Here are some great posts from this past week:
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14 Effective Self-Directed Learning Strategies – Educators Technology
Today, we’re exploring the concept of self-directed learning strategies. Now, we’re not just talking about Googling an answer to a quick question. We’re going deep into methodologies that empower students to take the reins of their own educational j…
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How to Teach Students: Teach Their Parents
If parents don’t value tech, students won’t. If parents are confused by what you teach, they will pass that on to their children. Be open to parents. Answer their questions. Never EVER leave them feeling intimidated. Let them know that lots of peopl…
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Interpreting a Food Web and Trophic Levels
Students in high school biology study food webs and trophic levels. There is a little more detail than the basic food chain they may have learned in earlier grades. The topic is part of Chapter 4: Ecosystems (Miller and Levine). I introduce the chap…
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How to stop players from using items from the inventory in Minecraft Bedrock or Education – YouTube
In this video I’ll demonstrate how to prevent players or students from accessing specific items from the inventory in Minecraft Education; items that can allow students to escape from border block areas (chorus fruit & ender pearls) or prove to be …
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5 AI Chatbots Designed to Enhance the User Experience
ChatGPT exploded onto the scene nearly a year ago to become the fastest-growing consumer application in history, suggesting a new future of tech had arrived and was not hyperbole.
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17 AI Tools and Resources for Teachers – Practical Ed Tech
Since January anything that I’ve published about AI (artificial intelligence) has vaulted to the top of the list of the most popular posts of the week, month, and year.
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Top 10 Hands-On AI Activities for kids and the classroom
Artificial intelligence (AI) is all around our kids, yet not so much in their classrooms. In this blog we outline a set of 10 activities that kids and teachers can do, inside and outside of the classroom, to explore AI.
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‘The Creator’ Takes a Unique Look at Humans vs. AI – GeekDad
The future of artificial intelligence has been the theme of several movies. In The Terminator series of movies, AI seeks to destroy humankind. 2001: A Space Odyssey had a similar prediction for AI. WALL-E by Pixar Animation Studios offered a differe…
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog: The Implications of El Nino for Northwest Autumn and Winter
There has been a lot of speculative talk about the implications of El Nino for our winter, with some claiming a certainty of drought and other afflictions. So let’s try to determine reality from hype.
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GameMaker: How to Use It to Teach | Tech & Learning
GameMaker is a video game development tool that is designed to make creating 2D video games easy. This makes it a favorite for educators, who can use it to teach video game design and game-based projects in other subjects.
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Teaching data science in art, social studies and language class
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today!
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14 effective classroom management strategies for middle school | Hāpara
When people ask what grade level I taught, I know how they’ll react when I respond. Their eyes widen, and they shake their heads. “Middle school! I know what I was like at that age. I could never teach that age,” they say. The fact is that I truly e…
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5 science and technology videos to get students talking
School is back in session, and for many students, that means a major shift from an unstructured schedule to a more regimented school day. It may still be challenging to keep students’ attention on topics like science and technology now that classroo…
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In the United States, ten percent of all students–roughly five million students total–come from multilingual households. Multilingual students speak more than one language and need Teaching students to read is so much more than sitting them down in …
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Katie Novak on How to Make Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Work in Your School – John Spencer
In this week’s episode, I interview Dr. Katie Novak. She shares the basics of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and how to make it work in a K-12 setting. I gained so many key insights from this interview and I hope you find it as useful as I did.
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2022 Salish Sea toxics monitoring synthesis: A selection of research |
A new report from the Puget Sound Ecosystem Monitoring Program takes a comprehensive look at some of the greatest dangers posed by toxic chemicals in the Salish Sea.
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This article is the first of a two-part series covering key principles to consider when integrating a generative AI creativity tool into your academic setting.
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Districts Looking for New Guidance on AI, and Tech Equity, From States – Market Brief
As the rapid emergence of ChatGPT raises new questions about the power and drawbacks of artificial intelligence, many states are seeing a growing demand from school districts for guidance on the technology’s use in the classroom.
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We Don’t Have to Sacrifice Joy for Rigor in the Classroom | EdSurge News
I wrote this mantra on a sticky note and placed it on my desk as a daily reminder that my students’ right to access joy is just as important as academic rigor. During my third year of teaching, I struggled to envision what rigorous learning looks, s…
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30 Examples Of Assistive Technology In The Classroom –
Assistive technology refers to any device, equipment, software, or system that is designed to assist individuals with disabilities in performing tasks, improving their quality of life, and enhancing their overall independence.
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The Nerdy Teacher: Using @AdobeExpress For Presentations #MakerEd #AdobeEduCreative
I just had to share this amazing video a student created for Innovation and Design class. The 6th grade class was tasked with building their teacher (me) a house based on his answers to their questions.
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How to use FigJam in the classroom: 20 ideas + templates – Ditch That Textbook
We learned quickly how to use online whiteboards during remote teaching and many of us now even have interactive displays in our classrooms. But how does that translate to face to face learning?
