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Teachers are burning out. Can AI help?

eSchool News

Indeed, the time spent on teaching class is less than the time spent on preparation, evaluation, and feedback (grading). By simply sharing a link to a textbook or by uploading a PDF, the AI then auto-creates well-designed slides that teachers tweak to use for sleek lesson presentations. That’s over ten hours a week.

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

Edsurge

Earlier this year, I administered a survey to my students, asking them to evaluate my classroom management skills and provide feedback on our classroom. Clark crying and apologizing for being a bad kid, we returned to the question of why. I asked my students, “Do you understand why you learn what you learn in school?”

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Schools Drop Acellus Learning Platform Over ‘Glaring’ Offensive Content

Edsurge

The incident, Stone says, also prompted the district staff to create a process for reviewing their curriculum choices through an equity lens moving forward. That means evaluating the curriculum’s illustrations, questioning the story lines, looking at the narratives laid out and the lifestyles depicted to scan for bias.

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Achieve3000 updates blended learning, differentiated instruction tools

eSchool News

The program continuously evaluates each student’s exact skill level, learning temperament and learning pace. Textbook Alignment Courses. Each Achieve3000 textbook alignment course provides a customized set of lessons designed to reinforce and extend the topics and themes in the most popular basal textbook programs.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

As we explore ways to use technology for good, it’s important to evaluate how EdTech tools can help school districts, teachers and even families navigate a mental health pandemic in which almost three million youth reported experiencing severe major depression in 2023. I see that continuing in the future.

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Standardized Tests Aren’t Going Anywhere. So What Do We Do?

Cult of Pedagogy

We recognize that there’s something fundamentally different about large-scale, externally mandated standardized tests that rely on multiple-choice questions. “ As a concrete example of why that synchronization is necessary, multiple states allow a high degree of local control over the curriculum. PublicAffairs.

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Everything you need to know about AI in education

eSchool News

It’s imperative to start evaluating our tech stacks differently as a part of the learning journey–standardized academic assessment is not the only measure of success. By simply sharing a link to a textbook or by uploading a PDF, the AI then auto-creates well-designed slides that teachers tweak to use for sleek lesson presentations.