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“60 Seconds Knowledge” Seems Like A Pretty Useful YouTube Channel
60 Seconds Knowledge seems like it could be a pretty useful YouTube channel for educators. They create short videos providing the answers to intriguing questions. I could see teachers showing them followed by a short writing prompt. For example, students could be shown this video and asked to write about times in their own lives and in other points in history where people won the battle but lost the war, and reflect on why that might have happened:       My Best Posts That Appeared In May
I regularly highlight my picks for the most useful posts for each month — not including “The Best…” lists. I also use some of them in a more extensive monthly newsletter I send-out. You can see older Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month (more recent lists can be found here). You can also see my all-time favorites here. I’ve also been doing “A Look Back” series reviewing old favorites, too. Here are some of the posts I personally think are the best, and most helpful, ones I’ve written during this past month (not in any order of preference) – also note that I group many updates on the Trump administration’s current attack on education and democracy in weekly posts you can find here): Inductive Teaching Has Always Been An Effective Strategy, Perhaps Even More So In The AI Era UCLA Unveils Free Online Multimedia High School Textbook About Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders Google Unveils A Hub Of Tons Of Resources Related To The 250th Anniversary Of The U.S. More Research Shows What Most Educators Know: Teachers Get Better As They Gain More Experience The “Birth Lottery” Shows Your Possible Life Trajectory If You Were Born In A Different Country I Like This Ideas Of Language “Upgrading” Instead Of Language “Correction” Study Identified A Long Overlooked Aspect Of Student Achievement – The Impact Of Student Mobility What I Do As A Volunteer Tutor In Our County’s Juvenile Facility “Twin Pics” Looks Like A Good Classroom Game To Support ELL Writing “Storybuilder” Is An Easy Tool For Creating “Choose Your Own Adventure” Stories “How to Use Artificial Intelligence With English Learners—According to Teachers” “12 Ways Administrators Can Support Teachers” “To Teach (and Reach) English Learners, Center Their Identity”  “Are Students Really Learning? How to Check for Understanding”Are Students Really Learning? How to Check for Understanding is the headline of one of my recent Education Week columns. One of the best methods is to make student thinking visible. 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: 
Loqui and Lingually AI are both new language-learning tools. SPIQ lets you speak about anything, and then provides feedback on how you can say it better. Questas lets you use AI to create a choose-your-own-adventure text/video/image story. It’s not free, but it looks neat. I’m adding it to The Best Places To Read & Write “Choose Your Own Adventure” Stories. Books.sv offers AI-generated book recommendations. I’m adding it to The Best Places To Get Blog, Website, , Book, Movie, & Music Recommendations.
What is Pangram and How Can Teachers Use The AI Detection Tool? is from Tech & Learning.
How does AI affect how we learn? A cognitive psychologist explains why you learn when the work is hard is from The Conversation. Genaraera and Infografa both use AI to create infographics, though they’re not free. I’m adding them to The Best AI Tools For Creating Visuals & Infographics.
  I’m Not Sure Show How Important It Is To Use This Strategy In Teacher Credentialing Classes, But It’s A “Must-Do” When Working In Class With Student Teachers FinnPetersenSH / Pixabay
Education Week ran an article by a professor in a teacher credentialing program titled I Adapted a Hospital Practice for Teacher Prep. It Was Transformative. In it, she describes how she models instructional strategies when teaching her classes, and then provides time for her students to “huddle” and identify which strategies she used. That sounds okay, though I can think of a bunch of other more important ways to improve credentialing programs, like getting active K-12 educators to teach them and have university professors actually spend time in K-12 classrooms teaching. However, her idea is a “must use” strategy by collaborating teachers to use with their student teachers. It’s one that I used for twenty years with all my student teachers, and I assume a zillion other teachers do the same. Especially during the first months I had a student teacher, everyday I asked them to note what “teacher moves” I used during the class. At the end of the class, I asked them to share what they saw (how I did student grouping, how I handled a student conflict, etc.), reviewed them quickly and added the ones they missed. My student teachers, and I had at least fifteen of them during my career, all told me they found this process invaluable. I’m adding this info to The Best Advice For Student Teachers & Their Collaborating Teachers.  More Recent Articles
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