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Dear parents: 3 ways AI will show up in your child’s classroom this year

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Leveraging a virtual teaching assistant: Teachers have a big job to do. It’s a job we love but it’s one that is often filled with a lot of tasks outside the core responsibilities of teaching — standing in front of our students, helping them learn.

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How CTE supports college and career readiness

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We dont rely on gamification; instead, students work with manikins that contain realistic organs, use real medical instruments, and perform hands-on lab activities that mirror healthcare settings. Ive had students who entered my program unsure of their career path but, through hands-on exposure, became passionate about healthcare.

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Integrating Active Learning in Large STEM Lectures

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Gabriele Pinto , Baylor University Key Statement: Implementing elements of active learning into a large course may seem daunting task, but think-pair-share aided by quizzing and clickers can be done in any size classroom. 2023; Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Venus & Sharma, 2024).

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The Future of Canvas

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Steve Daly Ryan Lufkin Shiren Vijiasingam More Highlights from InstructureCon23: The company and Khan Academy announced a partnership that brings Canvas, the anchor of the Instructure Learning Platform, and Khan Academy’s AI-powered student tutor and teaching assistant, Khanmigo.

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How we built a whole-child, wraparound approach to special education

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We will continue to actively seek best practices for our most marginalized students. Four years ago, my team and I designed, planned, and implemented a research-based, whole-child wraparound approach to special education.

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A Siri for Higher Ed Aims to Boost Student Engagement

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A chatbot—a computer program designed to simulate an intelligent conversation—will respond to routine student inquiries and prompt students to complete assignments, mimicking some of the tasks of a teaching assistant. Assisting the Teaching Assistants. Chatbots help get rid of some of the noise.

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8 questions every student should ask before choosing a college 

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Its worth investigating the student-to-faculty ratio and whether professors are actively engaged in teaching or if most instruction is left to teaching assistants. Does the school actively help students find internships and full-time jobs? Do professors hold regular office hours, and are they approachable?

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