Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) Unveils Gen AI Suite
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), one of the leaders in adaptive learning solutions, recently announced it will be releasing a suite of generative AI tools, aimed at improving instructional quality and supporting teachers’ workflows this fall, all in the context of HMH’s Ed platform.
Unlike third party AI tools, which often do not take curriculum or assessment into account, HMH’s AI suite has applications like a lesson plan generator, a vocabulary support tool, and text translations, based on the company’s standards-aligned learning and assessment.
The software is embedded within the Ed platform so that teachers are accessing data, instructional materials, real-time student data and automating administrative tasks, without having to go outside the Ed platform – minimizing disruption to the instructional process.
HMH’s recent Educator Confidence Report indicates that teacher-level use of generative AI is five times greater than the previous school year. As promising as this growth is, it raises important questions about how AI is being brought into schools. A number of tools are operating in isolation, and therefore threaten coherence of instruction.
To support responsible implementation of AI, HMH published a “Decision Time: The case for quality and coherence in classroom AI”. This publication lays out a vision for the future that serves to support instructional quality, teacher agency and student privacy as AI is integrated into education.
Jack Lynch, HMH CEO says
“We are at a crossroads in education. Now we have to decide: will AI reinforce effective instruction or reverse it? Will it deepen human connections in the classroom or diminish them?”
He also believes “HMH is making a clear choice to amplify the life-altering experience of great teaching and learning, not automate it. We value the progress made toward high-quality instructional materials over the last several years, and we’re moving intentionally to ensure AI reinforces that progress, rather than undermining it.”
“Teachers don’t need more complexity in their daily lives. They need easy-to-use technology that understands their curriculum, values their time, and puts instructional insights at their fingertips. That’s what HMH has built with our latest suite of AI tools,” says Andrew Goldman, EVP for HMH Labs. “Our laser focus on accelerating learning outcomes for students across the country is at the forefront of how we think about and integrate AI into the K-12 classroom.”
The new AI tools offer real-time insights into data and dashboards that help teachers surface gaps in student learning while also upholding the strictest industry standards for student privacy and security. HMH’s launch of classroom AI tools underscores a commitment to utilizing AI not to replace teachers, but rather to freely empower them in the classroom.
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