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Teaching Fellows Guide Educators in Integrating AI for Enhanced Student Engagement

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Artificial intelligence holds significant potential to address key challenges in education, particularly in enhancing student engagement and facilitating personalized learning. Basualto, a teacher with the Toronto District School Board, shares his experience leveraging AI for greater student engagement and more timely feedback.

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Coding for Kids: How to Boost Academic Achievement

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Communicating with computers is fun, engaging and thrilling, and it also has a powerful effect on kids’ futures. Coding boosts academic achievement while simultaneously embedding life-long skills in learners. Elementary-aged learners are capable of providing computers with instructions to achieve a specific outcome through code!

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Building & Using an Elementary STEM Curriculum Map

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Early implementation of the STEM curriculum leads to confidence and increased student achievement in STEM, which helps better prepare students for higher education and future careers. When implementing STEM in elementary education, educators and school administrators often benefit from creating a STEM curriculum map.

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When the Variability of All Learners Is Addressed

ED Surge

Since 2020, three things have become clearer than ever: Our students of color, English learners and students with disabilities have faced a disparate impact on their educational experience from COVID-19. Recently, EdSurge spoke with Regina Meeks , an elementary math and ELA teacher in North Carolina.

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Tips for Teaching STEM to Elementary Students

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Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) are fundamental aspects of elementary education. By introducing STEM in early education, students create a strong foundation in these subjects, giving them the confidence to continue STEM throughout their education and beyond! Start a mentorship or buddy program with older students.

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A New Way to Personalize Learning, Thanks to AI

ED Surge

In the dynamic landscape of education, truly personalized learning has been nearly impossible to achieve. Classroom teachers, constrained by limited resources and standardized curricula, often struggle to cater to the diverse learning needs of their students. Image Credit: eSpark. That is what you love to see as a teacher!”

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Competition Can Motivate, Encourage and Inspire Students. But It Can Also Harm Them.

ED Surge

As an elementary school student, I remember sitting “criss cross applesauce” among my peers during the end-of-the-quarter awards ceremonies, hoping my name would be called. When I was deemed a “winner” for good behavior or academic achievement, I’d hear my nana’s cheer. Our antics produced mixed results.