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Generative Textbooks

Iterating Toward Openness

For example, my son who is studying cybersecurity recently told me prompted ChatGPT along these lines: ‘You are the hiring manager for a cybersecurity position at a large company. My son tells me this exercise was incredibly helpful and he plans to do it several more times before having a “real” interview.

OER 137
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Learning Math Should be Fun and Engaging

A Principal's Reflections

Through the use of technology, collaborative learning exercises, and teaching mathematical concepts in the real-world and interdisciplinary context, she has managed to successfully work towards creating this desired positive and energetic blended learning environment.

Edmodo 282
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5E Lesson Example: Cellular Respiration w/Crosscutting NGSS Integration.

Cycles of Learning

Does this have to do with energy and exercise? Once complete challenge students to design and conduct an experiment to determine the impact that various types of exercises and activities (breathing through a straw, etc.) Extend Pose the below medical case study to students and challenge them to: Diagnose the patient.

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5E Lesson Example: Cellular Respiration w/Crosscutting NGSS Integration.

Cycles of Learning

Does this have to do with energy and exercise? Once complete challenge students to design and conduct an experiment to determine the impact that various types of exercises and activities (breathing through a straw, etc.) Extend Pose the below medical case study to students and challenge them to: Diagnose the patient.

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How to Keep Class Sessions from Running Short (Or Going Too Long)

Edsurge

Bain writes, “Teachers succeed in grabbing students’ attention by beginning a lecture with a provocative question or problem that raises issues in ways that students had never thought about before, or by using stimulating case studies or goal-based scenarios.” In her case, she did this exercise more on an impromptu basis.

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Civics Education Is Essential for Creating Engaged Citizens. I’m Hopeful It's About to Make a Comeback.

Edsurge

For example, using “ We the People ,” one of the EAD’s seven themes, elementary grades can study, in age-appropriate ways, how America has defined who is an American in the naturalization process by reading picture books and working with corresponding primary sources.

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Teaching Tools and Techniques

eSchool News

What are some examples of teaching techniques? Here, students engage with instructional content, such as pre-recorded lectures or readings, at home, freeing up class time for interactive activities, discussions, and hands-on exercises. What are the traditional tools of teaching?

Tools 52