Here are this past week’s amazing blog posts:
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Friday 5: Strategies to promote student success
Student success is at the top of every educator’s mind–particularly as research is still emerging about the pandemic’s impact on learning loss. Here are five strategies to explore as your school, district, or state focuses on boosting success for al…
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Instructional Coaches: Use Weekly Email Newsletter Effectively
In this post, we will take a look at the Weekly Email Newsletter and how Instructional Coaches can use them effectively to not only communicate with their colleagues but create several weeks of ongoing professional learning for their entire school d…
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ConvertKit: The creator marketing platform
Creators shape culture and culture shapes the world. Check out these stories, films, and sessions to be inspired by the creative process of artists, writers, musicians, and more. Build your audience with ConvertKit or bring them with you from your c…
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What Educators Need to Know about Generation Alpha | EdSurge News
On a recent walk after spending a day working with middle school teachers on engagement strategies, I was listening to the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast.
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4 Women’s History Month Books & Activities for Young Learners | Waterford.org
Women’s History Month, observed each March, is a dedicated time to honor the accomplishments, resilience, and contributions of women. For elementary teachers, this month provides an opportunity and a reminder to include women’s history in your year-…
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Engage Students with a Forensics Lab on Blood Spatter
Bloodstain pattern analysis is a branch of forensic science that examines bloodstain patterns at crimes scenes. The size, shape, and distribution of bloodstains provides clues about a crime or accident. I used a variation of this lab from the Trendy…
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Children’s Books for Celebrating Women’s History Month in Class
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Rethinking AI’s impact: MIT CSAIL study reveals economic limits to job automation | MIT CSAIL
Like many of us, you might find yourself nodding to a familiar digital doomsday chorus that vibrates through offices and coffee shops alike: AI will take my job!
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Artificial Intelligence, Real Anxiety – Education Next
In a little more than a year, freely available artificial intelligence technology has evolved from generating half-right passages of slightly awkward text to creating artistic original images, generating error-free computer code, and even passing an…
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55 Black History Videos Everyone Should Watch
We’re living through unprecedented times—a pandemic, civil unrest, and a contested election—and through it all, racial injustice has taken center stage.
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Ensure Your District is Data Ready with this Free Playbook
Unprecedented funding has flowed into districts over the last several years as part of pandemic support and recovery efforts.
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Congratulations! You have created the “next big thing” in education and it’s time to share it with the world. You know your goal is to get it in the hands of teachers and have them inspire the world using it so you can begin to build saturation in t…
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Virtual field trips are an essential part of climate curriculum
Climate change is an increasingly important subject in school curriculums. Today’s students will almost certainly inherit a climate-affected world and will need to understand the mechanisms of global warming if they are to grow into climate-consciou…
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How a Culture of Caring Is Helping These Schools Improve Student Mental Health | EdSurge News
A few years on from district-wide remote learning spurred by the coronavirus pandemic, Principal Darren A. Cole-Ochoa has observed the students at Truan Junior High re-adapting to in-person schooling fall along a spectrum. “When we got into the clas…
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February is CTE Month; Here’s Why That Matters – Digital Promise
Every year, the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) hosts Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month in February to highlight the importance and impact of CTE on students of all ages.
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10 Online Video Resources About Math
Copyright ©2024 – All rights reserved. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenshi…
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The Nerdy Teacher: Feb Challenge from Adobe Edu #AdobeEduCreative
There is a new challenge from Adobe Edu that you should check out. Watch this video from Claudio and see what you need to do. Make it a game for your students with the all-new “Guess my Favorite Book” challenge!
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Google Maps: New Generative AI feature coming to Local Guides
You’ve finally found a day the whole crew can hang out. The problem? Everyone has different preferences: one friend’s vegan, another won’t venture uptown, and one has a dog that never leaves their side. With so much to consider, you’re going to need…
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Trump 2024 and American Collapse
I’m Umair Haque, and this is The Issue: an independent, nonpartisan, subscriber-supported publication. Our job is to give you the freshest, deepest, no-holds-barred insight about the issues that matter most. New here? Get the Issue in your inbox dai…
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Rethinking Assessment for GAI – Leon Furze
This collection includes all of my posts and resources related to Generative AI and assessment. These include discussions of academic integrity, how to approach “cheating”, and alternate forms of assessment to help students understand the appropriat…
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guidde・Magically create video documentation with AI
Guidde is a super simple tool we can use to solve the challenges we experienced with written instruction, it allows our team to provide quick, personalized video responses to customer questions.
