Even more amazing blog posts from this past week!
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Debunking common myths about AI in education
Artificial intelligence is not a completely new concept in education; it has been used for years. Consider spelling and grammar checks that are built into word processors and autofill suggestions in search engines.
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4 Education Tools That Seem Straight Out of Science Fiction | Tech & Learning
For a long time, the education field has been trying to make itself sound futuristic. Phrases such as the “classroom of the future,” “future-ready learning” and “21st century learning” have been used, and in many cases overused to the point at which…
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Cybersecurity Tips for Students
In today’s blog post, we are sharing with you a collection of practical cybersecurity tips to help students safeguard their online privacy and browse the web confidently. The aim of this post is to serve as a guide, offering valuable cybersecurity t…
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27 Online Resources About Civics and Government
Here are popular online resources to teach about Civics and Government. Click here for updates on this list: Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.
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Analyze Data and Create a Climate Graph
A climate graph is a visual representation of the average temperature and precipitation of a particular location over a period of time, usually a year. It displays the temperature and precipitation statistics for a specific location in a graphical f…
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University students are using AI, but not how you think | Pursuit by The University of Melbourne
There has been intense speculation about the role of generative artificial intelligence (AI) – including Chat GPT and other large language models – in the education of university students. Is it a powerful tool that will enhance learning or is it a …
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Google Docs | Gameboard Template – Google Drive
What are three different reasons why you would use a pageless version of Google Docs rather than the traditional version? Earn 10 bonus points for each reason you can think of.
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School is starting all over the country. Kids are excited and want to know who will be their teacher. Having a good relationship with your child’s teacher is important. I spent 32 years teaching in the state of Georgia, so the things I am going to t…
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Knowledge or Comprehension Strategies — What Should We Teach? | Shanahan on Literacy
Are we supposed to teach reading strategies or not? I keep coming across contradictory information. Some writers say the research supports strategy teaching and some say that we should teach background information instead. I respect your opinion. Wh…
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Stable Diffusion Image Variations | AI Image Generator
Generate multiple variations from a single image using stable diffusion. Simply enter the image below. Create unique and copyright free images to use in your own projects.
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Three AI Tools for Creating Spreadsheet Formulas • TechNotes Blog
If you’re like me, you find yourself using spreadsheets for a multitude of tasks beyond the common ones such as budgeting or inventory management. Spreadsheets empower us to handle data in ways that enhance our efficiency and productivity.
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Leapp.ai – AI-Powered Custom Learning Plans
Leapp.ai lets you to create personalized learning plans using AI. Powered by OpenAI’s chatgpt.
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Navigating AI Biases in The Classroom | Tech & Learning
Generative AI offers many advantages for educators, for use in and out of the classroom. Yet understanding the unintended biases that permeate within such a massive ecosystem is critical to effectively leveraging it.
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ChatGPT caught NYC schools off guard–now, we’re determined to embrace its potential
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters.
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How school districts are responding to AI in K-12 classrooms
A few weeks ago, we took a look at generative AI’s potential to change teaching and learning on college campuses around the country. This week, I spoke with experts and educators in K-12 to see what they think about these new tools.
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4 AI-powered language tools I use in my classroom
Key points: Teachers shouldn’t be afraid to try AI language tools as part of their instruction AI-powered tools can help students write well and revise their writing more efficiently See related article: Is AI the future of education? Since the rele…
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10 Great First Day of School Books – Educators Technology
As the aroma of sharpened pencils fills the air and the echoes of school bells beckon, we know it’s that time of the year again. Time to switch from beach days and barbecues to textbooks and classrooms – it’s back to school season!
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Students are Education’s Most Under-Utilized Asset | EdNews Daily
In education, almost everything changes. Technology changes. 30,000 years ago, the height of technology was painting on cave walls near the village of Montignac in southwest France. It was sophisticated and, long-lasting.
