Check out these great posts from this past week:
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ISTELive 23: What to Include on Your Conference Agenda | EdTech Magazine
The event kicks off with an opening keynote session featuring Joyce Abbott, the inspiration and name behind the ABC show Abbott Elementary.
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Tips for Tech-Savvy Professional Development | Tech & Learning
Mike Arsenault is a self-professed “techie” who shares his passion and enthusiasm for professional development with educators in his district and others. He’s worked for 17 years in the Yarmouth Schools district, seven of those as Director of Instru…
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With Critical Race Theory spurring debate, is there hope for diversity in schools?
The greatest social justice movements teach us that progress isn’t linear, but is rather dynamic. This means that progress doesn’t transpire overnight. It doesn’t transpire instantaneously with one motion or action, but is the product of concerted e…
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When is Typing Faster Than Handwriting?
Most elementary-age students struggle with typing. This doesn’t surprise me. They’ve been handwriting since kindergarten. They’re proud of their new cursive skills. It’s easy to grab a pencil.
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‘Anti-Racist Art Activities for Kids’ – Finally an Art Book for Pre-Teens! – GeekDad
I have been counting the days until this book comes out. As an art teacher, an educator, and an avid follower of other art teachers on Instagram—I mean, that is what Instagram is FOR—being able to see the Anti-Racist Art Teachers in action has been …
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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. Adobe Firefly lets you do lots of things with images.
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Surgeon general’s advisory: Let’s take stock – NetFamilyNews.org
US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy advises that “we are experiencing a youth mental health crisis.” Based on the data, there’s no question about that. Where there is a question is whether tech and media are the cause.
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Nora de la Cour writes in Jacobin about the damage done to children by our politicians’ obsession with high-stakes standardized testing. They do not test what was taught; they encourage teaching to the tests; the results come back too late to be hel…
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EarthGen: FREE Summer Science PD – Science for All
I’ve mentioned EarthGen a few times in the last few months. I’ve taken two of their online asynchronous courses and really enjoyed both. So here’s an opportunity to sit by the pool, or on your patio, or wherever you want and do some learning and ear…
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It was annoying, but necessary.. .. I needed a new laptop, so I hied myself down to the local Apple shop and picked up a fancy new laptop. Not a problem–I’ve used Macs for years (except when I worked at IBM, when the IBM PC was the axe of choice), …
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Gender Equation in Schools How to Create Equity and Fairness
The Gender Equation in Schools: How to Create Equity and Fairness for All Students By Jason Ablin (Routledge/Eye On Education, 2023 – Learn more) Reviewed by Kasey Short Jason Ablin makes a bold statement in his final chapter: “Our educational syste…
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Is AI the future of education?
Sometime late last year, AI reached an inflection point. Experts have been making grand predictions on its behalf for decades, but the moment OpenAI opened ChatGPT up to the public, the actual potential of this technology became clear on a mass leve…
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The Metaverse Hype Died Down. Where Does That Leave Colleges That Invested In It? | EdSurge News
Los Angeles City College has spent some time trying to refine its metaverse. A public community college in east Hollywood, it wasn’t one of the original schools that got grants to build out a “metaversity,” a digital alternative campus influenced by…
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How Micro-credentials Can Unlock Success for Learners – Digital Promise
Why are Micro-credentials Valuable? Through earning a micro-credential, learners are able to quickly learn and implement new skills to reskill and upskill. A micro-credential provides the learner with learning opportunities to build on their experti…
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The Online Tools I Had Students Use Most This Year | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
This is the fourth, and final, post in a series where I’ve been reflecting on this school year, which just ended today. You can see previous posts here. Today is a short post.
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Seating Chart Slides by Alice Keeler – Google Workspace Marketplace
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This Add-on collects no user data. It simply selects a random number between 1 and 6 and places the a dice shape on the slide. User can choose to roll a single die or up to 6 dice. Updated 10/25/22 – Added game board functionality.
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How AI is Revolutionizing Virtual Reality for Training and Education
The rapid advancement of technology has opened up new horizons in various fields, and the combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) is proving to be a game-changer in the realm of training and education.
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Hacking Google Classroom for Standards Based Grading – Teacher Tech
Standards Based Grading for Google Classroom users. Hack your class to allow for a better way to communicate student progress on standards. Increase student engagement with Minecraft Education Edition. Your students can engage with learning on almos…
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Rethinking Traditional Standards of Intelligence — MindSpark
I relay this story, not to condemn common education practices, but to draw attention to a gap in current processes. When traditional studies within the classroom remain the sole way to facilitate learning, some students are inevitably left behind.
