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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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The 7 Habits of Successful Academic-Innovation Leaders

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We practice mental models grounded in a pragmatic view of change. To do this, we read constantly and digest everything in order to practice sensemaking—helping to identity the signals in the noise. In everything we do, we take time to consider needs and requirements. We identify dependencies and assumptions.

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

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PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment) now compares the global competence and collaborative problem-solving skills of students from different countries along with more traditional scores for reading, math, and science. See the resource list below for more suggested readings and teaching tools.) Credit: EdSurge.

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

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She co-founded edtech company LangInnov to address what she saw as a gap in the market for assessing Latino children’s reading abilities. He’s spent his 25-year career working for social change and transformation within public education, in part through what he calls “humanizing mental models and systems.”

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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. My short recommendation?

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

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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. Schools in which each child can find their Element. .