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Would You Rather: Transfer and Apply

Catlin Tucker

How can we create a learning environment where each student feels confident applying the knowledge and skills they’re acquiring? This approach often fails to recognize and accommodate the diverse ways students understand and express their knowledge. This could be a specific skill, concept, or knowledge area.

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I’m a teacher, but I was also “that student”

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I opted to leave the traditional high school setting and registered late for a 12-week program to help prepare me for the General Education Development (GED) Test. My struggle in school, like many of my own students today, wasn’t about intelligence or knowledge. It was about the outside world.

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NoRedInk and the National Writing Project Partner to Inspire the Next Generation of Writers in the Age of Gen AI

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The partners will establish a collaborative online community where educators can share best practices and access resources, including a free version of NoRedInks comprehensive writing platform. Founded in 2012 by a high school English teacher, NoRedInk is led by an experienced team of educators, technologists, and language evangelists.

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Why Old Arguments for Earning a Diploma Don't Resonate With My Students — and Which Ones Will

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In our current educational landscape, you have to either receive a traditional high school diploma or pass the General Educational Development exam to access most postsecondary schooling options, including trade schools and community colleges.

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Powerful Learning With Artificial Intelligence For Educators

Edsurge

For example, students might train a machine learning system to recognize patterns in math class or test a text-to-speech system to see if it can differentiate between homonyms in English Language Arts. However, over and over, it has been highlighted that teachers need to have professional learning on AI.

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How Do You Grade a Creative Assignment?

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I feel weird about testing them on genocide.” Testing students on genocide does indeed seem problematic, particularly when we consider the outcomes Gressang’s students were able to achieve with the choice to demonstrate their learning in more novel ways. How would it be different if…? Suppose that…? What would have changed if…?”

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Twig Education Launches Twig Science Next Gen for Middle School

eSchool News

For Twig Science Next Gen, Twig partnered with some of the most highly respected organizations in the worlds of science and engineering education. Twig Science Next Gen gives them a chance to use up-to-date science knowledge, practices, and cognitive tools to make sense of the incredible world around them.