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Using Conversational Video

HistoryRewriter

This post will describe the importance of having secondary students engage in oral history projects and describe a new Artificial Intelligence technology StoryFile that can help students practice posing questions to pre-recorded conversational video without the heightened anxiety that comes with actually talking to a real person.

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“It’s so hard and so challenging:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling

The Hechinger Report

It is one of only a few school districts in the state that is requiring masks after the state Supreme Court put a hold on a mask mandate ban South Carolina legislators approved in the spring. Karis Mazyck , principal of Blythewood Middle School. Orion Salazar, eighth grader at Taos Middle School.

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‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III

The Hechinger Report

The district will be holding an expanded summer school this year and is investing in mental health counselors and early literacy. . Katina Harris , middle school English teacher and president of the local teachers’ union. Even when we were in elementary school, like with the stock market crash, everyone moved.

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“We’re really underwater here:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part II

The Hechinger Report

My eighth grader, he does not possess the ability to be at middle school with almost 40 kids in his classroom and focus. I came to this country at a very young age, but I still [had] very traditional Mexican parents. Our high school definitely brought light to [the emotional and social needs of students] the first two weeks.