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• What is GPTZero? The ChatGPT Detection Tool Explained | Tech & Learning

  GPTZero is a tool designed to detect writing generated by ChatGPT (opens in new tab), the AI writing tool that debuted in November and sent shockwaves through the education system due to its ability to instantly generate human-seeming text in respon…

• Join the revolution: The 4th Industrial Revolution is changing learning

  The 4th Industrial Revolution is the current phase of rapid technological change. It is also known as Industry 4.0, and the advent of robotics, artificial intelligence, and automation has marked it. Klaus Schwab coined the term in 2013 in his book “…

• How the Substitute Teacher Shortage Is Impacting Teacher Professional Development | EdSurge News

  It’s 7:00 am, and I’m on my second trek from my car to our centralized district meeting space, lugging snacks, supplies and chart paper as I prepare to lead a workshop on best practices for technology integration for a group of 15 elementary teacher…

• The Art of Self-Pacing: How to Build Playlists that Keep Students on Track – Dr. Catlin Tucker

  The playlist, or individual rotation model, is a highly effective blended learning model that empowers students to take ownership of their learning by giving them control over the pace and path of their learning.

• Shifting from Reading in Isolation to Reading for Connection – Dr. Catlin Tucker

  Reading is a critical skill for acquiring information in any class. Students read articles, manuals, textbooks, and novels; however, an alarming number of students do not enjoy reading or lack the reading stamina to engage with texts for any length …

• This Week’s Free & Useful Artificial Intelligence Tools For The Classroom | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  At least, for now, I’m going to make this a weekly feature which will highlight additions to THE BEST NEW – & FREE – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS THAT COULD BE USED IN THE CLASSROOM. DeepL Write is designed to give feedback on how to improve your w…

• Creative but critical: How educators can learn to live with AI – Leon Furze

  December 2022 represented a step-change in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. With the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, suddenly the whole world (or at least the millions of users who logged in within a week of its launch) were talking about Lar…

• CURMUDGUCATION: Vouchers Are Not About School Choice. Here’s How We Know.

  The new wave of voucher bills being rammed through red state legislatures all demonstrate a truth about school voucher policies– vouchers are not about choice. They’re about peeling people away from the public school system in order to defund and d…

• Feb. 1st Is World Read Aloud Day – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  February 1st is World Read Aloud Day this year. You might be interested in The Best Resources For World Read Aloud Day.

• Four Great AI Tools to Boost Your Teaching | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  1. CF Spark Art CF Spark Art is a text-to-image tool that allows you to create beautiful and unique artwork. CF Spark offers a versatile AI image generator that enables you to easily convert your text prompts into stunning art designs with only a fe…

• Is blockchain the key to college success?

• FETC 2023: Educators Go the Extra Mile to Bring Esports to K–12 Students | EdTech Magazine

  Scott Barba, a STEM teacher and esports coach at East Valley High School in Washington, started his session with information on streaming esports matches. However, in the more casual setting of Wednesday’s roundtable, the conversation soon turned to…

• Edutopia Video: “How Drawing Can Lead to Deeper Understanding” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  Check out this new and useful Edutopia video. While you’re at it, you might be interested in No Surprise To ELL Teachers: Study Finds Drawing Words Helps In Learning Them.

• ChatGPT Will Make Different Lexile Level Versions Of The Same Text | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  The Best Places To Get The “Same” Text Written For Different “Levels” is one of my most all-time most popular posts. It’s understandable, since the ability to differentiate texts makes things so much better for everyone in the classroom.

• Why Behavior Has Gotten Worse And What To Do About It – Smart Classroom Management

  According to a National Center for Education Statistics survey, 56 percent of school leaders believe the pandemic has led to an increase of student misbehavior. And they’re not even in the classroom. Ask teachers the same question and that percentag…

• Resources For Talking With Students – & Teaching – About Police Violence | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  The killing of Tyre Nichols by five Memphis police officers, and the video release today, is sure to prompt trauma, interest and concern among many of our students.

• CAS Authentication wanted!

  An exciting four-day, online STEM bootcamp for high school students during Winter Break, February 21-24, 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. AI-tools are being leveraged by every industry to upscale business functions from media to marketing to management.

• Truth For Teachers – Vulnerability in the classroom

  Let’s do a thumbs-up thumbs-down check: thumbs up if you’ve heard about or experienced how challenging this past year was for teachers, thumbs down if you haven’t. Your thumb is upright? Yeah, same. This past year was difficult, and to be honest, I …

• How Building Bonds in the Classroom Can Motivate Better Teaching | EdSurge News

  It’s accepted wisdom that good relationships between teachers and their students lead to students who are willing to work harder in the classroom. Could those positive feelings also have an impact in the other direction, leading teachers to up their…

• Tired of the Same Old Professional Development? Let Students Lead. | EdSurge News

  I love learning. As a classroom teacher, I always tried to improve my practice by reading academic and practice-based articles, attending trainings and connecting with fellow educators to share resources and troubleshoot challenges.

• ExperienceCraft: A Minecraft Server for Grieving Kids | Tech & Learning

  ExperienceCraft is a Minecraft server that is not all that different from other Minecraft multiplayer servers. Kids who join the server are able to build, chat, play, and share with one another across a wide variety of in-game activities.

• Lessons about Teaching from Learning Six Languages

  I still remember the first purchase I made all in Khmer. My dog loves the marinated chargrilled pork served over broken rice, and I wanted to buy several portions of just the pork to make a week’s worth of dog food.

• Feds Back Potential Launch of Cutting-Edge Education Research Program – Market Brief

  Legislation signed by President Joe Biden in the final days of 2022 has increased federal funding for education research and development, and potentially makes way for the education equivalent of DARPA, the Department of Defense’s longstanding advan…

• SEL is an educator essential

  Social-emotional learning (SEL) is an approach to learning that focuses on the social and emotional skills necessary for students to succeed in school and life. SEL is not new, but it has recently gained momentum as more educators recognize the impo…

• How to use Minecraft Education in your classroom

  It’s easier than you think to begin using Minecraft Education in your classroom. During an FETC 2023 session, technology specialist Kristen Brooks from the Cherokee County School District offered an overview of how she engages her students with Mine…

• Emerging Standards for Using LLMs Like ChatGPT in Research Publications – improving learning

• FETC 2023: Expert Strategies on Combatting Burnout and Improving Teacher Retention | EdTech Magazine

  It’s important to remember that “self-care is in the BAG,” said Laura Boone, a collaborative manager at CDW Amplified for Education.

• How to Use Excel to Teach Math Arrays

  Background: None. This is an intro to MS Excel or spreadsheets Vocabulary: Excel, cell, rows, columns, paint bucket, borders, arrays, resize, formulas

• Large-Scale Geologic Maps of Mars – The Map Room

  The USGS’s Astrogeology Science Center highlights three geologic maps of Mars released in late 2021. The maps are large-scale, focusing on specific Martian features (e.g. Olympus Mons, above).

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Find the Source for Images in Google Slides

  A couple of weeks ago I published a video about using the explore function in Google Slides to find images to use in presentations. Since then I’ve had a few people ask for clarification about how to use the image source when using the other image s…

• The Soviet Space Program’s Remarkable Electromechanical Navigation Device – The Map Room

  You must see this. Ken Shirriff got his hands on an example of a navigational device from a Soyuz spacecraft and opened it up to see how it worked.

• FETC23 Teachflix Edpuzzle – Google Slides

• ChatGPT Samsung FETC 2023 – Google Slides

• FETC23 Teachflix Edpuzzle – Google Slides

• 2023 FETC CHAT GPT – Google Slides

• ERIC – EJ1219938 – Video Games Can Increase Creativity, but with Caveats, Creativity Research Journal, 2019

• Minecraft Depiction of van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ Is a Work of Art

• Unlocking the Potential of K-12 Students with ChatGPT: How AI Could Transform Education – SULS0184 | Shake Up Learning

  I’m sharing insight and ideas on how this technology could potentially transform education as we know it. I’m also sharing quick ideas on using the platform in the classroom today.

• 10 Best Science Games for Kids | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  1. ABCya Science Games ABCya provides access to a large collection of educational kid-friendly games. The science section features some amazing science games to play with your kids at home or in class. The games are free to use. They are also web-ba…

• English Learners Need a Better Access Point to Math

  If you haven’t had a chance to join one of the webinars from our English Learners series, or if you’d like to view them again, the on-demand recordings are now available!

• How computer science education bridges the digital divide

  Amid the havoc that the pandemic wreaked on our lives, there were important lessons to be learned. It proved that people skilled with technology could navigate and succeed, and that many of the potential problems of the future could be solved by tec…

• 4 Reasons Why Book Creator Enhances Project-Based Learning – EdTechTeacher

  Project-based learning is all about student inquiry, collaboration, creation, reflection, and sharing with an authentic audience. Book Creator is designed to enhance all of this, and more! Here are four reasons why Book Creator is so well-suited to …

• ChatGPT Has Colleges in Emergency Mode to Shield Academic Integrity | EdSurge News

  Colleges around the country have been holding emergency meetings of their honor code councils or other committees that govern student cheating. The reason: a whole new kind of cheating that is suddenly possible, thanks to a new AI tool called ChatGP…

• The Next Gen of Retaining Teacher Talent – Education Elements

  Raise your hand if you are still trying to fill teacher vacancies, even though it’s the end of the first semester.

• Free Technology for Teachers: AI Writing Check

  AI Writing Check is a free tool created by the collaborative efforts of the non-profits Quill.org and CommonLit. AI Writing Check is a tool that was created to help teachers try to recognize writing created through the use of artificial intelligence.

• Quill & CommonLit Unveil Free Online Checker To See If An Essay Has Been Written By Artificial Intelligence | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  As regular readers know, I’m a big fan of, and write a lot about, both Quill and Common Lit. The two organizations have joined to unveil the new and free AI Writing Check, which is designed to detect text that has been written by Artificial Intellig…

• More Useful Free Sites Using Artificial Intelligence | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  Yesterday, I published THE BEST NEW – & FREE – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS THAT COULD BE USED IN THE CLASSROOM. However, today, I realized that I’ve posted about a few other AI tools in the past that I hadn’t included on that list.

