Check out these great posts from this past week:
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Why You Shouldn’t “Build Community” – Smart Classroom Management
In educational parlance, building community means to manufacture it. It means to organize activities and “circles” in order to create camaraderie and a cohesive family-like environment.
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3 ways to engage students in productive struggle
What do you do when you don’t know what to do? Think about it for a minute. You are facing a new challenge – whether it be learning to fix a burst pipe, tackling a new hobby, or just struggling to figure something out. What do you do?
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TeachingBooks, Sora and Pear Deck Announce Collaboration to Expand Student Engagement and Learning
CLEVELAND – TeachingBooks.net today announced a unique collaboration with Pear Deck, providing expanded opportunities for student engagement and learning.
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Critical race theory is informed by insights from critical theory, among other critical paradigms. Critical theory emerged during the first half of the 20th century and is especially associated with the Frankfurt School whose founding forefathers in…
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Research-Backed Practices to Impact Students’ Academic and Social-Emotional Growth | Tech & Learning
Too often classes in education don’t consider the way humans actually learn, said Steve Oertle during a recent Tech & Learning webinar. The webinar was hosted by Dr.
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15 Great Science Experiments for Kids | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
As teachers and parents, we all know that kids learn best when they are engaged and motivated. Hands-on activities are one of the best ways to get kids excited about learning.
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ChatGPT can generate, but can it create?
While artificial intelligence (AI) has been a relatively silent partner in higher education’s early warning systems, personalized learning platforms, and more for some time now, we might fairly say that ChatGPT is the big boom heard ‘round the unive…
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Does Flipped Classroom Work? Check out this Article
I’ve used flipped classrooms in my Middle School classes. After the initial excitement that something changed, it fell into a routine with not much better results than any other teaching method. But not worse, either.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Fun Games for Learning About Space
NASA Kids’ Club is a collection games, interactive activities, and images for students in Kindergarten through fourth grade. At the center of the NASA Kids’ Club is a set of games and interactive activities arranged on five skill levels.
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Coding in Minecraft! – NCCE’s Tech Savvy Teacher Blog
Even if you don’t teach computer science or programming but you want your students to do a coding activity students will enjoy, Coding with Minecraft, will work for you.
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Articles About AI and Education – Wakelet
This is my space for saving articles related to AI and its impact on education.
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The Link Between Gaming and Violent Extremism – The Diplomat
For years, militant groups have used video games as a means of linking supporters, spreading propaganda, and attracting youth to their cause.
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Minecraft Python Lesson IDE
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Truth For Teachers – Here’s how to infuse calm in a noisy classroom
We’ve all been there — that point in a classroom where things are moving along nicely. There is a busy energy in the room, the kids are working productively, and the volume in the room is manageable.
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Get Started with Conditional Formatting in Google Sheets | Shake Up Learning
Conditional formatting with Google Sheets is very powerful! You can create rules that format cells so that their appearance changes dynamically according to the value they contain or to values in other cells. Formatting makes it easy to see trends a…
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Use the SAMR Model to Energize Class Tech
This is a question I get often from teachers: Technology is always an extra layer of work in my classroom.
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog: Serious Climate Misinformation In Seattle Time Headline Article
Whether you are a climate activist, a governmental official, or a citizen hoping to be well-informed on climate issues, getting accurate and reliable climate information is important.
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Climate in the United States — Cool Infographics
Climate in the United States in a new interactive dataviz tool to visualize temperature and precipitation differences from “average” by location, population, and demographics.
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I have a hard time connecting with some frameworks for equity-based teaching. Often, that’s because they don’t connect as well as I’d like to science teaching. The Cultivating Genius Framework from Dr.
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Teachers’ experiences of using Minecraft Education in primary school: An Irish perspective
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Where Did Earth’s Water Come From? New Meteorite Study Finds A Clue
Water probably got to early Earth aboard small meteorites, not fragments of bigger protoplanets that had been blasted apart. Our watery, life-sustaining planet was born dry and barren.
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A flurry of AI releases now: GPT-4 and new educational projects | Bryan Alexander
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6 benefits of immersive learning with the metaverse
The metaverse is a tool that blends experiences typically associated with either the virtual or physical worlds. It can deliver greater immersive learning for students while also creating some new and exciting teaching opportunities.
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OPINION: Lessons from city planners may help address student behavior problems
Get important education news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox A recent troubling report from the University of Georgia confirms fears of school district leaders nationwide: Nearly one-third of educators are unlikely to remain in educati…
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Lessons From This ‘Golden Age’ of Learning Science | EdSurge News
Experts have described this as a ‘golden age’ of discovery in the area of learning science, with new insights emerging regularly on how humans learn. So what can educators, policymakers and any lifelong learner gain from these new insights?
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The ChatGPT Effect: Art Projects as the Key to Student Adaptation – Teacher Tech
I saw yesterday that a school is going to intentionally install ChatGPT on student devices for 6th grade and above. Pretty much every product on the planet right now is trying to integrate ChatGPT or a rival. Artificial Intelligence (AI) can not be …
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Chronicling America Research Guides. Where have you been all my life? | History Tech
I’ve had the chance to meet a lot of people who work at the Library of Congress. And they’ve all been awesome. I’m sure there’s probably one or two who work over there who are Las Vegas Raiders fans or who will tell you that they don’t like Kansas C…
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50 ChatGPT Prompts for Teachers – Class Tech Tips
Have you tried out ChatGPT? It’s no surprise that the buzz around this artificial intelligence tool isn’t going away. I’ve played around with it for a few months now and feel like I learn something new almost daily.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Annotate Videos With Text and Pictures
To get started simply paste a YouTube URL into the Timelinely homepage to get started. Once you have entered the URL for a video, a new screen appears that allows you to add tags or annotations to the timeline of the video.
