Check out these amazing posts from this past week:
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When embracing the ‘science of reading,’ we can’t leave out older students
Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on equity, edtech innovation, immersive learning, and the science of reading. This year’s 6th most-read story focuses on the science of reading for ol…
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20 Ways to Assess Prior Knowledge – Educators Technology
As educators, one of our primary goals is to make learning as effective and engaging as possible. To achieve this, understanding the foundational knowledge that students bring into our classrooms is crucial.
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Why Are Americans’ Math Skills Slipping? | EdSurge News
Unlike many people in the country, Lindsey Henderson was thrilled by what she saw in the latest international test scores.
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Diversity in College Classrooms Improves Grades for All Students, Study Finds | EdSurge News
This year has seen ample debate about the value and fairness of colleges prioritizing diversity among the students they serve. New research suggests one way to consider the question: by looking at how the mix of students in a given course affects th…
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Teaching Kids to Use Tally Charts
As parents and educators, we are constantly on the lookout for creative and engaging ways to teach children important skills. One such skill is the ability to use tally charts, which are a simple and effective way to collect and organize data.
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Control Alt Achieve: EdTech Cool Tool – Khanmigo
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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Understand and Address Absenteeism with These Strategies – edWeb
During the edLeader Panel “Decreasing Absenteeism and Its Effects with Meaningful Strategies,” Brian Marques, Sr.
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This Christmas we have a great gift for everyone! Whether you’re an existing DialMyCalls user or not, you can take advantage of our completely free phone call from Santa. Imagine the look on your child’s face when they receive a personalized phone c…
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Book Chat: Dr. Mark Windschitl on Teaching Climate Change – Science for All
This week I attended an online book chat hosted by AERA Science Teaching and Learning SIG. The Book Chat was with Dr. Mark Windschitl of the University of Washington. We spent an hour with Mark sharing about his incredible book Teaching Climate Chan…
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The typical conditions of mid-winter experienced lately resulted in virtually no renewable energy generation over the Pacific Northwest during recent weeks.
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Exploring The Potential Of Blockchain Gaming In Education And Training
Blockchain technology has been disrupting various industries, including finance, supply chain, and healthcare. Another industry that has been revolutionized by blockchain technology is gaming.
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Exploring AI Pedagogy – A Community Collection of Teaching Reflections
This site posts timely reflections by teachers on our AI teaching experiments for open, collaborative inquiry.
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UM Today | Exploring virtual reality in teaching and learning
The College of Nursing in the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences is a leader in simulation education among nursing faculties across the country. Now, they are extending their simulations with virtual reality.
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Creating AI-Ready Schools | Edutopia
Administrators can use this blueprint to prepare their schools to take advantage of what AI will have to offer. What follows are the five steps a teacher or administrator should take to truly evolve their school or classroom into a high-quality AI-e…
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AI State of the Union: A Look Back and A Look Ahead for Education
ChatGPT recently turned 1 year old and in that last year, and since then we have seen a Cambrian explosion of new large language models or LLMs as well as 1000’s of applications that are leveraging the compute and inference power of this kind of AI.
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Teachers Take To TikTok For The Good, The Bad And The Lesson Plans
Behind closed doors of a teachers’ lounge, veteran educators recount their daily interactions with students. They celebrate victories and vent about frustrations. Now, a new, younger generation of educators have turned to TikTok as an outlet for sha…
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Navigating the Artificial Intelligence Revolution in Schools – FutureEd
For many in the education world, artificial intelligence is a demon unleashed, one that will allow students to cheat with impunity and potentially replace the jobs of educators. For others, it’s a panacea for education’s myriad challenges.
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As the Arctic Warms, Its Waters Are Emitting Carbon – NASA
Sediment from Canada’s Mackenzie River empties into the Beaufort Sea in milky swirls in this 2017 satellite image. Scientists are studying how river discharge drives carbon dioxide emissions in this part of the Arctic Ocean.
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Gemini: Teaching With Google’s Latest AI | Tech & Learning
Google recently released Gemini, its most powerful AI model to date, in the tech giant’s latest effort to catch up to Microsoft-backed rival OpenAI in the burgeoning AI education arms race. Unlike OpenAI’s GPT technology, which is trained on text, i…
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Student-Centered Literacy Assessment in the 6-12 Classroom
In a recent conversation with a colleague, the subject of student assessment came up. I admitted that during the pandemic year, in an effort to boost student engagement, I had included alternatives to the mandated essay on the unit plan for quarterl…
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Have digital portfolios come of age?
