AI Tutors: Hype or Hope for Education?

When the calculator was first introduced in schools, the reaction was surprisingly close to the initial concerns I hear about students using AI for tasks like writing today. As education researcher Sarah J. Banks writes, in the early days of their popularity in the mid-1970s, many teachers were eager to incorporate calculators7 into their classroom

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Harvard says AI tutors are better than Harvard professors. The students who used an AI tutor in a Harvard physics class (instead of the professor’s teaching) learned more than 2X as much. The best part? They did it in less time and were more motivated and engaged.