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30 Effective Classroom Attention Getters with Examples – Educators Technology
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In the dynamic world of education, keeping students engaged and attentive is a challenge every educator faces. Classrooms, the breeding grounds for future thinkers and innovators, can sometimes become arenas of boredom and disengagement. Boredom, as…
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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 no. 1 most-read story focuses on some of the biggest educati…
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With the AI revolution unfolding before our eyes, its waves are inevitably reaching the shores of our educational institutions, touching the lives of our students and reshaping the landscape of our professional and personal lives.
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In our previous exploration, we delved into the immense potential of Artificial Intelligence through a series of enlightening AI TED Talks. However, with great potential comes great responsibility — and a need for caution.
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Know Your Why!: One Word to Rule Them All – Welcome to 2024 Student Activity
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Success and failure should never be an endpoint. The best learning happens when we build on what we know and reflect on what we need to know better. I always like to welcome my students back after the holiday break with a bit of reflection on the ye…
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A Primer on The Lost Cause for Nikki Haley | Diane Ravitch’s blog
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Karen L. Cox wrote “Five Myths About the Lost Cause” in The Washington Post. For those who have not studied American history or don’t remember what they should have learned, this summary should be useful. Cox is a professor of history at the Univers…
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A Transformer is a type of neural network architecture designed for handling sequences of data, such as sentences, paragraphs, or time series.
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Tech research company OpenAI has just released an updated version of its text-generating artificial intelligence program, called GPT-4, and demonstrated some of the language model’s new abilities.
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With a rash of artificial intelligence (AI) news making the rounds in the last month of 2023, opinions widely differ on how governments, companies and consumers will use the technology.
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No, blended learning is NOT hype, at least not in my experience. However, I will say that I have seen people say that they are blending learning when it is not blended learning at all.
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Today’s students are the first generation to grow up in a world with artificial intelligence. But many don’t realize it. Designed to blend seamlessly with other technologies, AI operates invisibly in the background of their lives.
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Embracing AI in the classroom: ChatGPT, an Enriching Learning Tool – Ecmtutors
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As a geography teacher, I recently embarked on an experiment with my year 8 class, an experiment that was met with equal parts laughter, curiosity, and apprehension.
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Humanity Amplified: The Fusion of Deep Learning and Human Insight to Shape the Future of Innovation
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In a recent post by Larry Ferlazzo, Yet Another Nail-In-The-Coffin of AI Writing Detectors, he offers even more evidence dispelling the myth that AI detection software work.
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Key points: When it comes to reading skills, we should provide students with explicit literacy instruction and foundational skills like decoding and building content knowledge See article: Excite, expand, equitize: Using data to support reading See …
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18 Effective Classroom Motivation Strategies – Educators Technology
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Motivation is one of the key concept in psychology. It is mainly concerned with the why and how humans think and behave as they do. Its significance is particularly pronounced in the realm of classroom learning, where it’s often invoked to explain t…
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D2L and Unity Partner to Help Revolutionize Education with Immersive Real-Time 3D
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D2L, a global learning technology company, today announced a new partnership with Unity, the world’s leading platform for creating and operating interactive, real-time 3D (RT3D) content with a goal to transform the education landscape through classr…
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In the ever-evolving landscape of education, the concepts of portfolio and portfolio assessment have garnered significant attention as comprehensive tools for evaluating student growth.
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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a complex, multifaceted condition that touches the lives of many individuals and families around the world. It’s a topic rich with narratives of challenge, triumph, and profound insight into the human experience.
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A Note on Nikki Haley, Slavery, and Teacher Professionalism | The Jose Vilson
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There are complex answers that deserve interrogation through all their interwoven facets and there are complex answers that converge toward a simple response. The cause of the American Civil War is the latter.
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How To Turn Around Difficult Students With A Simple Psychological Trick Smart Classroom Management
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No, you’re not going to trick your students. Here at SCM, we oppose all manipulative practices of classroom management, which are unfortunately common in this day and age. (Think PBIS).
