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

AUGUST 19, 2021

I decided this path wasn’t for me, but I didn’t see other alternatives until a friend recommended joining Minnesota’s Reading Corps and Math Corps, two programs that place tutors in local schools. While tutoring, I felt a spark of joy and purpose I hadn’t felt before. Schools also need teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2021

Thanks to professor Robert Slavin’s research at Johns Hopkins University, we know that one-on-one tutoring using an evidence-based program is a quick, effective way to increase students’ literacy. As part of their coursework, the university students tutored struggling first and second grade readers.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Like hundreds of school districts, Aspire purchased an online tutoring service for the spring of 2021 to help these students. Students could log in to the tutoring service, called Paper , whenever they wanted, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and connect with a tutor to help with schoolwork in any subject.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

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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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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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 13, 2021

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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TeachThought

AUGUST 5, 2024

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. These AI systems will offer instant feedback, identify areas where students struggle, and tailor lessons accordingly.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Log on to the website for the online tutoring company VIPKid , and a pop-up will appear asking visitors to select which part of the world they’re in. Screenshot from VIPKid homepage) Some of the tutoring companies shut down, with immediate effect. and Canada. and Canada. I keep my time slots open—5 to 10:30 a.m.—but

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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

APRIL 17, 2024

Referred to as AI-powered reading coaches, assistants or tutors, these tools use generative AI to provide learners with personalized reading practice, stories, feedback and support. Recently, a new kind of tool has emerged. But there are very real concerns about the impact of these tools on children’s literary and literacy experiences.

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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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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2023

School districts around the country have rolled out tutoring programs at a feverish pace with the help of federal relief funds, intent on helping struggling students get back on track academically after the disruption caused when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools. The organization picked a diverse set of nine districts to study.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 8, 2025

The Spaces feature enables teachers to create customized spaces (think “tutors”) students can use on any topic or standard. This is in addition to the dozens of other AI tools embedded in the platform from co-teachers to exit tickets, School AI really has it all! Snorkl snorkl.app When students speak, they learn more.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Instead, we’ve proposed interventions like high-intensity tutoring and extending the school year. The post OPINION: Post-pandemic, our bored and disconnected teenagers need a whole lot more than high-dosage tutoring appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 29, 2024

He says that new chatbots have the potential to revolutionize learning if they can deliver on the promise of being personal tutors to students. And it’s possible that those other parts of what makes us human may need to be simulated as well for something like tutoring to be most effective, he suggests.

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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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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.

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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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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Media libraries, interactive apps, and virtual language tutors: technology is changing how we approach language learning. You can start with simple sentences, practice with language exchange partners, or use apps with virtual language tutors. What’s the best way to make progress?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2024

He took college classes for credit, received tutoring and advising and learned about other services available on campus and where to find them. “I But this past summer Reyes Velasco spent five weeks on Montclair State University’s campus as part of a program designed to support incoming first-year low-income students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2025

Dual enrollment in college classrooms is helping me save money on college, and it also helped me get an after-school tutoring job at Kumon my mentors in Valencia College s tutoring program inspired me and gave me guidance and confidence to succeed in my interview. My high school also didnt have test prep resources.

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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

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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TeachThought

JUNE 18, 2024

Online Learning Tools For Students: From AI Tutors To Smart Notebooks Technology has transformed how you interact with your educational materials. From AI tutors that provide personalized learning experiences to digital platforms that organize notes efficiently, these innovative tools are transforming traditional learning methods.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Instead, scaffolding that helps support teachers, like before- and after-school tutoring, would let students return to class more easily, he argues. Also, greater instructional assistance could take some of the pressure off teachers. “I

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2014

Other potential outcomes will be an ability to use this 3D virtual learning environment to offer home instruction, keep school open virtually during snow days, flip the classroom, tutoring, and enrichment activities. educational technology Laura Fleming New Milford High School Proton Media Protosphere virtual reality'

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

Then, in 2020, Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research announced that it was going to test the feasibility of paying tutoring companies by how much students’ test scores improved. Tutoring became a leading solution for academic recovery and schools contracted with outside companies to provide tutors.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

What Braham Area Schools in Minnesota needs to address its math gap are more certified math teachers, more math tutors, and smaller class sizes, said district leaders. Gagner said when the district advertises for math teachers he would be happy if we would get four applicants.

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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. This personalized approach is what we see from highly effective teachers who work tirelessly to meet the needs of all their students.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 3, 2019

School districts try to accommodate these special needs by working providing online courses, in-home tutors, special busing, video conferencing and more. Injuries, extended illnesses, immune deficiencies, and other physical challenges prevent a student from physically being able to attend school.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2025

Imagine you’re a kid who’s getting a tutoring program, and suddenly, we’re pulling the plug. That means you’ve lost your tutor. Children are getting services as part of these rigorous evaluations, and they’re getting really high-end implementations of interventions that we believe should be effective.

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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. Using technology in learning also enhances the student’s ability to appreciate and ponder on issues in a previously deemed impossible manner.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2024

Credit: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report Since the November 2022 launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, an expanding cast of AI tutors and helpers have entered the learning landscape. But, there aren’t enough human tutors available nor enough money to pay for them, especially in the wake of pandemic-induced learning loss.

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TeachThought

APRIL 11, 2025

Whether you're working with a maths tutor in Bri Learning Myths That Are Slowing You Down and What Actually Works Lets face it. Everyone wants to learn faster.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

A third group of students had access to a revised version of ChatGPT that functioned more like a tutor. But on a test afterwards, these AI-tutored students did no better. Even a fine-tuned version of ChatGPT designed to mimic a tutor doesn’t necessarily help. Afterwards, they took a test to see how well they learned the concept.

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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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