Check out these amazing blog posts from this past week:
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Social Emotional Learning Strategies For The Classroom
Social-emotional learning (SEL) by definition is a process for learning life skills, including how to deal with oneself, others, and relationships, and work in an effective manner.
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25 Fun Ways to Introduce Yourself to Students – Educators Technology
Ways to introduce yourself to students is the topic of our blog post today! Ever found yourself standing in front of a sea of fresh faces on the first day of school, feeling a mix of excitement, anticipation, and just a tinge of nervousness? We’ve a…
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Teachers: Don’t Rely On AI Detectors To Catch Cheaters | Fractus Learning |
I’ve spent A LOT of personal time the past year diving into AI and how it can be used to improve people’s lives. When I was getting my M.S. degree I built basic neural networks in Excel on machines with 4 Gb of memory. We’ve come a long way in the p…
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Human Meets AI: Helping Educators Navigate Their Emotions About Technological Change | EdSurge News
With shifting societal norms, advances in technology and evolving pedagogical practices at play, it’s no surprise that change is the only constant in education.
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Unconventional Research Sites to Inspire Students
Pew Research recently reported that about half of Americans regularly get their news from social media. Really? Isn’t SM where you share personal information, stay in touch with friends and families, post pictures of weddings and birthdays, and goss…
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Unleashing Metacognition: The Power of See, Think, Wonder – Dr. Catlin Tucker
Metacognition, often referred to as “thinking about thinking,” is a cognitive skill that empowers learners to reflect on their thought processes, learning strategies, and understanding of a concept or subject.
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The gratuitous use of plastic | Seth’s Blog
At the dawn of the plastic age, it was a cheap substitute. The word “plasticky” is not a compliment. Over time, the plastics industry developed new finishes, colors and most of all, cultural impact, and extra (wasted) plastic packaging was seen firs…
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AI: The Future of Classroom Efficiency with Mary Howard
This is the Ten Minute Teacher podcast, with your host, Vicki Davis. Today’s sponsor is Microsoft Education. Stay tuned at the show’s end to learn more about their (free) Artificial Intelligence Course for educators.
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Dear Parents, What to Know About Reporting Bullies at Your Kid’s School – GeekMom
Similar to the last time I wrote this, your kids are likely either back in school or going to be back between now and just after Labor Day. Of course, after all the new sneakers, supplies, and backpacks are purchased, it comes time to actually deal …
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Free Technology for Teachers: An eBook for History Teachers and History Students
At the start of every school year I like to review search strategies with students. If you like to do the same and want some new ideas to try this fall, take a look at my eBook Teaching Search Strategies to History Students.
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Can teachers tell if you use ChatGPT?
Most of the world’s universities quickly reacted to the changes brought by the development of AI to the educational process. While for most fields have been positively impacted by AI, educational institutions are concerned about academic integrity.
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Measuring Technology’s Impact on Student Achievement | Tech & Learning
Technology has undoubtedly created major waves in the world of K-12 education, but how can schools objectively measure the effect in terms of achievement?
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ChatGPT Teacher Tips Part 7 – Language Learning – EdTechTeacher
[INTRO: A recent national report by the Watson Foundation found that teachers are using ChatGPT more than students and are using it to create new lesson ideas.
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Increase Reading Volume: Practical Strategies
By Laura Robb (NCTE, 2022 – Learn more) Reviewed by Sarah Valter Teaching reading is centered around the tension of time and its limits: How do we teach students to master standards while also cultivating a love of reading? Experienced ELA educator …
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How Schools Are Coaching — or Coaxing — Teachers to Use ChatGPT | EdSurge News
Six months out from when it broke the internet, ChatGPT — and its numerous clones and adaptations — have drummed up great interest, and concerns, for teachers, school leaders and districts. The introduction of generative AI into society shines a bri…
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AI Dungeon, an infinitely generated text adventure powered by deep learning
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Gradio is the fastest way to demo your machine learning model with a friendly web interface so that anyone can use it, anywhere! Gradio can be installed with pip. Creating a Gradio interface only requires adding a couple lines of code to your projec…
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Two new baby orcas with no deaths over the past year could make for a remarkable census |
This year’s census for the Southern Resident killer whales apparently will document two new calves but no deaths for the 12-month period ending July 1. According to my unconfirmed records, this will be the first time in nearly 30 years that no death…
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Students Need to Explore the Nature of A.I. – John Spencer
In 2014, Microsoft launched a hugely successful A.I. bot named Xiaoice in China. With over forty million conversations, users often described feeling as though they were interacting with a real human.
