Joanne Jacobs
Many students need tutoring, but few are getting it
Intensive tutoring is the best way to help students who suffered learning setbacks during the pandemic, but school districts are...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 28
- 1 min
'They're here for the Wharton brand, a 4.0 GPA and to party'
Cheating has become the norm for college students, writes Suzy Weiss on Free Press. "Remote learning" during Covid lowered standards and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 26
- 2 min
Catching ChatGPT cheaters is tough: Is it bursty?
Open AI's program to catch chatbot cheaters is very unreliable, write Armin Alimardani and Emma A. Jane on The Conversation. The company...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 18
- 1 min
When the best paper in the class was written by a bot
Professors are changing the way they assess students to make it harder for students to use artificial intelligence to generate essays,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 10
- 2 min
Teaching with AI: Can the bot be a useful tool?
ChatGPT can be a powerful teaching tool, argues Ben Talsma, who helps teachers use technology, on Chalkbeat. A learning specialist for...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 10
- 1 min
NYC schools ban ChatGPT
Is it real or is it artificial intelligence? ChatGPT, the new AI chatbot that"generates stunningly cogent and lifelike writing" has been ...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 23, 2022
- 1 min
AI is learning to censor social media, and your taxes are paying for it
President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan includes half a million dollars for research in technology to detect and remove...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 12, 2022
- 1 min
The kids can't write
Students are encouraged to express themselves, writes Elizabeth Grace Matthew, who's taught writing at several universities, on The Hill....
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 11, 2022
- 2 min
ChatGPT writes better than most students: What next?
Is writing over? The ability to write clearly and cogently has been seen as "a gatekeeper, a metric for intelligence, a teachable skill,"...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 30, 2022
- 1 min
Does Gates have 'right answer' for math ed?
The Gates Foundation is going to put more than a billion dollars into math education. Do we know how to teach math? asks Jay Caspian Kang...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 18, 2022
- 2 min
Kids stream more, read less
The rise in screen time -- not just school closures -- is a factor in the decline in achievement, suggests Tim Daly, who runs the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 24, 2022
- 2 min
Without phones, school is calmer and students are listening, talking
Banning cell phones transformed a Philadelphia high school, reports Kristen A. Graham in the Inquirer. Students were ignoring teachers --...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 17, 2022
- 2 min
Can online privacy laws make the net safe for kids?
A new California law will try to protect children online by requiring safeguards for users under 18, reports Natasha Singer in the New...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 23, 2022
- 2 min
AI doesn't write well, but it's better than some students
Shakespeare it's not. However, a new artificial-intelligence technology called GPT-3, which understands and generates text, could help...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 23, 2022
- 2 min
Is technology the future of early literacy?
Speech-recognition technology could analyze young children's reading, rate their pronunciation of each sound and word, track their...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 5, 2022
- 2 min
Screen time all the time
"Screen time here to stay," writes Cari Spencer on The 74. Teachers are trying to use the technology to engage students, even as they...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 3, 2022
- 2 min
Can teachers make 'differentiation' work -- and not go crazy?
In my newspaper days, I talked to principals at elementary schools with above-average reading and math scores and a significant...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 12, 2022
- 2 min
The metaverse is here — but what is it?
Photo: Julia M. Cameron/Pexels Educators will be teaching in the metaverse very soon, ready or not, write Brookings researchers in a...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 2, 2022
- 2 min
If you can’t hire a physics teacher, is virtual OK?
A chemistry teacher live-streams into a conventional classroom. Photo: Elevate K-12 Virtual learning didn’t work well during the...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 12, 2022
- 3 min
‘Computer science for all’ goes beyond coding
I took computer science in high school to meet boys. And I did. Nerdy boys. It was the era of paper-tape readers and punch cards. I...
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