Why So Many Students Think They Dislike Reading
Reading is personal but we often focus on the mechanics instead of the people and the strategies instead of the living and breathing happening around us. Source
AI-Powered Writing Assistants: Do They Really Help Students Learn English?
BestKru, one of the largest EdTech companies in Thailand, which unlike other AI-powered writing assistants like Grammarly, Quillbot, and ChatGPT promise to fix your grammar instantly and make your English writing better. The post AI-Powered Writing Assistants: Do They Really Help Students Learn English? first appeared on EdTechReview.
Taking Student Integration to the Next Level
By: Kristel Barr Every parent wants their children to grow up and learn how to live independently and that can be a challenge. However, it can be an even bigger concern for parents of students with disabilities. Schools have stepped up to the plate and partnered with families to aid in the post-secondary transition as best they can. One school district is trying a unique approach to extend auth...[Read More]
Teaching Critical Thinking Starts With The Student
Out of all of the ideas and circumstances and knowledge and information that you encounter on a daily basis, what’s worth understanding? Source
20 Teacher Tools To Create Online Assessments [Updated]
Teacher tools to create online assessments: Google Forms for quick quizzes, Socrative for live checks, and Edulastic for standards-aligned tests. Source
In the Land of Hollywood, Filmmaking Is a Natural Teaching Tool
Each year at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, there’s a group of filmmakers who need their parents’ permission to attend their own movie premieres. They’re part of the Youth Cinema Project affiliated with the Latino Film Institute, where students in fifth through 12th grade spend a school year writing, shooting and editing a short film. The true goal of the program is not to pro...[Read More]
Rubrik Announces Immutable Backup for Okta Environments
Rubrik has introduced Okta Recovery, extending its identity resilience platform to Okta with immutable backups and in-place recovery, while separately detailing its integration with Okta Identity Threat Protection for automated remediation.
Code.org Reinvents Hour of Code as Hour of AI
Education nonprofit Code.org has partnered with CSforALL to launch the Hour of AI, a global initiative providing learning activities for AI education.
Teachers Share More Ways to Engage AI in the Classroom (Opinion)
Introduce AI as a minor step in assignments because it will be present regardless.
Career Readiness in the Real World
As industries evolve and the skills gap widens, the question remains: How can we better connect education to employment? In this episode of The Idea Spark, host Carl Hooker welcomes Jennifer Wilkerson, VP of Innovations and Advancements at NCCER (National Center for Construction Education and Research), and Andy Dunaway, Product Manager, Career Connected Learning at Pearson. Together, they explore...[Read More]
Data Science: A Student’s Tool for Understanding, Advocacy, and Systemic Change
By: Jason Lee Morgan When Deisy graduated high school in Compton, California, in 2014, she had no idea how central data would become to her career. Today, she writes code to analyze public health data and describes data as “a form of capital”—a tool that gives her flexibility and power in her work. But she also reflects on a missed opportunity: she wishes she had been introduced to data science ...[Read More]
Who Supervises Students in Virtual Schools?
El Roberts’ alarm blares at 4:50 a.m. each day, alerting her of the need to wake up to head to figure skating practice before school. When she returns, instead of getting on the bus, she opens up her laptop, where she participates in virtual classes for roughly two hours. Meanwhile, her mother, Deborah Fairclough, either shares an office with her daughter while working as a mobile dog groomer, or ...[Read More]