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We Landed on the Moon July 20 1969
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong was the first man to place foot on the moon. Commemorate that this year with an exciting collection of websites and apps that take your students to the Moon. Here are some you’ll like: Jacqui Murray has been teaching…
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How to Enact an AI Policy in Your K–12 Schools | EdTech Magazine
Many of the common fears about AI are unfounded. Rumors swirl that AI will replace teachers or that students will stop learning how to read and write.
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Steve Hargadon: Dr. Albrecht Blog Post: “Keeping Libraries Safe From Digital Attacks”
“It’s true – @stevehargadon is a national treasure.” @markjotter “Steve is an amazing facilitator. He brings this wonderful combination of humility, hospitality and insight to conversations that matter in education.
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Video Game Challenge from the Library of Congress | CUNY Games Network
The Library of Congress has announced a video game challenge for civic engagement, with prizes! The deadline for entries is November 27, 2023, and there’s more information on the challenge, rules, and prizes on the LOC website.
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Digital Learning Consultant | Nathan Richards
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Are Latino ‘Systems of Knowledge’ Missing From Education Technology? | EdSurge News
At a time when school districts are spending money on edtech like never before, it’s perhaps natural that some educators would be skeptical about both the pace and enthusiasm behind it.
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Roblox and Project Lead the Way team up for immersive STEM experience!
Key points: Immersive learning experiences are highly engaging and give students another way to grasp key STEM concepts Roblox and Project Lead The Way are offering 3D immersive learning with a new STEM experience See related article: Are you teachi…
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Three New Pop-Up Books to Make Any Season Spookier – GeekDad
Recently, a friend on Facebook proposed that, since Independence Day marks the last major commercial holiday between summer and autumn, July 5 is the true start of the Halloween season—at least among true diehards.
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English articles about famous days in history for students of English
The war between Iran and Iraq is 8 years long. After the war, Iraq must pay money… Millions of people live in Haiti. Haiti is a…
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Notice Wonder Form – Google Workspace Marketplace
Turn your Google Form™ into a Notice and Wonder form. Send responses to what students notice and wonder about an image/chart/graph/map to a Google Slides™. This is a freemium Add-on. Some features are exclusively available to AliceKeeler premium mem…
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Minecraft Education Adds Virtual NASA Artemis Mission Worlds to STEM — THE Journal
Created in partnership with NASA, Microsoft’s Minecraft Education has added virtual Artemis Mission Worlds, which will give STEM students a chance to use coding to design a rocket, navigate it to the Moon, and eventually, learn how to keep a Moon ba…
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Every kid needs their parents. But for 11 year-old Densel, 13 year-old Harye, 16 year-old Virginia, and the over 11 million children across the U.S. who are the only English speakers in their family, sometimes that relationship gets flipped.
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Hear From 3 Middle School Teachers Who Tried Augmented Reality
Get free K-12 lesson plans and professional development opportunities designed to bring technology to life for students and educators at Verizon Innovative Learning HQ. Augmented reality (AR) is arguably the next big thing in education.
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The Future Of Learning Reshaped By VR, AR, And Blockchain
The world of education is rapidly changing, and the introduction of new future internet technologies like augmented reality, virtual reality, and blockchain are revolutionizing how we learn.
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SEO vs. Social Media: How Do Their Roles Differ in Digital Marketing?
How much time should you invest in SEO vs. social media? Many articles argue that one is more important than the other. But first, let’s go over some simple definitions before we compare SEO vs. social media.
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Exoplanet may have a rare ‘twin’ sharing its orbit | Popular Science
Researchers using Chile’s Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array of telescopes (ALMA) may have found a rare “sibling” sharing the same orbit of a Jupiter-like planet about 370 light-years away from Earth in the Centaurus constellation.
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Is Game-Based Learning the Future of Education?
Dr Éadaoin Slattery is a postdoctoral researcher in game-based learning and assessment at the Centre for Assessment Research, Policy and Practice in Education at DCU. Her research into digital game-based learning with Prof.
