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Must Watch Video: “ICE Took Their Classmate. They Started Writing Letters.”
You’ll want to watch this new New York Times video, which is introduced by this line: The students of Valley View Elementary, including the schoolmates of Liam Ramos, wrote letters to the ICE agents who have been detaining their friends and families. You might also be interested in this older Washington Post article about my former students: ‘Dear President-elect Trump’: Immigrant students write letters asking for ‘the opportunity to demonstrate we are good people.’       I Wish Some Ed “Reformers” Would Stop Already With Their Pushing For Videotaping All Classrooms, All The Time geralt / Pixabay
Every other year, it seems, some ed “reformers” get on their high horse on social media and start demanding that video cameras should be placed in every classroom and every moment should be videotaped. I saw the latest flurry of posts about this topic last month. There are a zillion good reasons why that’s a bad idea, and I wrote about it years ago in what I still think is one of the best – if not the best – piece of writing I’ve ever published: Videotaping teachers the right way (not the Gates way). Today, some new posts appeared on my BlueSky feed that offer even more reasons why this kind of surveillance is not going to help our students or teachers:
You can’t see the article that was posted, but it’s Houston-area schools are using AI tools to watch for mental health red flags. Experts are worried. from the Houston Chronicle. Of course, this is unlikely to stop some ed “reformers,” who, often, have never let evidence get in the way of getting a few whacks in at teachers….  Feb. 4th Is World Read Aloud Day – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay
February 7th is World Read Aloud Day this year. You might be interested in The Best Resources For World Read Aloud Day.  Chinese (Lunar) New Year Begins On Feb. 17th – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources hulkiokantabak / Pixabay
Chinese (Lunar) New Year begins on January 29th. You might be interested in The Best Resources For Chinese New Year.  This Week’s Free & Useful Artificial Intelligence Tools For The Classroom
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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: Slide Sync is free and creates presentations on any topic. Zappy Pages uses AI to let you create webpages. Dream Math, likes a zillion other AI tools, creates stories for kids. Its twist is that its stories incorporate math into them. Hablo is another AI language learning tool. Budget Pixel is another text-to-image tool. Here are some AI coloring pages tools: Cogoz ; Coloring Page Generator; Sprunki ; Coloring-Pages app Can AI Make History Class More Fun for Students? is from Ed Week. I’m adding it to THE “BEST” IDEAS FOR USING CHATGPT, BARD, & OTHER FORMS OF AI WITH STUDENTS.
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