Catch up on what you missed from this past week:
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The right-wing hysteria about, and some university leaders’ over-reaction to, college students’ protests about what’s happening in Gaza has obviously been in the news. You might also be interested in The Best Posts & Articles On Building Influence &…
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Where Americans Are — and Aren’t — Politically Divided on Education | EdSurge News
There are plenty of heated debates happening about what should be taught in schools: whether it’s over the type of books students should read, how LGBTQ topics are discussed or how to talk about racism.
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Google, MIT RAISE launch no-cost AI training course for teachers
Key points: Google and MIT RAISE (Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education) have announced a no-cost Generative AI for Educators Course designed to help middle and high school teachers use generative AI tools to personalize instruction to…
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While virtual field trips are not a new phenomenon, they gained popularity shortly before COVID due in part to their ability to expose students to places and experiences they may not otherwise access due to funding barriers or geographical limitatio…
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Definitions of oral reading fluency, the focus of grades K-2, often include speed, accuracy, and expression.
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epe.brightspotcdn.com – AI in School Do’s and Don’ts (Downloadable PDF)
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Rare quadruple solar flare event captured by NASA | Popular Science
Earlier this week, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) recorded a rarely seen event—four nearly-simultaneous flare eruptions involving three separate sunspots, as well as the magnetic filament between them.
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It’s time to pay student teachers
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. I fell in love with teaching while working as an assistant educator at a preschool 16 years ago.
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Are two teachers better than one? More schools say yes to team teaching
Two years ago, when I visited Westwood High School in Mesa, a suburb of Phoenix, every incoming freshman started the year in a very unusual way.
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Educator Perspectives on Social and Emotional Learning Programs | EdNews Daily
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) continues to receive increasing attention in the world of education.
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Schools Matter: Campus Order Depends Upon Rights to Protest
If politicians and campus bureaucrats were to learn anything from the 1960s campus uprisings that could help them today deal with the rising tide of student and faculty indignation at Netanyahu’s continuing murderous war against Palestinians, it sho…
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog: El Nino is Rapidly Collapsing
It’s finally happening. The pesky El Nino, with warmer than normal surface waters across the central and eastern tropic Pacific, is finally dissipating.
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Taker, Maker, Shaper – by Dr Philippa Hardman
As my post last week showed, how we might integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into the instructional design process is no longer a question or discussion about the future— it’s a very real, present-day reality and (for some) a conundrum about how…
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Reflecting on AI and learning, a student offers four insights gleaned from firsthand interactions with ChatGPT. This quote, often attributed to the poet and Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats, captures the essence of education.
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Breaking the Cycle: A New Approach To Sleep and Mental Health
Difficulties with sleep and our internal biological clocks may initiate or exacerbate a variety of mental health issues, according to a new review of recent research evidence.
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1 University of L’Aquila, Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences – L’Aquila – Italy – Italy. 2 University of L’Aquila, Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences – L’Aquila – Italy – Italy.
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The Arrival of the Homework Machine
By spring of 2023, most students with an internet connection had access to a new tool that could do much of their homework. We hear Justin’s keynote at the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education about the arrival of generative AI in schools,…
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AI won’t replace writing instruction (opinion)
As a writing across the curriculum scholar and programmer, I’ve been talking about artificial intelligence writing tools a lot lately.
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A Roadmap to the Future of Education
Welcome to the Network School journey! Whether you’re new here or returning, thank you for joining us as we explore how technology can transform education. This blogpost is the first in a series of posts that are designed to detail various aspects o…
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30 Fascinating Facts About Trees for Kids
Have you ever wondered what the longest living organism on Earth is? If you guessed trees, you are correct! There are so many cool facts about trees that many kids (and adults!) don’t know. Your students will be blown away by these botanical wonders…
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the world around us, and its influence is undeniably shaping the world around us and our classrooms. Rather than resist this change, educational leaders must embrace AI as a powerful tool in our e…
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Level Up Student Centered Learning with Control L
The simple shortcut Ctrl+L might seem insignificant, but it can be a powerful tool in a student-centered classroom.
