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How Creative Technology Can Help Students Take on the Future

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Creative thinking leads the list, followed by analytical or critical thinking. The third most important skill is technological literacy, which includes AI and other technologies. Take Adobe Express for Education , for example. million certifications.

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Concerned Parents and Lawmakers: Here’s What You’ll Really See in My Classroom

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These cameras would allow parents to livestream their children’s lessons throughout the school day. Meanwhile in Indiana, a bill would have required teachers to turn in a year’s worth of lesson plans in advance. Yes, I’m deviating from my lesson plans. The lesson plan would still be there.

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How Schools Are Coaching — or Coaxing — Teachers to Use ChatGPT

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For example, the use of AI “can start with a two-week lesson plan. At each step, Dembo shows educators that they can modify the content being created. The thing that some educators can’t wrap their heads around, still, is that they’re working with a large language model. Dembo refutes this claim right out the gate.

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Unlocking the Power of Creativity and AI: Preparing Students for the Future Workforce

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Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking. As such, many students enter college and the workforce not having enough practice in key critical thinking skills that they need to be innovative problem-solvers and effective communicators.

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Our 10 Most Popular K-12 Stories of 2022

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The truth, she realized, is that she often deviates from lesson plans and works outside her job duties, to prepare her students “to change the world, to navigate the unpredictable with critical thinking and resilience.” In this piece, she describes what parents and lawmakers would really see inside her classroom.

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Discussing Politics in Classrooms Is an Opportunity for Growth, Not Division

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With political topics as polarizing as they are right now, it is understandable for teachers to want to try to avoid them and just stick to the lesson plan. But external pressures have permeated classrooms like never before, from book bans to critical race theory debates to mask mandates.

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Inventing a Job-Skills Machine

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And because of all the expenses already invested in lesson plans and equipment, he adds, “to stop teaching something is a lot more energy than to start teaching something.” The college regularly conducts research to answer questions such as, “What are we teaching well? What do we need to stop teaching?” Bettersworth says.