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A Look Back: New Research Shows That “Student Voice” MattersFor 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 2022.
Is Responsiveness to Student Voice Related to Academic Outcomes? Strengthening the Rationale for Student Voice in School Reform seems like a pretty important new study. It’s by Joseph Kahne, Benjamin Bowyer, Jessica Marshall, and Erica Hodgin, and it’s NOT behind a paywall. Though they don’t appear to provide many details in their study about how they define “student voice,” they do refer to a very good American Progress article that describes lots of examples, including student surveys, “student perspectives on governing bodies,” student journalism, student-led conferences, “democratic classroom practices,” “youth participatory action research,” and personalized learning. Addendum: See a review of this same research at Ed Week.      Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week
Each week, I publish a post or two containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here. You can also see all my “Best” lists on instructional strategies here. Here are this week’s picks: I like Marcus’ comment, and you can see my reply beneath it:
The Vocabulary Challenge Game is from the Science of Reading Classroom. I’m adding it to The Best Ideas For Using Games In The ESL/EFL/ELL Classroom.  Ed Tech Digest
Ten years ago, in another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I began this occasional “Ed Tech Digest” post where I share three or four links I think are particularly useful and related to…ed tech, including some Web 2.0 apps. You might also be interested in checking out all my edtech resources. Here are this week’s choices: The Map of Human Happiness is from The Pudding. You can read more about it at Google Maps Mania. I’m adding it to The Best Sites To Learn About…Happiness? I’m adding this video to The Best Sites For Learning About The History Of Technology:  Web Rewind is an entertaining history of the…web. I’m adding it to The Best Sites To Learn About The Internet.
Mockshot lets you create fake messages appearing to come from various social media apps. I’m adding it to The Best Tools For Creating Fake “Stuff” For Learning. Lessons Learned from Using Technology Devices to Improve Teaching and Schooling is by Larry Cuban. World Flight Sim might, I emphasize might, have some value in a geography class. Choose any location in the world, and fly virtually over it on a virtual cessna. Situation Deck lets you create wild looking data dashboards about anything going on in the world.  This Is Extraordinarily Excellent Advice On How To Use AI For Written Translation To Non-English-Speaking Parents/Guardians
It can obviously be a challenge for teachers to communicate with non-English speaking parents/guardians if the teacher doesn’t speak their home language. You can find lots of suggestions of how to communicate verbally in that situation at THE BEST RESOURCES TO HELP ELL STUDENTS WITH SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION IN THE CLASSROOM. Can Schools Trust AI to Translate for Non-English-Speaking Parents? is a very helpful Ed Week article related to written translation. The most important piece of advice, which I had never thought of before, can be found in the textbox at the top of this blog post. But Belle Li also offers two other good pieces of advice: And educators can check the quality of one AI platform’s translation by putting it into another AI application and asking that tool to translate the message back into English, Li suggested. Educators should also be transparent about using AI for translation, Li said. Many parents “know AI makes mistakes” and might appreciate the school’s effort to communicate with them in their language, despite the bumps.
Of course, AI should only be used to share positive news, “low-level” concerns, or non-critical information. In other cases, a human interpreter or trained translator should always be used. ADDENDUM: Ed Week has converted the article into a downloadable hand-out.  The Best Resources For Learning About The Student Protests In France HubertdeThé / Pixabay
The more I read about the high-school student-led protests in France, the more I’m impressed by them. Here are some resources to help learn about them. You might also be interested in The Best Resources Sharing The History Of Teens Organizing For Justice:
   
   Angry French students take to the streets. British students don’t – and I think I know why is from The Guardian.  More Recent Articles
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