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Microsoft’s AI Copilot in Windows 11 is Out Now
I’ve been working on a big project and am very busy, but I have been studying the changes in Windows 11 Copilot, released on Tuesday, September 26, and wanted to share them with you.
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9 Teacher Tools You Need for Your Next Presentation – Class Tech Tips
Elevate your teaching game with these must-have presentation tools for teachers. Discover innovative ways to engage students. Discover 7 game-changing ChatGPT prompts for educators! Boost productivity and unleash classroom creativity with these must…
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Students using AI: When is it a tool and when is it cheating?
I was fortunate to take graduate-level statistics from the person I consider the best teacher I’ve ever encountered: Greg Hancock. I can’t tell you how many times his clear and compelling explanations of abstract statistical concepts left me, and th…
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How Minecraft makes learning about sustainability a breeze
Seven miles off the coast of Brighton, the blades of 116 wind turbines gracefully rotate in the September breeze. The turbines make up Rampion Wind Farm, and the energy they generate powers up to 350,000 UK homes annually.
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The Teacher’s Guide for Transitioning from Jamboard to FigJam – Tom Mullaney
Google has announced that Jamboard is turning down. That makes perfect sense because Jamboard has not received an update since it added the ability to add an image from a webcam in March 2021. I was an early believer in Jamboard and the power of col…
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OpenAI gives ChatGPT access to the entire internet | VentureBeat
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I’m an education expert and video games could be the future of schools | The Sun
BEFORE I began writing about video games for a living, I worked in education for around 15 years. Working with children from nursery school age all the way to 6th form, I have taught in countries all over the world, including England, Wales, Germany…
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How educators can navigate AI-driven plagiarism
From the very beginning of its meteoric rise, generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools seemed to stir a universal reaction: How will students use it to cheat? However, students engaged in cheating well before tools like ChatGPT became household…
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Digital tools are sticking around–here’s the right way to leverage technology
The edtech industry is experiencing explosive growth, especially with the rapid emergence of artificial intelligence (AI), which is projected to hit $3.68 billion in sales by the end of the year.
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Using AI to Encourage Productive Struggle in Math | Edutopia
Students ‘don’t need an answer, they need help with the process,’ and combining ChatGPT with Wolfram Alpha is one way to guide them through it. For math teachers, the AI revolution recently experienced by so many of our colleagues in other subjects …
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Interactive STEM Spreadsheets | Tech & Learning
The golden rule in Google Sheets: To get an interactive version that you can edit, go to the File menu and select “Make a copy.” This saves the file in your Drive account.
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Experts: Americans’ poor math skills threaten productivity, security
BOSTON — Like a lot of high school students, Kevin Tran loves superheroes, though perhaps for different reasons than his classmates. “They’re all insanely smart. In their regular jobs they’re engineers, they’re scientists,” said Tran, who is 17.
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Helping Students Think With Their Whole Bodies | EdSurge News
When people think about thinking, they typically conceive of the brain as a kind of machine or muscle that is strictly confined to our skulls. As Rodin’s famous sculpture of the thinking man propping his chin on his hand, we imagine the mind as all …
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15 questions to ask when evaluating communications platforms
The importance of effective home-school communications has never been higher. Families expect to be kept informed of their child’s activities, academic progress, and expectations.
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SearchReSearch: Answer: What is dietary fiber?
It seems obvious…
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How System 03 cleans the Great Pacific Garbage Patch | The Ocean Cleanup – YouTube
The fundamental challenge of cleaning up the ocean garbage patches is that the plastic pollution is highly diluted, spanning millions of square kilometers. Our cleanup solution is designed to first concentrate the plastic, allowing us to effectively…
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Data Science and October Events
Hello youcubians, Today I have some data science updates and resources to share with you, as well as information about several upcoming events.
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Can Your Students Recognize Bias? 7 Tips for Teaching Media Literacy
In today’s environment, media literacy is more important than ever. But the sparse research on the topic shows us that kids really struggle with identifying legitimate sources.
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Chatbots Have a Math Problem and a People Problem
Last week, I was invited to chat behind closed doors with a working group on generative AI consisting of a bunch of representatives from education foundations.
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Duet AI for Google Workspace: How to Use It for Teaching | Tech & Learning
Duet AI for Google Workspace is a powerful artificial intelligence tool built into the Google work tools, which should help make life easier. The idea is to offer all the power of AI right there within Google Docs, Sheets, and more.
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Empowering Teachers and Inspiring Students for a STEM-Driven Future | EdSurge News
Education is an indispensable profession in our world today, as teachers play a pivotal role in equipping students for the challenges of the future, enabling them to be successful at every stage in life.
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One of instructors’ primary concerns about students using generative AI is “cheating,” or getting credit for work they didn’t do. It occurred to me this weekend that this is actually a longstanding problem that collaborative learning has been grappl…
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Will Teachers Listen to Feedback From AI? Researchers Are Betting on It | EdSurge News
Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX.
