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Read on… For more websites that teach civics for MS and HS, check out these: Argument Wars. Public Policy and the Executive and Legislative Branches Quiz. Public Policy Flashcards. Public Policy Matching. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Civics games. How Laws are Made.

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Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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JANUARY 9, 2025

There were also highly read pieces about the ways that educators and school systems are grappling with rapid change: how to make access to algebra equitable for historically disadvantaged students and catch up to new technology standards aiding students with disabilities.

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JUNE 25, 2024

Just last week, the nation’s second-largest public school system, Los Angeles Unified School District, voted to ban smartphones starting in January, citing adverse health risks of social media for kids. And he has a strong reaction to Galinsky’s argument. “We The movement to keep smartphones out of schools is gaining momentum.

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MAY 15, 2023

Oftentimes, when it comes to technology and new innovations, folks move to a “good” or “bad” binary. A Sparring Partner in Forging an Argument A third use case for an AI chatbot is as a “naysayer” or “critic” — not necessarily a role that a university explicitly employs like tutors or editors. This is “good,” while this is “bad.”

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JUNE 5, 2015

Very effective: Argument Wars. Public Policy and the Executive and Legislative Branches Quiz. Public Policy Flashcards. Public Policy Matching. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. These are mostly for MS, a mixture of flashcards, games and simulations. Branches of Power. Civics Game Room.

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MAY 2, 2024

The argument against AI-powered tools remains the same: any content produced by artificial intelligence can be viewed as plagiarism. This is the best way to define the authenticity of a particular publication. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Check your essay for plagiarism.

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MARCH 14, 2022

There’s a unique opportunity to identify the dangerous side of the “fake it until you make it” argument, as Theranos not only wasted millions of dollars, but put some patients’ health in jeopardy. Unsurprisingly, the highly-publicized plan to deploy Knewton’s technology in service of incarcerated youth never happened.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

Even though federal law requires states to provide public education to homeless students, delivering on this has proven troublesome. Monarch School, a public-private K-12 school, is an arrangement between the San Diego County Office of Education and a local nonprofit. Critics don’t buy the argument about stigma, either.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A better understanding of the long arc of technology history might just help us make a course correction, he argues. He even takes the argument a step further when he complains that Twitter itself has become a kind of game for talking about current events and politics, rather than a genuine public sphere.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

Meanwhile, almost 40 percent of the American public still contest the results of a free and fair election, and with the 2024 federal election around the corner, political polarization in the United States seems neverending, leaving democracy in an arguably fragile state. Thinking historically is at the root of those skills.

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JUNE 2, 2023

It represents one part of a greater attempt to encourage “responsible” use of this technology by the federal government , including a $140 million investment to create national academies that will focus on AI research, which is inching the country closer to a regulatory framework for AI.

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APRIL 15, 2021

Each team builds a case to address the particular environmental concern they consider to be the most critical by researching, building a convincing argument, and then presenting it to their audience. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. App; Grades 2-8. The Four Seasons. You won’t be disappointed.

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JUNE 7, 2017

With the growing interest in coding comes a call for after school tech camps that supersize student enthusiasm for technology. They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. public speaking. provide a concluding statement that follows from argument presented. Write an ebook.

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MAY 28, 2024

The move was partly based on San Francisco public schools, which had delayed algebra until high school for all students in a high-profile experiment. Recently, though, the city has changed course amid parental pressure. California is trying to solve a seemingly intractable problem.

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APRIL 18, 2023

That’s the argument made by Timothy Law Snyder, president of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, who has been writing and speaking about the issue in recent months. Technology, social media, voting. EdSurge: What’s different about the latest generation of college students in your view?

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

public schools are English Language Learners (ELLs). Supporting Student Argumentation – Understanding Structure and Language of Argumentation. Supporting Student Argumentation – Helping Students Evaluate Evidence in Arguments. Supporting Student Argumentation – Fostering the Language of Argumentation.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

But I’ve also seen others on Twitter concerned that it also could be a publicity stunt, or tokenism. I took the first meeting with a lot of questions, and even throughout the entire interview process, every single time I was looking for red flags, I was looking for, ‘Is this a publicity stunt? What's the argument for you doing this?

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MARCH 22, 2023

Formulaic writing, especially tasks completed within the span of a class period, robs students of the opportunities to consider their audience and think strategically about their argument and voice. Like many teachers who grappled with ChatGPT, my initial concerns were that these moments would become another casualty of AI.

