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Cheating on Chegg? Maybe Not on Its Tutoring Platform

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That’s an example of a request that can be found on online tutoring services like Chegg, as shared by a senior data scientist at the company, Sanghamitra Deb. Yet this is the kind of “help” that Chegg’s tutoring service can sometimes be used for. But Chegg doesn’t take action against the person making the request.

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Education Technology’s Machine Learning Problem—and Responsibility

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But how is machine learning playing out in education—and how does it impact not just students, educators and parents, but also the businesses building technology tools to support teaching and learning? Great Data, Great Responsibility (and Costs) So what can education companies do to reduce biases in their tools?

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Look Who’s Talking—Michael Trucano from the Brookings Institution on AI in education

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List of Takeaways: In-Person Interaction is Invaluable: While virtual communication tools like Zoom have become ubiquitous, there’s no substitute for in-person interactions, especially in events like CoSN 2024. One of the when we’re talking about AI as a tool to help us. I’m going to use Chegg PT to do this.

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That’s a Rap! Nearpod Buys Educational Hip Hop Creator, Flocabulary

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Flocabulary has built a loyal following among educators and students with hip hop videos that cover K-12 subjects, life skills, and “weekend raps” that summarize news and current events. The company also offers reading exercises, quizzes, vocabulary games, and tools that let students write and animate their own videos.

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Stale Words and Hackneyed Ideas That Make Edtech Investors Cringe

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If you go to startup pitch events, you’ve seen it happen: An entrepreneur says something—something so naïve, egregious and hackneyed—that it makes the investors, along with educators who are now increasingly in the audience, physically cringe. Chegg (or Amazon for that matter)? Now, the market is pretty much locked up. Yet another LMS.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“Researchers say removal of an IRS tool for financial aid applicants may have slowed FAFSA submissions, while college aid groups warn that affected students could already be losing out on aid,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Via Desmos : “The Desmos Geometry Tool.” “A bipartisan proposal in the U.S.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “My Statement: White House HBCU Event” by Dillard University president Walter Kimbrough. ” Via the press release : “ Cengage , McGraw-Hill Education , and Pearson have joined forces with Ingram and Chegg , Inc. .” More on changing her tune from The Chronicle of Higher Education.