Category: Education

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This post originally appeared on the Christensen Institute’s blog and is reposted here with permission. Key points: AI has potential to free up educator time and deepen connections Despite guidance, generative AI remains a challenge for educators New group targets AI skills in education and the workforce For more news on AI in education, visit…

When ChatGPT was released to the public in November 2022, advocates and watchdogs warned about the potential for racial bias. The new large language model was created by harvesting 300 billion words from books, articles and online writing, which include racist falsehoods and reflect writers’ implicit biases. Biased training data is likely to generate biased…

Key points: IT leaders are increasingly in need of time, support, and training 9 in 10 K-12 tech leaders predict surge in IT workload 5 ways to combat tech fatigue and support student success For more news on IT trends, visit eSN’s IT Leadership hub Sometimes, when you ask a question, you get an answer…

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Franz26 / Pixabay   Earlier this year, ChatGPT opened up a “store,” where paid users of the service could create their own custom AI-powered chatbots. At the time, unfortunately, the only way you could access them was if you, too, were a paid user. Recently, though, they opened up the store so free users could…

(I’m republishing posts on my My All-Time Favorite Posts list. This one appeared in 2018. You can see them all here.)   In anticipating of a series of staff development sessions I led for our school’s faculty, I gave a survey to many of the ELLs at our school asking for their feedback on their…

  Herodotus “is an app that allows you to study history and track your progress.” Though they describe themselves as an “app,” it’s actually a website.  The developer specifically says they were inspired by Duolingo. It’s definitely intriguing.    Herodotus “is an app that allows you to study history and track your progress.” Though they…

When I first started teaching middle school, I did everything my university prep program told me to do in what’s known as the “workshop model.” I let kids choose their books. I determined their independent reading levels and organized my classroom library according to reading difficulty. I then modeled various reading skills, like noticing the…