• Teaching AI Ethics – Leon Furze

  As we head into the start of Term 1 it’s already looking like Artificial Intelligence is going to be one of the most talked about issues in the classroom. Much of the narrative around models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT has centred on students using it to …

• Why High School SEL Programs Feel ‘Lame’—and How to Fix Them

  High school-age students have a sixth sense for when things feel dopey, dumb, sus, cheesy, corny, basic, cringe, or “cheugy.” (That last term is au courant according to The New York Times, which may mean it’s already out of date.)

• Google plans to demo AI chatbot search as it panics about ChatGPT – The Verge

  The recent launch of OpenAI’s AI chatbot ChatGPT has raised alarms within Google, according to reports from The New York Times.

• networkforpubliceducation.org – Merchants-of-Deception pdf file

• Using Game Design & Gamestormers to Teach Any Subject – GamestormEDU

  When I present ideas about how to design games to various organizations and educators, a common question pops up: but how does game design fit MY subject area or age level? Incredibly, game design and playful learning integrate seamlessly into teach…

• Assessment Resources and Templates

  1. This is a more recent, more comprehensive mastery progress update I use. 2. This is a simplified version of a progress report with reflective space.

• The Best New – & Free – Artificial Intelligence Tools That Could Be Used In The Classroom | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  As just about everybody knows, new Artificial Intelligence tools are everywhere these days, and it’s hard to keep up with it all.

• Creating Choice Boards with Book Creator | Shake Up Learning

  More specifically, I am experimenting with ways Book Creator can be used to create and implement choice boards in the classroom. Book Creator is very intuitive and is loaded with student engagement tools.

• Why can’t my students do word problems?

  At my school, we’re focused on improving ACT math scores. Anyone with a passing knowledge of ACT knows there is a lot of reading on the test, even in the math section.

• PROOF POINTS: One expert on what students do wrong

  Daniel Willingham is a University of Virginia psychologist who frequently engages in pop culture battles armed with academic research. He has made it a personal crusade to persuade teachers that the idea of learning styles is a myth.

• How to use alternative assessments in the classroom

  Did you know that a 5th grade teacher is expected to guide students to mastery of 200 standards each year? Given a typical school year of 180 days, that’s 1.1 standards a day! Of course, standards don’t exactly work like that.

• Best Black History Month Teaching Resources | Tech & Learning

  In 1926, Black historian Carter G. Woodson created the forerunner to Black History Month, Negro History Week. Since that time, the recognition of Black history as integral to American history has grown tremendously.

• Is now a good time for a reset?

  At this time of year, I hear a common refrain from school leaders I know: 1) This work is challenging, 2) We have a plan for student success, and yet 3) There is a lot more we need in order to deliver on our promise of a high-quality, equitable educ…

• AI, Instructional Design, and OER – improving learning

• the-practical-guide-to-using-ai

  My classes now require AI (and if I didn’t require AI use, it wouldn’t matter, everyone is using AI anyway). But how can students use AI well? Here is a basic tutorial and guide I am providing my classes.

• Are Relationships the Key to Solving America’s School Absenteeism Crisis? | EdSurge News

  The number of students who’ve gone missing from the classroom has only climbed since the pandemic. These days, 16 million students may be “chronically absent,” according to Hedy Chang, executive director of the nonprofit Attendance Works.

• NCCE Partners with CYBER.ORG – NCCE’s Tech Savvy Teacher Blog

  By Leveraging CYBER.ORG’s Train the Trainer Model, NCCE will empower K-12 educators to teach the nation’s students about cybersecurity, improve career access. Today, NCCE announced a partnership with CYBER.

• Kami Micro Tips Series: My Best Tips & Secret Hacks to Make the Most of @KamiApp #edtech #techtip #microtip | techieMusings

  I recently had the opportunity to collaborate with the team at Kami, creating a series of micro tips. These tips were initially posted on Kami’s TikTok and Instagram channels. To make it easy for you to watch them all in one place, I’ve compiled the…

• CompMC Fall League | Season Finals | Wolf Pack vs. Catastrophic Cats – YouTube

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• 4 Ways ChatGPT Can Benefit Students Right Now

• Did a Fourth Grader Write This? Or the New Chatbot? – The New York Times

• ChatGPT for Educators – Google Slides

• Text Structure: Video Games – Google Slides

• Peter Greene: Why State Takeovers Fail | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  Writing in Forbes, Peter Greene explains why state takeovers fail. Greene retired as a teacher after 39 years in the classroom. They fail and fail, but state legislatures won’t stop imposing them on struggling school districts that need help.

• Here Are Some of The Best Safe Kid Games | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  The Smart Kit is a platform that provides school-safe games and puzzles that kids & adults just love to play! Importantly, the content in The Smart Kit is appropriate for school use and family fun. That means you will never find violence, harsh lang…

• Text Blaze | Supercharge Your Classroom

  Eliminate repetitive typing anywhere for free. Communicate and provide high-quality feedback at a fraction of the time and free up your precious time and energy.

• The Nerdy Teacher: Beyond an Hour of Code #Coding #Education

  There is feeling by teachers that teaching coding is not a valuable use of time in the classroom. As standardized tests ramp up in schools across the country, many teachers find it hard to fit coding into their curriculum beyond one houri n December.

• Chad GPT on Research-y Volcanology – CogDogBlog

• Practical Strategies for ChatGPT in education – Leon Furze

  ChatGPT isn’t the first AI language model, but it’s definitely the one that has taken AI mainstream. Beyond the media hype about cheating, there are some very practical uses for these new technologies for teachers.

• Another Take on that Silly Chat Bot (or Death to the High School Essay) — Nate Bowling: American Teacher Abroad

  I hold heterodox views on teaching writing. In brief, the way we teach writing in K-12 largely prepares students for further academia and not actual life. For example, I don’t use MLA (or APA) citations in my everyday life; you likely don’t either. …

• Observe Photosynthesis with this Easy Experiment

  Photosynthesis is a complicated topic that requires students to develop mental models of the phenomenon. Teachers may struggle to find hands-on activities that can be completed in a short class period. There are several ways this can be accomplished.

• A Principal’s Reflections: Imparting Value When It Comes to Change

  I remember vividly as a young principal when I started to drink the “edtech” Kool-Aid many years ago. It represented a true turning point in how I thought about change in education. Up until this point, my thinking was relatively traditional and as …

• Free Technology for Teachers: What Are Carbohydrates and How Do They Impact Your Health?

  One of my goals for early part of 2023 is to set a new personal best time at a bike race that I’m entered in for the third year in a row. To do that I’m watching my diet much more carefully than I typically do at this time of year.

• Free Technology for Teachers: eSkeletons – Digital Comparisons of Mammal Skeletons

  eSkeletons is a great website produced by the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. eSkeletons features interactive models of mammal skeletons. Select a model from the menu on the home page then click on any bone in the mo…

• Overconfidence and AI | Seth’s Blog

  Human beings are often more effective when we’re a bit self-effacing. “I think,” “Perhaps,” or “I might be missing something, but…” are fine ways to give our assertions a chance to be considered. The solar-powered LED calculator we used in school di…

• How I’m Using AI Art Generation To Teach English To Newcomers | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  I’ve previously shared THE BEST RESOURCES FOR TEACHING & LEARNING WITH AI ART GENERATION TOOLS, which included some preliminary ideas on how to us AI art creation sites in the classroom.

• How Does Text Blaze Help Teachers Reclaim Their Time? | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  How do I use Text Blaze? Text Blaze is one of the best text expansion tools because of its ease of use. Here’s how to use Text Blaze: Install the extension: You can install the extension on the Chrome Webstore.

• Text Blaze: Snippets and Templates for Chrome

  Based on actual user results. Assumes a 200 characters per minute typing speed and a $30 value per hour saved. Top users are users who are in the top 10% of Text Blaze usage. Use whatever feels natural for your shortcuts. You could try /ty for a tha…

• SpeechTechie- Technology, Apps and Lessons for SLPs and Teachers who like Words: More on using music in therapy

  Music is motivating, self-regulating and full of language. Recently I have used songs with individuals and groups in a couple of specific ways. For an individual client I see, I have been working to incorporate many of his interests as part of a neu…

• Some Excellent Social Bookmarking Tools for Teachers | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  Social bookmarking is a new concept that has seen the light with the emergence of bookmarking services like the ones I cited below.

• Utah: House Passes Voucher Bill, Despite Voters Decisive Rejection in 2007 | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  Utah’s House passed a voucher bill, even though the state voted against them by 62-38% in 2007. Republicans in Utah are determined to bypass a referendum, as they are in other states, because voters have never passed one. Voters don’t want to defund…

• Confessions of a Coaster Operator, Part 2: Jammin’ Bumpers and Gold Rusher | David Mullich

  In a recent blog post I revealed that I had been working part time as a ride operator at nearby Six Flags Magic Mountain theme park.

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Sharing Diigo Links and Resources (weekly)

Check out these great posts from last week:

• Inspired by Visits to India, Two Brothers Started Trashbots to Make Robotics More Accessible | Tech & Learning

  To some, crumpled plastic water bottles, milk cartons, or popsicle sticks might seem like garbage, but to brothers and entrepreneurs Rohit and Sidharth Srinivasan, these common everyday items represent an opportunity for equitable STEM education.

• Four Ways to Support Learning Coaches More Effectively | EdNews Daily

  As we approach the three-year mark since schools in North America closed their doors to slow the spread of COVID-19, a lot of attention is being given (and rightfully so) to supporting the mental health not only of students, but also of teachers and…

• Quieter classrooms: How classroom design promotes effective learning

  Working in the education design space collectively for 26 years, we understand students and teachers need environments to support learning. Classrooms should be designed for listening and engagement; study spaces should be calm and quiet.

