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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: YouTube to Blog will create a blog post from any YouTube link. TikClass lets you create a “gamified” online course. Top Coloring Pages is yet another AI tool for…coloring pages. How AI Can Build Inquiry Skills in the Classroom is by Mary Beth Hertz. To Detect AI Writing, Look For This Sentence Structure is from Fast Company. 
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AI Twin: Enhancing ESL Speaking Practice through AI Self-Clones of a Better Me      Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL
Eight years ago I began this regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that have caught my attention. You might also be interested in all my Best lists on teaching ELLs. Also, check out A Collection Of My Best Resources On Teaching English Language Learners. In addition, look for our latest book on teaching ELLs, The ELL Teacher’s Toolbox 2.0. Here are this week’s choices: Persuading the Peculiar: a Speaking Game is from On the Same Page ELT. ELL students could watch these videos and then talk/write about what they saw:   
The Effectiveness of Scramble Technique to Teach Reading Skills on Descriptive Text of Seventh Grade Students is a new study. I’m not sure how good it is, but it also refers to other studies on the same technique, and I haven’t seen much research on it. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Creating Sentence Scrambles. Can Apple’s AirPod Translation Get You Through Tokyo? We Tested It. is from The NY Times. I’m adding it to THE BEST RESOURCES TO HELP ELL STUDENTS WITH SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION IN THE CLASSROOM. Looking Back Before Looking Forward is from A Journey In TEFL. I’m adding it to The Best Ways To Help Make Your New Year’s Resolutions Succeed. AI Translation Breaks Down Language Barriers in K–12 Schools is from Ed Tech Magazine. I’m adding it to THE BEST RESOURCES TO HELP ELL STUDENTS WITH SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION IN THE CLASSROOM. January Reset or January Damage? – Common Mistakes Language Teachers Make When Returning After the Holidays is from The Language Gym. Federal English-Learner Grant Returns This Fall Under New Oversight is from Ed Week.  “How to Promote Student Voice in the Classroom”How to Promote Student Voice in the Classroom is the headline of one of my recent Education Week columns. Start by assuming that students come to the classroom with important things to say. Here are some excerpts:
 The Korean War “Ended” On This Day In 1953 – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay
An armistice was signed on this day in 1953, ending active hostilities in the Korean War. You might be interested in The Best Sites For Learning About The Korean War.  The Best Resources On “Grade Inflation” – Everyone, Please Take A Chill PillI originally wrote most of this post in January, and decided to copy-and-paste and turn it into a “Best” list with additionl resources.
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Like clockwork, a flurry of articles on the horrors of grade “inflation” have come up every year for decades. Just this week, one on topic for college and another for K-12 have been making the rounds. I think educators, students and the world would be better off if everyone just chilled out. Last year, I shared my thought on it in this TikTok video (you might also be interested in Do We Give A Zero Or 50% For Work Not Turned-In? Here Are Some Useful Commentaries):
Addendum: Check this out from The NY Times Learning Network: What Teenagers Are Saying About Limiting A’s to Curb Grade Inflation
When lenient grading helps and when it harms is from From Experience To Meaning.
Don’t Worry About Grade Inflation. Worry About Grading Fairly.
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Director’s Cut of Op-Ed on Harvard’s Grade Cap is by Josh Eyler.  More Recent Articles |
