TeachThought

AUGUST 5, 2024

See also How To Teach Artificial Intelligence Without Technology 1. Artificial Intelligence Tutors Artificial Intelligence (AI) tutors will provide personalized learning experiences for each student, adapting to their learning styles and need in real-time. However, it may be useful to try to imagine.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 8, 2025

Listen to this post as a podcast: Sponsored by Alpaca and Brisk Teaching Every January for the last ten years, we have chosen a small collection of tech tools we think are worth checking out. The Spaces feature enables teachers to create customized spaces (think “tutors”) students can use on any topic or standard.

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ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

The world’s wealthiest families have known for centuries how effective tutoring is. Private tutors long educated the aristocracy and continue to supplement the education of kids whose families can afford it. Now, a national nonprofit has found a way to get tutoring to kids from poorer families, too. Census Bureau data.

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ED Surge

JUNE 7, 2023

The good news is that this particular malady has a prescription for treatment: “high-dose” tutoring — a concentrated form of small-group study that meets multiple times per week. The trials showed that for low-income ninth and 10th graders, high-dose tutoring led to a “sizeable” improvement (0.18 Watered Down?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2024

Thompson’s voice-activated assistant is the brainchild of computer scientist Satya Nitta, who founded a company called Merlyn Mind after many years at IBM where he had tried, and failed, to create an AI tool that could teach students directly. Despite Watson’s gameshow success, however, it wasn’t much good at teaching students.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2025

With new technologies and opportunities for help outside the classroom, like private tutoring or AI, wealthier students are often better equipped than their peers to enter college. Even if they received extra help, like a private tutor, theyve never had to ask for it. This is worse with younger students, Johnson says.

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ED Surge

APRIL 27, 2023

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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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2021

With the current usual methods of teaching children to read, about two-thirds of young people fail to reach grade-level benchmarks. Summer schools can be enriched to provide students with one-on-one instruction and to give teachers and university education majors the opportunity to learn and develop highly effective teaching methods.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

After the pandemic, the nationwide adoption of online high-dose tutoring was expected to address deepening educational disparities. Some school districts have opted for in-person high-dose tutoring. So, is the low effectiveness of high-dose tutoring simply due to its online nature?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The core of teaching is instruction and helping kids grow and develop, and anything that pulls teachers away from that purpose is going to make them unsatisfied, says Michael Gottfried, a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and a co-author of the study. At least, that’s what a new study argues.

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ED Surge

APRIL 14, 2022

Getting tutoring at Arkansas State University has long been easy. A student could just walk into a campus tutoring center and get help from a tutor, on demand—for free. And sometimes tutors were sitting waiting to help, but no students came in to get the benefit. It has increased our availability for every subject.”

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TeachThought

AUGUST 1, 2024

Real-Time Feedback and Support: AI-powered tutoring systems and homework assistance platforms can provide students instant feedback, step-by-step guidance, and personalized support tailored to their learning needs. Platforms like Gauth are at the forefront, providing this individualized support.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

Topics around how AI fits into education continued to draw listeners this year, including our interview with Sal Khan, founder of the nonprofit Khan Academy, about his groups new AI chatbot tutor. Should Chatbots Tutor? Dissecting That Viral AI Demo With Sal Khan and His Son Should AI chatbots be used as tutors?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Instead, we’ve proposed interventions like high-intensity tutoring and extending the school year. Fixing high school requires that we reimagine the fundamentals of teaching and learning. It requires the kind of teaching that reinvigorates educators and reconnects them with what they loved about education in the first place.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Perhaps counterintuitively, Heid thinks that a new tutoring program they’re piloting in Polk County will help to ease some of that burden. In turning to tutoring services, the county is hardly unique. An estimated 40 percent of schools plan to use their federal relief dollars on tutoring.

