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Sept. 27th Is World Tourism Day – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources piviso / Pixabay
The United Nations has declared September 27th to be World Tourism Day. You might be interested in The Best Sites Showing The Most Popular Tourist Destinations In The World.      Voyager 1 Left The Solar System On This Day In 2013 – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources WikiImages / Pixabay
On this date in 2013, Voyager I became the first human-made object to leave our solar system. If you ever saw the first Star Trek movie, you know what happens next 🙂 You might be interested in The Best Sites For Learning About Voyager 1 & Its Departure From Our Solar System.  A Look Back: Study Finds That “Student-Centered” Activities Better Than “Teacher-Centered” Ones – Except When It Comes To PacingFor the next several months, each week I’ll be republishing posts from the past that I think readers might still find useful. This post first appeared in 2020.
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Countless studies have found that “student-centered” instruction can be much more effective than ones that are commonly considered “teacher-centered” (see The Best Research Demonstrating That Lectures Are Not The Best Instructional Strategy and The Best Resources About Inductive Learning & Teaching). Of course, that doesn’t mean that we teachers are not supposed to stand there like “potted plants” and just let students do whatever they want. Critics of active learning sometimes try to paint this kind of constructivist instruction in that way, but they are just using the “straw man” fallacy . I’ve discussed this point at Is This The Most Important Research Study Of 2012? Maybe. Really, as the saying goes, we need to be “guides on the side.” A new meta-analysis reached the same conclusions, with one interesting twist. The study is called Twenty‐first century adaptive teaching and individualized learning operationalized as specific blends of student‐centered instructional events: A systematic review and meta‐analysis – whew, that’s a mouthful! It find that teachers do, indeed, need to act as guides for effective student-centered instructions (they give examples like cooperative learning and peer‐tutoring). Interestingly, though, they found that “excessive student control over pacing appears to inhibit [learning].” Even though I hadn’t thought about it before, that makes sense to me. I try to provide a lot of student choice and autonomy in classrooms. However, nine times out of ten, students want to move things at a slower pace than I think is appropriate, even though they almost always complete it in the shorter time I give to them. I guess it might be a version of Parkinson’s Law.  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: Voice to Picture won’t actually produce a photo but, instead, a drawing. Free AI Tool For That shares…free AI tools. No, Direct Instruction Will Not Have a Renaissance at Alpha School is by Dylan Kane.
 Practical Ways To Get Started Using Claude For Educators is from A.J. Juliani.  The Broken Record by Audrey Watters is very good. I’m adding it to The Best Posts & Articles Highlighting Why We Need To Be Very Careful Around Ed Tech. I’m adding this post to THE “BEST” IDEAS FOR USING CHATGPT, BARD, & OTHER FORMS OF AI WITH STUDENTS:
Keep your SAT prep on track with practice tests in Gemini. is from Google. Google packs Search and Gemini with new AI study tools is from TechCrunch.  “Anton” Is A Very Good Free Site For English Language Learners
I mentioned Anton a year or two ago in passing as a site that ELL teachers might want to check out. They have really upped their game since that time. Teachers can create free virtual classrooms, and it has tons of activities for all subjects, including for ELLs. They have a generic section for ELLs, and a separate one for Spanish-speaking ELLs. It’s easy to use, and it’s free. If I was still teaching in the classroom, I’d encourage my Newcomer students to use it at home.
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