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AI and Writing Essays: Pros and Cons, How Will Students Learn to Write if an AI Writes It for Them?

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AI writing helpers’ real-time feedback on grammar, vocabulary, coherence, and argument structure is their crucial draw. Accessible Educational Support AI writing tools make high-quality writing help available to more students, regardless of geography or income.

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How Minecraft Teaches Reading, Writing and Problem Solving

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This might include geology, geography, chemistry, or another topic. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. I want to see their creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving in action. Describe research you did to make your Minecraft world more realistic and workable. Do you see what I’m doing?

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The Intersection of Inquiry-Based Learning and High-Quality Instructional Materials in Social Studies

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Additionally, social studies encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, civics and economics, each with its own set of disciplinary practices. When I look at a social studies curriculum, I'm not just thinking, Can students construct an evidentiary argument after reading a source in response to a question?

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iCivics Offers Tons of Free Resources and Tools to Promote Civics Education

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Examples of featured curriculum units include: Foundations of Government, Legal Reference Library, Road to the Constitution, Influence Library, Civil Rights, Citizenship and Participation, News Literacy, International Affairs, Government and the Market, Geography Library, Persuasive Writing, and many more.

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Should you Teach Typing? And Does it Work?

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It has become a familiar argument between those who believe children intuitively learn to type (“see them on smartphones and iPads–they don’t need help”) and those of us who believe instruction makes them better, faster. This topic that is close to my tech teacher soul.

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Everyday Equitable Data Literacy is Best in Social Studies, far more than in STEM

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Here’s a sketch of the argument. Data visualizations that most of us see in our everyday lives are from opinion polls or about prices or taxes — they’re about social science topics (economics, government/civics, history, geography). We make four main points: Data literacy makes social studies more effective.

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How can place attachment improve scientific literacy?

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ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY Environmental geographers study the relationships between organisms and the environment. Pathway from school to environmental geography • Ben recommends studying an undergraduate degree in Earth and environmental science, biology, chemistry or mathematics. 1322820 and 2031884. . 1322820 and 2031884.