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The experience of wonder is essential to the task of education – it opens up the world. That’s why teachers should foster it Via roula haj-ismail 
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As a strategy for the beginning of class, it's hard to beat surveys to answer the question, “What’s this got to do with me?”
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Could Optimus change how classrooms operate? As a teaching assistant, it could handle tasks like preparing materials and supervising students during activities. This could reduce the administrative burden on teachers, allowing them to engage more with students. In special needs education, Optimus could provide personalized instruction and physical assistance, improving the learning experience for students requiring extra support. Via Edumorfosis
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Education technology is supposed to build knowledge. We need to wrestle with the possibility that it might not. Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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November 21, 2024 10:12 AM
"Today... students are swimming in personal devices that are connected, social, interactive, and designed to grab our attention."
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Discover how ChatGPT can revolutionize your course planning. These four simple strategies can help you leverage AI to inspire and save you time as you create or refine your syllabus. Via Yashy Tohsaku
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a comprehensive argument that education cannot close academic gaps
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Teacher-tested, motivating activities that get students out of their own performance loop and make learning visible—even when they struggle to see the forest for the trees.
Via Yashy Tohsaku
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By Jeff Amy JACKSON, Miss. (AP) "The Mississippi Department of Education is firing a testing company, saying scoring errors raise questions about the graduation status of nearly 1,000 students statewide. The state Board of Education revoked a contract with NCS Pearson in closed session Friday, after the Pearson PLC unit told officials it used the wrong table to score U.S. history exams for students on track to graduate this spring. Students who did poorly got overly high scores, while those who did better didn’t get enough credit. Associate Superintendent Paula Vanderford says it’s too soon to know how many students may have graduated or been denied diplomas in error, or what the state will do about either circumstance. Pearson spokeswoman Laura Howe apologized on behalf of the company and said Pearson is working to correct the scores.
“We are disappointed by today’s board decision but stand ready to assist the state in any way possible,” she wrote in an email.
Students typically study U.S. history in their third year in high school, and take the subject test that spring. Students who score poorly, though, can take the test up to three more times as a senior. The 951 students in questions were either seniors, or juniors scheduled to graduate early, and needed their scores to earn diplomas.
The answers about graduating students will be tricky because students have different options to graduate. Formerly, every student had to pass each of Mississippi’s four subject tests in biology, history, algebra and English to earn a high school diploma. Now, students can fail a test and still graduate if class grades are high enough, they score well enough on other subject tests, they score above 17 on part of the ACT college test, or earn a C or better in a college class.
Eventually, the tests will count for 25 percent of the grades in each subject.
About 27,000 students took the test overall. Vanderford said scores for each one will have to be verified. The exam scores also affect the grades that Mississippi gives to public schools and districts.
“The agency is committed to ensuring that the data is correct,” she said.
Vanderford said Pearson has had other problems with its Mississippi tests. In 2012, a scoring error on the high school biology exam wrongly denied diplomas to five students. Pearson compensated them with $50,000 scholarships to any Mississippi university. Another 116 student who were affected less severely got $10,000 or $1,000 scholarships. In 2015, Pearson paid the state $250,000 after its online testing platform crashed for a day. Pearson had a contract worth a projected $24 million over the next six years to provide tests for history, high school biology, 5th grade science and 8th grade science. The board hired Minnesota-based Questar Assessment to administer all those tests for one year for $2.2 million. Questar, which is being bought by nonprofit testing giant ETS, already runs all of Mississippi’s language arts and math tests. Because Mississippi owns the questions to the history and science tests, Vanderford said it will be possible for Questar to administer those exams on short notice. The state will seek a contractor to give those tests on a long-term basis in coming months."
For main story, please see: https://apnews.com/115d48fe350843d6baa60bc277fd1bc8 ; Via Roxana Marachi, PhD
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The practice of using single point rubrics is slowly but surely catching on. Try one for yourself and let us see it! Via roula haj-ismail
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Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives. Via roula haj-ismail
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Everyday, in classrooms across the country, many teachers begin their lessons with what are commonly known as Learning Goals, Targets, Objectives or Intentions. John Hattie defines these as “what it is we want students to learn in terms of the skills, knowledge, attitudes, and values within any particular unit or lesson.” They are usually written… Via roula haj-ismail
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How lecturers can ‘activate’ traditional lectures to relieve student boredom and stimulate learning Via Vladimir Kukharenko
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Class Charts is super fast behaviour management software, creating school seating plans in seconds. Link our behaviour & seating plan software with SIMS, Powerschool & more Via Gust MEES
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September 27, 2015 5:17 PM
Class Charts is super fast behaviour management software, creating school seating plans in seconds. Link our behaviour & seating plan software with SIMS, Powerschool & more |
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This classic group learning strategy can help students communicate, collaborate, and empathize with one another—fighting back against a growing sense of disconnection in schools. Via roula haj-ismail
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In today’s educational landscape, generative AI is emerging as a powerful tool that can change the way we teach and learn. For educational leaders, Generative AI's potential is both vast and inspiring, offering significant opportunities to enhance educational outcomes, foster creativity, and, most importantly, prepare students for a future where AI is an integral part of every work and life. Via Edumorfosis
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Khan’s latest project, dubbed Khanmigo and launched in 2023, provokes some of the same fears. Pairing generative AI with a user-friendly interface, the application, which is being piloted by over 600,000 students and teachers in the U.S., promises to deliver a personalized tutor to every classroom, allowing students to plug in and receive instruction on subjects ranging from elementary math to essay writing. Instead of simply providing answers to their questions, Khan says, new AI bots like Khanmigo are trained to serve as “thoughtful” mentors, prodding students with questions, giving them encouragement, and delivering feedback on their mistakes as they work to develop their own understanding. Via Edumorfosis
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"Literary researchers like me aren’t surprised that reading for pleasure is at an all time low among kids ..." Via Leona Ungerer
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Need a fresh teaching resource that fits your class and teaching style? Create a customized pack of interactive and printable activities in just one minute.
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This article appeared in the Washington Monthly, August 25, 2024. “Jonathan Zimmerman teaches education and history at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America and eight other books.” In 1949, the graduate dean at the University of Minnesota imagined that he had fallen… Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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Lesson planning can be a very time-consuming task for teachers. Explore five AI lesson plan generators that can make planning go faster! Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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Photo by Antenna on Unsplash What is learning? Exploring theory and process. Is learning a change in behaviour or understanding? Is it a process? Here we survey some key dimensions and ideas. Cont… Via Ana Cristina Pratas, roula haj-ismail
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We know how to help kids develop into powerful learners. Now, we just need to make that happen in schools. Via roula haj-ismail
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A framework for the ethical, equitable & meaningful integration of transformative graphite technology. Via Vladimir Kukharenko
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Educators have gotten increasingly skilled at spotting AI generated work. Here are some of the “tells” they notice. Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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August 7, 2024 12:41 PM
"the presence of one or more of these tells in student work does not constitute proof of AI use. So use these potential tells of AI as evidence to open a conversation with students, not a tribunal." |