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ChatGPT and other AI chatbots have become almost synonymous with conversations about education and edtech tools. But there’s an important question that so far remains unanswered: Do AI chatbots help students learn?
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Computer game in school made students better at detecting fake news | ScienceDaily
A computer game helped upper secondary school students become better at distinguishing between reliable and misleading news. This is shown by a study conducted by researchers at Uppsala University and elsewhere.
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Top Theories and Activities for ESL Students | EdNews Daily
When I was in middle school, I remember registering for my first Spanish 101 class. As a native English speaker, I was excited about learning a new language.
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Navigating the New Frontier: Building AI Literacy in K-12 Education – Digital Promise
Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) literacy in education is crucial to prepare students for an increasingly digital society. During the third webinar of our Age of AI series, we discussed three big ideas for educators and leaders to navigate i…
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How to Use School AI with Students — @TheMerrillsEDU
School AI, an innovative AI educational app, has become a popular choice for students in our classrooms. Its intelligent features empower students to enhance their learning experience and streamline their academic journey.
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10 Video Game-Inspired Activities for the Classroom
Unleash the power of play in your classroom with video game inspired activities for your students. Discover engaging, curriculum-aligned activities that transform learning into an adventure! Discover engaging and innovative classroom activities insp…
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4 ways to encourage play in education
As a longtime educator, I’ve witnessed firsthand the incredible benefits that play can have in a K–8 classroom. Unstructured play is how students learn to interact with the world around them.
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What Do We Gain and Lose When Students Use AI to Write? | EdSurge News
If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound? If a student uses AI to write and nobody notices, does it matter?
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The Rise of Virtual Reality in Education
In the past few years, virtual reality (VR) has moved beyond just being a fun thing for gaming and entered the world of education with a bang. VR isn’t just about playing games anymore; it’s become a serious tool for learning.
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A Day Under the Algorithm: A Day in the AI-Run School – Matthew Wemyss
Welcome to Pixelwood School. It’s a place that only exists in my imagination… for now. Today, I’m taking you on a thought experiment. We’ll explore three ways a single day at school could unfold: fully human, fully AI, and a unique hybrid approach.
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An Ode to Educator Self Care | PBS Education
Enriching the learning space while fostering a healthy mental, physical, and purposeful learning environment. At the start of this school year I was met with that distinct classroom smell as I opened the door to my classroom.
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2023 Teacher Shortage Statistics Prove We Need To Fix Education
Anyone who works in a public school knows that the teaching profession is at a crisis point. Burnout is high, teachers are leaving their jobs at record rates, and the pipeline of new teachers is growing smaller.
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Good ideas: When to use GenAI for brainstorming – Leon Furze
Applying Generative AI like ChatGPT and Copilot to brainstorming is one of the most touted uses, and there are plenty of situations where the technology is well-suited to idea generation. At the same time, it’s not always a great idea to offload the…
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BREAKING NEWS: Students are still bored | @mcleod
Breaking news! A nationally-representative poll of more than 1,000 teenagers finds that… students are still bored. Here are some key findings: These results just confirm earlier findings. This is a system that is fundamentally BROKEN.
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How digital tools and AI can enhance social studies
In recent years, the integration of digital tools into educational settings has revolutionized the way students engage with and learn about social studies.
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4 ways to support work-based learning
As work-based learning models grow in popularity, a new report from the Center for American Progress (CAP) highlights key themes in recently-passed state legislation that will support efforts to expand or improve such models. In the 2023 legislative…
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As soon as you enter Vogel Elementary School, you are greeted with large smiles. It is no secret that students are excited to show up to school every day and teachers are ready to embrace their kiddos as soon as the bell rings.
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The psychology of motivation: Strategies for engaging students
Motivation plays a role not only in people’s choice to get involved in their goals but also in their behavior, persistence, and, ultimately, success.
