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ISTELive 25: Empower Students to Shape Their Learning With Technology

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Engaging students goes beyond pushing them to participate in lessons and assignments. At ISTELive 25, Alana Winnick, educational technology director of New York’s Pocantico Hills Central School District, shares why student voice is her passion and how she drives student leadership in her own schools.

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An AI Wish List From Teachers: What They Actually Want It to Do

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Steinberg says that some teachers use AI to highlight aspects of a student’s work aligned with a rubric but stop short of letting AI assign a grade. Zajac adds that in special education, there are lines AI shouldn’t cross. “We Grading, especially, is viewed with skepticism. Teachers want guidance, not outsourcing.”

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Bite-Size Learning, Big Results: Why Microlearning is the Future of Education

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This fundamental truth about human cognition has finally found its perfect technological match in the form of microlearning. As we witness the rapid evolution of educational technology, the convergence of bite-sized learning modules with intelligent virtual tutors is creating unprecedented opportunities for personalised education.

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California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it?

Cal Matters

Turnitin, a longtime leader in the plagiarism-detection market, released a new tool within six months of ChatGPT’s debut to identify AI-generated writing in students’ assignments. That detector first became popular among professors when the internet made it easy for students to copy and paste information from websites into their assignments.

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AI Is Still an Unknown Country — and Teens Are Its Pioneers

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It was OK to use AI in this scenario, the mom said, but they shouldn’t use it for writing school assignments. A red use would be inappropriate or unethical, such as asking ChatGPT to write an essay based on an assigned prompt. At UC Irvine, for example, one faculty member assigns oral exams to computer science students.

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Emergent Bilingual Students Find Their Voice With Real-Time Translation

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English learners often face challenges in understanding lessons, participating in discussions and completing assignments , which can lead to lower achievement and increased feelings of isolation. Students are more likely to approach me with questions about assignments and while working on class activities with their peers.

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How ZIP Codes Determine a Child’s Future — and What We Can Do to Fight Back

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Meanwhile, the schools in my zone — the ones we were assigned to — have lower ratings, higher suspension rates, under-resourced classrooms and a student body that looks just like us. Black and Latinx. Working-class. Suddenly, it hit me: This wasn’t just happening to my son.