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Microsoft’s AI Copilot in Windows 11 is Out Now

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From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter I've been working on a big project and am very busy, but I have been studying the changes in Windows 11 Copilot, released on Tuesday, September 26, and wanted to share them with you. This is what I'm excited about when Microsoft 365 Copilot is released.

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Revised Federal Edtech Plan Calls for Closing Digital Divides

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When the federal government released its revised edtech plan last month, it was laying down its hope for a future that delivers on effective instruction for students. The plan was first released to fulfill the Improving America’s Schools Act of 1994 and last revised in 2016.

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Could AI Give Civics Education a Boost?

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When longtime educator Zachary Cote first read about the release of ChatGPT about 15 months ago, he says his first instinct was to be “concerned” about its impact in the classroom, worried that students might simply ask the AI tool to do work for them.

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Reflections on 50 years of Game-Based Learning (Part 1)

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In the initial version of the game, Rawitsch and his collaborators put very little thought into the portrayal of Native Americans, defaulting to inaccurate and offensive tropes. When it came time to update the design for the MECC version, Rawitsch realized this and immersed himself in first-person accounts from the time period.

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How Augmented Reality Helps Teachers Reach More Students

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A web version of the app that will work on Chromebooks will be available soon, in addition to a Spanish-language release. The McGraw Hill program is releasing a social studies and language arts component that integrates the two content areas. The McGraw Hill AR app is device-agnostic, meaning it works on Android or iOS.

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ReadWriteThink Interactives Now Work Without Flash!

Free Technology 4 Teachers

Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo's weekly Ed Tech Digest post , this morning I learned that ReadWriteThink has released updated versions of their popular student interactives. The updated versions retain all of the great aspects of the originals, but now they work without Flash. That is until now! You can find all of them right here.

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We Can’t Keep ChatGPT Out of the Classroom, so Let’s Address the ‘Why’ Behind Our Fears

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It had only been a few weeks into the semester, and we had already sent dozens of students’ names to administrators to report this new version of plagiarism. When ChatGPT was released last November, the group’s concern quickly shifted to panic. We were discussing the agenda when the topic of ChatGPT elicited a collective groan.