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Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week
Each week, I publish a post or two containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here. You can also see all my “Best” lists on instructional strategies here. Here are this week’s picks: Provide Scaffolds for Difficult Tasks is from DistillED. I’m adding it to The Best Resources On Providing Scaffolds To Students. I’m adding this tweet to The Best Tools & Lessons For Teaching Information Literacy – Help Me Find More:
Want Students to Gain Math Confidence? Celebrate Their Mistakes is from Ed Week. I’m adding it to The Best Posts, Articles & Videos About Learning From Mistakes & Failures. Using Error Analysis to Boost Engagement and Student Talk in Math is from Edutopia. I’m adding it to the same list. Elevating Tier 1 Instruction With Differentiated Small Groups is from Edutopia. I’m adding it to The Best Resources On Differentiating Instruction. Real, Fake, or Deepfake? This Lesson Helps Students Decide is from Edutopia. I’m adding it to The Best Tools & Lessons For Teaching Information Literacy – Help Me Find More. Require and Monitor Independent Practice is from DistillED. I’m adding it to THE BEST SITES STUDENTS CAN USE FOR INDEPENDENT PRACTICE.      “On This Day…” Is A TIME Video Series On The American Revolution
TIME Magazine is doing a YouTube series offering short clips portraying important days during the American Revolution. Here’s their introductory video, and you can see them all here. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Helping Teach About The 250th Anniversary Of The American Revolution:   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. Story Terra uses AI to show you a globe and the locations for where over 100,000 books took place. Why Using AI Is Fine for Teachers but Not for Students is an Edutopia that refers to an AI tool called Flint. I’m adding it to A Beginning List Of Different Types Of Guidance Educators Are Giving Students About AI Use In Their Classes. AI Tool Demo: Handling Teaching’s Tough Tasks With Brisk is from Edutopia. Personalizing ESL Education with AI is from ELT Cafe. Parents Fell in Love With Alpha School’s Promise. Then They Wanted Out is from Wired.
I’m adding this post to The “Best” Strategies For Creating AI-Resistant Assignments:
What Happens When You Invite AI to Audit Your Lessons is from Teaching In The Age Of AI.   Research Studies Of The Week Mohamed_hassan / Pixabay I often write about research studies from various fields and how they can be applied to the classroom. I write individual posts about ones that I think are especially significant, and will continue to do so. However, so many studies are published that it’s hard to keep up. So I’ve started writing a “round-up” of some of them each week or every other week as a regular feature. You can see all my “Best” lists related to education research here. Here are some new useful studies (and related resources): Utilizing Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices in the Classroom Student-Teacher Relationships and the Influence of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy This is an excerpt from Edutopia’s research email newsletter: Teaching complex topics to high schoolers can be challenging. As the academic work gets tough, student engagement tends to wane. One strategy that seems to help is gamification, a new study suggests. A researcher interested in how to teach climate change—a “tricky” topic because it “relies heavily on quantitative data and data representations” and feels hopeless to kids—tested 14- to 18-year-old students on their knowledge of topics like the change in the world’s ice cover over time. Some of the students read an 817-word text about the greenhouse effect, while the rest played an online number estimation game, offering guesses on questions meant to pique their interest, like “What is the change in the level of methane in the atmosphere from 1750 until now?” Their responses were immediately scored for accuracy, and a pop-up window provided additional clarifying information. Students who played the game scored significantly higher on a post-test of knowledge than those who read the text. Gamification doesn’t need to be complicated. During challenging lessons, educators can pick their spots and use simple guessing games to improve academic focus, reduce boredom, and increase positive emotions, the research suggests.
This is a decent summary of recent research: How A.I. and Social Media Contribute to ‘Brain Rot’
 This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts & Articles On Ed Policy Issues
Here are some recent useful posts and articles on educational policy issues (You might also be interested in seeing all my “Best” lists related to education policy here):
I’m adding this post to The Best Posts & Articles Highlighting Why We Need To Be Very Careful Around Ed Tech:
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul intends to opt into federal tax-credit scholarship is from Chalkbeat.
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