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This Week’s Free & Useful Artificial Intelligence Tools For The Classroom geralt / Pixabay
At least, for now, I’m going to make this a weekly feature which will highlight additions to THE BEST NEW – & FREE – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS THAT COULD BE USED IN THE CLASSROOM: 
Loqui and Lingually AI are both new language-learning tools. SPIQ lets you speak about anything, and then provides feedback on how you can say it better. Questas lets you use AI to create a choose-your-own-adventure text/video/image story. It’s not free, but it looks neat. I’m adding it to The Best Places To Read & Write “Choose Your Own Adventure” Stories. Books.sv offers AI-generated book recommendations. I’m adding it to The Best Places To Get Blog, Website, , Book, Movie, & Music Recommendations.
What is Pangram and How Can Teachers Use The AI Detection Tool? is from Tech & Learning.
How does AI affect how we learn? A cognitive psychologist explains why you learn when the work is hard is from The Conversation. Genaraera and Infografa both use AI to create infographics, though they’re not free. I’m adding them to The Best AI Tools For Creating Visuals & Infographics.
      I’m Not Sure Show How Important It Is To Use This Strategy In Teacher Credentialing Classes, But It’s A “Must-Do” When Working In Class With Student Teachers FinnPetersenSH / Pixabay
Education Week ran an article by a professor in a teacher credentialing program titled I Adapted a Hospital Practice for Teacher Prep. It Was Transformative. In it, she describes how she models instructional strategies when teaching her classes, and then provides time for her students to “huddle” and identify which strategies she used. That sounds okay, though I can think of a bunch of other more important ways to improve credentialing programs, like getting active K-12 educators to teach them and have university professors actually spend time in K-12 classrooms teaching. However, her idea is a “must use” strategy by collaborating teachers to use with their student teachers. It’s one that I used for twenty years with all my student teachers, and I assume a zillion other teachers do the same. Especially during the first months I had a student teacher, everyday I asked them to note what “teacher moves” I used during the class. At the end of the class, I asked them to share what they saw (how I did student grouping, how I handled a student conflict, etc.), reviewed them quickly and added the ones they missed. My student teachers, and I had at least fifteen of them during my career, all told me they found this process invaluable. I’m adding this info to The Best Advice For Student Teachers & Their Collaborating Teachers.  SEL Weekly Update
I’ve begun this weekly post where I’ll be sharing resources I’m adding to The Best Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources or other related “Best” lists. Also, check out “Best” Lists Of The Week: Social Emotional Learning Resources. Here are this week’s picks: I was benched in the NFL. It taught me three valuable lessons is from The NY Times. Arsenal’s ‘Make it happen’ scarves and what they say about Mikel Arteta and psychology is also from The NY Times. Lack of Motivation is from The Talent Lab. I’m adding it to Best Posts On “Motivating” Students. Intrinsic Vs Extrinsic is from Evidence Snacks. I’m adding it to the same list. The Success Loop is also from Evidence Snacks. I’m adding it to the same list. When Autonomy Works and When It Doesn’t: Why TIMSS and Motivation Studies Seem to Disagree is from Experience To Meaning. I’m adding it to the same list. Our Favorite Management Tips About Showing Gratitude at Work is from The Harvard Business Review, and its recommendations can certainly be applied to school. I’m adding it to The Best Resources On “Gratitude”  This Infographic Could Be Useful &, Perhaps, Reassuring To Some Students: “How Contagious Is Ebola?”The Best Online Learning Games & Apps For Toddlers (Though Only For Very, Very Limited Times) Clker-Free-Vector-Images / Pixabay
I’ve previously posted about some sites/tools I’ve been using with toddler grandkids: I’ve written and created lots of hardcopy books for them (see “BookBildr” Lets You Easily Create PDF & Paper Children’s Books – Do You Know Of Other Similar Tools?). And every week we do online video conferences (they live far away from us) where we read books together – Readeo is our favorite (see The Best Tools For Reading With Children From A Distance). We’ve also used this one: “My Story Steps” Has Potential For Long-Distance Grandparents Like Me When they’re visiting, we mostly do reading and learning with hardcopy books and toys, but sometimes, for a change of pace, we do something online for very limited periods. On my desktop, we might go to PBS Kids or Turtle Diary. I have a couple of apps on my phone that we sometimes use: I’ve just downloaded Poio, but haven’t tried it out with the kids yet.
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