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I pitted Google Bard with Gemini Pro vs ChatGPT — here’s the winner | Tom’s Guide
Google has incorporated its new AI large language model, Gemini Pro, into its popular chatbot, Bard. With this comes the promise that it will perform at least as well, if not better, than OpenAI’s free version of ChatGPT.
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Guest post by @MattRhoads1990 Matthew Rhoads, Ed.D. Dr. Matt Rhoads is a Tech and Instructional Leader and Innovator with hands in Adult Ed, K-12, and Higher Education. He is the author of several books and is the host of Navigating Education – The …
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ParentSquare Acquires Remind, Expanding Options for School-Home Engagement
The merger will expand ParentSquare’s current offerings with additional communication tools that reach students and families where they are and support learning wherever it happens.
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GoldieBlox and Discovery Education today announced a new education initiative – Maker High. Maker High offers an immersive learning experience hosted on Roblox for educators to teach chemistry in middle and high school classrooms. Maker High is a…
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This post originally appeared at Grading For Growth on December 4, 2023. It’s been slightly edited and I have included some additional thoughts at the end. What does your ideal classroom meeting look like? Take a moment to visualize it.
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In 2024, education will move to adopt AI—but slowly
Key points: AI tools have great potential–as long as students use them correctly The best way for teachers to get started with AI is just to play around with it See related article: Is generative AI a beacon for more accessible education? For more o…
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Gemini – Google Groundbreaking AI Tool Explained for Teachers – Educators Technology
Google has recently unveiled Gemini, an AI innovation that’s stirring up quite a buzz in the digital realm. This new AI product isn’t just another addition to the existing toolkit; it’s a game-changer, seemingly eclipsing even the likes of ChatGPT w…
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“You Don’t Know Africa” Is A Useful Geography Game | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
You don’t know Africa is a useful, and free, geography game. You can see the three different activities that are on the site by looking at the above image.
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A Graphic Novel Gift Guide – Pernille Ripp
I love these end of the year lists that come out, especially now that I sit in Denmark and don’t get to see quite the same amount of books written in America as I normally would.
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SearchReSearch: Answer: What type of paintings are these? (Swiss Mystery #4)
Curiouser and curiouser … 1. Is there a name for this particularly Swiss kind of artwork-on-the-walls? Is there a particular name of the style in which most of them are drawn?
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Why America Abandoned the Greatest Economy in History – The Atlantic
Was the country’s turn toward free-market fundamentalism driven by race, class, or something else? Yes.
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How to create substitute teacher plans in 15 minutes with AI – Ditch That Textbook
Need quick substitute teacher plans? AI-powered tools can help. Here’s how you can create sub lesson plans in 15 minutes (so you can go back to bed). We’ve all had those days, you wake up sick with no warning and you know you need to stay home and r…
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How to Use AI to Help Write Substitute Teacher Lesson Plans Fast
⭐️I use this prompt when I’m sick because I typically have not planned to be out. My lesson is written, and my work is posted in Google Classroom. This method helps me adapt quickly for the substitute and helps my class make progress.
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Control Alt Achieve: EdTech Cool Tool – Quizizz AI
See below for details, directions, uses, and links for this artificial intelligence resource. If you have used this tool, please consider sharing your experiences, how you have used it, tips, tricks, and more. ☑️ Quizizz AI quizizz.
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The pain is real. The painkillers are virtual reality. | MIT Technology Review
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here.
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Help Your Students Prepare to Present – Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler
Maximize student success in presentations with ‘Speaker Notes by AliceKeeler,’ the ideal Google Slides add-on. Enhance how students prepare to present with easy transfer of speaker notes to Google Docs, promoting effective communication skills. Dive…
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AI-Powered Tools for Teachers: Enhancing Instruction and Supporting Students – EDTECH 4 BEGINNERS
In the dynamic realm of education, technology has become an integral part of shaping instructional approaches and student learning experiences. A notable breakthrough in recent years is the integration of AI-powered tools within educational settings.
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Promoting Creative Use of Technology for Student-Led Social Change – Digital Promise
In the Anna Rakshak project, student teams noticed the stark contrast between the abundance of food available to them and the food insecurity experienced by many individuals and families in their community.
