{"id":157849,"date":"2023-02-12T20:22:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T02:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/microsoft-deploys-ai-in-the-classroom-to-improve-public-speaking-and-math"},"modified":"2023-02-12T20:22:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T02:22:59","slug":"microsoft-deploys-ai-in-the-classroom-to-improve-public-speaking-and-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/microsoft-deploys-ai-in-the-classroom-to-improve-public-speaking-and-math","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft deploys AI in the classroom to improve public speaking and math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-deploys-ai-in-the-classroom-to-improve-public-speaking-and-math2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft announced new AI-powered classroom tools today. The company sees its new \u201cLearning Accelerators\u201d as helping students sharpen their speaking and math skills \u2014 while making teachers\u2019 jobs a little easier \u2014 as children prepare for an even more technologically enhanced world.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Progress is a new AI classroom tool for teachers. Microsoft says it saves them time by \u201cstreamlining the process of creating, reviewing, and analyzing speaking and presentation assignments for students, groups, and classrooms.\u201d It can provide tidy summaries of presentation-based skills while highlighting areas to improve. Additionally, it lets teachers review student recordings, identify their needs and track progress.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a companion for Speaker Coach, an <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/microsoft-teams-hybrid-meetings-features-apple-carplay-intelligent-cameras-164625137.html\" data-ylk=\"cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0\" class=\"\">existing feature<\/a> Microsoft launched in 2021 that provides one-on-one speaking guidance and feedback. For example, it uses AI to give real-time pointers on pacing, pitch and filler words. \u201cSpeaker Coach is one of those tools that kind of was a lightbulb tool for a lot of students that I\u2019ve worked with,\u201d said an unnamed teacher in a Microsoft launch video. \u201cBeing able to practice and get real-time feedback is where Speaker Coach really comes in and helps our students, and it even helps us as adults.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announced new AI-powered classroom tools today. The company sees its new \u201cLearning Accelerators\u201d as helping students sharpen their speaking and math skills \u2014 while making teachers\u2019 jobs a little easier \u2014 as children prepare for an even more technologically enhanced world. Speaker Progress is a new AI classroom tool for teachers. Microsoft says it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1878,2229,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-employment","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}