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

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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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Top Hat Buys Canadian Textbook Business to Compete With Publishers in Digital Courseware

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The term comes from the physical devices that other companies used to sell, where students literally pressed buttons to respond to multiple-choice questions. The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. And it just may have found a key piece to make that strategy click.

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Teachers are burning out. Can AI help?

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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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?What Makes a Smart Course ‘Smart’?

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In the early days of "course cartridges”—an LMS feature that allowed instructors to plug published content right into their courses—online courses were essentially digitized versions of static (textbook) content. Smart courses aren’t just about simple plug and play or digitized textbook content. Is that adaptive? A good experience?

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How AI Can Help Educators Test Whether Their Teaching Materials Work

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One example in particular is getting students that are taking, say, an online chemistry course to create a multiple choice question for us. And so if you have a course with 5,000 students in it, and everyone elects to create a multiple-choice question, you now have 5,000 new multiple-choice questions for that chemistry course.

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LearnWith.AI Launches TeachTap, the first AI-powered learning app for AP exam prep and high school courses

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Cherlendy Louis, a student and TeachTap user in New York City, said, “Instead of getting bored and zoning out using textbooks, TeachTap makes topics so much more entertaining. For example, Albert Einstein can “rap” a physics lesson, but the underlying lesson would be the same as learning it through a textbook.

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Achieve3000 updates blended learning, differentiated instruction tools

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Based on teachers’ feedback from around the world, Achieve3000 is also unveiling an all-new Teacher’s Edition homepage with an improved workflow, easier navigation, enhanced grading options, and improved assessment tools that minimize administrative tasks. Textbook Alignment Courses. State-Customized Solutions.