It’s one of the longest-running promises of edtech: Have students provide proof of work online. Get better assessment results. Provide students agency and enable them to express themselves creatively. Take teaching and learning to the next level. Fo…
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10 Ways to Use Augmented Reality in Teaching – Educators Technology
In the world of educational technology, Augmented Reality (AR) stands out as a groundbreaking tool with the potential to transform traditional classrooms into hubs of interactive and immersive learning.
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5 K–12 Ed Tech Trends in 2024 to Follow | EdTech Magazine
The security concept of zero trust is gaining steam in other industries, as K–12 schools find ways to begin laying the foundation for this approach. One area in which many schools are already moving toward zero trust is through identity and access m…
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Using ChatGPT to Revolutionize PE Teaching: 5 Expert Strategies!
Chat GPT is popular among teachers for lots of reasons. For example: to explain concepts, demonstrate ideas, answer specific questions, and assess knowledge.
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Rise and Thrive with Science: Teaching PK-5 Science and Engineering | The National Academies Press
What is an eBook? An ebook is one of two file formats that are intended to be used with e-reader devices and apps such as Amazon Kindle or Apple iBooks.
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How to Make Digital Equity a Reality Today – edWeb
This edLeader Panel is presented by CoSN and AASA. Sponsored by ClassLink It’s one thing to aspire and another to distill goals into actionable, day-to-day reality that gets everyone moving in the same direction.
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How to keep dual-language programs from being gentrified by English speaking families
For parents applying to the dual-language program at Rochester, New York’s public school No. 12, where students learn in both English and Spanish, the process can be both bureaucratic and baffling.
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The recent rise of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence tools has inspired growing anxiety on college campuses while fueling a national conversation about faculty attempts to thwart students from using the tools to cheat.
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6 Criteria for Website Evaluation – Educators Technology
In a digitally saturated world where information a plentiful commodity, the ability to critically evaluate websites is more important than ever.
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Strategies for Supporting English Language Learners – Education Elements
Having worked in Title 1 schools for almost a decade, I had the privilege of being surrounded by language learners in all my classrooms. It proved to be a humbling, eye-opening, and fascinating experience in many different ways.
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What Does A Good School Even Mean? – The Jose Vilson
Recently, I saw a meme suggesting what school should have taught us as opposed to what it teaches us. The setup usually lists a set of skills that seem like common sense: how to do your taxes, how to work through the legal system in ordinary situati…
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Control Alt Achieve: EdTech Cool Tool – Curipod
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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Cliff Mass Weather Blog: What is the snow forecast for the holiday season?
What are the chances for a white Christmas in the lowlands? What about more snow for the mountains and ski areas? What is the snow situation right now?
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The impact of generative AI on Black communities | McKinsey
Generative AI (gen AI) has already initiated a seismic shift in work and value creation. A recent McKinsey report, The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier, identified up to $4.4 trillion in potential global economic i…
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Control Alt Achieve: Free Webinar – Stop Motion Animation with Google Slides
I had the opportunity to present the following session recently at the 2021 SPARCC Educational Technology Conference: Stop Motion Animation with Google Slides Many times we think of Slides as just a program for creating multimedia presentations.
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This Second Grade Math Problem Won’t Leave Me Alone
The problem seemed pretty harmless at first. It was October. I was recording a live episode at NCTM of my podcast Math Teacher Lounge with early math education expert Dr. Jennifer Bay-Williams. She gave me a deck of playing cards. Only the numbers. …
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SAMR Model Wheel – Educators Technology
Over the years, through numerous workshops and discussions, I have consistently recommended a powerful framework to educators: the SAMR Model. This model is not just a tool, but a guide for transforming teaching and learning through technology.
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Tinkercad: How To Use It To Teach | Tech & Learning
Tinkercad offers a free and powerful way to work with computer-aided design, or CAD, for students of a wide range of ages. But it does more. The art of 3D design using digital software tools has been an expensive and computer-resource draining task.
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Sensory spaces may help support all students
Since COVID, many schools across the country have been investing ESSER funds into sensory spaces.
