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Scientists from Tsinghua University utilize text classification models and decision trees to see if in-class dialog can be used to predict a student's academic performance. Credit: Yuanyi Zhen and Jarder Luo, Tsinghua University The recent shift towards e-learning and online classrooms can provide valuable insight into patterns and behaviors that make students successful. Using the help of AI, researchers have determined what…

This past spring, as I closed out my 18th year of teaching, I felt anxiety that I’d never before felt at the end of a school year. By the time grades are submitted and signs of summer arrive, teachers are typically able to breathe for the first time in nine months. Instead of the relaxation, joy, and accomplishment that typically awaits the end of an academic year, I was consumed with worry that this might be the last time in a nearly two-decade career that I taught a class without having to worry about AI.I get it–AI has…

Watch the moment Will Poulter paid a surprise visit to a London school for Thank a Teacher Day.The actor, who recently starred in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, popped into a classroom where his younger sister Charlie is a teaching assistant.“I am so proud of you,” Poulter told his sister, as he gave her a hug.“It’s national Thank a Teacher Day, so I wanted to say thank you to you and all of your colleagues, what you do is so amazing.” Watch the moment Will Poulter paid a surprise visit to a London school for…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Teacher talk seems intuitive—the expert imparts knowledge onto novices, who passively receive expertise like a car or machine receives parts at every station on an assembly line. In reality, an effective teacher in an era of dynamic and higher literacies is less of a factory worker and more of an active negotiator who tries to understand where their students are coming from in order to reach…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Nearly a third of primary schools do not have a single male classroom teacher, a new study from Warwick Business School shows. The number of primary and secondary schools with no male teachers increased last year, while the proportion of male secondary school teachers is at a record low. This…

While teachers use the third-turn repeat strategy to encourage student inclusion, it might silence curiosity. Credit: Mika Ishino Classroom education, in an ideal sense, must engage all students in a constructive discussion with the teacher, making it the latter's responsibility to utilize different inclusive strategies. To bring the attention of distracted students back to the classroom discussion, teachers often have to use…

How Virtual Reality (VR) is Accelerating Classroom Learning? Students may experience an entirely new world by using virtual reality (VR), where they can interact with dinosaurs, practice making a speech at a conference, or even try to purchase a train ticket in Paris. Studies have demonstrated that VR may boost retention and engagement, two crucial criteria for eLearning that traditional methods struggle with. VR has the potential to improve how we learn online as the cost of VR equipment decreases and the caliber of VR…

The Role of artificial intelligence in revolutionizing education in the classroom The usage of AI in the classroom can help teachers become more efficient by relieving them of high-level intellectual responsibilities in the classroom. In the current situation, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has also advised the use of innovative methodologies, including hybrid methods. It is recognized that the AI in education approach has the potential to close the quality gap in the educational system, thus it is given…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain ChatGPT has been a topic of great discussion in academia, particularly about how to prevent its unauthorized use in classes. However, students can benefit from understanding how to use generative artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool to save time and improve performance on writing assignments. …

by Juan F. Samaniego, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Minecraft is officially the most played video game in history. Despite been 12 years old, the public does not seem to have lost interest: over 175 million people play Minecraft at least once a month. The number of players of this open-world or sandbox building game, which provides virtually…