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Don’t be a jerk. Don’t use our tools to make images that could inflame, upset, or cause drama. That includes gore and adult content. Be respectful to other people and the team. Access the Midjourney Bot through Discord via web browser, mobile app, o…
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Flickify | Turn Articles Into Videos Fast
Flickify turns your written content into professional-looking videos in less than a minute! Customize everything without complex editing or designing. Forget the expensive software, expert videographers, or hours of production.
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This paper provides guidance for using AI to quickly and easily implement evidence-based teaching strategies that instructors can integrate into their teaching. We discuss five teaching strategies that have proven value but are hard to implement in …
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This paper examines the transformative role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in education and their potential as learning tools, despite their inherent risks and limitations.
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Control Alt Achieve: 20 Instant Google Searches your Students Need to Know
Google strives to make their search as useful as possible, bringing back the most appropriate results for the terms you entered. Sometimes though Google goes above and beyond the normal list of search results by providing instant search cards at the…
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Why First-Day-Of-School Accountability Is A Must Smart Classroom Management
Last week’s article defined the conditions that must be met before enforcing consequences, which should be completed within the first hour of the first day of school. So . . .
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How UDL Made Me a Happier and More Effective Co-Teacher
My story could be the story of any co-teacher in any school. Co-teachers all over share a sense of solidarity. We are all connected through our memories of successful co-teaching partnerships and – alas – our recollections of far too many unbalanced…
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COLUMN: Want teachers to teach climate change? You’ve got to train them
Sometime this fall, in a classroom in New York City, second graders will use pipe cleaners and Post-it notes to build a model of a tree that could cool a city street. They’ll shine a lamp on their mini trees to see what shade patterns they cast.
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What is Cybersickness? The Common VR Side Effect Explained | Tech & Learning
Cybersickness can be caused by the use of virtual reality (VR) headsets or related technologies, and includes symptoms such as nausea, dizziness, sweating, and eyestrain.
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OPINION: We cannot let the Black experience get erased from U.S. history
Get important education news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox Here are the 17 words from Florida’s new social studies guidelines that lit a fire under much of America, on every side of the debate: “Instruction includes how slaves develo…
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5 Inquiry Modes And Their Effect On Student Ownership
Student ownership is the degree to which a learner feels a natural sense of responsibility and curiosity about their work.
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Does ‘Toxic Gratitude’ Harm Latino Educators in the Workplace? | EdSurge News
This is the third in a three-part series of conversations with Latino educators and edtech experts. Read the first part here and the second part here. Before we get into the educator perspectives shared below, there’s something I have to explain abo…
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I’ve loved literature since I was a little girl. I was always eager for a new book, a new word, a new understanding, a new connection, a new… knowing. I’ve read about what happens to a dream deferred. I’ve read about southern trees that bore strange…
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Humans, Generative AI, and Learning from Copyrighted Materials – improving learning
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What Is a Generative AI Textbook and How Does It Compare to a Traditional Textbook?
“What Is a Generative AI Textbook and How Does It Compare to a Traditional Textbook?”
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RT-2: New model translates vision and language into action
Robotic Transformer 2 (RT-2) is a novel vision-language-action (VLA) that learns from both web and robotics data, and translates this knowledge into generalised instructions for robotic control.
