Artificial Intelligence meets the classroom

Could robots really help teachers engage students more fully? According to Sean Kelly, a sociologist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education, the answer is yes. Kelly, along with computer scientist Sidney D'Mello, has researched the role of tech in helping teachers ask better, more thought-provoking questions for a number of years. Rather than relying on one-time test scores to judge learning, Kelly's work is a new advancement in the field of building systems for day-to-day classroom observation. His focus is on the quality of instruction, specifically, the type of questions teachers pose that prompt cognitive processing and verbal response from students.