2 - Acquiring Pedagogic Authority While Learning to Teach

Designing and Evaluating Pedagogic Conversational Agents to Teach Children

In this paper, the possibility of children studying by using an interactive learning technology called Pedagogic Conversational Agent is presented. The main benefit is that the agent is able to adapt the dialogue to each student and to provide automatic feedback. Moreover, according to Math teachers, in many cases students are unable to solve the problems even knowing the procedure to solve the...

An Exploration of Pre-Service Teachers' Perceptions of Learning to Teach while Using Asynchronous Discussion Board

Pre-service teachers’ perceptions of their own learning are important to the ways they integrate technology into their practices. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the pre-service teachers’ perspectives of asynchronous discussion board (ADB) as a tool of learning to teach. ADB was integrated into two literacy courses for 33 pre-service teachers over 16 weeks. Data were collect...

Learning Automation to Teach Mathematics

One of the recurrent controversies at our Engineering Faculty concerns the orientation of first year basic courses, particularly the subject area of mathematics, considering its role as an essential tool in technological disciplines. In order to provide the basic courses with technological applications, a mathematical engineering seminar was held at the Engineering Faculty of Barcelona. Session...

Learning to Teach Reinforcement Learning Agents

In this article we study the transfer learning model of action advice under a budget. We focus on reinforcement learning teachers providing action advice to heterogeneous students playing the game of Pac-Man under a limited advice budget. First, we examine several critical factors affecting advice quality in this setting, such as the average performance of the teacher, its variance and the impo...

How to Teach The Suprasegmentals of English To Farsi-speakers Learning English as a Foreign Language