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Building Better Rubrics: Empowering Learners Through Effective Rubric Design

Catlin Tucker

Rubrics identify specific criteria relevant to the assignment, along with corresponding levels of performance that allow for more precise grading. Using rubrics helps teachers stay focused during the grading process and ensures that grading is objective, consistent, and fair. How does using rubrics benefit students?

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Where’s the Humanity? The Case for Putting Language Arts Into STEM

Edsurge

It started with an underwhelming science fair—the type we’re all familiar with: students standing next to handmade posters, listlessly describing their projects, usually alone. She took on the role despite her lack of engineering experience, but it turned out that her English Language Arts background came in handy. Make it cheap.

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Like it or not, ChatGPT is our new learning partner

eSchool News

Key points: ChatGPT is here to stay, and it’s wise to now consider it a part of learning In fact, every assignment moving forward must be graded with ChatGPT in mind See related article: How educators can navigate AI-driven plagiarism You may have heard of ChatGPT. What it does mean is that we must assume that they might.

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Guide, Don’t Hide: Maximizing Course Assignments with ChatGPT Integration

Faculty Focus

As part of the recent rush to comment on ChatGPT, this article is not weighing in on the ongoing ethical debates, nor is it offering a comprehensive how-to guide, but rather simply sharing one professor’s initial use of the AI tool and how it successfully accomplished the learning objectives and expectations for one course assignment.

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Students hosted a tech PD conference at their school — and Google followed suit

eSchool News

The tweens took up the challenge, organizing the Tech Boost Conference and providing all the breakout sessions on topics that interested them — coding, making video games, writing music, using digital arts and a host of other cool tools now literally at their fingertips. A lightbulb-moment video kicked off Alphonso’s talk.

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Flowers in the Classroom: Blossoming Learning with Tech

Ask a Tech Teacher

Today, the Ask a Tech Teacher international team is exploring how flowers inspire students in STEM, art, and ecology, how a bouquet can enhance tech-driven education and classroom joy. They inspire projects, from digital art to ecological studies, and foster a welcoming space for learning. Theyre a bridge to community too.

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This Father Built an App to Level the Playing Field for Struggling Readers

Edsurge

Since he now had the opportunity to manage his own time, Ratnam had the chance to drive his children to school and after-school activities, working with their school’s PTA, volunteering for the science fair and helping with homework every evening. In class, Ratnam’s son had a resource teacher assigned to support him. TechCrunch.

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