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AI in the Classroom: A Complete AI Classroom Guide

The CoolCatTeacher

Today's three guests are expert authors of the newly released The AI Classroom: The Ultimate Guide to Artificial Intelligence in Education. From budgets to banking to credit and savings, choose a topic and use it in your classroom with EVERFI’s free financial literacy lesson plans. Is it helpful? Should it be welcomed in schools?

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Classroom Travels with Twitter: An Evolution

Ask a Tech Teacher

Twitter as a classroom resource, you ask? I began using Twitter in my classroom soon after its introduction in 2006. When my students would ask me how many followers I had on my Facebook account and Twitter, I stated I did not know. Classroom Use. The social media platform became a resource when I was running on empty.

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Facebook Seems to Be Adding Video-Course Features. For Edtech, That Raises Old Fears.

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The tech giant Meta, widely known under its previous name Facebook, seems to be eyeing a way to allow users to offer video classes. Since at least last year, Meta has experimented with Facebook Classes, a program designed to make online instruction through its platform smoother. For now, Meta isn’t taking a cut of live events.

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Practical AI Ideas for the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

My focus is on both ChatGPT as well as the new Notion AI tool and the practical ways I'm using them in my everyday classroom activities. From budgets to banking to credit and savings, choose a topic and use it in your classroom with EVERFI’s free financial literacy lesson plans. Welcome to an extended episode focusing on AI!

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Using Facebook Stories in the Classroom

Gaggle Speaks

” This is certainly true of the Stories feature on social media—made popular by Snapchat—which has recently been implemented by Facebook. On Facebook, users now can post updates that are only visible to other users for 24 hours , at which point they’re gone forever (or so it seems).

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‘Dear Mr. Zuckerberg’: Students Take Summit Learning Protests Directly to Facebook Chief

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On Thursday, hoping to send a stronger message, they took it all the way to the top, with a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. This program grew out of Summit Public Schools, a network of 11 charter schools based in California and Washington, and soon caught the eye of Facebook, which lent engineers to help build the software.

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‘A Deal With the Devil’: NPR Reporter Anya Kamenetz On Teaching With 'Addictive Tech' Like Facebook

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What does it mean to report on education technology from a student lens? How does the tech-health discussion impact teachers in the classroom? Coverage of technology in a classroom has been really focused on the potential benefits and the promise of tech even for very young children. Has it evolved with your reporting?