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I’ve written or edited thirteen books on education, plus second editions. Plus, I probably have a couple of more in me before I retire in a few years. The advent of Artificial Intelligence has over the past year has disrupted many things in society,…
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Interview-based and pencil and paper K-6 math screeners designed by teachers to assess for students’ number sense. This open-source project provides free, high-quality assessment tools to over 9,000 schools in the US and internationally.
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Sustainable Technologies Evaluation Program (STEP) – Compost Biofilters for Stormwater Management
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Compost biofilters are a promising, low cost erosion and sediment control technology with the potential to serve various functions based on placement and configuration of the product.
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What if there was an AI advisory board at every high school? AI advisory boards might be a new way for students to have a voice in their education.
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Tammie Schrader, with whom I’ve been co-presenting for many years now, and I submitted four proposals to the upcoming 2024 NCCE Conference, the Northwest USA’s premier educational technology conference and we got three of our proposals accepted! The…
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Don’t Miss a Post! Subscribe Gone are the days when students and educators solely relied on textbooks and static diagrams to understand the complexities of the human body.
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Helpful Science Resources for Teachers – Educators Technology
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As a former classroom teacher, I understand the importance of having a diverse toolbox to engage and inspire students. In this post, I’m excited to share with you a curated list of resources that I’ve found particularly valuable for science teachers…
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Students may become reluctant to share their thoughts if their teacher and peers don’t seem to listen. These strategies make the value of their thoughts clear. Two students sit in class together, peer-reviewing one another’s work.
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When used carefully, educational tools that utilize artificial intelligence can be time-saving and help teachers and students to create materials and presentations and even self-assess their own work. It is also the case that AI in the classroom can…
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These research-backed, teacher-approved activities can help early math learners engage physically with abstract concepts. If you think about it, movement is present in our earliest forays into math.
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In the landscape of entertainment and technology, video gaming has risen as a significant force, capturing the interest of millions worldwide.
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All too often, education research falls short of giving educators on-the-ground actionable advice. However, a recent controversy around Carol Dweck’s well-known growth mindset gives me hope that we can move forward with research that can better info…
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10 Characteristics of 21st Century Learners – Educators Technology
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Welcome to the latest installment in our series on 21st-century education. Throughout this series, we have delved into the characteristics of 21st-century teachers, students, classrooms, and the very nature of learning itself.
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Where does blended learning fit in post-pandemic classrooms?
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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 4th most-read story focuses on blended learning’s role in th…
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6 Major K-12 Education Predictions for 2024 – Education Elements
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Take a casual stroll through the past predictions I made about education, leading up to 2024. You’ll see they were pretty spot-on. Over the last few years, I’ve called several major trends in education that hit the nail on the head.
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I’ve been publishing annual education-related predictions for over a decade now, usually in The Washington Post. Let’s just say that no one would have become rich by betting on my past predictions.
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9 Classroom Management Tips for Blended Learning – Class Tech Tips
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Discover nine essential classroom management tips for blended learning. Learn to integrate technology and keep everyone organized. Explore engaging winter activity ideas that you can tailor to a variety of learning environments and subject areas thi…
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Yet Another Nail-In-The-Coffin Of AI Writing Detectors | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
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As I’ve previously shared, AI has reached a point where AI detectors are pretty useless – multiple studies have confirmed that fact, and English Language Learners get particularly “dinged” by the unfairly.
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Learning enters the metaverse with “Mission: Mars” Roblox experience
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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 3rd most-read story focuses on immersive and interactive lea…
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AI to Make ‘Seismic Change’ in All Industries Within Four Years
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Aidan Meller predicts AI’s “seismic change” by 2024, citing Chat GPT advancements and Ai-Da’s role as a robot artist.
