Actress Hersha Parady portrayed teacher Alice Garvey, who heroically attempted to save children from a burning building on the popular drama

Actress Hersha Parady, who played schoolteacher Alice Garvey on “Little House on the Prairie,” died Wednesday. She was 78.

“Hersha (‘Hershey’) Parady was a long-time member of the Group Rep. She passed away today after a long, valiant battle with meningioma. She was in the loving care of her only son, Jonathan Peverall,” Group Rep Artistic Director, Doug Haverty, told Fox News Digital.

Parady starred in the beloved series “Little House on the Prairie,” created by Michael Landon, for three seasons beginning in 1977. She was featured in 35 episodes.

“Little House on the Prairie” actress Hersha Parady died Wednesday. She was 78. (NBC Universal)

During the sixth season episode of “We Make Them Proud,” her character raced into a burning schoolhouse to save children trapped inside the building but died in the blaze.

Parady was born in 1945 in Berea, Ohio, and made the decision to travel to Los Angeles to pursue her acting career. She went on to act in regional theaters all over the country and was featured in several television series.

She landed the role of Stella, opposite Jon Voight, in a national tour of “A Streetcar Named Desire.”

Actress Hersha Parady portrayed teacher Alice Garvey, who heroically attempted to save children from a burning building on the NBC drama. (Getty Images)

“Hersha’s passion for theater was deep and contagious. She loved every aspect of theater, especially the development of new plays. She just hummed with creative energy,” Haverty added.

“She was dedicated, selfless, driven and a remarkable friend.”

Merlin Olsen as Jonathan Garvey, Patrick Laborteaux as Andrew Garvey, Hersha Parady as Alice Garvey. (Getty Images)

Her other film and television credits include 1984’s “Raw Courage,” 1995’s “The Break” and “Kenan and Kel” as a principal.

Parady was married to producer John Peverall and is survived by her son, Jonathan Peverall.

“We will all miss her terribly,” her dear friend Haverty concluded. “Rest in peace, lovely Hershey. We are all the richer, having known you.” source

could ‘blow up’ US education system:

youngest at most risk: former teacher

Teachers must evolve to keep up with technology, prevent kids from leaning on AI, writing coach says

The emergence of artificial intelligence chatbots that can complete students’ assignments will lead to a crisis in learning, forcing educators to rethink schooling entirely, a former teacher said.

“The introduction of new artificial intelligence technologies into schools that enables students to auto-generate essays has the capacity to blow up our entire writing education curriculum,” Peter Laffin, founder of Crush the College Essay and writing coach, told Fox News. “It may make us have to rethink it from the ground up, and that might ultimately be a good thing.”

Last week, tech company OpenAI unveiled an AI chatbot, ChatGPT, which has stunned users with its advanced functions. The language model can automatically generate school essays for any grade level, answer open-ended analytical questions, draft marketing pitches, write jokes, poems and even computer code.’

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The internet is swirling with predictions about how this sophisticated technology could impact several industries and render countless jobs obsolete. But at the forefront of Laffin’s concern is the impact it will have on education.

“I do believe that students will be able to use this technology undetected to complete assignments,” he told Fox News. “It’s going to be increasingly difficult for teachers to be able to tell the difference.”

Laffin said younger students in particular are at risk of losing the most to chatbots. So, too, will inner-city schools with lower teacher-to-student ratios, where instructors are less familiar with their students’ work, making it harder to detect the use of AI.

“The more easily available this is for younger students, the more problems this will create,” Laffin told Fox News.

College students using ChatGPT to complete busywork assignments will be disrupted less because “you are already at a level of sophistication where you understand the content,” Laffin explained. But if younger students use AI for an assignment like writing a history paper, “you’ve not only cheated on a writing exercise, you’ve also cheated yourself out of learning the history.”

The artificial intelligence-powered ChatGPT garnered global interest and exceeded 1 million users in less than a week. It’s also the first time a high-level AI text generator with a user-friendly interface has been made available to the public for free.

“The fact that this might cause a crisis in education might ultimately be to our benefit,” Laffin said. “Because writing is something that we just don’t teach very well.”

he writing coach recommended teachers evolve their assignments and move away from traditional five-paragraph essays. They should instead create more innovative models of teaching, he said.

“The practices in schools always seem to lag behind a little bit what the latest technology is,” Laffin told Fox News. “You can always be sure that kids are going to be one step ahead of the teachers, so there needs to be a lot of vigilance on this.”

To watch Laffin’s full interview, click here.

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