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Stop using AI to replicate outdated teaching–get creative, instead

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Amplifying creativity and collaboration with AI My former colleague and MIT professor Mitch Resnick bemoans the current uses of AI in education, which aim to replicate conventional teaching methods by focusing on problems that have a right answer.

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How to use PBL with makerspaces across your curriculum

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It could be a video, a photo essay, a 3D rendering, or even an interpretive dance performance. Provenzano is also the 2013 winner of ISTE’s Outstanding Teacher Award. Maker education is when a person can demonstrate understanding through the creation of an artifact.

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Standardized tests are pests—here’s why

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Standardized math tests The evolution of math education has been marked by a shift towards conceptual teaching methods insofar as students no longer memorize rote procedures. In other words, students are now tasked with understanding the underlying principles when engaging in mathematics.

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Flipping the classroom together—from 3,000 miles away

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Who says you can only use the flipped teaching method in your own class or with other teachers in your school or district? We want to go beyond just brainstorming, picking an idea, doing an outline, and writing the 5-paragraph essay,” says Morris. Not Andrew Thomasson and Cheryl Morris, that’s for sure.

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To Make Assignments More Meaningful, I’m Giving Students a More Authentic Audience

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To be clear, this assignment would require students to analyze documents and write their own responses using evidence, which are important skills of course, but it would inevitably lead to me manically red inking papers that ultimately were written because I assigned an essay that would only ever be read by me. This isn’t a novel idea.

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How Classroom Environment Shapes Understanding of Cause and Effect Relationships

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How do teaching methods influence understanding? Teaching Methods and Learning Tools Learning environment in the classroom can influence perception and comprehension on many levels. Here are a few examples of how different methods can enhance cause-and-effect skills. Find the answers here. Read on to find out.

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8 Essential Books Every Tech-Minded Teacher Should Read

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The authors focus on Google Classroom in particular, not just as a piece of software, but as a means of enhancing the traditional teaching methods. From Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom: Hopeful Essays for 21st Century Learning. Digital Teaching Platforms: Customizing Classroom Learning for Each Student.

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