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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: This leaves the average chronic absenteeism rate for these states and the nation’s capital at 23%, roughly 50% higher than their pre-pandemic baseline. See The Best Resources On Student Absenteeism When tutoring is outsourced to AI, we rob both groups of students—the learners and the tutors—of experiences that shape their academic and professional futures. See THE BEST RESOURCES ON PEER TUTORS Like a chef, mastering math is not just about following a recipe or executing techniques correctly; it is about understanding how elements work together so that, when faced with something new, students know how to reason through the problem and build on previous knowledge. But our English-learner classes, some of them are less than half in attendance in person. Without adequate consideration of the humanity of the migrant, it is impossible to construct just policies ordered to the common good and to the benefit of society’s weakest members.” If you think AI can make something like Khan Academy 2x better, which is probably impossible, then you are still measuring effects with microscopes. She said that she had been followed by federal agents and that federal agents had recently been outside the homes of members of her school board. “Just because I’m wearing the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything that’s going on in the U.S.” “We’ve never seen this much surveillance,” said John White, a University of North Florida education professor who was asked to remove words such as “diversity,” “equity,” “inclusion” and “culture” from his syllabus.
     Survey Finds Parents/Guardians More Likely To Respond To Messages About Absences Early In AM Or Later Afternoon
I think that there are lot of more substantial actions schools can do to reduce student absenteeism, but this new study finds one interesting thing that I would guess could help on the margins. This Ed Week article summarizes the results: The Surprising Factor That Makes Absenteeism Interventions More Successful. The 74 also has an article on the survey: They Examined 3.3 Million Text Messages on Chronic Absenteeism. Here Are 4 Big Findings As the above textbox says, that factor was when during the day the families were contacted. There are some other useful tidbits in the article, too. This technocratic strategy is definitely not where I’d start if I was an administrator, but it’s certainly easy to try and it can’t hurt. I, however, would focus more on parent home visits, in-depth conversations with students, and more. You can read about those strategies, and others, at The Best Resources On Student Absenteeism.  Three Accessible Ways To Search For & Find My “Best” Lists
(Note: I am going to publish this same post regularly to remind regular readers and inform newer ones about how to access my “Best” lists)
As regular readers know, I have about 2,500 categorized and regularly updated “Best” lists. You can find all of them in broad categories here. The link to that page can also be found at the top right of my blog: My Best Of Series I also have them all on another page where they are listed in the chronological order in which I originally posted them. You can find that link at the top of my blog by first clicking on About and then scrolling down to Websites of the Year. Over two thousand “Best” lists are a lot of best lists! Of course, Control + F on PCs and Command + F on Macs are great ways to search for keywords on those lists when you’re looking for something. In an effort to make them both further accessible and to update many of them, I began posting “Best Lists Of The Week.” In those lists, I attempted to break my lists into more narrow categories while completely revising and updating them at the same time. I’ve created about fifty of them so far and they encompass a several hundred “Best” lists. It will probably take a year-or-two to create ones that include all two-thousand, especially since I add new ones all the time. You will find these newly categorized lists on a page titled My Best Of The Week, and they’ll be shown as “buttons” (you can see what they look like at the top of this blog post) listed alphabetically (more-or-less). You can also click on a link on the top right of the homepage of my blog. It says: My Best Of Week I hope you find the lists, and the way they’re organized, helpful!  “Uttered” Might Become A Decent Video Option For English Language Learners
Uttered is a new AI tool that seems to be free for now. It has a relatively small collection of videos that users can watch to learn English, French or Mandarin (you can also copy-and-paste the url address of any other YouTube video). As you watch it, you’ll see key vocabulary get defined on the side though, unfortunately, its all done in the language of the video – not your home language. The interesting part is that after you watch the video, you have the choice of being quizzed on it by AI via chat, and you can do that quiz using text or, and here’s the unique part, orally. Right now, at least, I’d say ESL Video (see A Forgotten (By Me!) Gem That Has Been Rediscovered (By Me & My Students): ESL Video) or Wayground ( Quizizz Lets You Use AI To Create Interactive YouTube Videos Once Again After Having To Stop Last Year – I Think It’s One Of The Most Helpful Ways To Use AI) are superior options for using videos for learning English. But, who knows, Uttered may make improvements in the future to become more competitive.  Links To Hundreds Of Articles I’ve Written About Education Pexels / Pixabay
I’ve written thousands of blog posts over the years at this blog and other blogs, including over at Ed Week. I have also written a few hundred articles for various publications. You can see my choices for the The Seventeen Best Articles I’ve Written About Education, and you can find links to all of the hundreds of them here.  More Recent Articles
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