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13 Creative Classroom Door Decoration Ideas and Resources – Educators Technology
As an educator with many years of classroom teaching under my belt, and now as an edtech blogger, I’ve learned a thing or two about creating inviting, inspiring, and educational spaces for students. One of the most overlooked yet essential component…
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At first, some parents were wary: An audio chatbot was supposed to teach their kids to speak positively to themselves through lessons about a superhero named Zip. In a world of Siri and Alexa, many people are skeptical that the makers of such techno…
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I didn’t learn how to teach reading in my teacher prep program
Key points: As students continue to struggle with reading, it is critical that teachers receive structured literacy training in teacher preparation programs Literacy serves as the foundation of learning, and families should be involved in this learn…
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How to Promote Family Engagement During Back-to-School | Waterford.org
One of the best ways to promote positive learning outcomes on an individual and school-wide level is involving families in their child’s educational journey. The Regular family-teacher communication is a meaningful step to long-term family engagemen…
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Tech Tip #108: Three-click Rule
As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Each Tuesday, I’ll share one of those with you. They’re always brief and always focused. Enjoy! Some websit…
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Free Special Issue of Journal of Science Teacher Education – Science for All
The current special issue of The Journal of Science Teacher Education is titled Transforming Communities: Equitable Science Teaching. The following article looks to be particularly interesting:
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SearchReSearch: Answer: How can we use LLMs to search better?
Magic is, by definition… SearchResearch Challenge (1/4/23): How can I find latest updates on topics of interest?
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Odd One Out — Google Arts & Culture
Finished playing? Share Resume Exit
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Top 4 Free AI Image Generators 2023
The power of AI in image generation is undeniable, offering incredible potential for creativity and innovation. While premium services like Midjourney command a minimum subscription of $10/month, there’s a world of high-quality, free AI tools just w…
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Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Funding is Hot, but is CCS Viable? | Wise Ocean
With most startups struggling to get funding in a cooled market, carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) companies are in a completely different pool in 2023. According to Crunchbase, over half a billion dollars has gone to dozens of upstart…
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CM3Leon’s architecture uses a decoder-only transformer akin to well-established text-based models. However, what sets CM3Leon apart is its ability to input and generate both text and images. This empowers CM3Leon to successfully handle the variety o…
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When teachers bring collaboration, creativity, and choice into assessment, anxiety and dread give way to confidence and joy as students show off what they have learned.
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It’s important to include hands-on, multisensory learning experiences in the math classroom to increase depths of knowledge and engagement.
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Math Modeling Can… Archives – Robert Kaplinsky
[This is one of a series of posts that explore real world examples of mathematical modeling to help educators better understand its applications. This is not intended to be a context for a student lesson.
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291: The Magic of Minecraft – The Thinking Stick
How is Minecraft a powerful tool for building community, fostering inclusion, and engaging learners? This week’s amazing guest Mashfiq Ahmed has an answer for that question and tons of wisdom to share.
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A Student and a Teacher Try to Untangle Why Group Work Is, Well, Terrible | EdSurge News
Everyone has a group project horror story. Maybe you had a classmate who got away with doing none of the work. Or maybe a group member doubled down on doing something incorrectly. For the really unlucky, perhaps a teammate repackaged your work as th…
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3 Essential Tips for Increasing Student Enrollment in Your District – Education Elements
The COVID-19 pandemic drastically shifted the culture of learning in America and the issue of school enrollment is a current topic of repeated conversation.
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Lessons Worth Sharing | TED-Ed
Mathematics is all around us. It can be seen in every aspect of our daily lives, from technology to art, engineering, finance, and even sports. This series explains mathematics, from its origins to its surprising modern uses. Even the math-averse wi…
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I’m a Luddite (and So Can You!) | The Nib
What the Luddites can teach us about resisting an automated future.
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As we gear up for another exciting school year, it’s time to dive headfirst into new strategies and tools that will make our classrooms even more epic. Today, I want to talk about something that will not only showcase your students’ work, but also t…
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While most coaches I meet are confident in their skills because of their own past successes in the classroom, there’s a pretty ubiquitous fear that they will encounter teachers who just don’t buy into the coaching process.