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Education and Artificial Intelligence: Navigating the Path to Transformation | EdSurge News
In a world where technology is evolving at an unprecedented pace, education stands on the cusp of transformation. Imagine classrooms where teachers are empowered by cutting-edge technology and where students don’t just learn from textbooks but co-cr…
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How Our Silenced Assessment Ancestors Can Guide Systems Wide Change – Digital Promise
Moving Forward With Wisdom In the pursuit of this much-needed transformation in the area of assessment, Digital Promise, the Center for Measurement Justice, and the Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment recently hosted a summit …
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What Are the Privacy Implications of Biometrics in K–12 Schools? | EdTech Magazine
In most of those instances — take fingerprints, for example — users and administrators know that the data that’s being stored or analyzed “is not an actual recreation of your biometric data,” Levin says.
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8 Myths About Artificial Intelligence Of Things (AIoT) – e-Learning Infographics
VROC presents 8 Myths about AIoT (Artificial Intelligence of Things). AIoT is gaining popularity in domains like industrial automation, healthcare and smart cities.
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Paul Bonner: Our Useless Focus on Test Scores | Diane Ravitch’s blog
For the past quarter-century, American policymakers have been laser-focused on raising test scores. They assumed that higher test scores equals better education equals better economy.
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Free Google Slides themes and Powerpoint templates | Slidesgo
Slidesgo is also available in English! Show me Slidesgo já está disponível em português Vamos lá!
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Our Home. Our Future. This is #PlanetEarth3
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British Pupils Using AI To Cheat on Schoolwork ━ The European Conservative
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The 7 Styles of Learning Explained with Examples – Educators Technology
As I revisit the complex and often debated topic of learning styles in this post, it’s hard not to reflect on the diverse and passionate responses it elicits each time I address it.
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Research Articles Debunking Learning Styles Theory – Educators Technology
Every time I broach the topic of learning styles theory here, I receive a flurry of negative feedback from teachers. Many label the theory as obsolete and thoroughly debunked. Prompted by this reaction, I decided to delve deeper into what the resear…
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What Is Technology Integration in The Classroom? – Educators Technology
In today’s rapidly evolving educational landscape, the integration of technology in the classroom is not just a luxury but a necessity. However, understanding how to effectively integrate technology can be a challenge.
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Control Alt Achieve: EdTech Cool Tool – Mizou
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 (17 minutes)
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The Battlestar Galactica Theory of Math Education – Math with Bad Drawings
Last month, as I read Christopher J. Phillips’ brief and engrossing The New Math: A Political History, I found myself reciting the ominous line from Battlestar Galactica: Early in my teaching career, I spent a lot of time and life-force railing agai…
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Learning Loss and the Lessons Americans Refuse To Learn – The Jose Vilson
The United States of America has spent the last three years arguing about the pandemic’s effects on students’ academic and socioemotional well-being.
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We’ve all been there. You stop at traffic lights, and a frenzied delivery cyclist swiftly zips in front, ignoring the light. Perhaps you’re at KFC, jostled by a swarm of Deliveroo and Uber Eats drivers, all clamouring and gesturing at order numbers …
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Beyond English: Why Writing Belongs in Every Classroom – Dr. Catlin Tucker
When Dr. Novak and I started writing our new book, Shift Writing into the Classroom, we anticipated that teachers outside of English Language Arts would take one look at the title and assume that the book was not intended for them.
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The AI Assessment Scale: Version 2 – Leon Furze
Back in April I published the first post on the AI Assessment Scale (AIAS). It emerged from a discussion with the teaching and learning team at Edith Cowan University.
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Releasing pet goldfish into the wild has serious consequences | Popular Science
The Great Lakes are facing invasive species that originated in homes across the United States. Common goldfish (Carassius auratus) released into lakes, rivers, and ponds by pet owners have been wreaking havoc for decades and scientists are trying to…
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Vikings filed their teeth to cope with pain | Popular Science
No one likes having a dental cavity. They hurt and can be very expensive to take care of. Our species has been trying to fix our teeth for at least 14,000 years and painful dental problems even plagued Swedish vikings.
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What Are The Grade Levels By Age? –
For a growing child, grade level seems to have very little use.
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In the ever-evolving personalized landscape, relational learning emerges as a fundamental component. At its core, it underscores the importance of building connections between concepts fostering a deep and interconnected understanding of subjects.
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Race to 100 with 3D printed math manipulatives – Pernille Ripp
As part of our 1st grade work in math, we are heading into place value, ten pairs, and addition. So of course, one of the games we will be playing more than once, is Race to 100, a fantastic math game that can be used to teach addition, subtraction,…