Check out these great posts from this past week:
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The Compassion Project – Elementary Empathy Curriculum
One of EVERFI’s Social Emotional Learning training courses, The Compassion Project, has been helping educators teach elementary school students the complex but critical skill of compassion since 2018.
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Like it or not, ChatGPT is our new learning partner
You may have heard of ChatGPT. According to Google, about 350,000 articles have been written on the subject, and a significant percentage are related to education. With so much publicity, it is reasonable to assume that all students from middle scho…
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10 Spooktacular Halloween Party Games – Educators Technology
Halloween party games are the topic of our blog post today!
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Jamboard Transition Resources for Teachers – EdTechTeacher
Google recently announced that Jamboard is winding down in 2024 (Details here) and educators across the world are now in search of viable alternatives.
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AI in Higher Ed: Using What We Already Know About Good Teaching Practices | EdSurge News
How is AI currently utilized in higher education? As of fall 2023, we are still in the early stages of figuring out what AI integration means for higher ed. In some classrooms, such as my own, we talk about what AI can and can’t do.
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Case Study – The Complicated Genetics of Human Eye Color
This mini case study explores eye color in humans. The genetics of eye color is complicated! It is not simply a case of brown being dominant to blue. There are interacting genes that influence the color: specifically, OCA2, and HERC2. This case stud…
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog: A Dramatic Annular Eclipse over the Northwest
The annual eclipse this morning was quite a treat…even here in Seattle where only 80% of the sun’s disk was covered by the moon. Viewa…
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Millennials Spend More Time Playing Video Games Than Gen Z and Teens
Millennials are the largest untapped market that video game companies should be focusing on, per a new study from Fandom, which finds that the generation spends more time gaming than both Gen Z and teens. Compiled based on proprietary user data from…
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Best Drones for Schools | Tech & Learning
The best drones for schools offer a way to elevate your teaching and student engagement all in one fell swoop. This can mean teaching coding and construction in one potential trip to the skies for your students. Drones are more affordable and simple…
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AI in Education: Humans in the Loop
The age of artificial intelligence has dawned, and it’s a lot to take in. In eSpark’s “AI in Education” series, we’ll help get you up to speed, one issue at a time.
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Teaching AI: What K-12 Educators Need to Know — MindSpark
Only a few years ago, artificial intelligence (AI) may have seemed closer to science fiction than reality, but in today’s world, this technology has become an inescapable part of our daily lives.
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Supporting the youngest witnesses of this humanitarian crisis – NetFamilyNews.org
Sometimes we parents feel so helpless when our children come to us hurting as much as us when they see something awful happening in the world.
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog: Super Bird Migration on Thursday Morning
Yesterday, a pro-Hamas rally took place on Red Square at the University of Washington, with the sounds spreading across a large area of the …
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How Gamifying Instruction Improved Student Test Scores in This Teacher’s Classroom
Gerilyn Williams, a middle school math teacher in New Jersey, was looking for ways to make math more fun and engaging for her students. She learned about gamification and tried it out in her classroom in 2017.
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ChatGPT in Schools: Friend or Foe? – Educators Technology
It’s easy to grow jaded about the news that technological innovations are going to wipe out entire industries. Any time a new innovative technology appears, people seem dead set on making predictions regarding the ways in which it is going to comple…
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How Schools Currently Integrate Generative AI in the Classroom | Lightspeed Systems
Over the past year, no topic has been more discussed among K-12 educators than artificial intelligence (AI) and, in particular, generative AI. in the classroom.
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15 Spooktacular Halloween Games for Kids – Educators Technology
Halloween games for kids are the topic of our blog post today!
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The Future of Democracy Depends on a Quality Civics Education | EdSurge News
Right now, millions of students around the country are comfortably in their seats for the 2023-24 school year.
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How Micro-credentials are Meeting the Needs of the Workforce – Digital Promise
With all the technological advances in the past few decades, industries are constantly evolving to meet the needs of society, which generates new job opportunities to address those needs; however, it also brings about job displacement for individual…
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog: Will You Be Able to See the Annular Solar Eclipse?
On Saturday morning, an annular eclipse will be occurring over the western U.S., with the greatest sun loss passing across southern Oregon. But will clouds get in the way? That is the topic of this blog.
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Sketch to website with ChatGPT – Leon Furze
As soon as GPT-4’s “vision” or image recognition features were teased in the research paper, videos of a sketch of a website to a fully functioning site went viral.
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Adobe created a symbol to encourage tagging AI-generated content – The Verge
Adobe and other companies have established a symbol that can be attached to content alongside metadata, establishing its provenance, including whether it was made with AI tools.
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Minecraft vs Roblox: Which is Best for Teaching? | Tech & Learning
It’s a modern battle of Minecraft vs Roblox, but which game comes out on top when it comes to teaching? This guide aims to lay out all you need to know about each of the block-based gaming worlds in which building and creativity are a given.
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Science of Reading, Meet the Science of Learning
Building Your BrandEducation NewsFeaturedHigher EducationScienceTechnology 7 Top Science Tips from Kate the Chemist (Video Included) Do Something Awesome; Share With A Friend Who May BenefitShare on LinkedInShare on FacebookShare on X (Twitter)Share…
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How to Help Students Avoid Getting Duped Online — and by AI Chatbots | EdSurge News
Students these days are terrible at sorting true facts from misinformation online and on social media, many studies show. But it’s not because students aren’t good at critical thinking, argues Mike Caulfield, a research scientist at University of Wa…
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The Misunderstanding About Education That Cost Mark Zuckerberg $100 Million
Last week, Matt Barnum reported in Chalkbeat that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is laying off dozens of staff members and pivoting away from the personalized learning platform they have funded since 2015 with somewhere near $100M.