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ED Surge

JUNE 24, 2022

Last year, when concern over the pandemic’s effects on education was at its peak, school districts turned to high-dose tutoring, a regular and intensive form of small-group tutoring. There’s a lot of evidence that high-dose tutoring improves reading and math performance, such as this study from Brown University.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2014

Laura’s inspiration for this idea came from Sugata Mitra’s TED talks on how students can teach themselves and building a school in the cloud. Using the Protosphere platform we are exploring the unique pedagogy in a virtual environment and technology as the learning environment.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 10, 2019

She found that the stars emphasized ongoing, intensive one-on-one tutoring of the people who worked for and with them, either in person or virtually, in the course of daily work. Their teaching was informal and organic, flowing out of the tasks at hand.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2023

What is the best way to teach? I’ve noticed that doing a lot of practice problems during school hours is a big part of the algebra tutoring programs that have produced strong results for teens. It’s not as if students are magically teaching themselves math, muddling through on their own, Taylor said. “It’s

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TeachThought

AUGUST 17, 2024

Thus, tech serves as an additional tool for navigation, similar to how tutors and experts at a professional coursework writing service assist with developing writing skills. Additionally, ensure that the tech tools align with your teaching objectives.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

His teacher referred him to Reading Quest , the nonprofit I run, where he could receive free, weekly personalized tutoring. Juan Pablo of Sante Fe, with his tutor Eli Feliciano, made great strides in reading during the spring and summer. Teach phonics with compassion. Credit: Reading Quest. Some have learning disabilities.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 7, 2012

They are now being enrolled in tutoring services or test prep classes which they never needed before. This is a disgrace, as these are the people teaching our children. Yes, there are some children out there that are able to keep up with YOUR standards, the majority cannot.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In-class tutors and data chats at her middle school in Compton, California, have made a dramatic difference, the 11-year-old said. She proudly pulled up a performance tracker at a tutoring session last week, displaying a column of perfect 100 percent scores on all her weekly quizzes from January. A tutor helps students at Benjamin O.

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ED Surge

MARCH 10, 2025

Districts have implemented a wide range of interventions, from hiring tutors to holding contests that reward students for reading as many books as possible. Rather than treating books like commodities to be processed, the conversation shifts to focusing on what an individual student found the most engaging.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2025

We also had a contract to produce a systematic review of evidence on what are the best, evidence-based ways of teaching and providing reading interventions for kids from kindergarten to third grade. Imagine you’re a kid who’s getting a tutoring program, and suddenly, we’re pulling the plug. This is really important.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2021

Now, simple AI-driven tools like these chatbots, plagiarism-detecting software and apps to check spelling and grammar are being joined by new, more powerful – and controversial – applications that answer academic questions, grade assignments, recommend classes and even teach. David Weiss, co-founder, Assessment Systems.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2024

Many writing centers are already jumping in to experiment with new AI tools, making the case both for the continued importance of writing instruction and for their place on campus as a hub for teaching AI literacy. “I Why do we need a required writing course if AI can do everything outside stakeholders want such a course to teach?,”

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

Today, and for the last year or so, aspiring educators at American University are required to spend a minimum of 40 hours tutoring students in Washington, D.C., public schools, in addition to completing the long-standing requirement of student teaching for a semester. “We Later, they may do one-on-one or small group tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Research points to intensive daily tutoring as one of the most effective ways to help academically struggling children catch up. Education researchers have a particular kind of tutoring in mind, what they call “high-dosage” tutoring. The best results occur when tutoring takes place at school during the regular day.

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Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2024

Photo by Mathias Reding on Pexels.com We both began our teaching careers shortly after the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. As always it is helpful to come back to the discipline of history and what it means to teach sensitive histories well. It also constitutes really good history teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2024

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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Millions of students across the United States spent their summers in learning and enrichment programs, many of which employed intensive tutoring designed to bring math and reading scores up to grade level. That experience showed me that high-dosage tutoring can't be the only tool we offer students after the disruptions of COVID-19.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

But their families have managed to give them a jump-start through additional after-school programs, tutors and other resources, he says. Students in upper-track math courses are no smarter or better at math than others. Meanwhile, San Francisco Unified argues that its emphasis on equity remains steadfast.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2024

At least a teacher has the opportunity to vet what AI spits out before giving or teaching it to students. The big question, of course, is whether these ChatGPT’s solutions help students learn math better than traditional teaching. I also worry about teachers using ChatGPT and other generative AI models to write quizzes or lesson plans.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2023

If I’m in need of a tutor, or an editor, or a professor’s help, is that not “receiving assistance from another person”? AI As On-Campus Tutor Perhaps one of the most potent examples I’ve heard is that challenging concepts often stop students in their tracks. Technologists have long dreamed of this vision of a “computer-assisted” tutor.

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