eSchool News

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Key points: Confidence in K-12 data use is rooted in a comfortable understanding Data-informed decision-making in education: A comprehensive approach Creating smart campuses to transform student life For more on data use in K-12, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Autumn is a universally familiar season. Whether you live among the redwoods of the Pacific Northwest, or in the sunny southern states, the cooler air, shorter days, and yellow school buses are all a part of our collective fa

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Do new AI tools like ChatGPT actually understand language the same way that humans do? It turns out that even the inventors of these new large language models are debating that very question — and the answer will have huge implications for education and for all aspects of society if this technology can get to a point where it achieves what is known as Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Charlotte, NC — The STEM Careers Coalition – an alliance of industries and non-profit organizations partnering with Discovery Education to create equitable access to free STEM content and career connections – today announced it has surpassed the goal of reaching 10 million students by the end of 2025 ahead of schedule. Since 2019, the STEM Careers Coalition has reached over 10.7 million students, including 2.97 million in the 2023-2024 school year alone, 65% of which are from Title I schools.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Nation-state adversaries and cybercriminals continue to launch cyberattacks at an unmatched pace across all industries, and the education sector is in their crosshairs. Education is among the most heavily targeted sectors due to its vast stores of valuable data and its comparatively weak security measures. Adversaries are aware of the personal data that schools, district offices, libraries and other targets hold, as well as the security shortcomings that create a low barrier to entry.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Can a high school freshman be goal-oriented? Should they—or is this too early? Though many deliberate, no one yet has invented a time machine to unring the proverbial bell. And high school requires the ringing of many academic, social and economic bells. Many future-shaping decisions become final based on these four years. Zoe, like your sons and daughters, is thinking about which college she wants to attend.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2024

As educators, we’re always looking for ways to engage students with practical, real-world applications of business concepts. Generation Z, commonly defined as people born between 1996 and 2010, are known as digital natives because they have grown up using the Internet and other technologies (“What is Gen Z”, 2024). Generation Z has been coined “the Superhero Generation” (Luttrell & McGrath, 2021, p. xvii) because of their fascination with superheroes and the ways their generational cohort mi

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Kitchen Table Classroom

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Guide your students through creating all the colors they can imagine with this easy printmaking experience! Materials list for mixing […] The post Color Mixing with Paint appeared first on The Kitchen Table Classroom.

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Priceless Ponderings

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Priceless Ponderings How to teach taxes to kids: Fun Activities for 2nd-4th graders Teaching taxes to kids is not the easiest topic to make exciting. But it is actually a great way to help them understand responsibility. And let’s be honest, most adults don’t even understand taxes. When we introduce kids to taxes early, they start to see that these contributions are necessary for maintaining everything from their favorite parks to the schools they attend.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2024

As Jennifer Hill’s eldest child was heading into fifth grade, she began to wonder how she would communicate with him in the hour between his school bus drop-off and her arrival home from work in downtown Cleveland. This story also appeared in WIRED. “There’s no phone in this house if something goes wrong,” she remembers thinking. “It’s not safe.” When Hill was a kid, there were no cellphones, sure, but there were landlines.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This is republished as part of a series in collaboration with the Headway Election Challenge. Chalkbeat and Headway at The New York Times will ask young people to share their insights and perspectives throughout the 2024 presidential election. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Throughout 2024, Headway and Chalkbeat , a nonprofit news organization focused on education in America, have been in conversation with teenagers abo

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