Here are more great blog posts from this past week:
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Meet your AI assistant for education: Microsoft Copilot | Microsoft EDU
With new advancements in AI happening faster than ever before, you might be wondering how you can use these tools in your classroom to save you time and energy. Educators worldwide are making strides to understand and integrate AI into their work an…
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Why Schools Need a Social Worker for Teachers | EdSurge News
I’ve been a school social worker for the last 15 years, so I am acutely aware of our nation’s mounting youth mental health crisis.
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FETC 2024: Could Esports Reverse the Trend of K–12 Boys Falling Behind? | EdTech Magazine
Custer noticed that her son was downstairs in the basement playing video games for three to five hours per day, and she became worried until he asked her a critical question.
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Corn Snake Genetics – Explore the Morphs!
I have a corn snake in my classroom named Crawly. I consider him a snake ambassador because he is friendly, and not large and intimidating. Many students overcome their fear of snakes with Crawly. Some call him an “emotional support snake!”
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Guess what? Another massive scandal involving virtual charter schools. Not ho-hum because the money skimmed off is a lot: $44 million. The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana said it was the biggest fraud case he had handled.
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First aircraft to fly on Mars dies — but leaves a legacy of science
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter, the first aircraft to fly on another world, has died. It perished on 18 January during its 72nd flight in Jezero Crater on Mars. Ingenuity was nearly three years old (if you count its time on the red planet). The helicop…
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Writing by hand may increase brain connectivity more than typing
Typing may be faster than writing by hand, but it’s less stimulating for the brain, according to research published Friday in the journal Frontiers in Psychology.
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Education Week just published the second video on Artificial Intelligence in schools that Katie Hull Sypnieski and did with them. Just in case you missed the first one, I’ve embedded it below this newest one.
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The Fast and Curious: Use this Teaching Strategy for 4X Retention! | Shake Up Learning
Most teachers have never heard of the forgetting curve, first researched in the late 1800s by Frederic Ebbinghaus. All teachers know that kids “lose” their academic skills over time (the summer slide?).
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Radically Inclusive Teaching with Plurilingual Students
Radically Inclusive Teaching with Newcomer & Emergent Plurilingual Students: Braving Up By Alison G. Dover and Fernando (Ferran) Rodrigues-Valls (Teachers College Press, 2022 – Learn more)
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3 New Tricks for Veteran Teachers | Tech & Learning
As the years go by with teaching, we become well-versed with new pedagogical techniques, but we also sometimes rely on what has always worked. In fact, many of our classes from year to year follow the same or very similar structure with the same ass…
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2024 National Educational Technology Plan Addresses Three Digital Divides | EdTech Magazine
The breadth of the digital divide in K–12 education was brought to light at the onset of the pandemic. Students’ ability to access and use digital resources varied greatly across the country, sparking conversations about equity and opportunity.
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What Happens When Technology Fails? 3 Work-Arounds
Has this happened to you? You spend hours rewriting an old lesson plan, incorporating rich, adventurous tools available on the internet. You test it several times just to be sure. It’s a fun lesson self-paced lesson plan with lots of activities and …
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Octopus Hearts: How Many Hearts Does An Octopus Have?
Also Read: Two &Amp; Three Chambered Hearts: How Do They Work? We might call royalty ‘blue-blooded’, but the true ‘blue bloods’ are the cephalopods.
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Seattle Students Got $20 Million for More School Counselors
Students in Seattle aren’t waiting for college degrees or even their high school diploma to make a difference in their community. They’re making a difference right now.
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3 ways to build engagement in STEM classrooms
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been in awe of science, space, and the world around us. And, after watching Star Wars and Star Trek for the first time, I was hooked.
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The Critical Power Skills Needed for the AI Era | EdSurge News
If you’re reading this, you might have AI anxiety. A recent survey from EY research shows that 71 percent of employees with knowledge of artificial intelligence are concerned about it.
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Why Some Students Feel Like They Can’t Excel In Math | EdSurge News
Sabrina Colon, a first-year student at University of California, Merced, remembers when math first became a problem. She says she’s not a math person, but she was able to pass her high school math classes without too much trouble, earning Cs.
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Cursus Honorum – History Game (for Class) | Gaming the Past
Just posted the most recent prototype (A1.8) for Cursus Honorum, a Roman Republic political competition game in the form of a Roll-N-Write.
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Guest Post: Why Elementary Science Matters by Wemen Siep – Science for All
Background: In my science methods courses I recently started offering a final project where students get to “choose their own adventure” and select from a menu of options for their final project. Students can also pitch an idea that is not on the me…
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SearchReSearch: SearchResearch Challenge (1/17/24): How can I get an AI to summarize a document?
