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Unconventional Research Sites to Inspire Students

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Pew Research recently reported that about half of Americans regularly get their news from social media. So why do students turn to it for news? This stat may explain it: 60% of people don’t trust traditional news sources. Optionally, they can take a quiz and send results to the teacher.

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What You Might Have Missed in March–What’s up in April

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5 (free) Posters about Learning. Websites that add sparkle (and learning) to Spring. A Lesson Plan for Addressing What’s in the News. Websites on Architecture/Engineering. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Here are the most-read posts for the month of March. Invention Convention is coming.

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15+ Websites to Teach Financial Literacy

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When kids read that America’s $28 trillion+ debt is accepted by many experts as ‘business as usual’, I wonder how that news will affect their future personal finance decisions. The good news is: Half of the nation’s schools require a financial literacy course. The bad new is: Only half require a financial literacy course.

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What is Chat GPT?

Cool Cat Teacher

I've quoted sources who know far more than I do about this topic to give you places to dig deeper. This is Day 4 of the 80 Days of AI where I'm learning and sharing what I'm learning. There's so much to learn and so much I personally don't know, so I'm always open to connecting and conversing. What is Chat GPT?

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7 Popular Science Museums

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From the invention of fire to Mars exploration, our insatiable appetite to discover and learn is getting wilder and wilder and with it our scientific knowledge. You can use resources in your teaching to help students learn more about science (and ultimately develop a love for it) and see how it has radically transformed our life.

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Join in 80 Days of AI and HI – Day 1 #80DaysOfAIandHI

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We are writing ebooks, and the original topic of conversation was how we could use AI to be more creative. Parents today often comment on how kids learn in middle school what they learned in high school. And how kids in high school learn what seems to be college material. How do we teach and learn now? What's next?

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How to Follow Up on the Squirrel Mazes(!?)

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A rock-star engineer Mark Rober might be the most visible mechanical engineer in America. billion, appearances on multiple TV news and entertainment shows, and a video launching it all showing him with a gaping hole in his torso. Eric Iversen. He’s got views on YouTube exceeding 2.5