• Making Sense of AI & ChatGPT in Education – EdTechTeacher

  Artificial Intelligence in education is a fast-growing field that is attracting much educator interest and commercial investment.

• Teachers on TikTok: What K–12 IT Departments Need to Know | EdTech Magazine

  Connections like these are exactly why Keller is a huge fan and user of TikTok and other social media platforms, which help educators find ideas — and each other.

• to Be Smart

  By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark Back in 2011, researchers at University College London offered dramatic, direct evidence that intelligence can change after early childhood.  The study was characterized as providing “new hope for boosting the brain’s a…

• Why Are Schools Underreporting Cyberattacks? | EdTech Magazine

  While Freedom of Information Act requests can be used to discern information on cyberattacks against K–12 institutions, as noted by the K12 SIX report, schools generally are not obligated to report these incidents.

• Know Computer Hardware

  Learning computers starts in kindergarten with understanding hardware. This lesson plan (#103 in the lesson plan book noted below) includes three pages. Introduce less with K, more each year until by sixth grade, students are good hardware problem s…

• Free Technology for Teachers: Short Lessons on Stocks and Bonds

  A few nights ago I had a long zone 2 ride on my indoor bike trainer. Whenever I have one of those workouts scheduled, I queue up a favorite movie to watch. Last night I watched The Big Short starring Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, and B…

• CEO of ChatGPT maker responds to schools’ plagiarism concerns: ‘We adapted to calculators and changed what we tested in math class’

  Sam Altman — the CEO of OpenAI, which is behind the buzzy AI chat bot ChatGPT — said that the company will develop ways to help schools discover AI plagiarism, but he warned that full detection isn’t guaranteed.

• AI Tools Like ChatGPT May Reshape Teaching Materials — And Possibly Substitute Teach | EdSurge News

  This summer, a coding class offered by a private school in Austin, Texas, was led by an unusual teacher. The PreK-8 school, Paragon Prep, offered a series of optional, self-paced, video lessons that were automatically generated from a textbook.

• Racism is a subtle, silent enemy of STEM classrooms

  When you think of racism in our classrooms and schools, what immediately comes to your mind? Signs that say “Whites Only” or Confederate flags hoisted on flag poles?

• Conferring in the Math Classroom: A Practical Guidebook

  By Gina Picha (Stenhouse Publishers, 2022 – Learn more) Reviewed by Kathleen Palmieri In Conferring in the Math Classroom Gina Picha has written a book that will help teachers in the intermediate grades consider the benefits of conferencing with mat…

• What Improves Learning Over Teaching Methods from the 1990’s? – Teacher Tech

  I had an AI (Artificial Intelligence) company email me yesterday asking me to look at their tool. What it does is uses AI to help teachers generate worksheets. To be honest, I was horrified.

• 15 Online Coloring Apps

  Good websites and apps, some for kids, some for adults. Beware: Many have in-app purchases and advertising Any favorites I’ve left off?

• AMP up your Goals and Smash those New Year’s Resolutions! – Gamified UK – #Gamification Expert

  2023 is underway now and most of us have probably already given up on our goals for the New Year! You are not alone though, a study in 2021 found that two-thirds of us give up our New Year’s Resolutions within a month!

• Know Your Why!: Educational Conferences to Reboot Teaching and Learning in 2023

  Last week I rebooted my post, “Educational Conferences – Know Before You Go”. Today I wanted to narrow the focus to some of the most interesting conferences I’ve started to explore for 2023.

• How To Handle A Student Who Begs For A Second Chance – Smart Classroom Management

  A student comes to you and begs for a second chance. They swear that from now on things will be different. They just need you to fix this one little grade, ignore their latest wee misbehavior, let them redo the test, essay, or project.

• Topography AR

  Feeling lucky today. I had someone from the “outside” world step inside my room today, because they saw our topography table. This was build with grant funds and a caring community along with my students in our bus garage a few years ago. #

• Esports Practicum PDF File

• Before Using Augmented and Virtual Reality Tools, Teachers Should Develop a Plan | EdSurge News

  As an early adopter and enthusiast for immersive technology in schools, I’ve had the opportunity to share ways to use augmented and virtual reality to transform learning with educators around the world.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Physical Phonics Games

  I have been a fan of the online learning game called Teach Your Monster to Read for many years. The game is designed to help students improve the speed and accuracy with which they recognize letters and sounds. The game gets its name from the friend…

• Free Technology for Teachers: A Virtual Owl Pellet Dissection Activity

  An old SciShow Kids video (embedded below) explains what an owl pellet is and what can be learned by dissecting an owl pellet.

• Podcasting in Education: Teacher’s Guide | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  Since I published this post over 8 years ago (2012), podcasting has come a log way. It has become mainstream with more and more teachers and educators incorporating it into their teaching practice.

• 15 Best Educational Podcasts for Kids | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  Short & Curly is a kids podcast hosted by Carl Smith, Molly Daniels, and Dr. Matt Beard. The podcast is “a fast-paced fun-filled ethics podcast for kids and their parents, with questions and ideas to really get you thinking.

• 7 Tips on How to Choose a Plagiarism Checker | PlagiarismCheck.org | Plagiarism Blog – PlagiarismCheck.org

  23.3% of students, surveyed in 2020, say they cheat on exams. The research itself is regularly updated and, for now, it highlights that 58% of students from 24 high schools across the U.S. admitted to plagiarism.

• Does 4 equal 5? Research on impacts of 4-day school weeks

  Four-day weeks are becoming more common in school districts, particularly in rural areas of the U.S. Many districts are finding students and families like the shorter school weeks.

• JavaScript for Kids: A Beginner’s Guide to Programming – EDTECH 4 BEGINNERS

  JavaScript is considered the language of the web. Virtually every website you visit uses it in some capacity to improve the user experience. Coders use it to create interactive websites, games, and apps.

• The Nerdy Teacher: An Argument for Project-Based Learning #PBL #EdChat #Education

  There are people that are still very wary of project-based learning. I understand that there are questions about why it is better than other pedagogical approaches.

• What Happened to the 1.3 Million Children Who Didn’t Return to School? | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  Writing in The Progressive, Carol Burris raised an important question: Where are the 1.3 million children who didn’t return to school after schools reopened? Burris is the executive director of the Network for Public Education.

• 8 Ideas for a Fun Classroom Activity – Class Tech Tips

  Explore eight ideas for a fun classroom activity that is both educational and engaging. These strategies are excellent for any subject area. Reading and writing skills are present throughout the school day. Here are six ways to integrate literacy in…

• Free Technology for Teachers: A New Felt Mapping Tool

  A few days ago I shared a neat map of gray whale migration patterns. That map was created on the Felt mapping platform. Felt was one of my favorite new tools of 2022 and is only getting better at the start of 2023.

• Felt – The best way to make maps on the internet

  37° 48′ 15.7068” N, 122° 16′ 15.9996” W MODERN MAP MAKING HAS ARRIVED 37° 48′ 15.7068” N, 122° 16′ 15.9996” W MODERN MAP MAKING HAS ARRIVED 37° 48′ 15.7068” N, 122° 16′ 15.9996” W MODERN MAP MAKING HAS ARRIVED 37° 48′ 15.7068” N, 122° 16′ 15.

• Gameplan – Inspire and engage students through esports and gaming

• OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour: Exclusive | Time

  ChatGPT was hailed as one 2022’s most impressive technological innovations upon its release last November.

• Flipped Classroom Model: Why, How, and Overview – YouTube

• Pear Deck Tips & Tricks – YouTube

• YAHAHA and the Amazing Maze, Part 3 | David Mullich

  In my previous post about using the low-code game development platform YAHAHA Studio to create a navigational puzzle, I discussed how to use the Rotate and Revolve components to create walls that opened and closed like a door with a hinge.

• Microsoft’s new AI can simulate anyone’s voice with 3 seconds of audio | Ars Technica

  On Thursday, Microsoft researchers announced a new text-to-speech AI model called VALL-E that can closely simulate a person’s voice when given a three-second audio sample.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Tools for Teaching Adventure – A New OPEN Phys Ed Resource

  OPEN Phys ED is one of my favorite websites because they offer great lesson plans and other resources for getting kids active in more than just the traditional gym class activities of years gone by.

• How to Best Teach Immigrant and Refugee Students, and Why It Matters | EdSurge News

  In Jessica Lander’s classroom at Lowell High School, every student is a recent immigrant or refugee. They come from about 30 different countries, including the Republic of Congo and Cambodia. And she’s been exploring innovative teaching strategies t…

• 4 Tips for Outsmarting Your Brain From a Cognitive Psychologist | Tech & Learning

  In the introduction to his new book Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make it Easy, Daniel T. Willingham repeats an old joke about a guy who gets his PhD. “His mother explains to her friends, ‘He’s a doctor but not the type w…

• 4+ Things You Didn’t Know Canva Could Do! – SULS0183 | Shake Up Learning

  In this episode, I chat with Scott Nunes, a teacher and District Engagement Advocate for Canva. Scott shares insider tips, tools, and new features in Canva. Canva has gone from this super cool image creation tool to a blended learning platform for t…

• 25 Best Educational Podcasts in 2023 | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  8. Waking Up with Sam Harris Waking Up is a podcast featuring talks about philosophy, psychology and spirituality by Sam Harris, author of Spirituality without Religion.

• 10 Tech Skills Every Student Should Have | Tech & Learning

  As technology is now a part of everyday life, it has become necessary for students to learn basic technology skills and digital literacy.

• How to Support English Learners in Math

  As cultural and language diversity in classrooms continue to grow, it’s more important than ever for educators to ask themselves: What is it like to learn math in a different language?

• Understanding and Involving Students with Behavior Problems

  We all know THAT student…. When school staff see this type of student there is often a feeling of disrespect and an automatic response of wanting to make sure the student’s behavior is corrected, and a punishment occurs (e.g.