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A.J. Juliani | A.I.-Resistant or A.I.-Compatible?
Last week, I had the opportunity to speak at the Learning and the Brain Conference in NY. I’ve been at multiple LATB conferences and they always bring a great and diverse group of educators together from K-12, Higher-Ed, and other institutions.
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Formative Assessment is Key to Being Responsive – Dr. Catlin Tucker
As students move through a lesson, some acquire information and skills more quickly than others. Some students will need additional support, scaffolds, feedback, or reteaching to understand key concepts and apply specific strategies, processes, or s…
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The Station Rotation Model: Must-Do vs. May-Do Stations – Dr. Catlin Tucker
A teacher recently asked me whether students always need to attend every station in a rotation. The short answer is “no.” Our classrooms are composed of diverse groups of students with different skills, abilities, preferences, language proficiencies…
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Designing a Standards-aligned Choice Board (with AI) – Dr. Catlin Tucker
Choice boards are a fantastic tool for honoring learner variability and providing students with meaningful choices. Not every student enjoys the same task, so giving them options is critical to maximizing their motivation and focus in a lesson.
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Google Gemini: How Google’s New AI Can Change Teaching | Tech & Learning
Google has announced that it has implemented a new form of artificial intelligence for use on varying amounts of data, allowing for the dissemination of large amounts of complex data into actionable information.
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Fostering Creativity and Inclusion Through Content Creation and Real-World Relevance | EdSurge News
This article is part of a three-article series dedicated to harnessing powerful technology for powerful learning. In the articles, we share the perspectives of HP Teaching Fellows. Read the other articles here and here.
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19 Online News Resources for Kids
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 Citizenship curriculum.
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Capture creativity with Microsoft Designer prompts in the classroom – Ditch That Textbook
As educators, we’re always on the lookout for innovative ways to engage our students and enhance their learning experiences. The new and exciting world of AI offers lots of ways to do this.
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Authentic Tasks Have Failed Us – by Dan Meyer – Mathworlds
You’ll hear about “authentic tasks” in conference presentations, journal articles, position papers, and stray tweets about what constitutes “good teaching.” When pressed, most people define that authenticity in ways that are circular or that beg oth…
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Have questions? Find answers to frequently asked questions in this Kami Help Center article Kami Certified Educators get access to sponsorship for training events and presentations. Submit a request here.
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Game Lessons | ACMI: Your museum of screen culture
We help teachers to expand their teaching and learning repertoire using the tools many students are passionate about – videogames. We foster a cross-curriculum learning community and build teachers’ capacity to create, access and share practical les…
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Adobe’s new Firefly model makes it easier to use Photoshop’s AI tools – The Verge
Adobe is adding some new generative AI tools to its Photoshop creative software that aim to give users additional ways to control the designs they generate.
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Innovation through prompting – by Ethan Mollick
If you have been reading my Substack (or my new book, which made the New York Times bestseller list!), you know that one of the things I find most exciting about AI is its potential for expanding the number of people able to produce and share useful…
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Explore the Universe with the First E-Book from NASA’s Fermi – NASA Science
Readers can download the e-book in PDF and EPUB formats. The e-book is aimed at general audiences with an interest in space. Launched on June 11, 2008, Fermi detects gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light, from Earth’s atmosphere to far-flung …
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Who Gets To Decide the Future of Education? (And Why We Can’t Wait to Find Out) – Matthew Wemyss
Lately, I’ve been hit with waves of existential dread about the state of education. We all see the cracks in the system – the disengaged students, the overworked teachers, the endless push for test scores that seem to miss the point entirely. In the…
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is all around us. In K-12 education, it’s the shiny new thing that everyone is chasing. Whether you are a school that is all in on AI or still testing the waters, you are okay and in a good place regardless of where you …
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30 Service Learning Projects That Are Meaningful for Kids
Service learning projects have become an important part of school culture, and for good reason. These activities get kids involved in their communities, developing empathy and a sense of generosity.
