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The Problem with AI Prompt Feedback (and How to Solve It)

The CoolCatTeacher

Yesterday I demonstrated how to get AI feedback. I want to take those of you not using AI (yet) into what it looks like to interact with AI, both how I'm conversing with AI and how it responds. I want you to see my issues and how I proceed at each step of the process. But now I want to integrate AI feedback.

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How to Compare and Contrast Authentically

Ask a Tech Teacher

To students, knowing how to ‘compare and contrast’ sounds academic, not real world, but we teachers know most of life is choosing between options. The better adults are at this, the more they thrive. 4th grade Reading Standards–3).

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How to Have Deeper Learning and Better Schools

The CoolCatTeacher

Professor Jal Mehta from the Harvard University School of Education has co-written an award-winning book “ In Search of Deeper Learning ” and reflects on how deeper learning can happen at the secondary level. Sponsor: Pear Deck. You can mix and match your tracks. So, reserve your spot. Stream by clicking here.

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How to Assess with Respect with Starr Sackstein

The CoolCatTeacher

Listen to Starr Sackstein share how to assess with respect. She has made the Bammy Awards finals for Secondary High School Educator in 2014 and for blogging in 2015. Most recently, Sackstein was named one of ASCD’s Emerging leaders class of 2016, in addition to presenting a TedxTalk about throwing out grades.

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What to Know About SQL and How to Try it Out

Ask a Tech Teacher

If you want a job coding, you have to know how to get around a database, and that means SQL. One of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew has suggestions on how to test it out and what are the most important elements to learn: How High School Students Can Try Out SQL and 4 Things They Should Learn About It . How to Manipulate Data.

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How to Do Student-led Conferences

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Where traditional conferences seek to delineate how students rank academically at a point in time, student-led conferences revolve around the work students have produced. In fact, the grades earned are secondary to how students understand what happened in the lesson. How to run a student-led conference.

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The Power of Claim-Evidence-Question

Catlin Tucker

Science Experiments: Students make a claim about the outcome of a science experiment, present data as evidence, and ask questions about variables that might have affected the results.

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