• UCLA Life Sciences Revamped How It Teaches Math. Is It an Example Others Should Follow? | EdSurge News

  About 10 years ago, Alan Garfinkel, a professor in the life sciences department at the University of California, Los Angeles, got a call. It was from his dean, who said that the department had inspected their freshman calculus course, “Calculus for …

• Mote Micro Tips Compilation: Mote for Google Docs, Forms, and Slides @justmoteHQ #edtech #quicktips #techtips #googleEDU | techieMusings

  How many times have you wished you could communicate with audio while leaving feedback on student work, either for efficiency or to better convey tone? If you haven’t used Mote before, it’s the perfect tool for you.

• New AI-powered agricultural robot covers 50 acres of crops per day

  French startup Meropy has developed an agricultural robot that autonomously inspects crops from both above and below, saving farmers time and money.

• Bearly.ai | The world’s best Ai at your fingertips.

  Read, write, and learn faster with the world best Ai accessible with a hotkey directly on your desktop. Available for Mac, Windows & Linux.

• 3 Ways Educators Can Support Multilingual Learners With UDL

  One of the million reasons I love Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is that it helps teachers provide the tools to help all learners learn – whether a learner has the highest GPA in the school or if a learner is new to the dominant language spoken…

• “Exhausted majority” wants to rethink K-12 education

  Americans don’t think K-12 should be all about college.

• Just a moment…

• CRITICAL AI: Adapting College Writing for the Age of Large Language Models such as ChatGPT: Some Next Steps for Educators – Critical AI

  By Anna Mills and Lauren M. E. Goodlad (licensed CC BY NC 4.0)  Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT are sophisticated statistical models that predict probable word sequences in response to a prompt even though they do not “understand” langu…

• Use These Five Strategies to Support Math Thinking for All

  How can we build strategies into our instructional routines that support all students – including those with learning disabilities – to think mathematically? We know instructional routines in general are a support for students with learning disabili…

• OPINION: Let’s help our middle schoolers learn from their digital worlds

  How can digital technology help middle schoolers thrive? This is not the question we are usually asked about screen time for youth, but it should be.

• Is a Metaverse for Education the Next Logical Innovation in Teaching and Learning? | EdSurge News

  Picture a classroom full of students chatting about last night’s homework, volleyball practice or their favorite YouTuber’s latest release. Now, imagine this in a virtual school environment with everyone online. Do the dynamics change?

• 8 predictions about literacy learning in 2023

  In the coming year and beyond, educators and students will continue to deal with fallout from the pandemic, but as they look for effective ways to help students become proficient readers, instructional practices based in the science of reading will …

• 10  Powerful Benefits of Digital Storytelling – EdTechTeacher

  In recent years 70% said that anxiety and depression are a major problem among their peers.(1) Post pandemic statistics now show that figure closer to 80%. This has placed the social emotional health of students in the spotlight, and forced schools …

• How To Teach Tech-Savvy Students Using Metaverse Avatars – ViewSonic Library

  The metaverse can create a sense of belonging by facilitating meaningful social interactions. boosting accessibility, and much more.

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• The Planets are Very Very Very Far Away: A Book Review – GeekDad

  One of the best things about reviewing for GeekDad is the lovely book post I receive. It’s an absolute privilege to read and review books ahead and around publication date, and I love doing it.

• Can We Please Not Jump to Banning Stuff! |

  I think I am sounding like the old guy telling you I have seen this all before. Last week, I wrote about Chat GPT, which is getting a lot of interest in education.

• The Nerve of New Hampshire GOP Claiming Their “Divisive Concepts” Law Comes from MLK! | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  Arnie Alpert is an activist in New Hampshire. In this post, he calls out the state GOP for attributing its racist “divisive concepts” law to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Its real author is Donald Trump, or more likely, Trump’s sidekick Stephen Miller.…

• Education in the Age of Globalization » Blog Archive » Introduction to Improbable Probabilities: The Unlikely Journey of Yong Zhao

  Williamson McDiarmid is the Dean and Alumni Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Distinguished Chair of Education at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.

• NY Times Column Suggesting That Diversity Trainings “Do More Harm Than Good” Does The Same | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  What if Diversity Trainings Are Doing More Harm Than Good? is the headline of a column in today’s NY Times. It makes some decent points about how diversity trainings, which also occur in K-12 education, can be counter-productive.

• I built an AI Section C generator and the world did not end – Leon Furze

• Esports seen as pathway to boost diversity in STEM careers | AP News

• Book Creator – GEDU Ciphers

  Read this free ebook by Karl Ögland. Find thousands of free educational ebooks for classroom use at read.bookcreator.com

• EsportsEDU | Karl Ögland

  This EsportsEDU book has been written by Karl Ögland, with two co-writers: Mirka Otsonkoski (Tukia) and Björn Nylund. The handbook was a result of two projects funded by the board of education in Finland (“Health and well-being through eSport” and “…

• ChatGPT in Education: Back to Basics – Leon Furze

  Chances are slim by now that you haven’t heard of ChatGPT. Every major news outlet from the Guardian to the Herald Sun has run articles on OpenAI’s latest offering, and it has featured heavily on social media newsfeeds across Twitter, LinkedIn, and …

• Book Creator – SOG Ciphers v 1.0

  Read this free ebook by Karl Ögland. Find thousands of free educational ebooks for classroom use at read.bookcreator.com

• Free Technology for Teachers: 27 Google Drive Tips and Tricks

  I’m in the process of organizing my YouTube channel to be more than just two big playlists of Practical Ed Tech Tips and Google Tutorials. To that end, this morning I went through my channel and put my current and relevant Google Drive tutorials int…

• Best Infographic Creation Tools for Teachers | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  This is a great tool that allows users to create visually rich infographics from pre-designed themes. It is very easy to use and only drag and drop. It actually supports Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.

• Responding to Objections to Change in School Communities

  Every school leader has faced resistance to their plans. Occasionally even the most routine activity or slight alteration in schedule or program will engender resistance. While resistance is often easily overcome, it sometimes takes on more overt fo…

• 10 Great Typing Games for Kids | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  Over the last few weeks I received a couple of emails asking for web games to help kids learn touch typing. I went through my archive and did some extra researching and came up with the list below. Touch typing is typing without using the sense of s…

• Stop the Lies About Dr. Martin Luther King’s Legacy | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  Donna Ladd, editor and CEO of the Mississippi Free Press, writes here about the sustained rightwing effort to co-opt Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy of militant resistance to racism and his dedication to telling the truth about our tarnished history…

• “StudyBop” Is A New Quizizz/Kahoot-Type Learning Game Platform | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  Today, StudyBop joins the fairly crowded field of Quizizz/Kahoot/GimKit/Quizalize-type games where students can learn and compete against each other.

• StudyBop

• SearchReSearch: Modifying a Reverse Image Search Query: Google Lens and Reverse Image Search

  I took a photo, but can’t remember where it’s from… Happens to me all the time. Naturally, I’ll use Reverse Image Search (also known as “Search by Image”) to find out what it is. But as you might know, Google’s Reverse Image Search has been update…

• A Principal’s Reflections: #EDvice: Closing Learning Gaps with Rotational Models

  Education is still reeling from the impacts of COVID-19. The rapid shift to virtual learning was a necessity and, like always, educators rose to the occasion like they always do even though training in this area didn’t really exist at scale.

• Martin Luther King’s final speech: ‘I’ve been to the mountaintop’ — The full text – ABC News

  MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 3, 1968—, 2013 — Thank you very kindly, my friends. As I listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself, I wondered who he was talking about.

• Professional development to support principals’ vision of science instruction: Building from their prior experiences to support the science practices – Free Article

• GPTZero – Efficient detection of AI generated text

• GPT-2 Output Detector

  This is an online demo of the GPT-2 output detector model, based on the

• BeanBeanBean: the charity quiz game!

  Whether you’re looking for a personal volunteer opportunity or a massive corporate community service event, BeanBeanBean has you covered. Our convenient online quizzes mean you can play anywhere, anytime.

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• HistoryMaps | Learn History Visually with Maps and Timelines

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• Anti-Cheating Service Turnitin Says It Can Detect Use of ChatGPT

  Since its launch in late November, ChatGPT seemed like a golden ticket for students looking to get out of take-home assignments.

• A Few More Particularly Insightful Resources About Using ChatGPT In Education | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  So much is being written these days about ChatGPT and education and I’m going to very selective about what I add to THE BEST POSTS ON EDUCATION & CHATGPT (look for what I think will be a very good post in my Ed Week column later this week). We Gave …

• ChatGPT – Info & Uses For Schools – Wakelet

  Learn more about ChatGPT and its implications for schools.

• Great Picture Books to Teach Character Change (Contrast & Contradictions in Notice and Note) – Pernille Ripp

  Posted from my Patreon community where I take requests for book lists to create, share resources, and offer up coaching for members. It is a very easy way for me to be accessible to people around the world, you can join here.

• Here is How to Search for PPT Presentations | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

• Google Sites Easily Build Websites for Your Classes | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  Use your class website as a connecting platform with parents, school community, and the world at large, some sort of backchannel to facilitate communication with the outer world. Showcase students hard work and achievements.

• SpeechTechie- Technology, Apps and Lessons for SLPs and Teachers who like Words: Revisiting Breathwork with Breathwrk

  I can’t say enough about the app Breathwrk and what it has done for me, and taught me personally. I’ve mentioned I struggle here and there with SAD and some other layers.

• 9 Tips Every Teacher should Know about Google Scholar | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  Today, we will be walking you step by step through those important features that Google Scholar provides to its users. .

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• A college student made an app to detect AI-written text : NPR

  Teachers worried about students turning in essays written by a popular artificial intelligence chatbot now have a new tool of their own.

