Online TA Turns Out To Be A Computer… Welcome, Our AI Overlords
Wall Street Journal
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5/6/16
"Last year, a team of Georgia Tech researchers began creating Ms. Watson by poring through nearly 40,000 postings on a discussion forum known as “Piazza” and training her to answer related questions based on prior responses. By late March, she began posting responses live.”
What Teachers Need For Excellent PD: Not Compliance, But Agency
Medium
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4/26/16
"Teacher agency emerged as a factor that needs to be elevated in the discourse about professional learning. This report emphasizes the importance of teacher agency and pinpoints strategies that education leaders and policymakers can use to leverage agency in designing more effective professional learning.”
Bringing Only One Diverse Candidate Won’t Help You Diversify
Harvard Business Review
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4/26/16
"Managers need to know that working to get one woman or minority considered for a position might be futile, because the odds are likely slim if they are the lone woman or nonwhite candidate. But if managers can change the status quo of the finalist pool by including two women, then the women have a fighting chance… When there were two minorities or women in the pool of finalists, the status quo changed, resulting in a woman or minority becoming the favored candidate.”
APA Provides 20 Research-Backed Principles Of Learning
American Psychological Association
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9/1/15
"The first eight principles relate to cognition and learning and address the question: How do students think and learn? The next four (9–12) discuss the question What motivates students? The following three (13–15) pertain to the social context and emotional dimensions that affect learning and focus on the question: Why are social context, interpersonal relationships, and emotional well-being important to student learning? The next two principles (16–17) relate to how context can affect learning and address the question: How can the classroom best be managed? Finally, the last three principles (18–20) examine the question: How can teachers assess student progress?”