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How A Blank Piece of Paper Can Help Students Understand Emotional Resilience
It’s the beginning of the year, so I thought I would share one of my favorite lessons. It’s quick, easy, and powerful. You can leverage SEL learning in your room with nothing more than a piece of
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A lot of times, writing sucks. Few can understand that better than Veronica Karr, a longtime English teacher at Rosamond High Early College Campus.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Scan and Search Handwritten Notes in Google Keep and Docs
In this week’s Practical Ed Tech Newsletter I shared a couple of studies that support the benefits of handwriting notes over typing notes. In the newsletter I also shared a couple of tips for digitizing handwritten notes.
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New AI systems collide with copyright law – BBC News
Kelly McKernan says she “felt sick” when she discovered her artwork had been used to train an artificial intelligence system.
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Microsoft Bing AI now has dark mode, Google Chrome support
Microsoft’s ChatGPT-powered Bing AI experience has long been locked to its own Edge browser but, now, support for Google Chrome is available. Bing AI in Google Chrome is now live for most users, and works as you’d expect. Heading to bing.
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6 Tools for Blended Learning | Tech & Learning
The best blended learning tools will depend on each district and school’s situation as well as their LMS integrations, says Sherri Powell, an education specialist with the publishing and digital learning department of the Region 4 Education Service …
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6 Technologies to Try for the New School Year – Teacher Tech
Technology overload is definitely a thing. The more is not the merrier. Here are a few EdTech products for you to check out, but MAYBE you should try one. Tools do not teach. There is no panacea. With any tool you must start with pedagogy and choose…
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Education strikes at the heart of what makes us human. It drives the intellectual capacity and prosperity of nations. It has developed the minds that took us to the moon and eradicated previously incurable diseases.
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Rethinking How We Ask Students to Think in the Classroom – edWeb
Typical conversations about education reform revolve around things like how we teach (education policy) or what we teach (the curriculum). But according to Dr.
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Embracing AI for limitless learning potential
Key points: Students will continue to use AI–educators should encourage responsible AI use among students Stopgaps to block AI will only negatively impact underserved students who don’t have ready access to the internet at home See related article: …
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Education in the age of AI and smart technology
We are in a new era–the Era of Smart Technology. Artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of ChatGPT-4 is very smart and ChatGPT-5, -6, and -7, etc. will be even smarter. Smart technology will change the “game of work” and it will change how we educ…
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Dialogue (Not Debate) Skills Can Help Save Our Democracy
Former social studies teacher and school leader Shawn McCusker is co-author of Becoming Active Citizens: Practices to Engage Students in Civic Education Across the Curriculum. By Shawn W. McCusker
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Too many classes, all grade levels, begin the school year with getting down to academic business – starting to cover content, discussing expectations regarding academic requirements, giving tests, and other academic information provided by the teach…
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Florida Adopts Curriculum to Indoctrinate Students in Rightwing Views | Diane Ravitch’s blog
Ana Cenallos of The Orlando Sentinel reports that the state of Florida adopted curriculum materials created by rightwing talk show host Dennis Prager with the explicit purpose of indoctrinating students to accept rightwing views of controversial top…
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Schools Matter: Oklahoma Approves Unconstitutional Religious Charter Schools
What’s worse than a virtual charter school? A religious virtual charter school, the kind that Oklahoma’s white christian nationalists recently approved. Guest essay by Rachel Laser for the NYTimes: Something deeply un-American is underway in the sta…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Five Tools for Creating Automatically Scored Formative Assessments
This morning I answered an email from a reader who was asked to teach additional classes this fall. She reached out to me for suggestions on tools to create self-grading formative assessments to save her time this fall.
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The Great Student AI Writing Experiment with Steve Dembo
Microsoft ‘s Free AI Course for Educators Microsoft has an amazing artificial intelligence course for educators that will help you and your education team have the knowledge you need to understand the best practices for artificial intelligence in sc…
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You Can Download Instructions for More Than 6,800 LEGO Kits for Free
Since the LEGO system was introduced in the mid-1950s, the sets of interlocking blocks, figures, and other pieces have been popular with people of all ages (except, maybe, the people who accidentally step on the blocks while barefoot).
