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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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I prepared a few Socratic Seminars about their impressions of AI and its potential implications for the future of writing and education. Look,” a student pointed out in one seminar. “It As we moved through these seminars, my students helped me realize I was focusing on the wrong tensions in the debate around ChatGPT.

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When Bots Go to Class

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Seth Brott, a sophomore at Ferris State University majoring in information security, plans to give his robot classmates a warm welcome. How can we make that experience better for students?” Murray says “the goal is to have them in classes this semester.” He says he was “excited” when one of his professors told him about the plan.

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Is technology outpacing you?

Ask a Tech Teacher

If you were in a seminar, it would include the people on both sides of you and in front and back. Usually, that buzzword rhymes with robotics, coding, programming, 3D printing, Maker Spaces, AI or AR or VR. What it takes to integrate robotics and coding into the classroom. You’re not alone. Those are big numbers.

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5 Ways to Embed Coding & Electronics into Your Science Curriculum

Cycles of Learning

If you are like me as a science teacher, you simultaneously live the acronym "STEM" and are exhausted by its overuse in nearly every blog, set of state standards, or professional development seminar that comes to town ( Full disclosure : I often facilitate those seminars).

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5 Ways to Embed Coding & Electronics into Your Science Curriculum

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If you are like me as a science teacher, you simultaneously live the acronym "STEM" and are exhausted by its overuse in nearly every blog, set of state standards, or professional development seminar that comes to town ( Full disclosure : I often facilitate those seminars). ?That

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A PD model that creates experts, not robots

eSchool News

Why our ELA department dropped seminars in favor of real, ongoing professional development. Most of these were one-day seminars, with every teacher in the school or district in attendance. During my forty plus years in education, I have spent countless hours sitting in professional development sessions.

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Video Assignments Are the New Term Paper. How Does That Change Teaching and Learning?

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This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. For example, telepresence robots could give remote students more options for expression in class when they can’t be there in person. This is part 3. Read part 1 and part 2. Digital video has taken the world by storm.

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