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5 to thrive: SEL resources to help students grow
Every educator hopes to equip their students with the knowledge they need to thrive as a healthy adult. It’s a daunting task, especially considering there is so much to teach in such a small amount of time.
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How AI enhances personalization in education
Learning now is so much more than making notes from a textbook and critiquing other people’s ideas. It is cultivating your own vision of the future and how things can be improved to better our lives and advance the next generation.
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Can AI Help Teachers With Grading? | EdSurge News
A perennial question as technology improves is the extent to which it will change—or replace— the work traditionally done by humans.
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The Major Benefits of Speaking More Than One Language – EDTECH 4 BEGINNERS
In today’s society, it’s more common for a person to speak more than just one language. Roughly 3.3 billion individuals, or 43% of the world’s population, are bilingual. It doesn’t matter if the language is your mother tongue or if you speak it flue…
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EdNews Daily Service Learning: a Valuable Opportunity for Your Learners
On March 14th, the neighborhood school district took a freshman math class down to the local food pantry to serve pies. It was Pi Day.
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Title Science of Learning: Why it Matters
The science of learning uses research from a range of disciplines, including cognitive psychology, education and especially neuroscience to understand how learning occurs in the brain and how learning experiences can be most effective.
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Last week, I posted 9 THINGS I WANT TO DO DIFFERENTLY IN MY ELL NEWCOMERS CLASS NEXT YEAR. Do a stronger job on classroom management.
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Quantitative models, including Ecopath, take food web studies to a higher level of analysis |
In the early 1980s, NOAA scientist Jeffrey Polovina and fellow researchers at the National Marine Fisheries Service in Hawaii developed what they called the Ecopath model, designed to describe the flow of energy through a food web.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Use the New Adobe Express Video Editor
There is a new version of Adobe Express. The new version is still in a beta phase, but you can try it out right now and go back to the old version if you want to. I’ve been trying out the new version for about a week.
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What is the axolotl: the most recognizable salamander in the world
The axolotl. Image credits: Bouboulski.The axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum), otherwise known as the Mexican Walking Fish, is perhaps the most recognizable salamander in the world. It is commonly kept as a pet and used for scientific research.
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education.minecraft.net – Creation Kit
Minecraft is one of the most popular games of all time, beloved by players of all ages around the world. Most learners easily engage with Minecraft: Education Edition because of their familiarity with the basic game mechanics of Minecraft. (source:…
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Welcome to Thinkalo, the revolutionary AI teaching tools created by teachers, for teachers. With Thinkalo, you can say goodbye to the days of tedious lesson planning and hello to innovative, engaging and student-centred lessons.
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AI Lesson Planner – Education Copilot
At the core of Education Copilot is our AI lesson planner. Perfect for generating quality, structured lesson plans for any subject, lesson, or concept. Quickly generate handouts that cover everything you and a student will need to know about a speci…
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Reinforcement Learning in Education: Personalizing the Learning Experience
Reinforcement learning, a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that enables machines to learn from their actions and experiences, is increasingly being adopted in the education sector to personalize the learning experience for students.
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Every subtle expression, look, and emotion is accurately captured and faithfully replicated on your digital human. Even better, it’s simple and straightforward to achieve incredible results—anyone can do it.
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Schools Matter: Europe Steps Out Ahead Again on Tech Guardrails
This article today at WaPo illustrates the political and moral chasm between the U.S.
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With existing free sites like Speakable and ReadM, there’s not a great need to use tools like ChatGPT, Bard, or Poe on their own to help ELLs with pronunciation.
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Architect Dynamic Blended Learning Lessons with Your Adopted Curriculum – Dr. Catlin Tucker
Consider the last time you used a recipe to bake something, for example, a chocolate cake. Maybe it was a special occasion like a birthday, and you wanted to surprise someone with a homemade chocolate cake.
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Trust, Technology, and Transformation: Embracing the Student-Centered Classroom – Dr. Catlin Tucker
As a speaker, trainer, and coach, I have had the privilege of working with thousands of teachers. There is a recurring issue that needs to be addressed–the reluctance to relinquish control to students.
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Unleashing Creativity and Potential: Computer Coding for Kids – Kyle&P
In today’s digital age, we’re witnessing a new paradigm in education that integrates technology and learning in unprecedented ways. Among the most revolutionary changes is the introduction of computer coding for kids.
