ED Surge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In some classrooms, such as my own, we talk about what AI can and can’t do. Next semester, my students will spend time working with prompt writing, reflecting on LLM output and reflecting on when knowledge and learning matter versus when human-AI hybrid writing makes sense.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JULY 25, 2023

The Tweet That Started it I get weary of AI hype auto-generated by *gasp* ChatGPT without any real applicability to the classroom. I'm collecting blogs of teachers who are in the classroom actually use AI and have practical, real examples to share. Here are the resources I found and explored as a result of the tweet.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I learned about this revolutionary classroom practice in Alexis Wiggins’ 2017 book, “The Best Class You Never Taught.” I learned about this revolutionary classroom practice in Alexis Wiggins’ 2017 book, “The Best Class You Never Taught.” “What will you remember about our class?” My students sat quietly considering the question. “I

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In our increasingly digital world, educators recognize the significance of integrating AI tools in the classroom. Leveraging AI in the classroom can enhance teaching while preparing students for a future where AI is integral to the workforce. I was just worried that my students would use this to write all their essays!

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

I'm finding that the most powerful uses of AI in the classroom is in the form of a feedback and brainstorming tool. Furthermore, as I add another feedback mechanism into my classroom, I find that my students are advancing and learning much faster than ever before. I ask how students are doing and note anything I notice.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Jackie Gerstein Recently, EdSurge spoke with three participants of the AI Explorations program to learn about its impact in K-12 classrooms: Dr. Gerstein teaches gifted education at a Title 1 school within Santa Fe Public Schools and graduate-level online courses for Walden and Antioch Universities.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Digital storytelling has a permanent place in my classroom. Book Writer- -write books on an iPad; view in iBooks (fee) (app). Write About This –writing prompts for students (app). Digital Quick Writes. An Exercise in Digital Storytelling. Whether they attended school in person or remotely, it was a success.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

This surge has prompted a growing exploration of AI's potential to more easily bring creativity into the classroom, exemplified by the emergence of AI-powered tools capable of generating text, images, music and video with no coding necessary. How would you respond to that? That end-to-end process is creative thinking.

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Cool Cat Teacher

APRIL 6, 2023

Today's three guests are expert authors of the newly released The AI Classroom: The Ultimate Guide to Artificial Intelligence in Education. From budgets to banking to credit and savings, choose a topic and use it in your classroom with EVERFI’s free financial literacy lesson plans. Is it helpful? Should it be welcomed in schools?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Topics include but not limited to: Flipped Classrooms. Student-led Classroom Management. Writing Prompts. Transforming Traditional Classroom Lessons to Online Learning. This used to mean enrolling at your local college or online institution. I recently received an email from the folks at Model Teaching.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

My first foray into using video in my teaching involved a TV cart wheeled into my classroom, replete with a connected VHS player—and no remote. Fast-forward to 2022, and it’s important to ask: Are teachers still pushing today’s version of that TV cart into our online and physical classrooms?

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NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Besides photos, you can also use plain images to write text on. As of writing these lines, Phonto supports three main languages: English, Chinese, and Japanese. For instance, you can use it to create inspirational quotes to share with students or to incorporate in your classroom blog. You can move your text around as you like.

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ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2023

With the increased availability of AI tools in classrooms accelerated by the pandemic and showing no signs of a slowdown, teaching has become yet another field in which professional work is shared with tools like AI. We wondered about the role of AI in one specific teaching practice: assessing student learning. Because I don't understand.'

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Cool Cat Teacher

AUGUST 1, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Are you an educator troubled by the looming question of how AI will impact writing instruction? Look no further. Furthermore, as this experiment unfolds, you'll be interested in the findings' powerful implications on student creativity and expression.

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Cool Cat Teacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Barbara also explores specific examples of rigor in math, literature, writing, science, and history, emphasizing the importance of going beyond the text and providing evidence to demonstrate understanding. Rigor in literature and writing involves going beyond the text and connecting to real-life experiences or other books.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The 21st-century classroom is a dynamic, ever-evolving space where cutting-edge technologies, like artificial intelligence (AI), are pushing us all to rethink what students need to learn and how that learning can best be structured to prepare them for the future. Understand the value of creativity.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

To avoid confusion, I plan to limit ChatGPT to one question per prompt in future sessions. From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In my recent experiments with Voice ChatGPT during my daily commutes, I've discovered some fascinating insights and practical applications for educators. I was impressed.

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ED Surge

JUNE 30, 2023

As another school year comes to a close, so does another cycle of our Voices of Change Writing Fellowship — a program that brings together a diverse cohort of K-12 educators and school leaders to share their experiences. Katerra Billy During my time as a fellow, the most meaningful story I published was “ My Students Deserve a Classroom.

