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Re-Thinking the Learning Environment

A Principal's Reflections

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.

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This math tutoring program gets ‘blockbuster’ results in high-poverty schools

The Hechinger Report

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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An AI tutor helped Harvard students learn more physics in less time

The Hechinger Report

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. Kestin doesn’t deliver traditional lectures.

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6 Technologies That Will Define The Classroom Of The Future

TeachThought

by TeachThought Staff In ‘ Shifts For The Classroom of the Future ,’ Terrell Heick said, “It’s challenging enough to manage a traditional learning environment where the curriculum is handed to you, and meetings are set, and you’re simply there to manage; adding more ingredients to the mix seems like asking for trouble.

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OPINION: Let’s change our approach to traditionally overlooked students

The Hechinger Report

To start with, colleges must consider factors other than the traditional standardized scores when recruiting underserved students from communities with few economic, health and educational resources. For example, at Dominican, we created “exit tickets” that students submit after class, which are used to refine subsequent tutoring sessions.

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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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Innovation is More Than an Idea or Tool

A Principal's Reflections

School districts try to accommodate these special needs by working providing online courses, in-home tutors, special busing, video conferencing and more. VGo gets the student back to the traditional schooling environment by providing a physical device that replicates the student while away from school.

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