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LGBTQ+ Awareness: Pride Month and Student Mental Health
June marks the celebration of Pride Month—a time to raise awareness about the LGBTQ+ community and the ongoing fight for equal rights and acceptance.
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Maximizing Instructional Coaching Capacity with AI Technology (Charter Support Unit) – Edthena
Managing instructional coaching for teachers takes time and coordination. This webinar, hosted by the Charter Support Unit, discusses how AI technology can help maximize school leaders’ time by expanding instructional coaching capacity.
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The Future of Education: How Technological Advancements are Revolutionizing Learning
We’ve all heard the hype — technology is revolutionizing how we learn and teach. New studies indicate that technological advancements have indeed had a significant positive technological impact on education, shaping the future of education.
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What Does The Research Say About Learning Through Play?
Sometimes the replacement is better than the original, and we don’t miss the original for more than a brief moment: think whiteboards v. blackboards, chalk, and erasers; or copy machines v. mimeograph machines and purple ‘masters.’
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The new normal for post-pandemic classrooms continues to be a mixed bag. There was a ton of learning loss and missed experiences, especially when it came to hands-on lab time. At the same time, there was a surge of teacher innovation, student agency…
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Our school year is just about over. Here are two activities I’ve done in my classes that have seemed to go well.
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EPA funds new studies to address toxics in Puget Sound
The Puget Sound Institute (PSI) and its parent organization the Center for Urban Waters (CUW) are the recipients of more than $3.2 million dollars in grants this month from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Puget Sound Partnership.
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We have to do something differently… The world of search is changing dramatically every day. Bing launches a new thing, then Google Search launches a new thing. New LLM engines seem to be popping up every day.
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Teaching students about, and then enforce rules, around only using images that have the appropriate “rights” takes time, can be a pain, and is something I have to admit I often don’t bother with… When I create my own slides for trainings, I’m always…
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education.minecraft.net – Using Minecraft in ESL with Young Learners
I teach ESL to very young learners aged three to ten years, and one of my favourite teaching tools is Minecraft! Many teachers are already using Minecraft with older students, but how can we utilize this valuable tool with very young learners?
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A few year’s ago I spoke at a conference for teachers about how A.I and new technologies would change the world we live in forever.
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Prompt Library — AI for Education
Bloom’s Taxonomy
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Is Education in need of a reboot or a total rewrite? What’s not in question is the need to modernise. A rewrite would require a deconstruction and reassembly of a system creaking at the seams. Would it even be possible? It certainly seems that in it…
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How VR is Changing Education: Trends and Innovations
Learn from the community’s knowledge. Experts are adding insights into this AI-powered collaborative article, and you could too.
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Like the Metaverse the Eduverse is open to interpretation, It’s all so new! I’m going to define it as a collection of interchangeable worlds that can be used across multiple platforms to enhance learning. Whether that be Online or Onsite.
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game-guide-analysing-videogames-english-media
English teachers are lucky to have a wealth of text analysis to draw upon when tackling novels in their classrooms, whilst Media and English teachers alike have a healthy (albeit slightly shorter) history of film analysis practice to draw upon when …
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The Nerdy Teacher: Enhancing ELA Skills with Adobe Express #AdobeEduCreative @RebeccaLouHare
I want to share some exciting ways you can incorporate Adobe Express into your English Language Arts (ELA) classroom. This user-friendly digital tool offers a wealth of creative possibilities to engage middle and high school students, while also ali…
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Free Technology for Teachers: When Bard is Better Than Google
Yesterday I was in charge of making dinner for my family. My plan was to make fish tacos. I’ve made them before so I knew that I needed a lime. But I wasn’t sure of all of the other ingredients that I needed. So I did what anyone in my position woul…
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What are AI Detectors? AI Detectors are tools used to determine whether the content is partly or entirely AI-generated or human-made. AI Detectors can analyze text, images, or video content. They are also called: AI Checkers or AI Content detectors.
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4 Key Reasons Why Educators Accept or Reject Technology – Market Brief
For education companies, earning teacher buy-in is a critical piece to finding success within a school district. Without that buy-in, it becomes much more difficult to ensure that a product is properly implemented in classrooms, widely used, and con…
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TEACHER VOICE: In real life, ‘Abbott Elementary’ wouldn’t have many seasons – The Hechinger Report
Five years. I bet “Abbott Elementary” character Janine Teagues will not stay in the teaching profession that long.
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ChatGPT Isn’t a Tutor. Students are Still Using it That Way | Tech & Learning
ChatGPT is not designed to be a tutor, but many students are using it as such, according to a new survey. Recently, Intelligent.com surveyed 3,017 high school and college students (aged 16-24) and 3,234 parents of younger students.
