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#KhanAcademy #Khanmigo #KhanmigoForTeachers #Microsoft "... While Higgason has decades of experience in education, she’s the first to admit the idea of using everyday items to teach physics came from an AI-powered teaching assistant called Khanmigo for Teachers, a pilot program introduced last year by Khan Academy, the non-profit online educational organization started in 2008 by Sal Khan with a mission to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Today at Microsoft Build, Microsoft and Khan Academy announced a new partnership that aims to bring these time-saving and lesson-enhancing AI tools to millions of educators. By donating access to Azure AI-optimized infrastructure, Microsoft is enabling Khan Academy to offer all K-12 educators in the U.S. free access to the pilot of Khanmigo for Teachers, which will now be powered by Azure OpenAI Service. The two companies will also collaborate to explore opportunities to improve AI tools for math tutoring in an affordable, scalable and adaptable way with a new version of Phi-3, a family of small language models (SLMs) developed by Microsoft. “I use Khanmigo to spice up my classroom to make it fun and engaging,” said Higgason. For example, in another class of Higgason’s, Khanmigo suggested explaining net ionic equations by asking students if they’ve ever been to a dance party, comparing ions to dancers who change partners.   Besides offering creative lesson plans, Khanmigo provides an array of AI-powered suggestions and teacher tools that relieve teachers of many of the administrative burdens that contribute to teacher burnout. With a click of an onscreen dashboard, in just a few minutes and often less, teachers can generate custom lesson plans, suggest student groupings, or “level” up or down text passages for learners who are either struggling or need more of a challenge. Used together, Khan Academy estimates these tools can save teachers an average of five working hours each week. “Teachers are super overworked,” said Sal Khan, noting record numbers of teachers are leaving the profession. School districts in underserved areas have been especially hard hit, with teachers citing low pay and unmanageable workloads exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic as some of the top reasons they are giving up on teaching. Using AI for education isn’t just a powerful way to potentially help accelerate student learning, said Khan, it’s also a way “to make teaching more sustainable.” While earning rave reviews from teachers like Higgason since it launched in March 2023, Khanmigo previously cost teachers $4 per month. The fees covered the cost of developing and testing the new ... As part of the new partnership, Khan Academy’s teacher tools will now be powered by Azure OpenAI Service. Microsoft’s donation of Azure infrastructure will enable the nonprofit educational organization to scale those teacher tools more widely and offer them to all K-12 teachers in the U.S. at no cost.    ..."

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Happy 2024! This year, you have the opportunity to take a meaningful step toward reconciliation by helping to alleviate financial barriers for at least 350 Indigenous learners, who will pursue technology training opportunities with the Technology Council. Your donation to our Digital Skills Bursary Fund will go toward technology and equipment, tuition costs, and living allowances for our learners. By donating as little as $100, you can help ensure a learner has the necessary technology and equipment to participate in our programming. With each $1,000 donation, you can help a learner acquire a laptop equipped with the required software for their course. An $8,000 donation will fund all costs associated with putting a learner through a course, including tuition, equipment and technology, financial aid, cultural support, and career mentorship. Why you should donate to our programs: 🎓 Our learners have a 35% higher completion rate than non-Indigenous-led programs 📚 We offer 18 courses to choose from 💻 73% of graduates are applying their skills in new ways 👥 1,300 learners trained to-date Help us reach our goal of raising $400,000 by March 31, 2024. Donate today! https://lnkd.in/gqEW7HFY #IndigenousInnovation

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