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“Civic Learning Week” Is March 9th –13th – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources
Civic Learning Week is…next week! You can find a bunch of resources at its website. Another group of organizations started something they call “Civic Season” several years ago, but it’s right at the end of the school year. They, too, have a website chockful of related activities. You might also be interested in The Best Websites For Learning About Civic Participation & Citizenship.      It’s The Nineteenth-Year Anniversary Of This Blog! image4you / Pixabay
It’s pretty wild to think that I’ve now been writing this blog for NINETEEN years! It’s had well over twenty-million visits from readers during that time, over thirty-four thousand separate blog posts have been published, and the blog has somewhere between fifteen-and-twenty thousand daily readers. You can see my favorites posts from over the years here. And you can see some of the all-time most popular posts here. I’ve learned, and continue to learn, an enormous amount through blogging, and think I was a far better teacher because of it. I hope it’s been at least a little helpful to readers over the years, and appreciate your support. I’m not sure how much longer I’ll be doing this since I retired last summer, but it’s been a fun ride…..  Study Finds That Speaking An Additional Language Can Keep You Healthier Physically
Nature recently published a big new study, Multilingualism protects against accelerated aging in cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of 27 European countries. It found that being multilingual predicted a thirty percent lower risk of accelerated biological aging. What is “accelerated biological ageing,” you might ask. Well, I asked Google Gemini, and here is what it answered: In simple terms, the study defines the difference as follows: Chronological aging is your actual age in years since you were born (e.g., 60 years old). Biological aging is a measure of how healthy your body and its functions (like your memory, physical ability, and heart health) are, regardless of your actual age. Accelerated biological aging occurs when a person’s body is functioning at a level typical of someone older than their chronological age. For example, a 60-year-old person who has the health profile of a 70-year-old would show accelerated aging.
Here’s a good summary of the study.
I’m adding this info to The Best Resources For Learning The Advantages To Being Bilingual.  I’ve Created Five Free Chatbots For Teachers & Others, And Some Have Become Quite Popular – Here Links To All Of Them
I have created several free AI chatbots. Each of them draw only from a knowledge based of resources I have vetted, and I am open to hearing suggestions of others who should be added to them. All you have to do is ask them which experts are in their knowledge base, and they will also tell you how to suggest additions. Here they are: Parent Engagement In Schools Expert Companion Classroom Instruction Expert Companion Creating Change Expert Companion Education Policy & Research Expert Companion  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. Here are the latest:  Toritark isn’t free, but it looks like a good tool for learning languages. ViDance is an “AI-Powered Educational Story Generation Platform.” Curiosso returns answers to questions that simplified for children. AI Coloring Pages uses ai to create…coloring pages. Have fun with a free Rap Lyrics Generator. Explain Like I’m 5 is a Chrome extension that will do just that with anything. Little Language Lessons looks like a good language teaching AI tool with a decent free option.
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