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How a Professor of Hip-Hop Is Breaking Boundaries With First Peer-Reviewed Rap Album

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In August, his latest album, “ i used to love to dream ,” became the first rap album to be published by a university press, after going through a formal academic peer-review. He’s no stranger to working in a mix of media.

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

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A deep search tool might include academic preprints from 2024, but not peer-reviewed journal articles published yesterday. This time gap matters, especially for fast-changing topics like public health, technology, or current events. Most tools do not include digitized historical data that is still in manuscript form.

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Hundreds of STEM Grants Have Been Terminated. K-12 Math Educators Will Lose Out

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Bruce McLaren has committed his career to understanding how education technologies, especially digital games and intelligent-tutoring systems, can help children learn. For more than a decade, McLaren and colleagues have brought games like this to Pittsburgh area schools to test their technology and learning theories.

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A look at one school’s innovative approach to PD

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Following the AI analysis portion of the cycle, teachers share their videos on the Edthena VC3 video coaching platform so their peers can review the lesson through the lens of specific strategies highlighted in our rubrics. And, providing ongoing, robust professional development is essential to this.

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Why the Creative Process is Key to Every Student’s Success

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Among the winners of the 2024 CODiE Awards in Education Technology Awards last week was an organization that doesn’t lead with tech specs, speeds, feeds, or even literacy scores. He highlights the importance of creation over consumption in education and addresses the challenges posed by technology use among students.

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SIIA Announces Education Technology Finalists for 2023 CODiE Awards

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WASHINGTON (PRWEB) — In celebration of the 38th annual SIIA CODiE Awards, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced Education Technology finalists. The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program. and globally. Congratulations to all of this year’s finalists.”

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Pretending at support for technology integration

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I saw this post a while back in an educational technology forum: I have been given roughly an hour for PD on January 4th to work with teachers on anything that I’d like. Let’s be clear: this is a big red flag that this school is just pretending at technology integration and coaching. It’s simply “ Here’s a random hour.