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A Technologist Spent Years Building an AI Chatbot Tutor. He Decided It Can’t Be Done.

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When Satya Nitta worked at IBM, he and a team of colleagues took on a bold assignment: Use the latest in artificial intelligence to build a new kind of personal digital tutor. Nitta says he was optimistic that Watson could power a generalized tutor, but he knew the task would be extremely difficult. “I

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

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But, while the results of research on what might work to catch kids up is not always clear-cut, many education experts point to tutoring as a tried-and-true method. We compared tutoring to summer school, after school, extended day, technology and other things. Guilford sent its first batch of tutors to middle schools in November 2020.

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

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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 The tech itself raises a host of challenging questions. One possible solution?

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PROOF POINTS: Overscheduling kids’ lives causes depression and anxiety, study finds

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Now a trio of economists say they’ve been able to calculate some of these psychological costs. In the diaries, relatively little time was spent being read to by parents, tutoring and other academic lessons, and on non-academic lessons, such as piano, soccer or driver’s ed. But scheduled students also tend to be wealthier.

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PROOF POINTS: How to get teachers to talk less and students more

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Example of the talk meter shown to Cuemath tutors at the end of the tutoring session. Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial on a Math Tutoring Platform.” Silence may be golden, but when it comes to learning with a tutor, talking is pure gold. Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial on a Math Tutoring Platform.”

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Experts offer black and Latino college students 8 tips for success, from studying together to becoming a tutor

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To see yourself as the helper rather than the help is really psychologically important for kids.”. Whenever the opportunity arises, sign up to be a tutor. Treisman says that being a tutor has an enormous psychological benefit for black and Latino students. It also helps them learn the material more thoroughly.

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PROOF POINTS: Only a quarter of federally funded education innovations benefited students, report says

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The low success rate for new ideas is “psychologically disappointing,” said Barbara Goodson, lead author of the report and an expert in educational research at the consulting firm Abt Global. The tutoring seemed to harm them. The tutoring sessions likely exposed children to these words so many times that the students memorized them.

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