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Nov. 5th Is “World Tsunami Awareness Day” – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources KELLEPICS / Pixabay
The United Nations has declared November 5th to be World Tsunami Awareness Day. You might be interested in The Best Sites To Learn About Tsunamis.
     “Classroom Routines Can Bolster Student Agency. Here’s How”Classroom Routines Can Bolster Student Agency. Here’s How is the headline of one of my recent Education Week columns. Four educators share how to build predictable daily structures—and why you should. Here are some excerpts:
 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:  AI broke our exams. Are oral exams the fix? Hold your horses… is from From Experience To Meaning. I’m adding it to The “Best” Strategies For Creating AI-Resistant Assignments.
I’m adding this post to The “Best” Strategies For Creating AI-Resistant Assignments:
    Dolores Huerta Has Died – Here Are Related Teaching & Learning Resources
Dolores Huerta’s death today hits hard. I got my start in social justice work in the 1970’s working on the UFW grape boycott. You can find a number of useful resources about her at The Best Sites For Learning About Farm Workers, The United Farm Workers Union & California Farmworker Day.  Sentences 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: There is evidence, for example, that solutions are less likely to be rejected when we explain the problem first, that showing unbridled enthusiasm can prevent people from taking us seriously and that we’re sometimes more likely to be heard when we highlight the limitations as well as the strengths of our pet projects. In the film, Musk’s former girlfriend sums up the matter concisely: “Elon is a nuke,” she says—a human of mass destruction. “If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows Blaming screens is a convenient way to avoid harder, deeper issues: inadequate mental health care and a system that chronically underfunds treatment. Policymakers and health system leaders instead must focus on providing the therapy, medication and support that troubled kids and families need. We need to make the problem and the solution bigger to help both sides…. A “both sides” diagnosis obscures the asymmetry between a faction seeking to reverse social progress and those resisting it. See Every Teacher Who Has Ever Felt Pressured To Present “Both Sides” Of An Event Or Belief Should Read This Article Guide on the side or sage on the stage? How about a guide who is knowledgeable enough to periodically stop and deliver some sage advice, and who is wise enough to know when to lead and when to get out of the way? But reality of everyday life is a tad more complex; not everything is a win or loss–there is an in-between: the middle range, the typical, the average. The concept of being in the middle—“average”–has in the U.S. segued into “mediocrity,” a linguistic euphemism for inferior quality applied to student, teacher, and school performance. It’s important to call bullshit on the idea that these people are “futurists.” They’re not futurists. They’re building unbelievably interesting machines, thrilling marvels, but their political and economic ideas are the worst failed, most discredited ideas of the 20th century. Why we should look to them for political and economic leadership is baffling to me. I don’t actually need to ask Claude what to cook for dinner or how to tell my vet that it’s time for my dog to be put down. I have people for those things. The more that we ask machines to tell us those things that we use people for, the more we surrender our humanity. Getting a ride in a driverless car is convenient and fast, and if you don’t like talking to a driver or jostling with other people on the bus or the subway, it’ll seem preferable. But every time you take that ride, you’re missing out on encountering other people and, over time, you risk becoming more isolated, and lonelier, and less able to work with other people or, really, to even handle being with them. “Large language models,” Hook argues, “are the Waymo of intellectual life.” The mural was intended to reinforce the school’s motto, “a ball and a book can change the world,” coined by Silver’s predecessor, David Stern. Multiple administrators told me that they are already considering rolling back their one-to-one device policies because of RAMaggedon, and the challenges for schools are poised to mount.
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