An important piece of SearchResearch (or more generally, sensemaking) is finding relevant documents, reading them, and extracting the pieces of knowledge you need to get on with your work.
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Why You Should Never Get Between Two Aggressive Students Smart Classroom Management
There was a viral video a few months ago of a teacher standing between two students who were arguing back and forth. The students were about a dozen feet apart.
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Genetics of Frizzle Frazzled Chicks Using Punnett Squares
Looking for a fun lesson on genetics and deleterious alleles? Look no further than this worksheet on “frizzled” chickens! The frizzle trait in chickens is a result of a genetic mutation that affects the feather structure. The gene responsible for th…
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Control Alt Achieve: 16 Updates to Make Google BETTer
This week Google is in London at BETT, the world’s biggest educational technology exhibition. At the event, companies from all around the world show off their latest and greatest innovations for educational technology.
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Can Elementary Students Learn Science AND Literacy? Answer- Yes! – Science for All
Introduction: In an important recent study led by WestEd, the effectiveness of the NGSS-designed Amplify Science K–5 curriculum has been under the spotlight.
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One of the key issues facing gamification as it moves defiantly into its mid-teens is a lack of consistency and interoperability of the language used to describe it. The first and most obvious example of this is the lack of anything resembling an ag…
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Student engagement requires more than edtech tools
Student engagement is critical to academic achievement, but it can often be a struggle to engage students in meaningful and relevant ways.
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Fun Video: Explain It To Me Like I’m Five | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
“Explain it to me like I’m five” is a popular online genre, and it’s also a very useful teaching/learning concept. I regularly have my IB Theory of Knowledge classes create videos or slideshows where they have to teach complex concepts in a way that…
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7 Ways to Detect AI Writing | Tech & Learning
Over the summer, I began seeing the first suspected cases of AI use in the introductory college writing courses that I teach online. Since then, AI-generated essays have become a more common element of these classes.
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A Technologist Spent Years Building an AI Chatbot Tutor. He Decided It Can’t Be Done. | EdSurge News
When Satya Nitta worked at IBM, he and a team of colleagues took on a bold assignment: Use the latest in artificial intelligence to build a new kind of personal digital tutor. This was before ChatGPT existed, and fewer people were talking about the …
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Hubble Spies Side-by-Side Galaxies – NASA Science
A barred spiral galaxy and a lenticular galaxy come together to create this interacting pair known as Arp 140. The lenticular galaxy, NGC 274, is visible on the right side of this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, and the barred spiral, NGC 275…
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Is Asset-Based AI Even Possible? – by Dan Meyer
An asset-based approach to teaching asks, “What ideas do these students have?” rather than “What ideas do these students lack?” The point of this particular newsletter isn’t to make a long case for the benefits of an asset orientation over what is …
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Deep dive with the AI Assessment Scale: Level 2 – Leon Furze
This is the second post in a series exploring the AI Assessment Scale (AIAS) in more detail. In the previous post, I looked at Level 1: No AI.
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Your AI Rubric Stinks – Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler
Standard: W.7.11 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
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KUOW – Washington schools chief encourages educators to embrace AI and use it in class
Concerns about kids using new artificial intelligence softwares like ChatGPT to cheat on assignments has led some school districts across the nation and state, including Seattle, to ban the technology.
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Human-Centered AI-Guidance for K-12 Public School – AI Advisory Boards
Key Takeaways from “Human-Centered AI Guidance for K-12 Public Schools”: Human-Centered Approach: The guidance emphasizes that AI in education should begin with human inquiry and end with human reflection, insight, and empowerment. It promotes respo…
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Japan makes history with its first uncrewed moon landing | Popular Science
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) just confirmed its small car-sized Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) craft successfully arrived near the Shioli crater and has safely ejected its two small onboard robots.
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Standardized Tests Aren’t Going Anywhere. So What Do We Do? | Cult of Pedagogy
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Control Alt Achieve: Google AI for Schools YouTube Shorts Series
Google has recently posted a series of YouTube Shorts all about using AI in education for teaching, learning, saving time, and more.
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What Is Universal Design for Learning ? – Educators Technology
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) draws its inspiration from the broader concept of Universal Design (UD), initially pioneered in architecture. UD aims for inclusive access to architectural spaces for all users.
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AI Literacy Cards – AI Advisory Boards
Did you know that Nora Merabet-Vermeulin and Stéphane Vermeulin from HumanBrains.Education created 21 AI literacy cards? To download them, visit their website.
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It’s Finals Week at our school, and it’s a good time for me to reflect on any changes I should make during the second semester. My IB Theory of Knowledge classes are going fine, as the always do, so we just need to continue to do what we’re doing.