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MAY 16, 2016

With the growing interest in coding comes a call for after school tech camps that supersize student enthusiasm for learning technology. They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. public speaking. provide a concluding statement that follows from argument presented. persuasion.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

The civil rights folks liked the idea that legacy preferences were there to the extent that they could make an argument that, ‘Listen, there are all sorts of preferences in college admissions,’ and so race should be allowed as one of those factors.” But even that financial argument is not well-founded, argues Kahlenberg.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

Over the years, our country has strived to provide a national standard for the quality of education in public schools and multiple administrations have promoted federal initiatives and national goals to define academic outcomes for American students. This is a dilemma. I haven’t seen one of them incorporate self-love as a prioritized outcome.

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JUNE 16, 2016

This is a great visual way to act out experiences, teach lessons, share how-tos, make public service announcements, and tell a story from different points of view. It can be used not only for fiction, but narrative, argumentative, and expository writing exercises. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

By the end of the interview, Thiel asked him to help him teach a class at Stanford Law School on philosophy and technology, and he hired him as an analyst at his fund. Thiel was trying to change the public conversation about higher education, and at the time, 13 years ago, even practices like gap years were pretty uncommon.

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How did public opinion evolve? Throughout this lesson, my students not only learn the content but also develop critical thinking skills as they analyze evidence, put together persuasive arguments and respectfully debate their peers. Torpedoed in May 1915, it caused almost 1,200 civilian casualties but the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Based on data from the 2018-19 school year, there are approximately 200,000 public school teachers in New York state. Quite frankly, this argument relies on decontextualized data to assess student performance. Teachers could, and should, be included in these types of decisions in dialogue with lawmakers and school stakeholders.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Common knowledge — what most people know is in the public domain so no need to cite. Artwork (writing, pictures, movies, all media) older than seventy years past the creator’s death is in the public domain (with some exceptions). Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 25 years.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

But it’s not because students aren’t good at critical thinking, argues Mike Caulfield, a research scientist at University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. These days all the talk is about ChatGPT and other AI tools, and the regular internet is feeling like the old technology. I mean, that's horrible, horrible advice.

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Topics covered include citizenship, governance, civil rights, the constitution, politics and public policy, state and local governments, media, news literacy, and many more. Students will learn about the tactics, arguments, key people, and historical events that led to women gaining the vote and they’ll have fun doing it'.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

I speak and consult nationally on public education, youth development and child well-being, and since March 2020, I have integrated real-time polling into my speaking events, asking thousands of teachers, counselors and administrators about the well-being of their students, families and school communities.

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MAY 24, 2022

It sounds like the main argument against the bill was that each district should decide the issue of start times rather than have a statewide mandate, right? The other key piece is that this is a public health issue. So when you talk about other public health issues like asbestos or lead paint, those are not left to local discretion.

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

Another common argument is that homework helps students develop skills related to problem-solving, time-management and self-direction. While it’s likely that homework completion signals student engagement, which in turn leads to academic achievement, there’s little evidence to suggest that homework itself improves engagement in learning.

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MAY 20, 2022

SEL and “critical race theory”—a little-understood academic concept that conservatives have capitalized on to stoke fear among parents—have been willfully conflated in recent public discourse by disingenuous, politically motivated agitators , causing hysteria. Like Henny, we must now evaluate the facts around SEL.

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APRIL 18, 2018

School leaders credit a multi-faceted senior writing project, new curricula, and instructional technology for bringing new students to their doors. explained Mike Nelson, the Director of Curricula and Assessments in the Coeur d’Alene Public School District, “but at the same time, we knew a few key changes would be of benefit to all.”

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DECEMBER 26, 2022

I was struck by the tight argumentation in the recent Vox essay, “ The incredible shrinking future of college ,” written by New America’s Kevin Carey. Reporters made an eye-popping 600 public information requests to school districts in their efforts to find out which books were coming under scrutiny.

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APRIL 12, 2022

And the argument is that if a university degree is a good investment, it ought to be substantially more valuable than the opportunity cost. My argument is that the risk is too high, and the returns too low. There are two key weaknesses to our argument. In most cases, a university degree takes three to four years of study.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

That’s the argument made by scholar and author Freddie deBoer in his book, “The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice.” That’s the argument made by scholar and author Freddie deBoer in his book, “The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice.”

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