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A Technologist Spent Years Building an AI Chatbot Tutor. He Decided It Can’t Be Done.

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Earlier this month, Sal Khan, leader of the nonprofit Khan Academy, told the New York Times : “We’re at the cusp of using A.I. Khan Academy has been one of the first organizations to use ChatGPT to try to develop such a tutor, which it calls Khanmigo, that is currently in a pilot phase in a series of schools.

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Guest post: 15 EdTech Resources to Use in Classroom

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It’s easy to connect with other educators through Facebook or LinkedIn. Khan Academy. Who doesn’t like robots and cartoons that teach us something? The Internet gives you opportunities to connect your students with classrooms from all around the world. This online resource will help you achieve that goal.

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Unleash Student Creativity Through the Power of Video

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Contemporary storytelling is increasingly video-focused (just look at your Facebook feed), which leads to an obvious conclusion: kids should learn how to make their own films. Educators around the world use video to teach kids about everything from robots to rainforests. If given the right tools, kids can create masterpieces.

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The Ed-Tech Imaginary

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Mrs. Brainmocker, young Elroy Jetson's robot teacher (who, one must presume by her title, was a married robot teacher), appeared in just one episode — the very last one of the show's original run in 1963. An updated version of the AutoTutor was displayed at the World's Fair in 1964, one year after The Jetsons episode aired.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Education Week : “ Facebook Giving Virtual-Reality Kits to Every Arkansas High School.” Google gives money to many, many education organizations, including CoSN , Khan Academy , and the ALA. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via The New York Times : “ The Secret to a Good Robot Teacher.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Education Dive profiles Khan Academy’s Khan Lab School. (It It will be interesting to compare the success or failure of Khan Lab School with the failure of AltSchool. ” Via ProPublica : “ Facebook (Still) Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users by Race.” HopSkipDrive has raised $7.4

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” “The Culture Wars Have Come to Silicon Valley,” The New York Times pronounces , with a look at internal tussles between Facebook board members Peter Thiel and Reed Hastings. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. .” Khan Academy, for example, had $27.9