• The 9 Qualities of A Good Teacher | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  I am not sure if you have already read it or not but this is one of the most popular posts by Edutopia in 2014.”11 Habits of An Effective Teacher” is written by Carrie Lam (an academic director in Canada) in which she talked about some important tra…

• Education RE-solution | Tech & Learning

  Typically the month of January is dedicated to resolutions for the new year. Many people focus on personal goals, while organizations usually establish budgets aligned with missions and visions. In education, January represents the beginning of the …

• Matters of Principal: Resolving Conflict (Part 1) | EdNews Daily

  Jamie Bricker and Jack Barclay are retired school principals who live just outside of Toronto, Ontario. They co-host the  podcast.

• 3 ways teachers can drive student growth

  When I ask educators if they have heard of the term “growth mindset,” many will raise their hands or nod they have. However, when I ask educators to define what it means to have a growth mindset, I often get blank stares or they struggle with puttin…

• Podcast: Cybersecurity in K12

  In this episode of the Learning Leadership Society Podcast, your host, Learning Counsel News Media and Research CEO LeiLani Cauthen, talks with Mary Schlegelmilch, Education Advocate at Cisco.

• Google Slides Tutorial Videos Playlist – YouTube

• TED-Ed Animated Videos Are Now In Five Languages | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  Over the years on this blog, I’ve shared a fair number of both English and Spanish-language TED-Ed animated videos.

• The Phony “Culture Wars” Are Hurting Students, Teachers, and Schools | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  Far-right extremists concocted a cascading series of so-called culture wars that have no basis in fact or reality. Their purpose is to undermine public trust in teachers and public schools, paving the way for divisive “school choice,” which defunds …

• AFT Poll: Voters Want Investment in Public Schools, Don’t Care About Culture War Issues | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  The AFT commissioned a highly reputable polling form to find out how voters think about the big education issues. The poll was conducted after the election last November.

• Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Lesson for teachers about how to use ChatGPT with students.

  I asked ChatGPT to write a lesson plan on how teachers can use ChatGPT with students. Here it is. Begin by explaining what ChatGPT is and how it works. ChatGPT is a large language model developed by OpenAI that can generate human-like text based on …

• Why We Should Reconsider Using Word Problems (And What We Should Be Doing Instead)

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• Why You Must Make The Complex Simple – Smart Classroom Management

  Again and again, I observe teachers taking basic concepts and twisting them into medieval labyrinths that leave even the sharpest students scratching their heads. Noticing this, as well as the shoddy work produced, the teacher assumes it’s because t…

• Supporting Students with Better Assessments – edWeb

  We know assessment is a tool that helps teachers to inform personalized learning, differentiate instruction, accelerate learning, and ultimately support healthy learning mindsets. But all this happens only when assessments are valid and reliable. Or…

• Textured Teaching: A Framework for Culturally Sustaining

  Textured Teaching: A Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices By Lorena Escoto Germán (Heinemann, 2021 – Learn more) Reviewed by Katie Durkin Thinking back to my undergraduate education, I often reflect that there wasn’t a class specifically fo…

• Expanding Literacy: Bringing Digital Storytelling to Class

  Expanding Literacy: Bringing Digital Storytelling into Your Classroom  By Brett Pierce (Heinemann, 2022 – Learn more) Reviewed by Anne Anderson As I began Expanding Literacy, I found myself asking what is digital storytelling? By page six, I had an …

• Know Your Why!: Educational Conferences – Know Before You Go

  I believe the most powerful tool in any teacher’s toolbox is collaboration. This collaboration can take many paths, but an essential one is making connections with other educators. I am writing this post to encourage educators to find the time to at…

• Toxicity in Gaming Is Rampant. This Nonprofit Is Fighting Back | WIRED

  “It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this,” says the famous quote from the iconic game The Legend of Zelda. In life, it is dangerous to go it alone—and having a supportive community is critical, particularly for people experiencing mental health challe…

• Centre for Teaching and Learning » “Let’s Talk About AI in Teaching & Learning” – with Dr. Alec Couros

  On January 13, 2023, the CTL offered a session on the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in teaching & learning. The slides and key resources are available below. A recording of the session will be added to this post once it’s available.

• Understanding the Difference Between Preventative Mental Health and Trauma-Informed Practices – Gaming Concepts

  Trauma-informed practices can provide meaningful support to those recovering from trauma, while preventative mental health practices can help reduce the risk of developing mental health conditions in the first place.

• Control Alt Achieve: Google Slides Photo Words – Advanced Webinar

  I recently shared my blog post and tutorial video about creating “Photo Words” with Google Slides. This is a fun activity for students to take any word and put an image inside of the word.

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Use Voice Typing in Google Slides

  Google recently improved the voice typing function in Google Docs and Google Slides. The tools work in the same way as before, but the voice recognition and accuracy is better than it has been in the past. If you’ve never tried voice typing in Googl…

• Academic experts offer advice on ChatGPT

  Ever since the chat bot ChatGPT burst into public view in late 2022, students, professors and administrators have been woozy from a chaotic cocktail of excitement, uncertainty and fear. The bot writes poems, sonnets and essays.

• What factors help active learning classrooms succeed?

  The idea that the space in which you do something, affects the thing you do is the basic premise behind active learning classrooms (ALCs).

• iCivics Lesson Plan | Tech & Learning

  Filled with content related to politics, history, economics, and government, the engaging and interactive iCivics online platform provides exciting civics experiences for students and their teachers.

• What Does it Mean to Be Innovative? | Tech & Learning

  Innovation is such a nebulous word. When I changed my title to “Director of Innovation” my wife’s first comment was, “What exactly do you do?” My response was, “well….I innovate!”

• Lunar New Year 2023- Key Facts | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  Lunar New Year is around the corner and by the end of the month Chinese and several other Asian countries together with their communities from all around the world will be celebrating the Lunar New Year.

• How Executive Function Skills Bridge the SEL/Academics Gap

  Author, educator and consultant Marilee Sprenger’s next book for ASCD will explore the connections between social-emotional learning and executive function. “SEL has students ready to learn, while EF is necessary for learning to take place.”

• 25 Ways for Teachers to Get Excited About Using Data – Teacher Tech

  Some teachers may be reluctant to use data in their teaching for a variety of reasons. They may feel overwhelmed by the amount of data available or unsure of how to interpret and use it effectively. They may also be worried about being judged or eva…

• The Nerdy Teacher: 4 Simple Ways to Support Neurodivergent Students in the Classroom #EdChat #SpEd

  There are many teachers out there that want to support the neurodivergent students in their classroom, but are unsure of where to start.

• Josh Cowen: The False Promise That Vouchers Improve Public Schools by Competing with Them | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  Josh Cowen of Michigan State University is among the most experienced voucher researchers in the nation. He is a member of the inner circle of voucher researchers and has been for nearly two decades. He began the work believing that vouchers were pr…

• ai-tools-for-teaching-metaverse

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• the-metaverse-is-dead

  The metaverse as we knew it in 2022 is most certainly dead. The name “metaverse” has begun its fast-paced downward trend and might in the near future be replaced with some new category-defining wording.

• How to Spot Fake Screenshots on Social Media | Be MediaWise | PBS LearningMedia

• Free Technology for Teachers: An Important Tip for Using Image Search in Google Slides

  The Explore function in Google Slides can be a good tool to use to find images to use in your presentations. The images found through the Explore function in Google Slides are supposed to be Creative Commons licensed images.

• Explainers | MIT Climate Portal

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• With ChatGPT, Teachers Can Plan Lessons, Write Emails, and More. What’s the Catch?

  The education community has been abuzz with the rise of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence tool that can write anything with just a simple prompt.

• How AI Coach Helps Teachers While Providing Autonomy and Privacy (THE Journal) – Edthena

  Artificial intelligence is becoming more common in edtech. This edition of THE Journal’s 7 Questions shared insights about AI Coach by Edthena, a professional learning platform for teachers driven by artificial intelligence.

• 10 Things for Teachers to Try in 2023 – SULS0182 | Shake Up Learning

  If you are planning for a positive and productive 2023, you must first start with your mind. If you are like me, you may have lots of tasks, ideas, and clutter distracting you.

• How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement | EdSurge News

  SAN MARCOS, Texas — Live lecture classes are back at most colleges after COVID-19 disruptions, but student engagement often hasn’t returned to normal.

• Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Acquires Assessment Provider NWEA, in Education Mega-Deal – Market Brief

  Education giant Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will acquire well-known K-12 assessment provider NWEA, in a pairing of two of the biggest and most influential companies in the nation’s schools.

• How to Help Gifted Children Prepare for a Career – EDTECH 4 BEGINNERS

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• Envisioning the personalized edtech of tomorrow

  Before the pandemic, the trend for more personalized, learner-centric experiences in education already existed—the resulting lockdowns merely accelerated digital transformation, which continues to gain momentum across industries.

• Before You Ask Me… Ask ChatGPT – Teacher Tech

  I love using ChatGPT! It is so helpful to not only brainstorm ideas but also to help me understand difficult contexts. Perhaps you’ve heard the phrase “Ask 3 before me.” Years ago I heard a presentation where a teacher said “And one of the 3 is Goog…

• 11 Ways to Add #Inquiry to Your Class

  You became a teacher not to pontificate to trusting minds, but to teach children how to succeed as adults. That idealism infused every class in your credential program and only took a slight bump during your student teacher days.

• 6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2023 | Cult of Pedagogy

  If you’ve been reading this blog or listening to my podcast for awhile, you know that every year, I put out a new edition of my Teacher’s Guide to Tech. This year’s guide is the ninth edition, and we put a tremendous amount of work into making it th…

• re-mediating assessment: ChatGPT vs. Formative Self-Assessments and Summative Multiple-Choice Exams

  This is the third post in a row considering ChatGPT’s implications for academic integrity, particularly in online education. The first post analyzed the media predictions.

• The Ready Player One Test – Dagan.Blog

  The Metaverse Is Here? Really? Interest in the metaverse spiked and waned during 2022. A Google trends chart shows a decrease in interest starting in the spring of 2022 after a peak at the start of the year.

