The Learning Engineering Virtual Institute has released a new pilot chatbot designed to help parents and families find the school best suited to their children's needs.
In Newark, New Jersey, middle school teacher Winston Roberts uses AI to help students learn financial literacy. The KIPP Bold Academy educator says AI holds incredible potential as a tool for teachers and students, especially those from less-privileged backgrounds.
The Math Hint Generator Chatbot, developed by The Learning Engineering Virtual Institute, draws material from vetted internet sources and a digital textbook. It is capable of writing sequences of targeted hints for a multitude of common errors.
The Learning Engineering Virtual Institute has developed a pilot chatbot tool that helps young readers through conversational exchanges that answers simple questions. The ChatGPT-powered tool gives evidence-based recommendations to help design learning plans for students.
"Everyone needs an education. Everybody has to have knowledge - and literacy is the foundation for everything," says Taurean Morton, state director for Reading Roadmap in Mississippi. The organization provides reading interventions for students in kindergarten through second grade, helping at-risk students in the Mississippi Delta region become fluent readers.
"No one knows a classroom better than someone who is in a classroom all day," says Sanford Johnson, executive director of Teach Plus in Mississippi. Teach Plus works to empower teachers to influence decisions that are going to improve the quality of education for students in the Mississippi Delta.
