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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. Here are the latest: Storybookly lets you create storybooks like Gemini, but with no audio support. Sitchat is probably a big future use of AI – create your own television shows and chat with them. Snorkl: A Bigger Flip/Flipgrid with AI-Powered Feedback is from FLT Magazine. I’m adding this post to The “Best” Strategies For Creating AI-Resistant Assignments:
I’m adding this post to The “Best” Strategies For Creating AI-Resistant Assignments:
I’m adding this video to A Beginning List Of The Best Resources For Teaching About Artificial Intelligence: 
     The Supreme Court Is Scheduled To Hear Arguments About Birthright Citizenship On April 1st – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources MarkThomas / Pixabay
The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on the birthright citizenship case on April 1st. You might be interested in: The Best Resources For Teaching & Learning About The 14th Amendment The Best Sites To Learn About The U.S. Supreme Court  My Best Posts That Appeared In March
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): Video: Bruce Springsteen Teams Up With ACLU To Support Birthright Citizenship Here’s The Table Of Contents For Our New Book We’ve Begun Work On A Third Edition Of “The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide” An Epidemic Of Uncurious People Who Think They’re Curious Excellent Series Of Reflective Questions For Students & Teachers Alike “Speak Free” Is A Decent – & Free – Tool for Practicing English Pronunciation I Think It’s Okay Not To Teach Whole Novels In High School How To Teach About The Evil Acts Of Cesar Chavez? NBA Coach Echoes Rita Person’s Famous Line About Teaching Here Are My Google Slides Sharing Each Day’s Plan For My ELL Newcomer Class In Many Ways, I Think “ESLvideo” May Now Be One Of The Best Examples For AI Education Use On The Web Online Game Leaderboards & Zero Sum Thinking Study Finds That Speaking An Additional Language Can Keep You Healthier Physically It’s The Nineteenth-Year Anniversary Of This Blog! “What Guidelines Should Teachers Provide for Student AI Use?” “10 Ways to Scaffold Instruction for English Learners” “Personal Touches Are Simple But Effective in the Classroom”
 Sentences Of The Week geralt / Pixabay
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: Research suggests effective SEL for students starts with social and emotional competence in teachers. Schonfeld said common accommodations students with disabilities need in traditional classroom settings are provided to everyone — a key factor in the learner-centered system’s success. I always say good ELL teaching is better for everyone, and it’s probably safe to say the same for instructional strategies that work for students with learning differences. Because of what’s happening at the federal level, people have permission now to kind of get rid of some of the programming that we know supports students and families who are learning English — or multilingual programs where students are learning another language. For every 5% increase in the percentage of students living in poverty, a school had a corresponding 42% increased risk of getting flagged as seriously low-performing (a designation called “comprehensive support and improvement” school under the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, the primary federal school accountability and funding law). Although quality data are sparse, the research that does exist suggests a different narrative—one in which kids are faring better in many ways than those of previous generations. Nearly 7 in 10 middle and high school students say they are concerned that using AI for schoolwork is eroding their critical thinking skills. Dictators, in reality, thrive not on love but on indifference. In the first seven months of his second term, authorities arrested and detained parents of at least 11,000 U.S. citizen children — a number that, if the pace held up, will have roughly doubled by now. “They’re not required to be subject-matter experts in terms of teaching students, because our AI platform is able to provide that tutoring experience,” Price said. “The most important thing that the grownup world can do to protect children’s development in light of ICE surges is to prevent this from happening again.” She has repeatedly defended her advocacy under a simple mantra: “I see all children as precious and equal.” Non-teachers would be amazed at the many decisions secondary school teachers make during their five 50-minute daily lessons or elementary school teachers during their five-hour school day. Minnesota in particular appears to have caught them entirely off guard — a tendency toward docility, it seems, is their base-line assumption about everyone they oppose. A constitutional order ultimately depends less on what judges are willing to say than on what people are willing to do.
 March’s “Best” Lists – There Are Now 2,575 Of Them! Prawny / Pixabay
Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 2,575of them categorized here – you might also want to check out THREE ACCESSIBLE WAYS TO SEARCH FOR & FIND MY “BEST” LISTS). Here are the lists from this month: The Best Resources For Learning About Accents The Best Resources For Teachers, Especially Those Teaching ELLs, To Learn About Google’s NotebookLM The “Best” Ideas For Teaching About The U.S., Israeli/Iran Conflict  More Recent Articles |
