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Teaching with AI: Can the bot be a useful tool?
ChatGPT can be a powerful teaching tool, argues Ben Talsma, who helps teachers use technology, on Chalkbeat. A learning specialist for...

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 10, 20232 min read
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NYC schools ban ChatGPT
Is it real or is it artificial intelligence? ChatGPT, the new AI chatbot that"generates stunningly cogent and lifelike writing" has been ...

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 10, 20231 min read
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AI is learning to censor social media, and your taxes are paying for it
President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan includes half a million dollars for research in technology to detect and remove...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 23, 20221 min read
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The kids can't write
Students are encouraged to express themselves, writes Elizabeth Grace Matthew, who's taught writing at several universities, on The Hill....

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 12, 20221 min read
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ChatGPT writes better than most students: What next?
Is writing over? The ability to write clearly and cogently has been seen as "a gatekeeper, a metric for intelligence, a teachable skill,"...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 11, 20222 min read
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Does Gates have 'right answer' for math ed?
The Gates Foundation is going to put more than a billion dollars into math education. Do we know how to teach math? asks Jay Caspian Kang...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 30, 20221 min read
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Kids stream more, read less
The rise in screen time -- not just school closures -- is a factor in the decline in achievement, suggests Tim Daly, who runs the...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 18, 20222 min read
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Without phones, school is calmer and students are listening, talking
Banning cell phones transformed a Philadelphia high school, reports Kristen A. Graham in the Inquirer. Students were ignoring teachers --...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 24, 20222 min read
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Can online privacy laws make the net safe for kids?
A new California law will try to protect children online by requiring safeguards for users under 18, reports Natasha Singer in the New...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 17, 20222 min read
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AI doesn't write well, but it's better than some students
Shakespeare it's not. However, a new artificial-intelligence technology called GPT-3, which understands and generates text, could help...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 23, 20222 min read
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Is technology the future of early literacy?
Speech-recognition technology could analyze young children's reading, rate their pronunciation of each sound and word, track their...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 23, 20222 min read
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Screen time all the time
"Screen time here to stay," writes Cari Spencer on The 74. Teachers are trying to use the technology to engage students, even as they...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 5, 20222 min read
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Can teachers make 'differentiation' work -- and not go crazy?
In my newspaper days, I talked to principals at elementary schools with above-average reading and math scores and a significant...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 3, 20222 min read
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The metaverse is here — but what is it?
Photo: Julia M. Cameron/Pexels Educators will be teaching in the metaverse very soon, ready or not, write Brookings researchers in a...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 12, 20222 min read
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If you can’t hire a physics teacher, is virtual OK?
A chemistry teacher live-streams into a conventional classroom. Photo: Elevate K-12 Virtual learning didn’t work well during the...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 2, 20222 min read
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‘Computer science for all’ goes beyond coding
I took computer science in high school to meet boys. And I did. Nerdy boys. It was the era of paper-tape readers and punch cards. I...

Joanne Jacobs
May 12, 20223 min read
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‘I’m sending my kids to screen-free schools’
Photo: Natureaddict/Pixabay Auguste Meyrat is sending his children to “screen-free” schools, he writes in The Federalist. As a teacher,...

Joanne Jacobs
May 6, 20221 min read
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Paper and Pencil
K-12 education should de-emphasize computers and graphing calculators in all but the highest math classes. Too many students are allowed...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 20, 20202 min read
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Protecting Student Civil Rights During the Coronavirus Shutdowns
From the US Department of Education: Contact: Press Office, (202) 401-1576, press@ed.gov WASHINGTON — The Office for Civil Rights (OCR)...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 19, 20202 min read
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Screen-time limits linked to cognitive skills
Limiting kids’ recreational screen time to less than two hours a day boosts their brainpower, concludes a new study, reports Hamza Shaban...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 30, 20181 min read
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