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Dollars and sense: Can financial literacy help students learn math?
WASHINGTON – Inside a high school classroom, Bryan Martinez jots down several purchases that would require a short-term savings plan: shoes, phone, headphones, clothes, and food.
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Spooktacular Halloween Activities Students Will Love
At MIND, we love to go all out on Halloween. Every year, many of us look forward to dressing up on All Hallows’ Eve, and the costumes never disappoint—some are spooky, some funny, and some are just outright adorable.
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His Teachers Showed Him Why History Matters. Now He Wants to Pay That Forward. | EdSurge News
Plenty of students find social studies lessons a bit dull. Not Caleb Brown. Where some students might see a sequence of dates to memorize, he sees turning points that helped define the world we live in today.
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15 Fall Art Projects and Activities for Kids – Educators Technology
Fall art projects and activities for kids are the topic of our blog post todat! If you’re anything like me, you get a kick out of seeing your kids or students express themselves creatively.
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Case Study Resources for Modern Teachers
In education, case studies are widely used as a pedagogical tool to encourage critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and the application of theoretical knowledge.
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New ways Google is helping reduce transportation and energy emissions
Read this post in Spanish // Blog en español aquí. Responding to climate change calls for systemic, global action to transition to a sustainable future for everyone. But tackling a problem at the scale of climate change can seem intimidating.
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Review – Diana and the Hero’s Journey – The First Adventure – GeekDad
Ray: Much like Superman, Wonder Woman’s youth has been covered extensively in the YA and young readers line in recent years.
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Open Middle Exercises – GeoGebra
Ditch those worksheets! This book serves as a collection of digitally interactive [b][color=#1551b5]Open Middle exercises[/color][/b]. Be sure to ch…
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Teachers use Diffit to instantly get leveled resources for any lesson, saving tons of time and helping all students access grade level content. Head to Diffit.Me to try it yourself!
In this video, we share our new Google Slides template and the new…
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How AI could save–or sink–creative writing in schools
This story originally appeared on the Christensen Institute’s blog and is reposted here with permission. eSchool News is Free for qualified educators. Sign up or login to access all our K-12 news and resources.
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Should our kids learn how to use generative AI? Well… – NetFamilyNews.org
A teacher in an international school in Panama asks her students to critique essays “written” by ChatGPT, while others have their students fact-check AI material, according to Time.
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18 Hands-on Fall Crafts for Kids – Educators Technology
Fall crafts for kids are the topic of our blog post today! Fall is here, and it’s the perfect time to get crafty with the kiddos. If you’re in the market for some innovative Fall crafts for kids, you’ve come to the right place.
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How to Personalize a Desmos Lesson – Teacher Tech
Desmos is more than a calculator. It has a lesson facilitation tool that honestly can be used by any subject teacher, not just math teachers. teacher.desmos.com allows you to create custom activities from scratch. You can also take a pre-made lesson…
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In the quest to provide inclusive and comprehensive education, there’s a saying that captures the essence perfectly: “When we design for disability, we all benefit.
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A Simple Way To Attain Daily Improvement Smart Classroom Management
“A Simple Way To Attain Daily Improvement”
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Critical Thinking: What is DOK 2? – Teacher Tech
As educators, we strive to instill critical thinking skills in our students. These skills are crucial for problem-solving, making informed decisions, and navigating our increasingly complex world. In an age of Generative AI (ChatGPT, Bard, etc…) ana…
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Spooky Science – Data Analysis on Fear and Disgust
Disgust and fear are two emotions associated with phobias. In one study, subjects rated 25 images of animals and rated them based on how scary or disgusting the animals were. Participants answered questions about their discomfort or anxiety for a se…
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Spin a Spooky Story – Shapegrams
Give the spinners a try at this link (click the Spin All button). What’s scarier than drawing your own illustrations? Asking an artificial intelligence to generate them for you! Craiyon and DALL•E 2 are A.I. systems that create art from the text you…
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Microsoft Canada is excited to launch a new world in Minecraft Education, in partnership with the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) First Nation and the School District 43 (Coquitlam) Education team.
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10 Great Math Posters for Classroom – Educators Technology
f you’re like me, you know how game-changing a well-placed poster can be for engaging students and reinforcing key concepts.
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How Extra Time on Math Tests Impacts Students with Learning Disabilities – Digital Promise
Imagine you’re a student sitting for a math test. The clock is ticking, and you feel like you’re racing against time.
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A Principal’s Reflections: Inclusion and Co-Teaching in the Personalized Classroom
Inclusion is essential for special education (SPED) because it promotes the social and academic development of students with disabilities, fosters a sense of belonging, and prepares them for life outside of school.
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Digital Tools for Environmental Education in Elementary School | Edutopia
Students can use technology to conduct research into weather, ecosystems, and more, and to showcase their learning. When our graduating fifth graders are asked, “What was your favorite subject in school?” many of them say “Recess.
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Setting Ground Rules Around Original Writing and ChatGPT | Edutopia
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT have the power to revolutionize education, but educators must first wrestle with weighty ethical and practical concerns. Michelle Zimmerman can’t predict the future.