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The War In Ukraine Began Four Years Ago Today – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources jorono / Pixabay
Russian invaded Ukraine four years ago. You might be interested in THE BEST TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES ABOUT THE RUSSIA/UKRAINE CONFLICT.      Ed Tech Digest
Ten years ago, in another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I began this occasional “Ed Tech Digest” post where I share three or four links I think are particularly useful and related to…ed tech, including some Web 2.0 apps. You might also be interested in checking out all my edtech resources. Here are this week’s choices: Photo Stitcher les you create photo collages. I’m adding it to The Best Ways To Use Photos In Lessons. Type in the name of an author you like into The Literature Map, and it will visually show you other similar authors. I’m adding it to The Best Places To Get Blog, Website, , Book, Movie, & Music Recommendations. Ratatype lets teachers create free virtual classrooms for students to learn typing. I’m adding it to The Best Sites Where Students Can Learn Typing/Keyboarding. DocFlip is a “free PDF to Word Converter & Word To PDF.” I’m adding it to Not “The Best,” But “A List” Of Ways To Convert PDF & Word Documents. Free Coloring Pages does what it says. abcdkbd offers a lot of preschool learning games. Wola lets teachers create learning games.  “Why Do I Have to Learn About Science? Tips for Helping Students See Why It Matters”Why Do I Have to Learn About Science? Tips for Helping Students See Why It Matters is the headline of one of my recent Education Week columns. Teaching students about the scientific process can strip away biases. Here are some excerpts:
 Infographic: America’s Favorite Online Learning PlatformsSentences Of The Week geralt / Pixabay
I thought readers might, or might not, find this new regular post useful. Each week, I highlight several sentences, with links to their sources, that I find interesting/concerning/useful. And they may, or may not, be directly connected to education. I may also include my own comments or related links. This regular post will join my other regular ones on teaching ELLs, education policy, Artificial Intelligence, infographics, and Pinterest highlights, not to mention sharing of my regular Education Week posts. Here are this week’s sentences: Yet despite the threats from state officials — and the pleas to students from many school administrators — the protests over immigration enforcement did not stop. Check out The Best Resources Sharing The History Of Teens Organizing For Justice For each year from 1994 to 2023, the US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government. See The Best Sites For Learning About Immigration In The United States Simply placing another adult alongside a pupil makes little difference if teachers do not understand how a child processes language, sensory input or classroom environments, he adds. Parents across the country are taking steps to stop their children from using school-issued Chromebooks and iPads, citing concerns about distractions and access to inappropriate content that they fear hampers their kids’ education. Digital literacy requires exposing students to inaccurate content, not shielding them from it. People are “exactly like the pigeons,” says Peter Balsam, a professor of psychology at Columbia University. We show that [teachers in] schools serving more disadvantaged students exhibit substantially higher rates of sickness absence, particularly for stress-related diagnoses. The upshot is that there are more sources of support for intensive tutoring in public schools than one might think. Yes, but this article, as do most others about tutoring, ignore an obvious option – peer tutoring. See Researchers Are Finding That High-Dosage Tutoring Isn’t The Silver Bullet – Maybe Schools (& Researchers) Should Prioritize Peer Tutors, Instead? Despite thoroughly documenting the AI-generated errors in its lesson plans, Alpha School relies on AI to test the quality of its AI-generated lessons, creating a situation where a faulty AI is tasked with fixing its own faulty generations. But if the strong claims that are sometimes made about the harms of social media are true, it is remarkable how difficult it is to find consistent evidence to support them. There will be no “AI” tutor revolution just as there was no MOOC revolution just as there was no personalized learning revolution just as there was no computer-assisted instruction revolution just as there was no teaching machine revolution. What they don’t often tell you is how fun the resistance can be: the marches joyous and laced with adrenalized anger, people cheering the brass band that thumps its way down the block, chanting and pumping fists, belting out a ubiquitous profane call and response about ICE. Schmidt said he has also seen less cheating with AI since using chatbots in his teaching. I found the same thing, though I created a lot of hoops they had to jump through in order to use it. I replace their voices with Jackson’s words, “I am somebody.” Black History Month is sometimes treated as little more than an opportunity for corporate branding and, maybe, school assemblies; but in the face of such erasure, observing it this February feels radical See The Best Sites To Teach About African-American History When we include community and the collective struggle for racial justice in Black history, the work of justice reflects its inclusivity, enabling more people to bring their gifts to the work. See “Idolizing Just One Person Undermines The Struggle” A better—and more achievable—goal would be to extend healthy longevity, adding life to years instead of years to life.
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