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How Gimkit engages my students

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I am an 8th-grade science teacher in a fairly large district, and I recognize the importance of these engaging and interactive resources to help students build knowledge and continue learning. Building a Gimkit From the teacher’s side of Gimkit, the platform makes it extremely easy to build lessons for the students to use.

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Can a Test Ever Be Fair? How Today's Standardized Tests Get Made.

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Then there are the psychometricians—the math savants who design tests and create complex algorithms that attempt to make them fair to all students. Mark Moulton : Here that whole question is, what does fair mean? Teachers and states and students, obviously, are held very accountable for these tests. asks Mark Moulton.

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eSchool Live@ISTE23 Preview

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To be fair, Powerschool’s announcement this week that it will integrate Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service to use OpenAI’s large language models within the company’s Personalized Learning Cloud will probably be the biggest news to come out of ISTE next week. Just try to have a conversation about edTech these days without mentioning AI.

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My Second Conversation with ChatGPT: Can It Be My Teaching Aid?

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Although I will focus on the same course (one about how to write multiple-choice questions), this time I want to find out whether ChatGPT can function as my teaching aid. For example, can it come up with examples and questions that I can use in learning materials and activities? It’s similar to a very fast brainstorm.

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My Second Conversation with ChatGPT: Can It Be My Teaching Aid?

Faculty Focus

Although I will focus on the same course (one about how to write multiple-choice questions), this time I want to find out whether ChatGPT can function as my teaching aid. For example, can it come up with examples and questions that I can use in learning materials and activities? It’s similar to a very fast brainstorm.

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?Updates, Upgrades and Overheard: What Was Unveiled at ISTE 2017

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The annual event brings together thousands of teachers all trying to find the latest news, gadgets and education tips (or in this year’s case, to hear a few words from podcast superstar Jad Abumrad ). Harrell, the CEO of the company, the new app was designed to “enable teachers to assign homework that’s fun.”

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How AI Can Help Educators Test Whether Their Teaching Materials Work

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EdSurge: The app you developed helps teachers test out their learning materials to see if they’re effective. One example in particular is getting students that are taking, say, an online chemistry course to create a multiple choice question for us. They're not fair [ because of false positives ].

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