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Could AI Give Civics Education a Boost?

ED Surge

When longtime educator Zachary Cote first read about the release of ChatGPT about 15 months ago, he says his first instinct was to be “concerned” about its impact in the classroom, worried that students might simply ask the AI tool to do work for them. It’s really contingent on hours of the day and human buy-in,” he says.

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The Power of I Used to Think…Now I Think

Catlin Tucker

To recap, metacognition is a cognitive ability that allows learners to consider their thought patterns, approaches to learning, and understanding of a topic or idea. Teachers can leverage the power of thinking routines developed by Project Zero at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education to help students develop their metacognitive muscles.

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Middle school science teachers often have shaky scientific knowledge

The Hechinger Report

Middle school science teachers matter: Early adolescence is a time of huge cognitive change and a critical time to build students’ understanding of and enthusiasm for science, according to the National Science Teaching Association. Department of Education. Related: A study on teaching critical thinking in science.

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How the science of vaccination is taught (or not) in US schools

The Hechinger Report

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Teaching topics like the science of vaccinations elicited little controversy.

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Sitting for long periods affect on teens’ mental health, resumés for robots and more in the news roundup

Psych Learning Curve

The new PhD (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Many doctoral students will not go on to tenure-track professorships, so why should they devote their grad school years to producing a traditional dissertation mainly of value inside academe? However, these are often reserved for contrived examples that are considered safe for the classroom.

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STUDENT VOICE: Adults must stop censoring student newspapers. New York has a bill that would stop this dangerous practice

The Hechinger Report

But how can teens learn to value others’ perspectives when student journalists are barred from reporting on sensitive topics in their own communities? Censorship for the purpose of image upkeep is antithetical to good journalism education and, more broadly, to democracy. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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Practicing What We Preach: Using Inquiry to Design a Social Studies Methods Class

C3 Teachers

Therefore, when I learned that I would be teaching a social studies assessment course as part of a cross-content assessment course this spring, I started thinking about some of the tension points surrounding not only teacher education, but also student assessment. 6; Love, 2019).