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How to Make Your Own GPT: A Step-by-Step Guide

Cool Cat Teacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter As I listened to the keynote by Sam Altman of OpenAI, they unveiled some amazing things three days a go, one of which is the ability to make your own GPT. So I did. Did what? I made DIVAA, the Digital Interactive Virtual AP Assistant to help my AP Computer Science Principles with Python and AP Content.

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Left-brain or Right-brain Dominant? Explore the Ideal Subjects to Nurture your Strengths

Ask a Tech Teacher

Left-brain or Right-brain Dominant? Explore the Ideal Subjects to Nurture your Strengths Choosing what to study after high school can be tough. A popular theory that aids some students in their decision-making process is the left-brain vs right-brain theory. It suggests that people have a dominant side of their brain, which influences their thinking and learning styles.

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Unbox Innovation: Cultivating Creativity in the Classroom, Part 1

Box Light

In the first official episode of Unbox Innovation , Boxlight’s newest podcast series, Host Gabrielle Bejarano had a chat with Preston Trebas, STEM Training and Development Specialist, to discuss the challenges teachers face in today's educational landscape, with a special focus on fostering creativity in the classroom.

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Taming the snowball

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

This post first appeared at Grading For Growth on November 6, 2023. In alternative grading systems that follow the Four Pillars framework , students have clearly defined standards for what they need to learn and how to demonstrate that they’ve learned it; and reattempts without penalty so that they can take the helpful feedback they receive from us, process it, and iterate on it.

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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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Developing and Sustaining Teacher Leaders

National Science Foundation

For over twenty years, several mathematics education initiatives (Campbell et al., 2003; Martin et al., 2011; Strutchens & Martin, 2013; and others) have been exploring teacher leadership as a mechanism for preparing and supporting teachers to make classrooms equitable for all students. In this blog, we share three case studies of teacher leaders.

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UV Radiation: Why Do We Wear Sunscreen?

STEMe

Columbia, MO You’re going outside to play in the bright, warm sunlight, but as soon as your fingertips touch the door handle, you hear someone yell your name. It’s your parents. As you begrudgingly go to see what your parents want, they simply say, “Put on sunscreen!” But why? Why do you need to wear sunscreen? Why do you have to spend an additional 5 minutes smearing some sunscreen across your limbs instead of just going outside?

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Nov 10, How to help a child with math assignments if he does not like to study

Online Math for All

How to help a child with math assignments if he does not like to study

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Jellyfish: The Secret to Immortality

STEMe

Columbia, MO Immortality—the ability to live forever. It’s something people have long coveted the answers to but have never fully understood nor uncovered. And while humans are still mortal, another animal seems to have discovered the secret to immortality. This animal, which has long been dubbed “biologically” immortal, is named “the immortal jellyfish.

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Nov 10, Finding Area Using Integration

Online Math for All

Finding Area Using Integration

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Harnessing The Power Of Math Manipulatives

Mathematics, a subject steeped in abstract concepts, often poses challenges to students, especially those in grades 5-10. But imagine a bridge that transformed this intricate maze into an interactive adventure.

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ARISE 2024 Call for Blog Submissions

National Science Foundation

The AAAS-ARISE blog ADAPTATIONS is accepting submissions for its 2024 series. Submissions are due by December 13, 2023, at 11:59 PM PT. The ADAPTATIONS blog advances research toward and replication of what works in the education of STEM teachers for high-need school districts through sharing of evidence-based innovations to encourage adaption and move forward collective evolution of effective preparation.