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OPINION: The world is changing fast. Students need data science instruction ASAP

The Hechinger Report

What do all these new tools and technologies have in common? Generative AI algorithms, like those used to create ChatGPT, train on large language datasets. Getting the data to fuel these technologies immediately leads to challenges with bias, accuracy, privacy and intellectual property rights.

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To fight teacher shortages, schools turn to custodians, bus drivers and aides 

The Hechinger Report

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. She’s also a teacher-in-training. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. MORGAN CITY, La. The “apprenticeship degree” model costs students $75 dollars a month.

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Schools Will Never Return to Business as Usual. Here’s How They Can Make the Most of Our New Reality.

Edsurge

The Lab School laid groundwork years ago by training staff in RULER , a schoolwide approach to social-emotional learning from our Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence; Courageous Conversations , a model for training and coaching organizations on racial equity; restorative circles for community development and conflict resolution and more.

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#4: What does research really say about iPads in the classroom?

eSchool News

But even though they’re in schools, our work with teachers has led us to understand that while many of them would like to use iPads meaningfully in their classrooms, they can’t because of time, access, and training. Prensky, 2006). The truth is that some do but many don’t, so training is essential! Great idea, right?

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Launching SchoolLibraryNJ (and some models beyond)

NeverEndingSearch

For many reasons including training and access to resources and time, not every librarian is yet engaged in the perhaps daunting task of building a robust digital presence. High School Crediting Sources Administrators Research Tools Librarians Book Awards & Lists Elementary Home Middle School Newsroom. We welcome your suggestions.

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Strategies for Surviving All Types of Assessments

edWeb.net

Preparing for the classroom, system-wide, or state-mandated testing requires organization, training, a great attitude, and patience. For high-stakes testing, attend all scheduled state-mandated meetings and trainings, take notes and ask questions. She then began teaching in 2006 at Airways Middle School as a 7th-grade science teacher.

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Why I Still Believe in the iPad’s Positive Impact on Classrooms

Edsurge

The MLTI (Maine Learning Technology Initiative) program coevolved with the technology available. Over one-half of participating school districts allowed students to take home their laptops by 2004; a second RFP was issued in 2006; and the MLTI program expanded into high schools in 2009.

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