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Teaching with Wikipedia? The Wiki Education Foundation Wants to Help!

ProfHacker

One of the biggest obstacles most instructors report facing, however, is simply learning how to use Wikipedia to the point where one feels comfortable enough to teach with it. If this describes you, The Wiki Education Foundation wants to help. Profession Software Uncategorized Wikipedia'

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Wikis in the Classroom

The Electric Educator

A wiki, from the Hawaiian word meaning "quick", is a web page that can be edited by anyone. The wiki concept has exploded in popularity primarily due to the following of wikipedia. The beautiful thing about a wiki is the collaboration that is encouraged. Wikis are a pool of knowledge to which people can continuously add.

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ChatGPT with My Students

User Generated Education

To use GLTR, a piece of text simply copy and pasted into the input box and anaylze is hit to generate a report. Now, similar work is often seen as innovative by colleagues. Giant Language Model Test Room (or GLTR ) is another tool that can be used to predict if casual portions of text have been written with AI.

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How to educate in the 4th Industrial Revolution

eSchool News

They need to know how to film, make podcasts, blog, and build wikis, for example. A 2020 World Economic Forum report states that “critical thinking and analysis as well as problem-solving, and skills in self-management such as active learning, resilience, stress tolerance and flexibility” are critical to business leaders.

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Chromebook automation with GAM

Vizor

For example, schools can use GAM to: Enroll and deprovision Chromebooks in bulk Set up device policies and preferences Perform OU assignment Update ChromeOS versions and settings Monitor device status and usage Enable and Disable Devices Generate reports and audits Automation can be especially useful for schools that use Chromebooks.

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6 Second Learning with Vine: 22+ Ideas & Resources

Teacher Reboot Camp

News bytes- students report a current event, world news, local news, or school event. They are only 6 seconds and you can embed/post them easily in a blog, Edmodo, or Wiki. If your book doesn’t have a lot of dialogue then assign them important characters/ historical figures you are studying and they can look up quotes.

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Video Projects to Engage Learners: 20+ Tools & Tips

Teacher Reboot Camp

Students can create video tutorials, silent films, screencasts, lip dubs, commercials, news reports, music videos, documentaries, movie trailers, video diaries, vodcasts, soap operas, stop motion films, machinimas, claymation, talk shows, and game shows. Published videos can be embedded on a Wiki or curated on a Pinterest or Educlipper Board.

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