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Leveraging AI to help special education teachers

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For both novice and veteran teachers, Poe.com provides access to a behavior intervention bot in real-time to help with questions that might arise with paperwork or strategies for student behavior. MagicSchool.ai In this case, AI can essentially serve as an on-demand instructional coach for special education teachers.

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Why Old Arguments for Earning a Diploma Don't Resonate With My Students — and Which Ones Will

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Having taught and worked with seniors in high school for over half of my career, these questions are always present, rarely asked, and, for me, often remain unanswered. These questions are at the forefront of my mind, questions that I wish more of us educators could spend time discussing and planning around.

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What Is Missing From Our Curricula?

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The answer, as he explains in “ The Checklist Manifesto ,” is a multidisciplinary profession known as structural engineering. Truly rare are those careers where employees advance based on their ability to regularly answer multiple-choice questions correctly! Where and how do young people learn these skills?

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5 High-Presence Teaching Tactics for Active Online Learning

Faculty Focus

Within the Purdue Globals Math Department within the School of Multidisciplinary and Professional Studies, many innovative and inspiring ideas are combined with active learning tactics to promote high-presence teaching in the online classroom. Instructors can monitor the chat but allow a student-driven community to converse and share.

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'A Better Future is Possible': IDEO’s Sandy Speicher on Design Thinking in Schools

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There’s a bigger question about the role design can play in advancing education. That’s an important question, because I often forget to situate that. We put all those people and skills together in a room with a question, and say, “With your creative genius, find what matters and design a direct response for it.”.

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What YouTube and Hollywood Divas Can Teach You About Active Learning

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Faculty Club is a multidisciplinary community of educators sharing ideas to advance innovation and celebrate excellence in higher education. Questions might include: “In which North African country was the music style rai created?”

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Designing Classrooms Fit for Early Learners

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As an education design director working with a multidisciplinary design team that regularly partners with early childhood programs to upgrade their existing spaces or create new ones, I've seen the power of leveraging design elements for learning. The building structure and systems can be exposed to encourage children to ask questions.