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Why Giving My Students More Choice Was the Most Punk Rock Thing I Could Do

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Therein lies a paradox I have struggled with in my career: How can I continue to teach students that questioning authority is not only okay, but sometimes necessary, while maintaining a position of authority myself? In most classrooms, the management boils down to, “I’m the teacher, so I’m in charge.”

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How Well Would ChatGPT Do in My Course? I Talked to It to Find Out

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I teach a course for faculty on how to write multiple-choice questions. Professors work with research-based guidelines to write multiple-choice questions for their courses, including questions that target higher-order thinking skills. So far, so good. This is when things started to go downhill.

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How Well Would ChatGPT Do in My Course? I Talked to It to Find Out

Faculty Focus

I teach a course for faculty on how to write multiple-choice questions. Professors work with research-based guidelines to write multiple-choice questions for their courses, including questions that target higher-order thinking skills. So far, so good. This is when things started to go downhill.

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

Faculty Focus

The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. This fear is about the skills needed in the course itself, much like students taking a poetry course are anxious because they think they can’t write poetry. They’re convinced they won’t do well.

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

Faculty Focus

The pressure to solve problems, answer multiple-choice question, and write essays on an exam scares them. This fear is about the skills needed in the course itself, much like students taking a poetry course are anxious because they think they can’t write poetry. They’re convinced they won’t do well.

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School’s Out for the Latest Y Combinator Batch, and Here’s What Its Edtech Graduates Are Up to

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Here’s what that one classroom-facing company is offering, and what the other six edtech startups hope to accomplish off the school campus. askMyClass This Menlo Park-based startup seeks to offer teachers classroom management strategies, lesson support and social-emotional support for students via voice technology.

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DIY Dry Erase Boards!

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Grab this 15-pack of eBooks created specifically for classroom teachers! Classroom Tech in 3 Minutes or Less! Have students practice graphing skills with these activity cards. For a good lesson idea, you could use improper fractions Mad Libs. What’s there not to love? Elephants in School? :