• A Teacher’s Prompt Guide to ChatGPT aligned with ‘What Works Best’ PDF File

• The Best Online Tools Using Artificial Intelligence For Creating Stories For Children | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  As I’ve previously shared, we some new grandchildren.  Our earlier grandkids were born prior to the widespread presence of online tools that could be used to easily create books, so my stories were “old-school” – oral and/or hand-drawn.

• Free Technology for Teachers: I’m Feeling Lucky – Around the World With Google Earth

  Google Earth is one of my all-time favorite tools for teaching geography and history lessons. Two of my favorite ways to use Google Earth in the classroom are outlined below.

• How to Use Comic Strips in a Science Classroom – Class Tech Tips

  Comic strips are a fun and engaging way to introduce complex concepts to students. Not only can they provide a visual representation of an idea, but they also allow for a creative outlet for students to express their understanding of the material.

• The guy who wrote Minecraft’s ending says Microsoft doesn’t own the copyright | Rock Paper Shotgun

  I knew Minecraft had an ending, but I didn’t know that ending consists of an unskippable 9 minute long poem.

• 6 Good Cartoon Avatar Maker Apps | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  The purpose of this post is to share with you this collection of cartoon avatar makers that you can use to create beautiful and expressive cartoon avatars that look exactly like you. For us in education, avatars are great alternatives to students us…

• You Might Be Surprised About This PBIS Information

  A MiddleWeb Blog PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports) rolled onto my scene in the early 2000’s, about when our fabulous art teacher at the time came up with a PBIS program called “Beads for Good Deeds.

• Sight Word Literacy Activities And Assessments For Elementary Students –

  As teachers, we may have moments where we stand in front of our bright-eyed students, and we wonder what we can do to best meet their needs. How can we help students who are reading below grade level? How can we help struggling mathematicians?  At t…

• Charting a path forward in K-12

  After several years of disrupted learning, schools are taking stock of the range of challenges that need to be addressed—challenges resulting from the most significant disruption to K-12 education in history.

• When Does Posting Photos of Students Become a Data Privacy Problem? | EdSurge News

  Public schools are online just as much as their students, it seems, with profiles across social media.

• 5 ways video improves school-home communication

  Increasingly, district leaders are incorporating video into school-home communication.

• PROOF POINTS: New research review questions the evidence for special education inclusion

  For the past 25 years, U.S. policy has urged schools to keep students with disabilities in the same classrooms with their general education peers unless severe disabilities prevent it. It seems a humane policy not to wall off those with disabilities…

• In a World of AI, Our Students Need Project-Based Learning – John Spencer

  The Artificial Intelligence revolution is here. That might sound like hyperbole. After all, the world looks the same. The revolution didn’t arrive with Skynet and robots or with Blade Running cyborgs. It’s been subtle. Auto-correct here. Grammarly s…

• Ideas for using ChatGPT in Education – Google Jamboard

• A New Level of AI Essay – Leon Furze

  I’ve written a number of posts this year about Artificial Intelligence and education. Next week, I’ll start my PhD exploring AI and writing, and it’s fair to say I’ve been down the rabbit hole.

• The end of the high school essay | Seth’s Blog

  Good riddance. There’s not a lot of evidence that getting good at writing book reports or regurgitated essays under typical high school conditions leads people to success or happiness later in life.

• Skeptoid Media

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• Shifting From Whole Group Teacher-led to Small Group Student-led Discussions – Dr. Catlin Tucker

  Engaging in academic discourse allows students to test their ideas, ask questions, make connections, and learn from their peers. Not only is discussion critical to developing a deep understanding of complex concepts, issues, processes, and phenomena…

• What Might ChatGPT Be Able to Do for You and Your Students?

  By Kasey Short ChatGPT from OpenAI is a powerful new artificial intelligence software that has recently gained attention from educators. There’s interest in how this new technology could be used to positively impact instruction and also some concern…

• 20 Most Important Keyboard Shortcuts for Google Sheets – Teacher Tech

  Using keyboard shortcuts can help teachers save time and be more efficient when using Google Sheets. Keyboard shortcuts allow you to perform tasks more quickly than using a mouse or trackpad. This can be especially helpful if you need to do a lot of…

• Could AI Replace School Superintendents? |

  I will need you to read through to the end today . . .

• Control Alt Achieve: Creating Photo Words with Google Slides – How to Place an Image inside of Text

  ▶️ Tutorial Video (16 min) Or watch on YouTube at: youtube.com/watch?v=yDj7Mo7vGUY

• Games Editor – Create Games with Construct 3

  Don’t be fooled by how Construct makes it look easy. Under the hood is an incredibly powerful and versatile engine with outstanding performance. It’s perfectly capable of running vast and intensive games smoothly and efficiently.

• Ramblings: Everyone’s talking about AI, chatbots and ChatGPT – Madison’s Library

  Everyone’s Talking about AI, chatbots and ChatGPT. What does it mean for school libraries? It’s everywhere on my socials and in my inbox at the moment – Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPD.

• Teachers! Know all about Chat GPT – Tech in Teach

  What can educators do with OpenAI’s Chat GPT? The concept of a “chat GPT” (short for “Generative Pretrained Transformer“) refers to a type of Artificial Intelligence system known as “large language model” that is trained using a technique called uns…

• How to get started with Chat GPT – Tech in Teach

  Using chat GPT (short for “generative pretrained transformer”) is a simple and straightforward process that can be done by anyone with a computer and an internet connection. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to get started:

• Don’t Ban ChatGPT. Use It as a Teaching Tool (Opinion)

  I’ve been a high school English teacher for the past 25 years and I’ve been assigning essays to my students for just as long. I’m of an age where, as a student, I used to have to drag an encyclopedia out to dutifully research and write up a report a…

• Update Your Course Syllabus for chatGPT | by Ryan Watkins | Dec, 2022 | Medium

  Ready or not, chatGPT (the newest version of OpenAI’s impressive AI technologies) is now in your classroom. It can write papers, essays, and poems. It can create art and write computer code in many languages.

• AI for Beginners

• Best YouTube Alternatives for School | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  YouTube is by all means one of the primary video hosting websites teachers flock to when looking for video materials to use with their students.

• What Is TED-Ed? Everything You Need to Know | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  Today, we are introducing you to a great tool from TED that allows teachers to use engaging videos to create customized lessons. TED Ed Beta enables you to use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on TED-ED, or create lessons from scratch …

• A Principal’s Reflections: Self-Regulation in the Personalized Classroom

  One of the best and most gratifying aspects of my job is getting into classrooms and providing feedback to leaders, who, in turn, help their teachers grow. Most of my blog ideas materialize during these times of bliss.

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• Why Am I So Sensitive to Social Justice and Fairness Issues?

  Do you become overwhelmed or enraged by life’s unfairness and attacks on social justice? You may be experiencing the impact of a little-known ADHD trait called justice sensitivity.

• Learning to learn data science, part 1: Beginner’s mind

  This is a reprint from a series of posts I’m currently doing on data science in teaching, over at Medium. Beginner’s mind is the concept of approaching life with fresh eyes and a clean slate and no pretension of expertise.

• What! That is cool… Format Painter in Google Sheets – Teacher Tech

  If you use Google Sheets this is a super easy tip that is a much have. Format Painter in Google Sheets is a useful tool that allows you to quickly apply formatting, such as font, color, and cell borders, to other cells or ranges of cells.

• Using EdTech to Support Healthy Habits in Kids and Teens – Emerging Education Technologies

  Tech advancements are inherently meant to make life easier for us. It’s only when we abuse it or become obsessed with it that it can become a toxin to our health.

• How robotic gamification helped my elementary students love STEM

  Coding is a necessary skill in today’s world, but it is relatively challenging to master, especially for kids. Its complexity is not necessarily because it is incomprehensible, but because it is a new concept for most students.

• “The Map Of The Universe” Is An Impressive Visualization Of The…Universe | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  Map of the Universe provides a neat visualization of the “observable” universe. This map shows a slice of our Universe. It was created from astronomical data taken night after night over a period of 15 years using a telescope in New Mexico, USA. We …

• RISE Model — Emily Wray

  Many clients reach out to me because they can’t keep up with the education, media, and design needs of their organizations. My job is to empower them with the tools and training needed to easily integrate efficient and effective systems into their w…

• Taking a Gradual Release (GRR) Approach to Student Choice – John Spencer

  Over the last month, I have been sharing practical ways that we can empower our students to own the learning from day one. This is the core idea that AJ Juliani and I wrote about in our book Empower. It’s a journey I began in my second year of teach…

• Video: “The Planets” to scale not only in size, but also in their tilt and rotation speed” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  WikiImages / Pixabay I’m adding this video to The Best Web Tools That Show You Objects To Scale:

• First Lego Esports Set Brings Pro Gaming to Lego City

  The first Lego Esports set has been released! this is what the Lego esports tournament truck is going to be and how it represents gaming in Lego.

• Blog – Brave In The Attempt

  For more insight check out How to Celebrate Digital Citizenship Week and Responsible Digital Citizenship.

• Best Online Video Collage Makers | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  In this post, I share with you some of the best web tools to use to create a video collage with music. Stitch together clips from your last trip, sporting event, or summer vacation, add compelling music and a striking narrative, and generate your vi…

• Collaborating with School Librarians and Media Specialists on Lessons | Tech & Learning

  Teachers in elementary, middle, and high school grade bands can co-create lessons and projects with their school librarian and media specialist while maximizing technology-rich media and information literacy resources.

• 20 of the Best STEM Books for Kids – Waterford.org

  Books are an excellent way to help children connect more deeply to science, technology, engineering, and math (or STEM) concepts they are learning in class. Plus, they practice reading skills as they strengthen STEM connections!

• 7 Small, Simple Classroom Management Resolutions For 2023 – Smart Classroom Management

  Small things can make a big difference. Tweaks here and there. Changes in perspective, in temperament. Fine-tuning the dial to a clearer, cleaner signal. Improved classroom management doesn’t have to be hard.

