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Unlocking the Power of Creativity and AI: Preparing Students for the Future Workforce

Edsurge

Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking. How would you respond to that? If it's really easy for your students to cheat and get an A on your assessment, is that an authentic assessment?

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Is This Video App Safe? Mozilla Privacy Report Offers a Look

Edsurge

She is the vice president of advocacy and engagement at the Mozilla Foundation, which today released a new report examining the privacy and security policies of 15 commonly used video-conferencing apps. In essence, the Mozilla report distills legalese and technical jargon into plain language.

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Why Teacher Self-Care Matters and How to Practice Self-Care in Your School

Waterford

Read on to discover what self-care is, why it’s important for educators, and how to bring it into your daily life as well as into your school. Over 40% of teachers report feeling high stress every day during the school year, which ties teaching with nursing as having the highest stress rate of any career.[13] What is Self-Care?

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OPINION: We need more problem solvers and critical thinkers for an increasingly complex world

The Hechinger Report

They want step-by-step guidance on how to tackle challenges. Students assess their own strengths and weaknesses and set learning goals in partnership with their teachers. One professor reached out to tell me how impressed he was by the self-advocacy that students from our district demonstrated.

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Smoothing the path for immigrants to finish their college degrees

The Hechinger Report

When he tried to enroll, he found that colleges had no idea how to handle his international transcripts and credentials. Once students are accepted, Sanchez said, Davenport will assess their education and work experience to see what can count toward degree progressions. But the language barrier was only part of the challenge.

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Advancing Computational Thinking Across K-12 Education

Digital Promise

What is motivating their introduction into schools, and how might they change education? Our new report, Computational Thinking for a Computational World , draws from research and interviews with leaders around the country to answer the essential question: In a computational world, what is important to know and know how to do?

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The Power of Rubrics—Students Take Control of Their Own Learning and Achievement

EdNews Daily

Summary: Patti West-Smith, an expert in pedagogy from Turnitin, explains that with a bit of up-front guidance, rubrics help students become self-directed learners who see exactly how to improve before turning in their paper or assignment. A writing professor could begin by asking her students to assess their own work on an assignment.

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