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How AI could save–or sink–creative writing in schools

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Johnson’s class for eventually helping me pass the AP Writing exam my senior year without ever taking an AP-level English class. Mr. Johnson was willing to provide feedback on drafts. With all the volumes of content to be covered, there just isn’t time in either the class period or the school year for cycles of feedback.

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How AI can transform lesson planning and assessment

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Teachers can use AI-powered tools like MagicSchool.ai , ChatGPT , and Chatterbot AI to create quizzes and exams that align with their course materials. Personalizing feedback at scale In my opinion, personalization at scale is the frontrunner in the diadem of benefits that the AI revolution has inspired.

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The Secret to Student Success? Teach Them How to Learn.

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Every time I hear this, I am faced with the gut-wrenching realization that the student has internalized failure by age eleven. This raises two questions for me: How can we turn eleven-year-olds who have internalized failure into students like Abby who retain information for years? We’d discuss and students would get immediate feedback.

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Hosting Class 'Afterparties' on Zoom -- and Other New Ways to Reach Students

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It’s just been like an interesting clumsy thing, but I still feel like when I ask students for feedback, they are really having a good time. Ken Bain, the author of “What the Best College Teachers Do,” talks about this a lot—this idea that failure is a part of learning. So there should be failure in all of our classes.

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Playing Games Can Build 21st-Century Skills. Research Explains How.

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It eventually expanded into high school, scaling up its challenges like levels in a video game and borrowing elements from game design—such as its approach to final exams, which are interactive and structured like “final boss” levels. minimizing failure and providing immediate feedback for students. The takeaway?

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How Automated Speech Recognition Could Change Studying Forever

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As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

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Understanding the Limits of Education Technology and Risk Taking in Schools

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Panel at NY Edtech Week At Success’ 46 schools in the New York area, students perform at the top 5 percent on math, English and science state exams, and Moskowitz’s words carry weight in the city. Pointing to disorder in managerial-administrative tasks and teacher feedback loops, she encouraged edtech leaders to innovate in those areas.