with the pandemic. While he applies to graduate school, the affable 23-year-old holds a part-time job that barely existed before the pandemic: online tutor. A couple of times, Salvatore recalled, he tutored as many as seven students at once.

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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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Architect Dynamic Blended Learning Lessons with Your Adopted Curriculum

Catlin Tucker

Those benefits are attractive, but teachers often struggle to conceptualize the linear lesson plan in a more circular rotation where groups of students start in each station. I encourage teachers to reflect on specific questions when reviewing a lesson plan.

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

ED Surge

As dean of the College of University Libraries and Learning Services at the University of New Mexico, I lead a team of over 120 faculty and staff members. It's not just the fear of teachers being replaced, but also the dread of seeing a profession that's deeply rooted in human connection and interaction, being taken over by machines.

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Can children learn from a “mixed-reality” game?

The Hechinger Report

In a windowless room in the library, first- and second-graders experiment with a strange teaching device that’s half computer and half wooden play table. Sophisticated programs can adjust to each student’s needs and pace, like a personal tutor. Teachers can get real-time feedback on what students are struggling with. Kids love them.

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Has New Hampshire found the secret to online education that works?

The Hechinger Report

It breaks up traditional courses into specific skills and abilities, called “competencies,” that students master through a personalized blend of traditional lesson plans, offline projects and real-world experiences. Finally, tutoring is available through four “skills coaches.”. Related: School choice on steroids.

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A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

The Hechinger Report

This disparity in home computer and internet access, dubbed the “homework gap,” was a slow-burning problem for most districts in the days when schools were in session and students could get online at libraries, after-school programs, coffee shops and other community gathering spots. Public Schools offer on-demand online tutoring sessions.