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog: The Other Type of Mountain Wave Cloud
Folks love to talk about lenticular clouds, which are generally produced by air moving up (and down) downstream of a mountain barrier (see picture below). Such clouds are generally found in the lower atmosphere at or just above the crest level of th…
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Lampreys offer clues to the origin of our fight-or-flight instinct | Popular Science
Lampreys look like something out of a horror movie, with their sucky mouths chock full of teeth, eel-like bodies, and parasitic behaviors.
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The Nerdy Teacher: 3 Easy Ways to Support Neurodivergent Students in Any Classroom #EdChat
Creating a supportive classroom environment for neurodivergent students is crucial for their success and well-being. Here are three straightforward strategies that teachers can employ in any educational setting to better support these students.
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5 AI-powered tools from Google to help you get outside more
Looking to get outside more? There are a number of AI-powered Google tools that can help with that — from informing you about the local foliage to helping you find a new walking path. Google Lens is an AI-powered tool that enables you to search usin…
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When Google Couldn’t Help: How AI Helped Me Track Down an Elusive Image – Copy / Paste
We’ve all grown accustomed to turning to search engines when struggling to remember a detail or fact. But recently I found myself in a situation where “Googling” was useless. I was trying to recall a work of art without knowing the artist, title, or…
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Prioritizing inclusivity in game-based learning
Applying the principles and practices of inclusive design in game-based learning can expand access to rich learning experiences to a neurodiverse group of learners, according to a new whitepaper from Kahoot!.
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In 1986, Robert Swan made the longest unassisted walk ever to the South Pole. Three years later he went onto the North Pole and by the age of 33, he became first person in history to walk to both North and South Pole.Antarctica has been described as…
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75 Earth Day Quotes To Inspire Appreciation of Our Planet
Earth Day is coming up on April 22, but you don’t need to wait until then to appreciate our planet and all that it provides for us with some Earth Day quotes.
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Play online | Hexagons of Sustainability Goals
In order to play please write your information in the form. We will only use this information to know a little more about the users of the methodology. As soon as you click on PLAY you can start building your hive. Thanks a lot!
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Students rely heavily on AI to excel in coursework | The Star
PETALING JAYA: The use of artificial intelligence (AI) writing tools such as ChatGPT has become increasingly popular among students. They find that it is quick to provide and compile information as well as simple to use.
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Balancing academic integrity and AI | The Star
PETALING JAYA: It’s been a year since plagiarism detection platform Turnitin launched its artificial intelligence (AI) writing detection feature, and its findings are astonishing.
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When technology can read your brain waves, who owns your thoughts? | Popular Science
Brain Computer Interface (BCI) companies are charging ahead with devices and services attempting to understand and manipulate human neural pathways.
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Evolution is quite a wondrous and lengthy process, with some random bursts of activity that are responsible for the diversity of life on our planet today. These can happen on large scales like with the evolution of more efficient limbs.
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Learn the ‘Secrets of the Octopus’ When It Premieres on Nat Geo TV and Disney+ – GeekDad
Octopuses are like aliens on Earth: three hearts, blue blood, and the ability to squeeze through a space the size of their eyeball. But there is so much more to these weird and wonderful animals.
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A Principal’s Reflections: The Fallacy of Best Practices
In an education world obsessed with standardization, the pursuit of “best practices” reigns supreme. Countless systems and schools rely on pre-defined, one-size-fits-all approaches, promising guaranteed success.
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A Sports Analogy for Understanding Different Ways to Use AI
As with many new technologies, the potential impact of generative AI on society is polarizing. There is a fear that this technology will replace human workers, leading to mass de-skilling and widespread unemployment.
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Brush Ninja is your go-to animated GIF maker that simplifies the art of animation for users of all levels. With its user-friendly interface and versatile brush tools, you can effortlessly create captivating animations frame by frame, giving life to …
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