• Kids May Know More About Money Than You Think. How Video Games Instill Financial Literacy – CNET

  As a financial planner, Tom Martin knows how important it is to teach children about money — even from an early age. And he also knows that video games can help.  Martin has two children, ages 13 and 15, who play a ton of video games — just like 7…

• Schools Must Embrace the Looming Disruption of ChatGPT – The 74

• Inquiry-based learning: 3 tips for science teachers | Amplify

• YAHAHA and the Amazing Maze, Part 2 | David Mullich

  Happy New Year, game designers! My first blog post of 2023 is the second part in a series about how to use the no-code game development platform YAHAHA Studio to create a variety of video game genres, beginning with navigational puzzles, or mazes.

• As NYC public schools block ChatGPT, OpenAI says it’s working on ‘mitigations’ to help spot ChatGPT-generated text • TechCrunch

  New York City public schools have restricted access to ChatGPT, the AI system that can generate text on a range of subjects and in various styles, on school networks and devices.

• Education in the Age of Globalization » Blog Archive » How Not to Kill Creativity?

  This is the draft of my chapter on creativity in the book Creative Provocations: Speculations on the Future of Creativity, Technology & Learning co-edited by Danah Henriksen and Punya Mishra that is recently published online. Read the published arti…

• How to Spark Student Agency in the Classroom Through Community Connections – Digital Promise

  In 2021, Digital Promise and Ciena launched the Ciena Solutions Challenge, a global design challenge inviting middle and high school students to design solutions that address the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals within their communities.

• Here’s What the Research Says About Screen Time and School-Aged Kids | EdTech Magazine

  I’ve spent many years in the education field as a senior district administrator, professor, researcher and adviser, and I’ve reviewed screen time research from those in the fields of sociology, medicine and education.

• 5 Good PDF Tools for Teachers | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

• Homework: Good or Bad? Here Is What Research Says | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  The chart below is created by connected principals and features some alternative ways to do “traditional’ homework.

• A Conference on Teaching High School History Despite Laws That Ban Teaching Truth | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  Conference call for papers “Teaching Uncomfortable Truths in Contested Spaces” September 28th-30th, 2023 Flagler College St.

• AI, chatbots, ChatGPT for teachers

  Learn ChatGPT, AI, chatbots for use by teachers in education

• ChatGPT & Education – Google Slides

• Gaming the System: The Many Educational Benefits of Game-Based Learning | EdSurge Guides

  Game-based learning may take various forms—purposeful play in the classroom, game-like approaches to curriculum design, even school-sponsored esports …

• Reflections on 50 years of Game-Based Learning (Part 3) | EdSurge News

  More than 50 years after Don Rawitsch introduced Oregon Trail in his eighth grade class, the debate continues: Can games become a legitimate tool for learning? Proponents of game-based learning have good reason to be optimistic—but also cautious.

• The Sky is Not Falling, The Sky is Not Falling

  Do you remember the story of Chicken Little? In the updated version of this classic tale, I recently saw an elementary school teacher deliver, Chicken Little read online that the sky is falling.

• “ChatGPT: Teachers Weigh In on How to Manage the New AI Chatbot” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  ChatGPT: Teachers Weigh In on How to Manage the New AI Chatbot is the headline of my latest Education Week column. Sure, the program can lead to cheating, but it can also free up teachers’ time for important instruction.

• Video: “The 1619 Project – Official Hulu ‘Teaser’” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  I’ve posted a lot about The 1619 Project and its originator, Nikole Hannah-Jones.

• Comics Make Learning Easier for Children on the Autism Spectrum and Everyone

  Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) presents an array of diverse developmental challenges that affect children. ASD impacts Social Emotional Learning (SEL), as children navigate school, home, and the world.

• Hands on Coding Metaverse Campus is Open! – YouTube

  The Hands on Coding #metaverse Campus is open! Come check out the #handsoncoding classrooms as they display the latest info and updates, jobs in the metaverse, and the world of Web 3.0! You can visit the HOC Metaverse campus at https://ift.tt/JsHgMNm

• Video Journals in the Classroom – Class Tech Tips

  How do your students chronicle and reflect on their learning? Video journals can be a powerful tool for learning and self-reflection. They can be especially useful in the classroom setting, where students can use interactive tools to capture their l…

• Why the Boys & Girls Club Is Bringing Career Exploration for Kids Into the VR World | EdSurge News

  You have to see it to be it, the saying goes. Students have to know a job exists before they can ever become interested in it.

• Strategies to Lift Students Out of the Math Fact Fog

  By Kathleen Palmieri Recently a few things have become increasingly evident to me in my math class. First, as concepts are introduced and practiced, students still show signs of what I call “math fact fog.” This made-up term is what I call the decli…

• 37 predictions about edtech’s impact in 2023

  As we close the door on 2022, we approach 2023 with clear-cut priorities for edtech and education as a whole.

• Best Online Graph Makers | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  Sometimes complicated information is hard to understand and requires a visual illustration. Graphs and charts are ideal for visually communicating complex data. As teachers, we often have recourse to these visual aids to improve our students compreh…

• Best Free Online Sticky Note Tools | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  Below are some good web tools you can use to create and share sticky notes. We invite you to have a look and share with your colleagues. 1- Wall Wisher This is my favourite among them all. It allows you to add music, text, video and more.

• Unclutter — Reader Mode for Chrome & Firefox

  Unlike all other reader modes, Unclutter modifies a website’s CSS styles to remove ads and popups. So The Guardian still looks like The Guardian, and The Atlantic like The Atlantic.

• Inquiry-based instruction is no longer optional | History Tech

  I had the chance several years ago to listen to author and historian Sam Wineburg address the joint Kansas / Missouri Councils for the Social Studies annual conference.

• Mental health 2023, Part 1: Youth on algorithms – NetFamilyNews.org

  Richard Graham, a psychiatrist in London and a fellow youth advocate, tagged me in a post on LinkedIn today, and I’m glad he did.

• Acids Bases « KaiserScience

  Content objective: What are we learning? Why are we learning this? content, procedures, skills Vocabulary objective Tier II: High frequency words used across content areas. Key to understanding directions, understanding relationships, and for making…

• Nuclear physics and radioactivity « KaiserScience

  Atoms are supposed to be stable: there was supposed to be a law called the law of conservation of matter. That means that atoms can’t appear or disappear. They just combine or break apart. For example, here is the decomposition of ammonium dichromat…

• Smart Searching Strategies to Support Online Searches – Easy EdTech Podcast 196 – Class Tech Tips

  Hear about smart searching strategies and skill-building activities to set up students for success when navigating online spaces. How can you actually use comics in your classroom? There are lots of ways to use comics with students this school year.

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• What The American Teacher Act Shows Us About Education Now – The Jose Vilson

  In the last year, I’ve visited four different classrooms, three of them within New York City. During my visits, I noticed similar trends: well-organized classrooms, bell schedules, students of varying dispositions (including behaviors), and lesson p…

• Dear Data | Science for All

  In my work teaching preservice and inservice teachers about the Next Generation Science Standards I like to think that I have a certain “expertise” about the Science and Engineering Practices.

• www.adamupmaths.com

• Whiteboard | The Maths Universe

  As featured on Mr Craig Barton’s Tips for Teachers podcast. Also featured on Jo Morgan’s Resourceaholic. Discover new features, report bugs and make suggestions via Twitter @JakeGMaths.

• Text Chat Animator

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• How ChatGPT, other AI tools could change the way students learn – The Globe and Mail

  Experts say artificial-intelligence programs, such as ChatGPT, could usher in new methods of educational assessment and curriculum that test creativity, though students will also have to develop literacy for the technology’s limitations and biases.

• How can AI help with data visualization? — Cool Infographics

  How can AI help with data visualization? This is the question I’ve been asking myself for the last few months. Can data visualization designers benefit from these tools? The image above was generated in DALL-E 2 with the phrase “A simple pie chart a…

• How One K-6 School Uses a Book Club Model to Empower Readers

  What an interesting year it’s already been. I think we’re all noticing some disconcerting patterns that we haven’t seen before. I’m a literacy coach in an elementary school that includes grade six.

• Know Your Why!: Reflect on 2022 – Make a Family, Classroom, or Student Newsletter With Google Applied Digital Skills

  If you’ve been following me during the months of December and January for the last several years, you know that I love to take a short break from my content to get students re-engaged in learning after our December holiday break.

• Mamie Krupsczak Allegretti: Why Do We Teach Students to Write? | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  Writing is more than just setting words down on paper in a “good” essay. If we just want a well worded essay from a student by any means possible, then, sure, let the students use a computer to do it for them. But writing teaches one to sort out tho…

• Esports seen as pathway to boost diversity in STEM careers – The Washington Post

  A growing effort to channel students’ enthusiasm for esports toward preparing them for jobs in science, technology, engineering and math could address the lack of racial diversity in STEM careers

• 5 Best Free AI Text to Art Generators to Create an Image From What You Type

  Is there anything artificial intelligence can’t do? It seems like every month, there’s a mesmerizing new technological breakthrough. The trending breakthrough is how AI can now take a sentence you type and turn it into a painting or an image. And yo…

• 13 Best AI Art Generators of 2023 (That Actually Work)

  AI is taking over. With the latest advancements in AI art generation, you can create photorealistic images out of thin air. The best part is you don’t need any artistic skills or technical talent to pull this off.

• 45 Best Quantum Physics Books

  Verified book recommendations from people we look up to.

• US Passes Bill to Inject $1.2 Billion Into the Quantum Tech Race

  President Donald Trump signed a bill last week providing over a billion dollars in funding to quantum research.

• Physicists Proved the Universe Isn’t Real – YouTube

  Physicists Proved the Universe Isn’t Real ► Subscribe: https://goo.gl/r5jd1F When we sleep, we can hardly distinguish reality from a dream. So how do we know what’s real and what’s not? To scientists, something is “real” if its properties are determ…

• What Is Quantum Entanglement? Quantum Entanglement Explained in Simple Terms | Caltech Science Exchange

  When researchers study entanglement, they often use a special kind of crystal to generate two entangled particles from one. The entangled particles are then sent off to different locations.

