- September 11, 2024
Tips for Reclaiming Your Time as a First-Year Teacher
Brisk Teaching and Gemini are two of her district’s most commonly used AI tools. Here’s how she helps teachers use them: The Chrome extension Brisk
Humanizing History by Teaching with Primary Sources
Many students today are learning history through primary sources. That shift, according to Potter, arose in the last two decades as museums and archival institutions
Can Tutoring at Scale Lead to Academic Recovery? One Advocate’s New Study Yields Underwhelming Results
Going forward, Kraft said he and other researchers need to “recalibrate” or adjust expectations around the “eye-popping” or very large impacts that previous small-scale tutoring
How ‘Spotlight Reading’ Helps Students Learn to Trust Their Literary Instincts
Spotlight reading works best when done every week and for the entire school year. “The kids get into routines and thinking, seeing and responding,” Smith
What Did the US Surgeon General Say About Parental Stress, And What Can We Do About It?
This post was originally published by Parenting Translator. Sign up for the newsletter and follow Parenting Translator on Instagram. Last week United States Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued an
How Can the Community School Model Support Newcomer Education?
Students at OIHS drop out at nearly half the rate that newcomers students do at other Oakland high schools. The school’s success comes largely from
Kids Who Use ChatGPT as a Study Assistant Do Worse on Tests
ChatGPT’s errors also may have been a contributing factor. The chatbot only answered the math problems correctly half of the time. Its arithmetic computations were
Is Environmental Sustainability the New Liberal Arts?
“The scale of the challenges we face demands that all people have baseline understanding” of climate, the plan says. “[H]igher education must advance a learning
How to Get Kids Thinking Instead of Mimicking in Math Class
The model involves students working in small, randomly chosen groups; solving problems standing up at whiteboards; building on small bits of knowledge as they go;
Researchers Combat AI Hallucinations in Math
The Berkeley researchers took advantage of the fact that ChatGPT, like humans, is erratic. They asked ChatGPT to answer the same math problem 10 times