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Plants may fight mold with molecules and bubbles | Popular Science
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While refrigerators store food at safe temperatures and keep it fresh, they can also be a breeding ground for fuzzy gray mold that spoils fruit. Most molds thrive in warm temperatures, but many can grow in the refrigerator by producing spores.
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This tiny ‘leaf-nester’ is the smallest known fanged frog | Popular Science
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Frogs are well known for their sticky, whip-like tongues, lumpy warts, and the colorful, poisonous skin covering some species. One group of frogs in Southeast Asia has another distinguishing feature–fangs.
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In this episode, Jeff and Tricia discuss their favorite holiday food, introduce a new free guide on experimenting with AI for families, announce an upcoming series on mental health, promote an AI literacy cohort for PLCs and committees, highlight Je…
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Math can be tough, but it shouldn’t be boring or confusing. That’s where math manipulatives come in – helpful tools that make learning math more hands-on and fun. According to a study on EdTechBooks.
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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 5th most-read story focuses on expert predictions for edtech.
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The first step is to open your Genially Panel and click share on the project you’d like to add. Click Copy. In Curipod,find the page on which you’d like to add the project and then Click Media. Click the genially button. Click Paste the link from ge…
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In many ways, 2023 was the year that people began to understand what AI really is—and what it can do. It was the year that chatbots first went truly viral, and the year that governments began taking AI risk seriously.
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Sept 11, 2001 Class Book Published | Mr. Gonzalez’s Classroom
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After working this class book in my Monday/Friday writing class since September 11 of this year, we finally finished it! You can snap a pic or click on the QR code below or click here to read our book online:
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Supermassive black hole seen in Milky Way’s center | Popular Science
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Astronomers have just revealed the first image of Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole in the center of our Milky Way galaxy—so heavy that it warps spacetime such that even light can’t escape.
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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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Watch an AI-leveraging robot beat humans in this classic maze puzzle game | Popular Science
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Artificial intelligence programs easily and consistently outplay human competitors in cognitively intensive games like chess, poker, and Go—but it’s much harder for robots to beat their biological rivals in games requiring physical dexterity.
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AI School Policy to Provide Guidance | Mr. Gonzalez’s Classroom
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Here’s what I’ve shared: A summary of AI in Teaching and Learning from the Office of Educational Technology: https://ift.tt/W6K2BpY.
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These fingernail-sized jellyfish can regenerate tentacles—but how? | Popular Science
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An unusual jellyfish species found in the eastern Pacific Ocean called Cladonema pacificum is only about the size of a pinkie nail, but it can regenerate an amputated tentacle in just two or three days.
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NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter set a new flight distance record on Mars | Popular Science
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NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter (technically a rotorcraft) has made dozens of tiny aerial jaunts across Mars since first arriving on the planet in February 2021, but its latest flight set a new record for the tiny aircraft.
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More AI Tools for Math Support for Students | Mr. Gonzalez’s Classroom
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I have been looking for tools that my students can use in class if they need help with Math and I am busy with another student and their peers are busy working on different tasks.
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Excellent YouTube Channels for Learning Math – Educators Technology
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Delving into the world of YouTube for math education offers a treasure trove of resources.
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In the ever-evolving landscape of education and collaborative work, the need for effective brainstorming tools has never been greater.
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A visual dictionary is a unique and innovative educational tool that presents information through a combination of images and words.
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The Federal Trade Commission rolled out proposed changes to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act this week that seek to impose stronger regulations on the collection and use of student data and bring major changes to how ed-tech companies bu…
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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters? – Educators Technology
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Prior knowledge is one of the key concept in educational research that fundamentally reshape our understanding of how learning occurs.
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Control Alt Achieve: EdTech Cool Tool – Edpuzzle Teacher Assist
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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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Students are introduced to some esoteric number categories as they check out the various descriptors of this year’s date. What’s a Harshad number? What’s a Pernicious number? What’s a tetrahedral number?
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Reducing AI Anxiety Starts by Talking with Students | Faculty Focus
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Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is consuming a growing share of our collective consciousness.
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