• Quantum Entanglement: Explained in REALLY SIMPLE Words – YouTube

  Quantum entanglement is a physical resource, like energy, that is possible between quantum systems. When a coin spins on a flat surface, it’s in a state of superposition between its two faces—head and tails. Similarly, electrons in their natural sta…

• 3 Best VR Headsets (2022): Virtual Reality Accessories, Apps, and Games | WIRED

  Virtual reality was supposed to be the next big thing back in 2016 when the original Oculus Rift and HTC Vive launched. It was the tech whose time had finally arrived. Or so we thought. As it turned out, VR was still a little too expensive and perha…

• How the Metaverse will change the world of gaming | Nicole Lazzaro | TEDxBoston – YouTube

  For 48 years of game GUIs, WIMPS reigned supreme. The dominant paradigm of Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pointer, and Solo play has made gaming (and the rest of computing) accessible to the average person. Now enter the Metaverse these flat screen 2D relic…

• Beginner’s Guide To VR: FAQ And Everything You Need To Know

  We often get asked, both in professional and personal settings, where the best place is to start with VR. Some people have a basic understanding of the technology but aren’t up to date with the current products available on the market.

• AI Reading List

  This is aimed towards the AI curious looking to go down the rabbit hole not the AI expert. It will be updated ~monthly. Recommendations are accepted via DM @JackSoslow

• How to Run Stable Diffusion on Your PC to Generate AI Images | TechSpot

  French writer and philosopher Voltaire once said that “originality is nothing but judicious imitation” and when it comes to the use of artificial intelligence, he’s absolutely right.

• The Beginner’s Guide to Use Midjourney AI – Followchain

  Midjourney is an AI that generates images/art from keywords. Since its beta launch in March, it has close to 1 million Discord members.

• 6 Reasons to Choose Google Sites – Teacher Tech

  Google Sites is a free and easy-to-use website builder that allows users to create and customize their own websites. It is part of the Google Workspace suite of productivity tools and can be accessed through a Google account.

• The Best Resources For Teaching & Learning With AI Art Generation Tools | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  Artificial Intelligence is the big topic in tech, and in education, circles these days. Of course, there is Chat GPT, and you can learn a lot about it at another “Best” list – The Best Posts On Education & ChatGPT.

• Saving Public Schools for ALL Our Children in the New Year

  As we approach 2023, let’s make this the year to unite for the common good to reestablish and promote public education for all our children.

• The Best Free Online Tools Using Adaptive Learning | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  Online Adaptive Learning basically means that the questions and tasks being asked of the user are adjusted based on the user responses to previous questions and tasks. I can’t say enough positive things about Quill.

• A Collection Of “Best” Lists About Using Artificial Intelligence In Education | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  I think it’s a safe bet that Artificial Intelligence will be a prime topic of conversation in the future, including in education. Here is a collection of my related “Best” …

• Know Your Why!: Collection of Picture Books to Engage and Inspire Students in 2023

  One of my passion projects over the last several years has been to explore and discover picture books for students of all age. Today, I wanted to share that I am updating the digital collection of picture books to engage students of all ages in esse…

• Picture Book Collection Parents, Teachers, and Learners on Padlet

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• Gaming takes over everything

  Hollywood and Big Tech are both turning to gaming for new ideas.

• 10 Outdated Teaching Techniques – Teacher Tech

  The goal of education today is to … probably not everyone would agree on how to finish that sentence. The original goals of public education should have shifted since the society that existed at the time has dramatically changed. Every year educatio…

• Inside the new middle school math crisis

  ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. — It was a Thursday morning in November, a few minutes into Ruby Voss’ and Amber Benson’s eighth grade math class at Northside Middle School just outside Roanoke, a city of roughly 100,000 in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

• New school year shows continued signs of academic rebounding

  Post-pandemic academic achievement is showing encouraging signs of improvement, although not evenly across school years, according to NWEA, a nonprofit, research and educational services organization serving K-12 students.

• Learning needs joy and civility

  Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching.

• Beyond Land Acknowledgment: A Guide – Native Governance Center

  Native Governance Center held an event on moving beyond land acknowledgment on August 25, 2021.

• What are the benefits of esports? Let’s start counting

  Higher attendance, deeper engagement and better mental health are just three of the benefits of esports to students. So, do you want to know how some early adopters of esports—also known as scholastic gaming—launched one of the first high school pro…

• 6 tips to help start an elementary esports program in your school

  Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching.

• 18 Best Holiday Movies for Kids and Family | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  When the eternally optimistic Poppy, queen of the Trolls, learns that the Bergens no longer have any holidays on their calendar, she enlists the help of Branch and the rest of the gang on a delightfully quirky mission to fix something that the Berge…

• Stanford faculty weigh in on ChatGPT’s shake-up in education | Stanford Graduate School of Education

  The recent release of ChatGPT — a new natural language processor that can write essays, spit out a Haiku, and even produce computer code — has prompted more questions about what this means for the future of society than even it can answer, despite e…

• 7 Unique New Year’s Traditions from Around the World | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  He then smashes the pomegranate either in front of the door or against the door, and he makes a wish that the juicy, bounteous ruby-like segments of the fruit flood the home with good health and happiness — and as many joys as the pomegranate has ar…

• Computer science classes have an equity issue–some NYC educators are trying to change that

  This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Computer science teacher Shanua Newton-Rodriguez is hoping to lead by example.

• Insightful data is called information | Seth’s Blog

  Data is everywhere around us, and most of it is simply noise. The purpose of information is to inform, to help us change our minds. Information has a point of view, it’s useful. It turns data into actionable truth.

• 5 Quick Classroom Activities With Comics – Class Tech Tips

  Graphic novels and comics are a fun and engaging way to incorporate reading and visual literacy into your next classroom activity. But what exactly are graphic novels? How can you actually use comics in your classroom? There are lots of ways to use …

• Kansas: Former Legislator Who Sponsored “In God We Trust“ Bill Convicted of Fraud | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  During the Trump administration, Congress appropriated billions of dollars for COVID relief, mostly to help small businesses survive by paying their employees. The main relief was the Payroll Protection Program, which dispersed nearly $800 billion.

• My Top 10 Science Picture Books of 2022 | Science for All

  As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I have a deep love of all things picture books. I used picture books as an elementary teacher to teach multiple content areas and I’ve continued to use picture books in my work with preservice and inservice teach…

• Robots x Humans – Dagan.Blog

• encouraging-independent-learning

  “I can’t learn from my current teacher! They don’t teach like you.” Earlier in my career, past students would come back to my class to share this sentiment with me, and initially this brought me a sense of pride.

• pbl-maintaining-student-engagement

  Taking students’ interests into account when designing project-based learning helps ensure that they stay engaged throughout the unit.

• Does AI writing threaten academic integrity? | PlagiarismCheck.org

  ChatGPT’s release stirred the internet community in general and educators in particular. Actually, the technology behind it, GPT-3, isn’t brand new. But the fact of how easily it empowers a chatbot to answer and write like a human is astounding.

• 5 ways to create a stellar online elementary learning program

  Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching.

• Prioritizing teacher well-being can help schools retain talent

  As a school administrator, you’re faced with a range of challenges every day. One of the most common at the moment is mitigating the negative impacts of teacher shortages. After all, without a consistent and functional faculty, the quality of studen…

• NAACP targets a new civil rights issue—reading

  FAIRFAX, Va. — For years, the Fairfax County NAACP’s small education committee devoted itself mostly to fights over Confederate school names and acts of racism against individual students.

• How to Lock Areas of a Google Doc – Teacher Tech

  You want to restrict editing on PART of a Google Doc. This step by step guide will show you a hack for how to lock areas of a google doc. Many teachers love using Bitmoji, it makes your digital interactions more personal.

• How Music Changes Learning | EdNews Daily

  Music can provoke deep emotions while taking us back in time. Given this trajectory, it also has the power to help us learn and retain information. Emotions and learning go hand-in-hand.

• Reaching every student with Equatio | Texthelp

  Are you curious how Equatio could help you incorporate the UDL framework in your teaching? Check out the handy toolmatcher guide below to discover how different features of Equatio align to CAST’s UDL guidelines.

• Top 10 Tech Tools for 2023

  It’s that time of year again: time for our annual list of tech tools and tips to launch you into the new year with renewed inspiration for teaching and learning.

• All Ditch Summit Videos | Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit

• Mr. Piercey’s Website

• ChatGPT, Chatbots and Artificial Intelligence in Education – Ditch That Textbook

• ADHD A Difference in Cognition not Simply A Disorder, Stephen Tonti TED Talk | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  Stephen is a Senior Directing major at Carnegie Mellon. He is also the current President of Carnegie Mellon’s Film Club. He recently completed his Thesis Project within the School of Drama: a production of Mac Wellman’s “A Murder of Crows.

• What Does ADHD Iceberg Mean? ADHD Resources for Teachers and Parents | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  ADHD is one of the most common neurodevelopment disorders. People with ADHD find it hard to concentrate on a single chore at a time, however, though they are strong symptoms of ADHD, lack of inattention or focus alone is not enough to diagnose someb…

• 242: Student-led podcasting for sustained learning – The Thinking Stick

  On this special episode, Jeff and Tricia sit down with a listener of the show: Joe Taranto. Joe reached out to Jeff and Tricia about his experience podcasting with students. Joe shares what he has learned over the years of launching and sustaining a…

• What SEL teaches us about safety

  According to a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) study, the number of children aged 3 to 17 diagnosed with anxiety increased by 29 percent between 2016 and 2020, while those diagnosed with depression increased by 27 percent. The si…

• Should the term “special education” be retired? | National Center on Disability and Journalism

  When covering school board meetings, I often heard terminology that contributed to feeling “different” and not smart enough during my years as a disabled K-12 student.

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