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11 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools to Support Effective Teaching and Leadership

A Principal's Reflections

The company behind this tool is extremely committed to data privacy. It allows teachers to get “just right” instructional materials, saving tons of time and helping all students access grade-level content. Click on the “magic tools” tab at the top of the page to see all of the options available to teachers.

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Mentoring Minds - instructional materials to develop critical thinking skills

Educational Technology Guy

Mentoring Minds is an educational publishing company that develops K-12 instructional materials to help students develop critical thinking and problem solving skills. The company's main goal is to provide materials that help students increase their critical analysis and reasoning skills, along with problem solving skills.

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Humans, Generative AI, and Learning from Copyrighted Materials

Iterating Toward Openness

I’ve been thinking about AI training data a lot recently, partly because of the fascinating intersections and overlaps between (1) curating and annotating training data for AI models and (2) designing instructional materials for human learners. But reading those materials does create a long-term change in my understanding.

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PROOF POINTS: Controversies within the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

“If you teach phonemic awareness, students will learn phonemic awareness,” which isn’t the goal, said Tiffany Peltier , a learning scientist who consults on literacy training for teachers at NWEA, an assessment company. “If Companies sold phonemic programs to schools and told teachers to teach it every day. school districts.

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Realizing Success in the Adult Basic Education Market

Digital Promise

When combined with other sources, one estimate places this figure as high as $10 billion annually, with $200 million of that spent on digital instructional materials. Highly fragmented, these organizations often serve small numbers of learners and have very limited budgets for instructional materials.

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Read This: Newsela Lands $50 Million From Spotify Investor

Edsurge

That approach worked for Spotify, a company in the portfolio of growth equity firm TCV , where Marshall is a general partner. And now, it’s attracted TCV to an education technology company. In the past 12 months, the company has grown its staff size by 50 percent, to 200 employees at the end of 2018.

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Turn the Page: Looking Beyond the Textbook for Culturally-Responsive Curriculum

Edsurge

Recently, Education Week published an article describing culturally-questionable activities and language found in Studies Weekly , a social studies curriculum used by more than 13,000 schools across the country. So how can curriculum publishers and educational companies be meaningful partners in creating culturally-responsive classrooms?

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