Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, and Arizona State University found that human feedback was generally a bit better than AI feedback, but AI was surprisingly good. Credit: Getty Images This week I challenged my editor to face off against a machine. Barbara Kantrowitz gamely accepted, under one condition: “You have to file early.” …
This is a tough summer of budget cuts, forcing many districts to reduce staff and cut back on purchases. For school and district technology leaders, the end of the school year also means the end of billions of dollars of federal COVID-19 relief funding that was available to K-12 schools through various packages–money that was…
By : Sierra Noakes, Kip Glazer and Pati Ruiz “Does this edtech tool work for my students, and in my classroom?” It’s a question many have asked, though the answer isn’t always easy to find. As ESSER and stimulus funding come to an end, district leaders are suddenly tasked with determining which of the record…
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. As a high school wrestler many years ago, Jon Wilcox was expected to help coach much younger students who were learning to wrestle. It was a role he embraced and one that helped cement his decision to go into teaching. “Week…
In the three years that I’ve been a student journalist, every text, conversation or interview I’ve had with a fellow teen reporter has dealt with a common thread: censorship. A principal stifled a story about a cafeteria that had never met fire regulations. A school newspaper was barred from writing about recent book bans. Student…
(I’m republishing posts on my My All-Time Favorite Posts list. This one appeared in 2019. You can see them all here.) Not Learning From Failure—the Greatest Failure of All is the title of a study that just came out. It was designed to investigate whether we learn more from our failures or successes. …
(I’m republishing posts on my My All-Time Favorite Posts list. This one appeared in 2021. You can see them all here) geralt / Pixabay I haven’t done a very good job promoting speaking practice with my ELL History class this year (it certainly hasn’t helped that – up until this past week –…
The Ed Policy Issues Teachers are Most Concerned About is the headline of one of my latest Education Week columns. Efforts are spreading to restrict what topics are allowed to be taught. There are ways teachers can resist the censorship. Here are some excerpts: Short of signatures for fall, organizers target California’s 2026 ballot for…
Alexandra_Koch / Pixabay TED Talks recently announced that they are going to start using Artificial Intelligence to reproduce their videos, with multi-lingual dubbing in the speaker’s voices. You can read their announcement and see a list of their first videos using that tech here. Google’s Aloud tool kicked-off this ability, and now lots of…
My first and only fully online class taken as an undergraduate student was a complete disaster. Aside from a bare-bones syllabus, the professor never showed up. Most of our grade was supposed to come from a single class project, but no assignment instructions were ever posted. I emailed the professor and waited…and waited…and waited—silence. Eventually,…