{"id":344381,"date":"2026-07-18T10:22:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T10:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344381\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T10:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T10:22:36","slug":"the-future-of-ai-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344381\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of AI in the Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-7521dc01=\"\">Billionaire-backed Alpha School is expanding its teacherless, AI-driven model to Miami Beach for the 2026-27 school year. For a hefty $65,000 annual tuition, the K-8 program replaces traditional instruction with personalized AI tutoring that condenses core subjects into just two hours a day. While studies show AI tutoring is as effective as human instruction, the rapid growth of these schools highlights a major shift toward automated learning. Stephanie Arthur, Assistant Professor of Instruction at USF&#8217;s College of Education, spoke with FOX 35&#8217;s Garrett Wymer live over Zoom to break down how AI is shaping the classroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0July 16, 2026 1:50pm EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billionaire-backed Alpha School is expanding its teacherless, AI-driven model to Miami Beach for the 2026-27 school year. For&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-344381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}