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Code.org Launches AI Teaching Assistant For Grades 6-10 In Stanford Partnership
Friday April 12, 2024. 12:40 AM , from Slashdot
Stanford's Piech Lab is headed by assistant professor of CS Chris Piech, who also runs the wildly-successful free Code in Place MOOC (30,000+ learners and counting), which teaches fundamentals from Stanford's flagship introduction to Python course. Prior to coming up with the new AI teaching assistant, which automatically assesses Code.org students' JavaScript game code, Piech worked on a Stanford Research team that partnered with Code.org nearly a decade ago to create algorithms to generate hints for K-12 students trying to solve Code.org's Hour of Code block-based programming puzzles (2015 paper [PDF]). And several years ago, Piech's lab again teamed with Code.org on Play-to-Grade, which sought to 'provide scalable automated grading on all types of coding assignments' by analyzing the game play of Code.org students' projects. Play-to-Grade, a 2022 paper (PDF) noted, was 'supported in part by a Stanford Hoffman-Yee Human Centered AI grant' for AI tutors to help prepare students for the 21st century workforce. That project also aimed to develop a 'Super Teaching Assistant' for Piech's Code in Place MOOC. LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, who was present for the presentation of the 'AI Tutors' work he and his wife funded, is a Code.org Diamond Supporter ($1+ million). In other AI grading news, Texas will use computers to grade written answers on this year's STAAR tests. The state will save more than $15 million by using technology similar to ChatGPT to give initial scores, reducing the number of human graders needed. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/11/2133245/codeorg-launches-ai-teaching-assistant-for-grades-6...
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