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Control Alt Achieve: EdTech Cool Tool – Eduaide
This post is Day 7 of my “Cool Tools 2023” series where we are exploring some of the year’s best tools for teaching and learning. See below for details, directions, uses, and links for this artificial intelligence resource.
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How To Avoid Holiday Misbehavior Smart Classroom Management
Misbehavior tends to increase as we edge closer to holiday break. It’s a phenomenon as old as Santa and just as predictable. But it isn’t inevitable.
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog: The Darkness
It has been often said that it is darkest before the dawn. Well folks, we have been very dark and dawn is a long way off. The image from th…
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What is the future of K-12 CS education in an age of AI? | by Code.org | Dec, 2023 | Medium
Generative AI is transforming industries, and given the ability of AI to generate useful code, it should be no surprise that 92% of professional software developers already use AI tools.
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Leveraging Gaming for Education
Students today are digital natives, and their interests often align with video games’ interactive and immersive worlds.
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This High School Testing Strategy “Tricks” Students Into Studying
Forget highlighters, mnemonic devices, and elaborate annotating. Has the best high school testing strategy been under our noses this whole time? High school science teacher and content creator @lets.get.
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Humans nearly went extinct 800,000 years ago | Popular Science
A team of scientists from the United States, Italy, and China may have finally explained a large gap in the African and Eurasian fossil record. According to a model in a study published August 31 in the journal Science, the population of human ances…
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3 Activities I’ve Tried to Get My Math Students More Engaged
My idea of good teaching has changed dramatically in 16 years. I was firmly in the compliance corner when I started teaching. If students were quiet and mimicking good behavior, I thought they were learning. That was a hard lesson for me to unlearn.
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Control Alt Achieve: EdTech Cool Tool – Brisk
See below for details, directions, uses, and links for this artificial intelligence resource. If you have used this tool, please consider sharing your experiences, how you have used it, tips, tricks, and more.
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To Get Serious About Games, Teachers Experiment With Play in the Classroom | EdSurge News
“To Get Serious About Games, Teachers Experiment With Play in the Classroom”
Every week at the Nysmith School in Herndon, Virginia, Philip Baselice breaks out a game to teach his class about key world events. Baselice teaches history to middle schoolers, and game-based simulations have been part of his teaching arsenal for t… -
Happy 60th Birthday, ChatGPT! – by Dan Meyer – Mathworlds
ChatGPT as a generative AI platform turned one year old last week.
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The world’s largest experimental tokamak fusion reactor is online | Popular Science
Japan and the European Union have officially inaugurated testing at the world’s largest experimental nuclear fusion plant.
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Watch this eel robot glide underwater | Popular Science
A research team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology recently designed and built their own swimming robot modeled on oceanic eels. Despite its relatively simple design, the bot’s award-winning underwater undulations could provide key insig…
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William Quarterman remembers the exact moment he learned that he had been accused of using AI to cheat: Between classes when he logged onto the student web portal at the University of California, Davis, to check his midterm grade in a history class.
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9 ways collaborative learning benefits teachers and students
Editor’s note: This story on collaborative learning originally appeared on CoSN’s blog and is reposted here with permission.
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Leveraging AI to spiral essential standards – Ditch That Textbook
Jake was a HS social studies teacher before joining the team at CESA 5 in Wisconsin as a curriculum and ed tech specialist. Some favorite ed tech topics include digital citizenship and media literacy, inquiry based learning, standards based grading,…
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Lessons from My Classroom: What Works, What Doesn’t and What I’m Doing Now
Modern Classrooms Project will help you bring engaging, exciting teaching to your classroom with their free online course and community. Go to coolcatteacher.
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Control Alt Achieve: EdTech Cool Tool – SchoolAI
See below for details, directions, uses, and links for this artificial intelligence resource. If you have used this tool, please consider sharing your experiences, how you have used it, tips, tricks, and more.