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How Trauma Impacts the Well-Being of Black Women Educators | EdSurge News
Navigating school spaces is a journey and students’ needs are ever changing. While educators are leaving the field at unprecedented rates, many districts are scrambling to meet the needs of all their students.
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Best Podcasting Microphones for Studio & Mobile Recording (2024)
So you are a podcaster … What microphone do you use? It’s the worlds oldest joke but it is one that certainly has a place in this world.
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January 2024 Book Review Roundup – GeekDad
Close followers of my GeekDad posts may be aware that I’m going through an existential crisis regarding my book reviews. I’m lurching about trying to find a way to make engaging content, find reading time, and provide a good service to the authors w…
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Elementary Science: Boosts Student Confidence, Writing, and Talk Skills – Science for All
Check out the article below from The 74 by the incredible Dr. Tiffany Neill that describes how an elementary school in Louisiana did a crazy thing…they started systematically teaching science in all of the grade levels. And spoiler alert- the outcom…
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Google’s AI Tool, Bard, Now Has Text-To-Image Capability | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
Google made a bunch of AI-related announcements today, with the most important one being that its Bard tool now has text-to-image capabilities. Just tell it to make an image (the prompt for the one above was “Create an image of a teacher upset from …
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Neuralink’s Groundbreaking Achievement: First Human Brain Chip Implant
Elon Musk’s Neuralink successfully implants the first computer chip in a human brain, promising advances in merging cognition with technology.
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7 Ways to Use Educational Podcasts – Class Tech Tips
Discover how educational podcasts can transform learning in a K-12 classroom. Find interactive teaching techniques and podcast ideas. Explore teaching civics beyond social studies with ISTE authors Karalee Wong Nakatsuka and Laurel Aguilar-Kirchhoff.
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog: The Inner Secrets of An Impressive Pacific Storm
A very large, intense, and beautiful cyclone was off our shore yesterday afternoon (see below). Stretching over several thousand miles, this cyclone was associated with active weather fronts, very strong winds, and powerful vertical motions.
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Legislatures Should Not Mandate How to Teach or Ban Instructional Strategies | Diane Ravitch’s blog
Several states have endorsed legislation requiring teachers to use “the science of reading” in their classrooms. Only the “science of reading.
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How to teach conflict resolution in high school ELA, social studies classes
I agree with you, Mr. Arthur Miller, “the woods are burning” indeed. America’s current political climate seems like a blazing forest fire of disagreement.
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Discovery Education today unveiled a new collection of engaging, high-quality digital learning resources supporting Black History Month observances. Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform nurtures …
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Making Texts Accessible for All Students
My students come to my class at many different reading levels, but I want to make sure that our social studies content reading is accessible to all of them. Over the past few years, I’ve added different strategies to my literacy toolbox to create en…
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Overcoming the Research-Practice Divide | Tech & Learning
All too often education research is chronically absent from the classroom. According to a 2019 survey, only about 16 percent of teachers use research to inform their practice decisions.
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Mastering Photo Editing: A High School Student’s Ultimate Guide to a Creative Career
As High School students explore post-graduation options, more and more are looking at careers as creators. Boosted by the rise in popularity of generative AI image options like DALL-E, photo editing as a career enjoys a resurgence among those prepar…
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AI Can Make Schools More Human, But Only If Schools Prioritize Relationship Metrics
When ChatGPT went viral last winter, more than a few analysts wagered that AI tools could once and for all liberate teachers from the long list of vital but mundane administrative tasks that keep them from spending more time with students.
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AI Will Not Steal Your Job Anytime Soon, MIT Researchers Say
What do we know about the future impact of AI on jobs? Nothing much, simply because we know nothing about the future, whether the next minute or the next ten years.
