Education - Issue #166 - Advancing Education with AI

Spanish and STEAM teacher Rachelle Dene Poth shares how she uses invigorating tech lessons to immerse students in language and culture. She emphasizes that any teacher can use technology to improve class engagement and bring a lesson to life; it doesn’t have to be AI or AR/VR. “You don’t have to do all the things, you just have to pick one thing,” she notes. “Pick one thing, try it out and work your way up to having three to five tools in your toolkit.”

More than 70 percent of colleges in the U.S. use placement tests to determine which students are required to take remedial courses. However, a working paper recently published by the National Bureau of Economic Research suggests that an algorithm may be a more effective way of making this determination. The algorithm, which was tested on more than 12,500 students at seven community colleges over a two-year period, placed fewer students in remedial courses while also showing an improved rate of performance among students place in college-level rather than remedial English and math courses.