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Personalizing history for more impactful student learning

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Personalized paths, oral histories, and local histories are strategies that resonate with the NCSS definition to bring the human experience into the K-12 classroom, because these strategies allow students to determine how their life fits into the story of history and to discover why the past matters to them.

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Asking the right questions: Unlocking the full potential of AI tools

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Key points: Asking the right questions is more than just a skill–its a mindset We are all digital immigrants now 25 AI predictions for 2025 For more news on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Several years ago, during a flight from Houston to Paris, I had a conversation with the CEO of a prominent Houston-based company.

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Science teachers, math teachers, history teachers–we’re all reading teachers now

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And when John hit me with rapid-fire comprehension questions, it was clear that I had derived no meaning from the text. At 97%, the next volunteer was able to take some educated guesses and get most of the comprehension questions right. All I remembered was trying not to sound like an idiot and feeling like a failure.

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Science teachers, math teachers, history teachers–we’re all reading teachers now

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And when John hit me with rapid-fire comprehension questions, it was clear that I had derived no meaning from the text. At 97%, the next volunteer was able to take some educated guesses and get most of the comprehension questions right. All I remembered was trying not to sound like an idiot and feeling like a failure.

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Key questions that unleash powerful PLCs

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Because PLCs predate national and state standards, teams used to devote a great deal of time to asking and answering the question, What do we want students to learn? Instead, they can focus on other questions, starting with, Where are we going in students learning journeys? What can they do with educational support?

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The Long and Surprising History of ‘Teaching Machines’

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Yet today’s edtech leaders often ignore or choose to forget this history, argues Audrey Watters, a longtime critical observer of edtech, who calls it “historical amnesia of the past.” Watters traces the history of these pre-computer-age gadgets in her new book, “ Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning.”

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Are History Textbooks Worth Using Anymore? Maybe Not, Some Teachers Say

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This is especially true of history texts, which attempt to distill complex and contrasting events into simple, linear narratives, often at the expense of nuance and unpleasant truths. Yet despite these limitations, textbooks are still the most popular way to teach and learn history. It’s not, ‘Oh, this also was going on.’

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