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Near death experience — Japan’s Moon lander makes a comeback
After being stuck without power for more than a week, Japan’s moon-lander has woken up and started snapping images of the lunar surface.
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Are Great Teachers Born or Made? – by Dan Meyer
In the first year of the COVID pandemic, two states waived many of their typical requirements for teachers, allowing anyone with a bachelor’s degree to teach.
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Stop Using These Four Words in Math Class
Do you recall sitting in math class and writing down a list of definitions for new vocabulary words? You probably felt overwhelmed after copying definition after definition. Feeling some word exhaustion is normal because it turns out language learni…
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The pandemic not only disrupted education temporarily; it also triggered permanent changes. One that is quietly taking place at colleges and universities is a major, expedited shift to online learning.
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First-ever National STEM Festival welcomes student innovators
EXPLR and the U.S. Department of Education have announced a public-private partnership in co-hosting the first-ever National STEM Festival in April 2024, a nationwide effort to identify and encourage the next generation of innovators in science, tec…
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FETC 2024: Are Today’s Schools Creating Future-Ready Students? | EdTech Magazine
He explained that the model is outdated and out of step with a world that has changed dramatically. For Meechin, that style of teaching and learning doesn’t hold up to the complex world we live in today. It doesn’t align with the critical thinking s…
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Nancy Bailey: What Secretary Cardona Should Do Now | Diane Ravitch’s blog
Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona has been nearly invisible these past three years, other than lamenting test scores. Veteran educator Nancy Bailey has some suggestions about how he could help kids, schools, and teachers right now. This post was…
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The Nerdy Teacher: Try @AdobeExpress for Quick and Insightful Exit Tickets #AdobeEduCreative
One of the things that teachers are often asked to do is come up with exit ticket ideas so the teacher has a better understanding of what students know. I think one sentence responses to questions do not really showcase whether a students knows some…
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SpeEdChange: Not getting to Universal Design
Issues swirl together, and after weeks of being conscious of an ever increasing crescendo of complaints about technology in the classroom I sat talking with a group of other PhD candidates about Universal Design and Universal Access and why it does …
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The Right to a Wrong Idea – by Andrew Ordover
In my last post, I said something about how teaching comes in two flavors or styles: the sharing of gifts and the asking of questions. All well and good. But is the student always required to accept the teacher’s gift? Is the student required to giv…
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Using Conferences to Improve Students’ Self-Assessment Skills – The Teaching Experiment
I’m teaching an 11th grade writing class and my students are finishing up a unit on memoirs. I’m talking to Tomas, a notoriously “lazy” student who rarely turns work in, and when he does, it’s poorly done, showing very little effort. But in these la…
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Can artificial intelligence help teachers improve?
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How the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Is Different than the 2017 Eclipse – NASA Science
On April 8, the Moon’s shadow will sweep across the United States, as millions will view a total solar eclipse. For many, preparing for this event brings memories of the magnificent total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017. In 2017, an estimated 215 mil…
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NASA’s Biological and Physical Sciences Division is sending three physical sciences and space biology experiments and equipment to the International Space Station aboard Northrop Grumman’s 20th commercial resupply services mission.
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Say Something: Teach Students To See Signs of Potential Violence
Sandy Hook Promise’s no-cost Know the Signs programs for K-12 students, empower schools to prevent violence and other harmful acts. Sandy Hook Promise’s programs work: more than 400 confirmed lives saved and 14 planned school shootings averted. Sudd…
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Build a culture of wellbeing: A guide to Reflect for educators | Microsoft EDU
Microsoft Reflect is a Learning Accelerator that helps students build important social, emotional, and academic skills. It offers quick check-ins in the Reflect web app, or within your favorite Microsoft 365 Education learning apps including Microso…
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ISTE Jump Start Guides provide quick, easy-to-reference information on education’s hottest topics. Get a jump on designing online lessons, teaching immersive tech and coding, starting an esports program for your school and more. Now available in 25-…
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Friday 5: The many faces of classroom learning
There’s no denying it: Classroom learning is changing. Classrooms today could be in person, online, or hybrid. Classrooms may be student-driven, might focus on project-based learning, or may offer learning through a specialized topic such as STEM.