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Google will ‘supercharge’ Assistant with AI that’s more like ChatGPT and Bard – The Verge
Google is planning to update Assistant with features powered by generative AI, according to a report from Axios.
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15 Fun Math Games for Kids – Educators Technology
Fun math games for kids is the topic of our blog post today! I’ll admit, there was a time when the mere mention of the word ‘math’ would make me break out in a cold sweat.
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Refresh Book Lists and Class Libraries with 2023 Must Reads
By Kasey Short So far 2023 has been an amazing year for new middle grades books with many more exciting titles to come. As I plan for the new academic year, I’ve created a book list of new reads and I’m working towards including as many of these boo…
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High-Performing Classrooms: 32 Characteristics
Instructional design is the strategic creation of learning experiences through intentional planning, sequencing, and data-based revision of learning. This process includes both the ways content is accessed, and the learning needs and objectives (and…
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In this introduction, Wharton Interactive’s Faculty Director Ethan Mollick and Director of Pedagogy Lilach Mollick provide an overview of how large language models (LLMs) work and explain how this latest generation of models has impacted how we work…
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The Writers’ Strike Over AI Is Bigger Than Hollywood – The Markup
Last weekend, the double-feature phenomenon dubbed Barbenheimer brought in a combined $244.4 million in what felt like a return to the prepandemic movie experience.
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Forget subtitles: YouTube now dubs videos with AI-generated voices – Rest of World
In an open letter earlier this year, Neal Mohan, the recently appointed head of YouTube, made a pledge to creators that better translation tools were coming.
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Adam Watson’s Edtech Elixirs: Figjam
While I didn’t attend ISTE 2023 in person last month, I watched the social media about it from afar. One tool that came up repeatedly was Figjam. The enthusiasm I read about it encouraged me to try it out for myself.
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20 Team Building Activities for Kids – Educators Technology
Through the many years I spent teaching in class, I come to discover and appreciate the sheer power and potential that a group of children can unlock when they come together as a team. However, team building doesn’t happen by accident; it’s an art t…
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20 ChatGPT Prompts for ELA Teachers – Class Tech Tips
Have you used chatbots to save time this school year? ChatGPT and generative artificial intelligence (AI) have changed the way I think about instructional planning. Today on the blog, I have a selection of ChatGPT prompts for ELA teachers.
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3 Pillars of High-quality Blended Learning – Dr. Catlin Tucker
Blended learning seamlessly weaves together online and in-person learning experiences to boost student engagement and meet the unique needs of a diverse class by providing flexible pathways through learning experiences.
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how-can-genetic-modification-protect-corn
The European corn borer (ECB) is a major pest of corn in the United States. It is a small, black and white moth that lays its eggs on the leaves of corn plants. The larvae hatch and tunnel into the stalks, ears, and leaves of the plant, causing sign…
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Free Technology for Teachers: A New Google Classroom Control Over Assignment Submissions
When you return to school this fall Google Classroom will have some new features for you to try. One of those new features that was recently announced is more control over assignment submissions.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Get in the Flow
In a world in which there is no shortage of digital distractions it can be hard to get into the flow of working a project, studying, or simply sitting and thinking for a while.
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A Principal’s Reflections: How Pace Benefits All Learners
When you think about how you learn best, what comes to mind? Your response most likely flies in the face of how you were taught, and the same could be said of students today. If all kids are doing the same thing, the same way, at the same time, the …
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I know how hard it is to raise capable and emotionally intelligent kids. But the key is to practice supportive communication.
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AI and STEM Education: Great Match or Oil and Water? | Sphero
Artificial intelligence is playing a major role in the world today. Not only is the technology driving cars, curating our social media feeds, and powering manufacturing robots, it’s also becoming commonplace in education. In fact, a recent IDC study…