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Shifting Education with Learning Pathways: New White Paper Examines Portrait of a Graduate

Digital Promise

The post Shifting Education with Learning Pathways: New White Paper Examines Portrait of a Graduate appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Can AI Aid the Early Education Workforce?

Edsurge

Since ChatGPT was released in November 2022 and exploded into public discourse, the emergence of generative AI tools has been met with both excitement and concern, across virtually every industry, ideology and age group. Today, the use of this technology in education settings is underway, and states are even beginning to release guidance on how to navigate AI in schools.

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8 Ways to Create AI-Proof Writing Prompts

techlearning

ChatGPT and other AI tools are smart but I’m smarter. okay maybe not, but these are strategies for writing AI-proof writing prompts that I’ve used effectively in my classes.

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Playful Pedagogy: Gamer Types and Board Games for Inclusive Learning

Edsurge

Educators often find themselves exploring innovative approaches to enhance student learning, and one particularly creative pathway is integrating games and playfulness into the learning environment. Navigating this terrain requires a delicate balance, ensuring that the joy and engagement of games enhance rather than detract from educational objectives while aiming to foster an inclusive and responsive pedagogy.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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PROOF POINTS: Only a quarter of federally funded education innovations benefited students, report says

The Hechinger Report

An early warning and intervention system, called BARR, pictured above, was one of the most successful education interventions to come out of the Department of Education’s research and development program that issued $1.4 billion in grants between 2010 and 2016. Credit: Staff/ The Hechinger Report Education journalism is chock full of stories touting some brand new idea that could fix schools.

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E-rate insight protects school technology infrastructure

eSchool News

Key points: Schools still rely on E-rate funds to upgrade and protect their technology infrastructures Will cybersecurity receive E-rate funding? 3 ways the E-rate program helps level up learning For more news on the E-rate, see eSN’s IT Leadership hub When the Federal Communications Commission’s E-rate program first emerged in 1996, only 14 percent of the nation’s K-12 classrooms were connected to the internet.

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The National Center on Intensive Intervention Adds Classworks® Evidence-Based Reading Intervention to Academic Interventions Tools Chart

eSchool News

Classworks®, an award-winning special education and tiered intervention platform, is validated by the National Center on Intensive Intervention (NCII) as an evidence-based reading intervention. The best-in-class program is listed on the Academic Intervention Tools Chart and joins Classworks Universal Screener and Progress Monitoring in the company’s highly rated, NCII-validated offerings.

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You Can Make Meetings More Productive

MiddleWeb

Meetings can waste time and resources. Education consultants Ronald Williamson and Barbara R. Blackburn’s strategies can help you avoid pitfalls and lead effective meetings with norm setting, planning, agenda setting, and options for decision making. Productivity tools included! The post You Can Make Meetings More Productive first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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TEACHING THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING

American Consortium for Equity in Education

A conversation with a well respected expert in this specialized field who is the Council for Exceptional Children’s Teacher of the Year Therese Copple who works at The Riverside County (CA) Office of Special Education on the special needs of Keep Reading TEACHING THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING The post TEACHING THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING appeared first on American Consortium for Equity in Education.

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Curipod Lesson Plan

techlearning

This Curipod Lesson Plan is designed to help educators integrate the digital tool to support instruction

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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Dr. Steve Book Interview - Kate Hall on "The Public Library Director's HR Toolkit"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We've just posted the lastest in a new book interview series by Dr. Steve Albrecht in our " The Safe Library " section of Library 2.0 : Kate Hall on The Public Library Director's HR Toolkit. "Kate Hall is the Executive Director of the Northbrook, IL Library. She is the co-author, with Kathy Parker, of The Public Library Director's HR Toolkit (ALA, 2022).

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Best Headphones for Students

techlearning

Get the best headphones for students for in class and beyond.

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Math is not a universal language—but it can be a universal thread

eSchool News

Key points: Every student can be a math person—we just need the right resources Friday 5: STEAM education in action How this middle school teacher gets students to challenge themselves in math For more news on math learning, visit eSN’s STEM & STEAM hub Say what you will about the universality of numbers and symbols; I’d politely argue that it does not follow that mathematics is a universal language.

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