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James Dyson on the future of batteries | Popular Science
In fact, in James Dyson’s new memoir, Invention: A Life, he notes that at one point, around 2012 to 2014, his company—famous for its battery-powered vacuum cleaners, as well as other gadgets—was “consuming something like 6 percent of the global supp…
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This could be the first newborn great white shark ever captured on camera | Popular Science
A wildlife filmmaker and biology doctoral student have taken what could be the first picture of a newborn great white shark. The images and findings are described in a study published January 29 in the journal Environmental Biology of Fishes.
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By 2017, however, new houses starting in the mid-$200,000s were everywhere, and white students were now outnumbered inside Jones Middle. There were a handful of other Black kids in Corey Robinson’s seventh-grade social studies class, including a fri…
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Since the Supreme Court abolished affirmative action last June, selective colleges and universities have had to dismantle their most effective tools for pursuing racially and ethnically diverse student bodies.
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A math teacher’s advice for parents. – Math with Bad Drawings
On a podcast last year, a lovely chap named Eric asked me what advice I have for parents. I always stumble over that question. Advice requires specifics.
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Understanding Neurodiversity: An Empowered View of Learning Differences – John Spencer
In this article and podcast, we explore what it means to shift from a focus on learning disabilities to focusing on learning differences.
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Stack Overflow: 6 Comic Books for Young Adults – GeekDad
Two weeks ago I shared some comics for kids. This week I’ve got some more comics, this time for young adults. The age definition for “young adults” can be a little hazy at times, but generally I’m using it for kids 12 and up.
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Over the past several years, the number of hate crimes has continued to increase. Today’s F.B.I. report, though, is the first one I’ve seen detailing an increase in schools, including in K-12 institutions.
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Minecraft Prompt Lab: Using AI to Craft Great Lessons
Educators using AI can save time, generate creative activities, and analyze data efficiently. presents ‘Prompt Lab,’ a playbook for how educators can use AI via Microsoft Copilot. Download the playbook and watch a quick demo .
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The Impact of Interceptors Deployed in All 7 of Kingston Harbour Gullies – YouTube
We have now deployed Interceptors in all of Kingston Harbour gullies in Jamaica, completing the first phase of our joint project to eliminate plastic pollution in Kingston. Here’s a glimpse at the impact these deployments are having so far.
2024 w…
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In study, material creates clean electricity from air | Popular Science
Researchers recently constructed a material capable of generating near constant electricity from just the ambient air around it—thus possibly laying the groundwork for a new, virtually unlimited source of sustainable, renewable energy.
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Lions, elephants, zebras, buffalo, ants, and trees are all locked in an intricate ecological web in one Kenyan nature preserve. But that web is unraveling as a small invader disrupts the natural balance of things, according to a study published Janu…
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28 Best Puzzles for Kids of All Ages and Abilities
Puzzles are a great way to build important skills, and they have a place in every playroom and classroom, from preschool through high school. Here are our favorite puzzles for kids from age 2 through high school. You may even find a few that end up …
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February is Black History Month in the United States. You might be interested in The Best Sites To Teach About African-American History.
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(I’m republishing my favorite posts from the second half of 2023. You can see them all here) I previously posted about “A Million Miles Away” when the trailer first came out, and was not disappointed when I finished watching it last night.
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Thom Hartmann: Trump’s Terrifying New Reich, The Early Months | Diane Ravitch’s blog
Thom Hartmann writes a description of the first few months of the second Trump administration, based on statements by Trump or his pals. It’s frightening.
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A Principal’s Reflections: Cultivating Leadership: Strategies for Building Capacity
In the ever-evolving landscape of education, the role of leadership is pivotal. The notion of educational leadership extends beyond administrative responsibilities; it embodies the vision, direction, and ethos of a learner-centric environment.
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Deep dive with the AI Assessment Scale: Level 3 – Leon Furze
This is the third post in a series exploring the AI Assessment Scale (AIAS) in more detail. Click here for the previous posts on Level 1 and Level 2 of the Scale.
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This past year marked major advances in generative AI as terms like ChatGPT and Bard become household names.