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Cool Cat Teacher

APRIL 20, 2023

I predict it will save time for those teachers fortunate enough to have an Instructional Technology department to teach them the proper use, prompting, and need for content editing. I focused on ELA two days ago, so today, I'd feed the similar prompts I used for ChatGPT into Google Bard to compare the difference.

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Educators Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Another way to incorporate news stories in your teaching is to use them as speaking or writing prompts. Provide students with headlines and ask them to write their own story version. Assuming the role of journalists will help students practice first-hand the concept of framing and hone in their writing and editing skills.

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Cool Cat Teacher

AUGUST 17, 2023

This week my students are using Adobe Firefly in a generative AI art competition being held in my classroom. Some Typical Prompts for AI Art Generation Additionally, I've bought some books on artistic styles and terminologies because knowing the words to use is part of making AI art generation accessible to our students (and ourselves.)

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Cool Cat Teacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In this episode, Jesse Lubinsky, a former classroom teacher and education evangelist for Adobe, shares 10 awesome free ways that teachers can use Adobe Express in their classrooms. So, that is where I am here. Let's see how it goes! Stream by clicking here.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In truth, this new invention can take us to next-level learning, and we are just now unlocking the full potential of this in our classrooms. Plato once quoted Socrates lamenting that, “If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written.”1

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Here are ten unusual projects (each, about one hour in length) you can use in your classroom to participate in this wildly popular event: Alt Codes. Here are ten unusual projects (each, about one hour in length) you can use in your classroom to participate in this wildly popular event: Alt Codes. Long list of websites by grade.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 3, 2023

For leaders like Daniel-Hardy, the introduction of generative AI to the teaching-learning process “feels different,” even though they’ve seen multiple waves of disruptive technology circle in and out through classrooms. The introduction of generative AI into society shines a bright spotlight on these educators.

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JULY 21, 2023

Best Free AI Tools for Teachers Post by Natasha Wilkerson July 21, 2023 With the release of ChatGPT last year, teachers are still scrambling to catch up on the implications and potential of AI in our classrooms. We also share 25 ChatGPT prompts for teachers! How ChatGPT Will Transform Education 111. How AI Will Transform Education ft.

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Educators Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

There is a plethora of games you can create with spinner wheel tools, some of these as laid out by Lawrence Haywood from AhaSlides include: w riting prompts : type in prompts and add them as entries in the wheel and ask students either individually or in teams to spin the wheel. Hence the importance of spinner wheel tools.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. Right now, millions of students around the country are comfortably in their seats for the 2023-24 school year. To reach every student in the U.S.,

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

The physical space of the retreat offered plentiful resources to help everyone meet their needs: flexible seating, break tables for arts and crafts, snacks and affirmation envelopes for each student to write and receive encouraging letters. In my experience, this profoundly impacts how students show up in the classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 8, 2021

Some call Classcraft a classroom management tool but really, it’s more about injecting excitement in your teaching and touching on the important social-emotional learning that sometimes gets forgotten. You incorporate that into your passion for teaching by gamifying your middle- or high school classroom. It’s pretty simple.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2024

A few weeks ago, Ferris State University made a splashy announcement that it planned to enroll two chatbot “students” in its classes, calling it a novel way for colleges to test their curricula. But the experiment points to interesting possibilities — and raises ethical questions — about how the latest AI tech might be used to improve teaching.

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ED Surge

JULY 27, 2023

In other words, there’s not even a Zoom classroom where they gather. And he can’t just turn assignments into one-on-one discussions with students to see if they’re keeping up with material or even have students do writing in class while he can watch them work.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 19, 2023

My focus is on both ChatGPT as well as the new Notion AI tool and the practical ways I'm using them in my everyday classroom activities. From budgets to banking to credit and savings, choose a topic and use it in your classroom with EVERFI’s free financial literacy lesson plans. Welcome to an extended episode focusing on AI!

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

To facilitate collaborative learning: ChatGPT or similar models could be used to facilitate discussions and collaboration among students, providing prompts and guidance for group projects and assignments. Now, similar work is often seen as innovative by colleagues. Later, I describe and show the work of my students.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

If you walked into the classroom of a teacher who was outstanding at serving all of their students—those who might be marginalized, struggling, neurodiverse or recent immigrants—what exactly would you see? What actions distinguish teachers who are especially effective with our most vulnerable students?

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Cool Cat Teacher

APRIL 28, 2023

That's why in this podcast, we'll explore various differentiated reading strategies that can be adapted to fit the needs of every student in your classroom. Even if you already have a science curriculum, Propello is an excellent classroom-ready supplement - with everything you need for a personal, fun learning experience for your students.

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OCTOBER 21, 2022

providing visual prompts (such as highlighted text). providing visual prompts (such as highlighted text). Surprisingly, 15-20% of the population has a language-based learning disability and over 65% of those are deficits in reading. Students with dyslexia often experience difficulties with both oral and written language skills.

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