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If AI kills the market value of a degree, how many colleges will survive?
AI is destroying the value of a college degree -- everyone's cheating -- and taking entry-level jobs from new graduates.

Joanne Jacobs
3 days ago2 min read
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Did AI eat your job? Learn to teach
New computer-science graduates could find jobs in teaching, and improve math achievement.

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 22 min read
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Learn to plumb: New grads are competing with AI for coding jobs
College graduates are having trouble finding entry-level jobs in computer science and finance. Some blame AI.

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 62 min read
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AI can help students improve their writing, without doing it for them, says researcher
AI can critique students' writing and get them to improve without doing the thinking for them, says the designer of "Level Up."

Joanne Jacobs
May 162 min read
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If AI is doing all the thinking, what's college for?
If a bot does the work for your college degree, the bot will get the job.

Joanne Jacobs
May 83 min read
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AI will do the thinking, so you never have to think for yourself
Relying on AI could weaken humans' thinking abilities.

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 12 min read
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AI tutoring: The smart get smarter
AI tutoring can help motivated, capable students learn faster, but is worse than a human tutor for most students.

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 1, 20243 min read
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Is everybody cheating?
Cheating is common for college students. Many think A is the only acceptable grade.

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 14, 20242 min read
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AI can make human tutors more effective, but can it help kids directly?
AI tutoring has struggled to work, but a new study shows it can help human tutors be more effective.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 9, 20242 min read
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Learning is hard, and cheating is easier than ever: What can teachers do?
Teachers can't turn every student into an eager learner, but they can make it harder to cheat.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 3, 20242 min read
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'Terrible awful no good very bad' advice for teachers
Chicago teachers are getting very bad advice on how to teach with AI.

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 4, 20242 min read
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AI is winning the war on cheating
A majority of students use AI to help write papers, and AI detection tools remain unreliable.

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 2, 20242 min read
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Training (and restraining) an AI writing coach
A new AI writing coach will work from a student's notes, turning ideas into sentences.

Joanne Jacobs
May 26, 20241 min read
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Sprechen sie ... Don't bother, AI will parlez vous for you
Learning a foreign language may soon be as  obsolete as learning how to churn butter, writes Louise Matsakis in The Atlantic. Total...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 6, 20242 min read
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AI tutors will help motivated students, but . . .
"Motivated learners" will be able to "substitute AI for human tutors and teachers," predict Sean Geraghty and Mike Goldstein, co-leaders...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 24, 20232 min read
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Let AI do it: High schoolers don't need to write essays any more
"Good-bye and good riddance" to teaching students to write essays, writes Daniel Herman in The Atlantic. Herman, who teaches English at a...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 5, 20232 min read
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AI can be a teaching and learning tool -- or a crutch
Bots powered by artificial intelligence are getting smarter and smarter. Will people get dumb and dumber? Rick Hess of the American...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 11, 20233 min read
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Schools pair virtual teacher with in-person 'learning coach'
The geometry teacher is in Maryland. The students are in California. A small San Jose charter school is using virtual teachers and...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 1, 20232 min read
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This time it isn't hype: How AI will change education
Like the web browser and the smartphone, AI will transform society, writes John Bailey on The 74. It's not quite there yet, but it's...

Joanne Jacobs
May 14, 20232 min read
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AI can be an equalizer
Educators can personalize teaching and equalize education opportunities, if they learn how to use artificial intelligence intelligently,...

Joanne Jacobs
May 2, 20232 min read
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