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Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Teacher and parent attitudes about ChatGPT, the popular AI chatbot that debuted in late 2022, are shifting slightly, according to new findings out today from the …
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Thugs at the US Capitol – look familiar? It’s from the front page of a 1947 comic book – Is This Tomorrow: America Under Communism! – an anti-Communist propaganda comic book published by the Catholic Catechetical Guild Educational Society of St. Pau…
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3 Reasons I’m Using a Chatbot in My Classes
Skeptical. That was my first reaction when I heard about ChatGPT. No way would I cave in to some creepy technological “advancement” everyone was talking about. Why would I rely on artificial intelligence to create materials when it doesn’t know my s…
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Scientific American recently published How Susceptible Are You to Misinformation? There’s a Test You Can Take. It’s about a short and simple online test some researchers developed, which is available here.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Quickly Turn Your Writing Into Videos
I’m taking the week off to do a bunch of fun things with my kids. While I’m away the most popular posts of the year so far will reappear. ChatGPT might be the first thing you think of when you read AI today, but there have been plenty of other AI to…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Hello History – Have a Chat With Hundreds of Historical Figures
I’m taking the week off to do a bunch of fun things with my kids. While I’m away the most popular posts of the year so far will reappear. Hello History is a new AI app that I wrote about last week.
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Listen (and Watch) to Real-Time Wikipedia Edits — Cool Infographics
Listen to Wikipedia is a fun visual & audio project that gives life to real-time edits on Wikipedia. For the visualization, green circles are anonymous edits, purple circles are bots, and white circles are edits by registered users.
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When first implementing the station rotation model, many teachers express concern about designing offline student-led collaborative stations.
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Quizizz Announces Two New Excellent Features Coming Soon | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
As regular readers know, I’m a big fan of Quizizz, and love their efforts to constantly improve their site. They just announced several new features that are presently in “beta,” which which I assume will be available soon to everybody.
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Features of Minecraft Education – Minecraft Education
Minecraft Education is a version of the popular open world game, Minecraft, specifically designed for education. It contains features that make Minecraft more accessible and effective in a classroom setting including and differentiate it from the Be…
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In an Edmonton lab, staff holding long silver tweezers pick through piles of mosquitoes. They’re sorting to determine not only how bad the coming weeks will be for the summertime pests, but also to watch for a new species on the scene.
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10 Hidden Google Jamboard Gems – Teacher Tech
Google Jamboard, the interactive digital whiteboard from Google Workspace, has revolutionized collaboration both in and out of the classroom. Many users are familiar with its basic features, but there’s so much more to discover.
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Clipdrop Launches Stable Doodle — Stability AI
Stable Doodle is available on the Clipdrop by Stability AI website and app (iOS and Google Play). Users can begin experimenting with the tool without a login, subject to daily limits.
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Try Using Poetry Pauses to Elevate Student Writing This Year
By Brett Vogelsinger My first year of teaching, I hung a banner that read “Poetry is Everywhere!” above my blackboard. It took a few more years of teaching to understand the truth of that sentence. Back in sixth grade, my own poem was published in t…
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Incorporating AI tools into the gifted education classroom can offer new and exciting opportunities for both teachers and students. By embracing these tools and learning how to use them effectively, we can prepare our students for the future and sta…
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What does restorative justice look like? – The Hechinger Report
The skirmish last fall began on a Montgomery County, Maryland, school bus. Someone—no one is exactly sure who—tossed a water bottle from the back of the bus, smacking a sixth grader sitting near the front.
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Out Of This World A Reason To Smile by DAN RATHER AND ELLIOT KIRSCHNER
With so much riveting us here on Earth, it is easy to forget that up there, out there in the High Frontier — outer space, the far cosmos, whatever you choose to call it — exciting, promising accomplishments are happening that will profoundly affect …
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Phones are not a “symptom of disengagement”, they’re a direct cause of it. – Carl Hendrick
One of the most damaging things I heard in my first few years of teaching was the notion that if kids were misbehaving in a lesson then it was the teacher’s fault as they hadn’t planned the lesson to properly engage them.
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