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How to Help Students Avoid Getting Duped Online — and by AI Chatbots

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Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. Mike Caulfield: One of the primary things you're doing when you're reading on the internet is you're trying to decide if something's worth your attention or not. What is critical ignoring and why is that something you're highlighting? Information is abundant.

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Its 2019. So Why Do 21st-Century Skills Still Matter?

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Ken Kay, CEO of EdLeader21 Figuring out how schools should respond, however, remains an open question for many communities. Frameworks provide mental models, but “don’t usually help educators know what to do differently,” argues technology leadership expert Scott McLeod in his latest book, Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning.

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Are Latino ‘Systems of Knowledge’ Missing From Education Technology?

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public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. EdSurge recently posed a question to a panel of Latino educators and an edtech leader: Is educational technology serving the Latino community, particularly its students? Meanwhile, changing demographics of students in U.S.

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Book review – Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today

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Disclaimer: both are friends of mine so keep that in mind as you read below. Tom and Eric do a great job of citing research in their book, but it would be helpful to have some research-based frameworks and mental models that tie the list items together. Questions I have after reading this book.

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Sir Ken Robinson: A Brief In Memoriam [guest post]

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I wonder whether he might have asked similar questions. He offered a different mental model through a new metaphor. For the millions who watched his videos, read his books, or listened to speeches, he prepared the soil and created the conditions for us to grow our own new notions of how we might help learning flourish.