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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 10, 20232 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 10, 20231 min read
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 ...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 3, 20233 min read
NAACP pushes for literacy reform: Teach our kids to read
Black leaders have transformed reading instruction in northern Virginia, reports Sarah Carr in the Washington Post. The Fairfax County...
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Joanne Jacobs
Dec 19, 20222 min read
Teacher tries 'just-in-time' math for students who didn't learn the basics
A veteran teacher at Denver's George Washington High, Joe Bolz knows his students didn't learn much math when their middle schools...
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Joanne Jacobs
Dec 13, 20222 min read
We're not that far apart on how to teach our history
The "history wars" are a fight between "imaginary enemies" concludes More in Common, after surveying Americans. "Both Democrats and...
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Joanne Jacobs
Dec 11, 20222 min read
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,"...
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Joanne Jacobs
Dec 8, 20222 min read
'Ya gotta believe'
"We're not good now, but we can get better" was the unofficial motto of a start-up charter high school in San Jose, I concluded in 2001....
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Joanne Jacobs
Dec 1, 20222 min read
Once they can decode ...
Once students can sound out words, the next step is teaching comprehension, writes Matt Bardin on The 74. Once a middle and high school...
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Joanne Jacobs
Dec 1, 20222 min read
Leave the straw man alone: Teach those kids to read
Students don't need to sound out words, letter by letter, teachers were told. They don't need to be taught phonics systematically. If...
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Joanne Jacobs
Nov 30, 20221 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Nov 29, 20222 min read
Math scores keep falling: It's not 'drill and kill'
I learned my multiplication tables in fourth grade, and they've been mine ever since. I've had my worries over the years, but figuring...
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Joanne Jacobs
Nov 22, 20222 min read
Climate ed in PE, art . . . ?
New Jersey teachers are teaching about climate change in all grade levels and subjects, writes Caroline Preston on the Hechinger Report. ...
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Joanne Jacobs
Nov 16, 20221 min read
Most don't want schools to 'say' LGBTQ
Most Americans don't think young children are ready for lessons about sexuality and gender, writes Morgan Polikoff, a USC education...
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Joanne Jacobs
Nov 11, 20221 min read
College students lost learning too, but how much?
Universities aren't even trying to figure out how much students lost when classes went remote, writes Jonathan Zimmerman, who teaches...
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Joanne Jacobs
Nov 10, 20222 min read
Most want more focus on academics, less on gender, sex
The red wave turned out to be a purple haze. Moderates outperformed extremists. Democracy did not end. Trumpery lost its luster. An...
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Joanne Jacobs
Nov 8, 20222 min read
Kids need to learn independently and together
Learning online taught her students to be independent, resourceful and productive, writes Kyle Redford, who teaches fifth grade at a...
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Joanne Jacobs
Nov 7, 20222 min read
Teaching reading should not be political
"So the anti-public school, pro-book banning crowd has latched onto the “science of reading” movement…shocked," tweets Ryan Davis...
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Joanne Jacobs
Oct 28, 20221 min read
In search of lost time
Schools need more time to "instruct, support, and engage with students," after more than two years of disruption, writes Rick Hess,...
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Joanne Jacobs
Oct 26, 20222 min read
Teacher: Students can cut class, skip assignments and pass
Giving students a minimum of 50 percent on assignments -- regardless of whether they're turned in -- was a disaster, a former D.C. public...
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Joanne Jacobs
Oct 17, 20222 min read
Teaching controversial issues is OK for teens, but not younger students
Most Americans want schools to teach older students about controversial issues, according to USC's Understanding America Survey, reports...
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