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How to Blend Learning with Play for a Kid-friendly Summer

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Statistics say over the summer, kids lose over two months of math skills, two months of reading skills, and one month of overall learning. Efforts to prevent summer learning loss propel often-unpopular year-round school initiatives and all manner of summer school and summer camps that focus on cerebral topics. Problem Solving.

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100th Day of School — It’s about Learning

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How to celebrate Here are activities I like that blend learning into the celebration of the 100th Day of School: Geography As a class, come up with two locations in each state, to total 100. 100th Day Collections: Students may be encouraged to bring in collections of 100 items, fostering creativity and organizational skills.

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How Research-Based Tools Provide Impactful Learning Outcomes

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Barry Malkin , CEO of Carnegie Learning , recognizes the need for research to drive edtech product creation, and his company has been leveraging data on the science of learning to ensure the efficacy of its tools. How does cognitive science inform your products and processes? I am very proud of that fact.

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How to Make Your Own GPT: A Step-by-Step Guide

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I made DIVAA, the Digital Interactive Virtual AP Assistant to help my AP Computer Science Principles with Python and AP Content. Also, note that there is a math tutor. I also have seen a pretty cool Creative Writing Coach GPT that might be helpful for students in some cases.) Many of these tools are just so helpful!

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8 Important Generative AI Use Cases in the Classroom

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Generative AI Use Case #4: AI in Creative and Visual Tools: From Google Slides to Canva Google Slides now has generative art built-in with the “help me visualize” feature. While the art world rages about the data sets used to train generative artwork, our students can generate artwork in most creative tools they use.

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Technology and Explanation in Modern Education

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Today’s guest writer is Finja Kruse, a teacher experienced in different educational tools and engaged in creative writing activities in school. By learning various subjects simultaneously, integration between them and relativity to the world outside of academia can sometimes get lost in translation.

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Unlock Your Second Brain: A Guide to Choosing the Best Digital Notetaking App

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And I do want to emphasize something with math and science. I've seen some research that talks about how we need to basically be taking notes, using our hands and handwriting for math inside science because we retain it better. Even when we do, the process of taking notes is very important.