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Artificial Intelligence 101: Covering the Basics for Educators

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Some AI developers aim to make systems that can do things, like prepare food better and faster than humans, to replace the work of humans; while others want to make an AI system to work with and help humans. Report: AI and the Future of Learning: Expert Panel Report.

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Top 10 EdSurge Podcast Episodes of 2023

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Why All of Us Could Use a Lesson in ‘Thinking 101’ Human brains are wired to think in ways that often lead to biased decisions or incorrect assumptions. A new AI chatbot can spit out long-form answers to just about any question, in a way that sounds eerily human. What Will ChatGPT Mean for Teaching?

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Helping Students Think With Their Whole Bodies

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Paul, who says she reads academic journal articles for fun, first encountered this argument when she came across a 1998 paper by philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers, who argued that the human mind extends into the world around it. So the more we can bring the body into learning, the better. But human brains are not like that.

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The Power of Networks in Education Innovation

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Lessons learned include: Network weaving activities are essential. Stewarding an inclusive network requires time, money, and human capital. It requires listening to community, acknowledging harm, and making changes—across partnerships, leadership, culture, funding, and programming. Reimagining learning.

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2021 Reflections: Looking Back and Harnessing Powerful Possibilities

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In the report “Healing, Community, and Humanity: How Students and Teachers Want to Reinvent Schools Post-COVID,” Justin Reich and Jal Mehta consider that one of education’s biggest challenges in the years ahead will be to harness “the experience and urgency for change” and apply that energy to the sustained improvement of schools.

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How Belonging and Productive Struggle Can Motivate Students in Math

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Gotto Chair in Child Development and professor of psychology and human development at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. Many teachers have been trained to think of belonging as only a product of classroom culture and student social relationships, that ultimately students have to learn to negotiate and navigate.

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To Serve All of Our Students, 'We Have to Do Something Different'

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Through my work as director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab , I’ve asked the question to teachers, school leaders, coaches, researchers and experts of all stripes (think: learning science, instruction, teacher education, culturally responsive teaching and so on), and it typically elicits more pauses and wonderings than answers.