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Engineers Week Feb. 18-24

Ask a Tech Teacher

During Engineers Week, engineering societies, universities, companies, and other organizations organize workshops, competitions, seminars, outreach programs to schools, career fairs, and networking events. Look for her next prehistoric fiction, Endangered Species, Winter 2024

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314: Elevating Student Learning With AI

The Thinking Stick

Learn more about questionwell.ai Also explored in our conversation are ideas on: Ways to use AI for concept based learning. Ways to engage AI for social emotional learning. Ways to engage AI for social emotional learning. and connect with Maya. Ways AI will help us reconceptualize communication and creativity.

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Follow Along With a Grad Seminar About Edtech: Part 1, Picking the Best Tech

Edsurge

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. Meanwhile, online and hybrid learning keep growing and developing. We observed that the problem of how to adopt or adapt tech to teaching is not a new one, and that we can learn from historical cases.

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Is Teaching an Art or a Science? New Book Takes a Fresh Look at ‘How Humans Learn.’

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Just how do humans learn? And can science unlock secrets of the learning process that can help teachers and professors be more effective in their classrooms? One of the latest people to tackle those questions is Josh Eyler, in a new book called “ How Humans Learn.” I think there’s a real art to that.

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How We Can Honor Indigenous Values in Our Teaching Without Appropriating the Culture

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This past June, I received an email inviting me to participate in a webinar on Gratitude-Based Learning (GBL). However, during the seminar, the facilitators jumped directly into piloting GBL activities with attendees. In this book, she speaks of the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address presented aloud to school children.

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How to Hold Effective Classroom Discussions

Waterford

As students discuss their perspectives with each other, they’ll not only solidify their understanding of a topic—they may learn to see it in a new light, too. To learn more about Think-Pair-Share, check out this resource from WETA Adolescent Literacy. Classroom discussions can be one of the best ways to boost student engagement.

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We Can’t Keep ChatGPT Out of the Classroom, so Let’s Address the ‘Why’ Behind Our Fears

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The Source of Teachers’ Concerns Years ago, I learned about artificial intelligence (AI) assistance in student writing in an online forum for English teachers. I prepared a few Socratic Seminars about their impressions of AI and its potential implications for the future of writing and education. They all balked at what it churned out.

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