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Easy to find, not always true: Helping students evaluate AI-generated content

eSchool News

A deep search tool might include academic preprints from 2024, but not peer-reviewed journal articles published yesterday. With deepfake photographs proliferating the internet, using a reputable image data base is essential, and students must be taught how and where to find such resources.

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How to combat misuse of AI in student writing

eSchool News

Examples include small-group brainstorming and “Mini Socratics” (small-group Socratic Seminars), gamification methods giving students points for each component they’ve completed in an assignment, small-group peer reviews where students reflect on each other’s ideas instead of correcting errors, and more.

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Beyond simple search: The benefits of topic browsing in library databases

eSchool News

Databases provide full-text access to a wide range of content, including books, magazines, primary sources, images, charts, and peer-reviewed articles by credible authors representing diverse perspectives. They serve as trustworthy alternatives to internet searches, where the information surfaced can be unreliable, untrue, and unsafe.

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How Can Online Instructors Get Students to Talk to Each Other?

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Then, I designated two peer reviewers for each submitted reading assignment and asked that reviewers respond to the takeaways and ways the learning could be applied, and to provide an answer to the question that was posed by each of the two people they were connected with via the peer review feature. Hypothes.is

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Once Reviled in Education, Wikipedia Now Embraced By Many Professors

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There’s even a new peer-reviewed academic journal about using Wikipedia in higher education. The idea that we would contribute content to the internet was still pretty unusual. Maybe it's just nobodies sitting their basements writing nonsense.". Cummings: That's absolutely right. was a revolutionary concept.

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New Chromebook App Hub Speeds the Search for K–12 Classroom Apps

EdTech Magazine

The Chromebook App Hub will let users filter applications by grade level and content area, see peer reviews and comments for apps, and follow links to lesson plans that incorporate specific apps. . “It Once teachers find an application they like, they will be able to send it directly to district IT staff for review.

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Case Study Resources for Modern Teachers

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For educators in pursuit of enhancing their teaching methods, numerous high-quality, open-source, peer-reviewed resources are available online. The NSTA also has nearly a thousand peer-reviewed case studies on various science topics. Finding case studies these days is easier than ever because of the internet.

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