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AI Has Changed Student Cheating. But Strategies to Stop It Remain Consistent.

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Thats the argument of Tricia Bertram Gallant, a longtime expert in academic integrity who is director of the Academic Integrity Office at the University of California San Diego. Teachers and professors can make adjustments in how they teach that will greatly reduce incidents of student cheating with AI.

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What If Finding Child Care Online Were as Easy as Making a Dinner Reservation?

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Technology should make this easier. — Technology should make this easier.” Iowa’s new system is a recent and sophisticated example of what modern technology can do to improve families’ experience of finding child care. It shouldn’t be that hard. Amy Smigielski “Why is it a fist fight to find child care?”

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Revisiting the Legacy of San Francisco’s Detracking Experiment

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Critics also challenged the arguments and data used by the district to justify the policy. It shows that a common argument against detracking that it hurts students by holding them back from higher level math courses is wrong, Iwasaki says. This year San Francisco unraveled its nearly 10-year experiment.

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Most Popular EdSurge Podcast Episodes of 2024

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That was the argument of philosopher Kieran Egan, whose educational ideas have recently gotten attention. A recent study ranked the top professions that are likely to be disrupted by ChatGPT and other new AI technologies, and most of them require college degrees. AI Is Disrupting Professions That Require College Degrees.

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A Reading Expert’s Case for Rethinking Fluency

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My argument is that weve put so much effort into phonics and comprehension instruction that fluency has been left behind. He wrote that we all know what fluency is you can tell whether its a problem just by listening to kids read for a minute. The problem, he said, is what do we do about it? In 1983, the answer was not much.

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Here Are the 10 Stories K-12 Readers Couldn’t Put Down in 2024

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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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What Happens When 'Play' Is Left Out of the School Curriculum

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In that period specifically, I rarely have to break up an argument or redirect a student. Since giving my students space to decide how to use that free period, I have watched them respect the classroom agreements much more readily. It has been weeks since I gave that free period, and I see such a high level of buy-in.