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7 Highly Useful Tech Skills to Develop if You’re Aiming for a Career in Accounting
I used to be pretty good at accounting because I was a whiz with spreadsheets and data analysis. That changed when accounting began relying heavily on technology.
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How listening to students’ stories can improve math class | KQED
Walking into her sophomore year math class, Taylor Paris was nervous. She’d had a rocky relationship with the subject ever since long division showed up in elementary school. “I knew I didn’t understand math concepts very well.
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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Scientists at the Johnson Space Center in Houston now have their hands on the first asteroid sample ever obtained by the United States. The material could reveal unprecedented answers about how our solar system was formed, a…
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A world-first discovery from Australian researchers unlocks the potential for the development of better vaccines and therapies against influenza viruses tailored to different age groups.
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What is the Mystery Number in the Box? – YouTube
There is a mystery number in the box. Follow the clues and see if you can discover what the number is before the video shows the answer!
Good luck – and enjoy!
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Harnessing the Power: Creating Images with Canva’s AI – Free Technology For Teachers
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Getty Images promises its new AI doesn’t contain copyrighted art | MIT Technology Review
The generative AI system, announced today, was built by Nvidia and is trained solely on images in Getty’s image library. It does not include logos or images that have been scraped off the internet without consent. “Fundamentally, it’s trained; it’s…
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Peter Liljedahl intervju og workshop | Cappelen Damm Utdanning
Hvordan kan du skape en engasjerende, motiverende og spennende matematikkundervisning hvor elevene får samarbeide og kommunisere om matematikk? I denne boka presenterer Peter Liljedahl 14 undervisningspraksiser som vil hjelpe deg med å bygge et tenk…
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8 Important Generative AI Use Cases in the Classroom
Homework. A student last spring told me that he complained about homework and SnapAI offered to do his homework for him and began by typing something for him. Psychological Wellness.
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AI Tools to Fuel Student Imagination – Teacher Reboot Camp
“I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn’t have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn’t exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination … can help us fo…
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Control Alt Achieve: The Bard’s Tale: Google AI Tools in Education
It is exciting to test out these new features to see how they can benefit schools with productivity, content creation, teaching, learning, and more.
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ChatGPT can now see, hear, and talk to some users | Popular Science
ChatGPT has a voice—or, rather, five voices. On Monday, OpenAI announced its buzzworthy, controversial large language model (LLM) can now verbally converse with users, as well as parse uploaded photos and images.
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What is matter? | Popular Science
A little less than one-third of the universe—around 31 percent—consists of matter. A new calculation confirms that number; astrophysicists have long believed that something other than tangible stuff makes up the majority of our reality. So then, wha…
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Free AI Presentation Maker | Slidesgo
When lack of inspiration or time constraints are something you’re worried about, it’s a good idea to seek help. Slidesgo comes to the rescue with its latest functionality—the AI Presentation Maker! With a few clicks, you’ll have wonderful slideshows…
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A Visual Chart on Summative Vs Formative Assessment – Educators Technology
Summative vs formative assessment is the topic of our blog post today! Navigating the realm of educational assessments can feel like a tightrope walk. On one side, we have formative assessments—those ongoing checks that help us tweak our teaching an…
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Truth For Teachers – Don’t ban ChatGPT or AI tools in school. Do this instead.
The first time I encountered ChatGPT, I panicked. It was December of 2022, and I walked into a staff room to talk to a colleague, Kate, about an assignment. What I found instead were my colleagues Kate and James playing with magic: ChatGPT, an AI pl…
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Warm ocean waters work their way into Puget Sound |
Unusually warm waters in the Pacific Ocean — now pushing up against the Washington coast — are keeping oceanographers on alert for changes that could reverberate through the food web, potentially affecting fish, birds and marine mammals in coastal w…
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Struggly Classroom supports the learning of conceptual mathematics that is critical for students from ages five to twelve and beyond.
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Want to do a professional development lesson on Curipod? We’ve gathered a selection of resources for you below.
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The Sneaky Conservativism of Ed Tech – Alfie Kohn
Have you ever noticed that people in positions of power who earnestly exhort us to “think outside the box” are likely to resist any effort to change the box itself? Take the folks in Silicon Valley.
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A Principal’s Reflections: Quality Over Quantity
In education, there is never a lack of ideas on how to improve teaching, learning and leadership. Most would agree that they are a dime a dozen. Over the years, I have been writing extensively about efficacy-based pathways that have led to proven re…
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Enzymes – How Do They Work? – Simple Coloring Activity
Most biology books have a chapter on macromolecules at the beginning, usually after the introduction to biology chapter. For freshman, this chapter can be challenging. They usually don’t have the background in chemistry to understand concepts like a…
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Using “A Million Miles Away” As An SEL Opportunity | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
I previously posted about “A Million Miles Away” when the trailer first came out, and was not disappointed when I finished watching it last night. There are many ways to use the movie in the classroom.
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Minecraft Redstone Build Hacks That You Must Know!! – YouTube