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How to use UDL-inspired technology to reengage students
Key points: To improve student engagement, strive to create a positive learning environment Offer multiple means of engagement using technology inspired by UDL such as voice/screen capture or different ways to present a project While schools have la…
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How can math education in America be improved?
Dixie Ross has taught every level of math offered in Texas public high schools and trained hundreds of AP calculus teachers in summer institutes.
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Cultivating Student Ownership: 3 Small Ways to Start – Education Elements
When students take ownership of their learning, it can transform the school experience for both students and teachers.
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Teaching Emotional Regulation and Resilience Is Key to Physical Safety | EdTech Magazine
These check-ins also allow educators to adapt their classes in real time. If an entire class is experiencing negative feelings, it’s a good opportunity for the teacher to stop and discuss the causes and potential solutions before moving on with plan…
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Newsela Making Big Changes To Their Free Plan | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
Newsela, the well-known site providing articles with different levels of reading, has recently announced a major change to the features they are offering to users who are not subscribing to the site.
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How to Create a Rubric with ChatGPT • TechNotes Blog
As educators, we all know and appreciate the importance of the rubric in providing quality student assessment and feedback. But actually creating a solid rubric that’s clear, aligns with the curriculum, and is well-structured can be daunting and, le…
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Researchers Can Identify AI-Generated Academic Writing with ‘99% Accuracy’ – Decrypt
If you’ve been getting cozy with the idea of your friendly AI chatbot, ChatGPT, whipping up your final thesis paper, it’s time for a reality check.
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AI Is Unlocking the Human Brain’s Secrets – The Atlantic
Language models similar to ChatGPT have started to transform neuroscience. If you are willing to lie very still in a giant metal tube for 16 hours and let magnets blast your brain as you listen, rapt, to hit podcasts, a computer just might be able t…
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Can AI reach singularity? | Popular Science
In 1993, computer scientist and sci-fi author Vernor Vinge predicted that within three decades, we would have the technology to create a form of intelligence that surpasses our own. “Shortly after, the human era will be ended,” Vinge said
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Consultancy and Training | Ellie Finch – IN-DEPTH TRAINING ON USING MINECRAFT AS A THERAPEUTIC TOOL
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Peter Greene was a teacher in Pennsylvania for 39 years. He is now a regular writer at Forbes and a super star blogger. This column appeared on his blog. He responded to Rick Hess’s claim that school choice is not an attack on public education but p…
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From daTeechur’s Desk: Surviving Conference Season as an Introvert
As an introvert, at least for me, listening should come pretty naturally. The trick is to ask follow-up questions based on what people tell you. Ask them how they came to do what they do, what shifts they see in the field, etc., etc., etc.
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Where Imagination Lives in Your Brain – Scientific American
Henry Molaison, known for years as “H.M.,” was famously unable to form new memories. If someone he had met left the room only to return several minutes later, he would greet that person again as if for the first time. Because of surgery to treat int…
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What Is the Opposite of Engagement? – Gamified UK – #Gamification Expert
In gamification, we talk about engagement a lot! After all, the whole point of gamification is to engage people and get them to do more of something! But what is the opposite of engagement and why is it important to know this?
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Instorier: Telling Stories by Turning 2D Images into 3D Models
The tool also offers text elements, images, and backgrounds.
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Background Generator & Remover | Background AI
Yes, you can use Background AI for both personal and commercial purposes, including website design, marketing materials, social media content, and more. However, it is your responsibility to ensure that you have the necessary rights to use the image…
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Leveraging ChatGPT to Support Students – Teacher Tech
My husband and I have been invited to provide a presentation to assist university tutors working with migrant students, focusing on the innovative use of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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A Principal’s Reflections: The Myth of “Buy-In”
When it comes to leading change, many of us, at some point, have been made to think that we have to get others to buy into a certain strategy, initiative, or idea. Is this really the right way to proceed? I’ve never been a fan of the term “buy-in” w…
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Free Technology for Teachers: 60,000+ Images of Art and Artifacts to Download and Re-use for Free
The Museum of New Zealand offers more than 60,000 images of art and artifacts to download and re-use for free. The images are a mix of public domain images and images labeled with a Creative Commons license. The museum makes it easy to determine how…
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One question that ChatGPT can’t quite answer: how much energy do you consume? Google’s Bard is even more audacious. “My carbon footprint is zero,” it claims. Asked about the energy that is consumed in its creation and training, it responds: “not pub…