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4 lessons learned about AI in 2023

eSchool News

In Steve Jobs’ memorable 2005 commencement address at Stanford, he shared a story about “connecting the dots.” This meant that devices were somewhat affordable and that, potentially, every student could have access to one. This has been a common question I have heard when doing AI workshops with teachers across the country.

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Shapegrams: Grab-and-Go Google Drawings Lessons

Shake Up Learning

A Shapegrams membership gets you access to all Shapegrams and gives you a license to distribute them to your students. Since 1998 I’ve been a pioneer in digital learning, having a classroom website before many classrooms even had internet access. They also learn helpful keyboard shortcuts.

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Digital Portfolios + Micro-credentials = Massive Impact for Students & Teachers

Digital Promise

Despite the good intentions of targeted policies and increased attention to equity and accessibility initiatives, the achievement gap persists 2. What distinguishes micro-credentials from traditional PD workshops is the way in which teachers and educational leaders provide evidence of learning. 2005, September). 3] Patrick, S.,

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Notes on Open Pedagogy

Iterating Toward Openness

It reminded me that I meant to post the notes I developed for my workshop on open pedagogy at the Maricopa Community Colleges last week. ” Open impacts pedagogy in two ways: By increasing student access to RESOURCES, open increases the number of students who can DO things with RESOURCES. ENABLE new pedagogies).

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Copy Machines in Libraries Are ‘Going the Way of the Dodo’—Slowly

Edsurge

Walker witnessed the beginning of the end for copiers in her previous job at Brooklyn College, where she worked from 2005-2015 as chief technology officer. As one model superseded another, librarians at the college had to field more and more how-to questions—so many questions that they asked Spivak’s group to run workshops on scanning.

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What 10 Years of K-12 Online Professional Development Taught New Hampshire

Edsurge

Through consistent support and feedback and flexibility in scheduling, the OPEN NH program , run by the Office of Educational Technology at the New Hampshire Department of Education since 2005, offers high-quality, seven-week online professional development courses that focus on content and pedagogical knowledge, and emphasize active learning.

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The number of grandparents raising grandchildren is up, thanks in part to the opioid epidemic

The Hechinger Report

The Census Bureau’s 2005 American Community Survey counted 2.4 million in 2005 to 7.1 Angie Burda, the program’s manager, developed a broad range of services, establishing support groups, educational workshops, and recreational activities for families with children of all ages. million in 2014.