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Advice about AI in the classroom for the coming new year (opinion)
Many faculty members across North America have sat on the sidelines in 2023, hoping for someone or something to keep generative artificial intelligence out of their institutions. The primary lesson we all learned, however, was that no one can save u…
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Go (virtually) adopt an axolotl, the ‘Peter Pan’ of amphibians | Popular Science
Now’s the opportunity to help one of Mexico’s iconic ‘water monsters.’ Animal lovers around the world can now virtually adopt an axolotl, an iconic fish-like amphibian.
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Two meteor showers and a bright Mercury to light up December’s sky | Popular Science
While those of us in the Northern Hemisphere are in the grips of the darkest days of the year, the colder and less humid air makes it a prime time for stargazing. Here’s what to look out for in the last month of 2023. The planet Mercury will be at …
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Control Alt Achieve: EdTech Cool Tool – Goblin Tools
See below for details, directions, uses, and links for this artificial intelligence resource. If you have used this tool, please consider sharing your experiences, how you have used it, tips, tricks, and more. ▶️ Video Demo (7 minutes)
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12 Best Teaching Methods for Modern-Day Teachers
Throughout history, teaching methods have evolved alongside societal changes and knowledge advancements. Initially, knowledge was transmitted orally in ancient civilizations, then formal schools emerged in classical societies like Greece and Rome.
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Generative AI Prompting – Hansen’s Link to Tech
Learn how to harness conversational generative AI, such as ChatGPT or Google Bard, for creating prompts that assist you in your early experiences with these technologies. Gain an understanding on using, prompting, and distinguishing between differen…
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NEW YORK — On a sunny Friday in early November, four 10- and 11-year-old boys stand on the corner of 26th street and Fourth avenue in Brooklyn, holding homemade clipboards and signs that read “Take our food equity survey.
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Shifting the Balance in Reading with Headwork and Heartwork
The authors of Shifting the Balance (Grades 3-5) invite literacy educators in the upper elementary and early middle grades to “engage in both the headwork and the heartwork required to ensure our practices are science-aligned and student-centered.
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Control Alt Achieve: EdTech Links of the Week – 12-4-23
Each week I keep an eye out for the latest edtech resources through blogs, social media, podcasts, videos, user groups, and more. I then try to reshare these resources in many ways. One way I share these is here on the blog in these “EdTech Links of…
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Counteracting Bone and Muscle Loss in Microgravity – NASA
In microgravity, without the continuous load of Earth’s gravity, the tissues that make up bones reshape themselves.
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Bringing Gamification into Your Classroom – The Jenallee Show
Within many EdTech circles, the word gamification keeps rising to the surface.
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5 trail etiquette tips for your next hiking trip | Popular Science
You nearly jump out of your skin as a mountain biker speeds past you. A couple of minutes later, you practically trip over a dog as it bounds, off-leash, down the trail.
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An unknown respiratory illness is sickening dogs in the US, but ‘don’t panic’ | Popular Science
Fourteen states have reported an unknown respiratory illness sickening dogs. Multiple organizations including the Oregon and Colorado Departments of Agriculture and the American Veterinary Medical Association have issued warnings about the illness s…
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If some folks thought that a strong El Nino would protect the region from heavy rain before the new year, they were mistaken. Let me show you.
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A Principal’s Reflections: The Role of Place in Personalization
The physical and virtual environments where learning takes place play a pivotal role in shaping the effectiveness and depth of personalized learning strategies. Consider for a moment the impact of the physical classroom. It is not merely a backdrop …
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Control Alt Achieve: EdTech Cool Tool – Padlet AI Images
See below for details, directions, uses, and links for this artificial intelligence resource. If you have used this tool, please consider sharing your experiences, how you have used it, tips, tricks, and more.
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Label a Bacteria Cell and Learn about Prokaryotes
Bacteria are tiny single-celled organisms that are all around us, too small to be seen without a microscope. They’re living things that come in different shapes like spheres (called cocci), rods (called bacilli), or spirals.
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How to create a balloon release in Minecraft Education – YouTube
In this episode of Outsidetheblocks, we walk you through the steps of making a celebratory balloon release in Minecraft Education! Good for birthdays, anniversary’s or any other occasion without the pollution or damage balloons cause to ecosystems! …