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Know Your Why!: Student Engagement – Asking Questions and Being Curious About Images
I am always challenging my students to ask better questions and to be curious enough to explore new ideas. Unfortunately, this is not a skill many are able to or willing to practice without my constant encouragement.
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The James Webb space telescope has captured the rare and fleeting phase of a star on the cusp of death. The observation was among the first made by the telescope following its launch in late 2021, but the picture was not released until this week.
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ProPublica on The Most Anti-Democratic and Powerful Group You Never Heard Of | Diane Ravitch’s blog
ProPublica wrote recently about a powerful organization of far-right conservatives that carefully avoids public scrutiny. They are wealthy, powerful, and networked, thanks to the Federalist Society and its mastermind Leonard Leo.
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50 Popular Idioms for Kids (With Examples) | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
An idiom is a linguistic expression whose meaning is figurative. For instance, when someone says ‘cut corners’, they don’t literally mean to cut corners with a knife or scissors, which is the literal meaning or the meaning conveyed by the words per …
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10 reasons we love school librarians
Gone are the days when a school librarian’s job was defined by shushing, rocking, and reading.
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Are you leveling up with esports?
Imagine a new school program that is gender-neutral, inclusive to students with physical disabilities, bolsters school pride through competitive meets and is eligible for full and partial scholarships from over 175 colleges and universities.
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Know Your Why!: Earth Day 2023 – Exploring Our Planet Student Activity
For one of my classes, I am planning to use Pear Deck and Google Slides to facilitate a student-centered HyperDoc connected to Earth Day. For another class, I am going to use one of the Google Applied Digital Skills Earth Day Activities.
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Setting school policy about AI: A cautionary tale – Ditch That Textbook
How can we implement AI in schools responsibly? How can we set policies fairly? This story can give us some guidance. In February 2023, a Florida high school found that students were using artificial intelligence assistants like ChatGPT to do their …
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5 ways GPT-4 outsmarts ChatGPT | TechCrunch
OpenAI’s new GPT-4 AI model has made its big debut, and is already powering everything from a virtual volunteer for the visually impaired to an improved language learning bot in Duolingo. But what sets GPT-4 apart from previous versions like ChatGPT…
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Know Your Why!: Earth Day 2023 Resources, Activities, and Lessons
Recommended Earth Day Resources and Activities Recommended Books Connected to Our Amazing Planet Earth Day Games, Quizzes, and Fun Prizes for Students Additional Resources
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NCCE 2023 – Know Before You Go – NCCE’s Tech Savvy Teacher Blog
The Northwestern Council for Computer Education (NCCE) convention is the largest educational technology conference in the Northwest. At this conference, you’ll learn directly from top ed tech experts and successful real-world practitioners in severa…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Anchor is Now Spotify for Podcasters
For the last five or so years I’ve been using and recommending Anchor for creating podcasts on your desktop and mobile devices. In fact, at the start of this year I released a new tutorial on how to use it to create a podcast on your Android phone. …
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ChatGPT is the push higher education needs to rethink assessment
The COVID-19 pandemic was a shock to higher education systems everywhere. But while some changes, like moving lectures online, were relatively easy to make, assessment posed a much bigger challenge. Assessment can take many forms, from essays to exa…
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How long would humanity live if the Sun suddenly went out? | by Space | Feb, 2023 | Medium
Imagine that you are in a sci-fi movie, and the Sun suddenly just disappeared. Just like that, in a snap, lightning-fast — not gradually fading and extinction, but disappeared, as if it did not exist.
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Researchers investigate diversity of E. coli bacteria in hospitalized patients
The aim of the study was to analyze the virulence and antimicrobial resistance profile of the main agent of urinary tract infections.
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3D internal structure of rechargeable batteries revealed for the first time
The research, published in Nature Communications, is led by Professor Oleg Kolosov from Lancaster’s Physics Department in collaboration with University College London and NEXGENNA Faraday Institution Consortium.
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12 Best Crossword Puzzle Apps | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
Crossword puzzles are so much fun to play! We all love them and with mobile apps you can now indulge in your crossword puzzling experience anywhere anytime. I scoured the web and curated for you some of the best crossword puzzle apps out there.
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Learning with ‘e’s: A fine balance
learning, technology, education, steve, wheeler, social media, internet, mobile, school, teachers
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Free Technology for Teachers: A Round-up of Pi Day Resources
Pi Day is on Tuesday. Last week I shared a few resources for teaching and learning about pi. This post is a summary of those resources and a few more. OPEN Phys Ed offers five free physical education lesson plans centered around Pi Day.
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Free Technology for Teachers: The Nationwide Legal DMCA Scam Returns – There’s a Lesson Here
On a few occasions last year I wrote about a scam in which someone who pretends to be an attorney from a law firm called Nationwide Legal or Arthur Davidson Legal sends an email stating that a website owner has committed a copyright violation.
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Teaching Science in the 21st Century: Adventure Days – year 10! Feb 2023
Adventure Days is our middle grades special event where classes are canceled for two full days so students can pursue a project to advance skills of their individual choosing.
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What to Do When Students Mess Around at Boards | Mike Kaechele
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GPT-4 will arrive next week and will be multimodal – Gearrice
We knew that GPT-4 would most likely be released in the first half of 2023. Fortunately, OpenAI will not disappoint in this regard. Microsoft, one of the main investors in the startup specializing in artificial intelligence, has confirmed that the w…
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The psychoactive drug ibogaine could save lives—and everyone wants to cash in
Aloïse Amougha clearly recalls the night 30 years ago when a spirit visited him and changed his life. “You have to plant iboga,” it instructed. “And with that iboga, you have to heal the world.”
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