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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. Authority, on the other hand, is when I decide what lessons to assign to students, or when they must read silently to themselves or aloud to the class. They are for everyone.

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Blended Learning: Design a Mini-playlist that Allows Students to Control the Pace of Their Learning

Catlin Tucker

After reading Catlin Tucker’s blog post, 5 Strategies to Engage Learners Around Flipped Instruction , I was inspired to reflect on and revise a mini-unit I designed focusing on the short film Alike by Daniel Martinez Lara and Rafa Cano Méndez. I love reimagining a unit or lesson after I have taught it a few times.

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Skibidi anarchy: Post-pandemic classroom technology

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Join eSchool News for the 12 Days of Edtech with 2024s most-read and most-loved stories. Modern students dont want to read generic texts about things that happened 10 or 20 years ago. They demand the same level of choice and agency theyve grown accustomed to as digital natives. Personalized learning 2.0

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Skibidi anarchy: The role of technology in post-pandemic classrooms

eSchool News

You know the formula–students watch an instructional video or read an overview of a concept, complete a cookie-cutter practice set that may or may not include a game or two, and demonstrate their “mastery” by completing a few multiple choice questions. Personalized learning 2.0 This idea of “personalized learning 2.0”

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Teachers are burning out. Can AI help?

eSchool News

A similar question was asked by McKinsey three years ago , right before the worldwide pandemic caused the lowest reading and math scores in 30 years. Indeed, the time spent on teaching class is less than the time spent on preparation, evaluation, and feedback (grading). Would that change the game? That time is now.

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Will AI Make Standardized Tests Obsolete?

Edsurge

Whereas last year, her focus was on using AI to help create traditional multiple-choice questions, now, she says, “what I am really focused on now is dynamic generation of content on the fly. And AI does things like give me feedback on the tone of my voice or the rate of my speech or my eye contact with you.

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6 tools for real formative assessment

eSchool News

Below are a handful of different tools and resources for formative assessments (ed note: these tools have not been endorsed or reviewed by eSM staff): Using Kahoot , educators can create learning games from a series of multiple choice questions to assess student understanding. They can add videos, images and diagrams.