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A.I. and the Seven Things that Make Us Human

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By LeiLani Cauthen With A.I. arriving in schools, questions of its use and possible threat to teaching and learning have erupted across the world. We looked back at what Learning Counsel’s 2022 National Digital Transition Surveys asked about how teachers, and separately, administrators define teaching today. Surprisingly, the results showed some big differences.

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How To Bridge The Gap Between ESL and Mainstream Teachers

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It’s that time of the year again! Back to School! Being an ELL or Bilingual teacher comes with many gifts and challenges. What is one challenge you face the most in your professional teaching career? Many ELL teachers say lacking communication with mainstream teachers can be one of the most significant challenges they face in school. If you are an ELL, ESL, Bilingual or mainstream teacher do you find the lines of communication can be a barrier?

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Service Learning: a Valuable Opportunity for Your Learners

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By Zach Vander Veen On March 14th, the neighborhood school district took a freshman math class down to the local food pantry to serve pies. It was Pi Day. Students were learning about pi and the many applications it has in the real world. Beyond core academics, their school district emphasized service learning and community service as part of their mission and vision.

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Master the Troubling Tech Tribbles in Space at ISTE 2023

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From Doug Cauthen Get a Tribble for your Trouble Plan to join the Learning Counsel for an Escape Room Trek! The issues of schools and teachers with lots of apps and outsized network impacts will be addressed at ISTE by Cisco and the Learning Counsel in a fun way that also teaches you about new A.I. technologies. The Trek will give educators a live experience of teaching and learning that uses Hybrid Logistics, networks which use an A.I. for the teaching and learning intersection in school schedu

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How AI is Changing the Education Landscape

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By Mark Booker AI is like any other new tool that has entered the arena of learning that enhances a student’s access to data and information to process and consume knowledge more quickly. Whether it be the Internet, the calculator, or even the printing press – all have entered social consciousness as disruptors with some wariness and skepticism, but were ultimately used to change how fast we can learn and share information to enhance the depth of information we pass on to future generations.

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4 Tips for a Successful Districtwide Communication Platform Launch

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By Karl Weinrich Until last year, our district was using a number of different websites and platforms for school-home communications. Many of those platforms weren’t supported by our district, which takes a hands-off, lenient approach to approving websites and other tools for use across its 31 schools. For example, teachers will sometimes find free tools and then jump in and start putting student data in them.

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Cognitive Skills and Math (Dis)Ability: Identifying the Links

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By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark While reading difficulties have been studied extensively in the last few decades, difficulties learning math have received less attention. Math disabilities, however, are as common as reading disabilities at 5 to 8 percent of the population. Like reading disabilities, math disabilities may have multiple causes and dimensions.

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