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Incorporating Monthly Giving Projects into STEM Curriculum: Inspiring the Next Generation of Philanthropists

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The Ask a Tech Teacher team has ideas on how to incorporate giving into your STEM curriculum: Incorporating Monthly Giving Projects into STEM Curriculum: Inspiring the Next Generation of Philanthropists STEM equips students with critical thinking, problem-solving, and innovative skills vital for their future careers.

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What is the 21st Century Lesson Plan?

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For example, when teaching spreadsheets, make the software or online tools a vehicle for practicing critical thinking, data analysis, and evidence-based learning, not for learning one brand of software or a particular spreadsheet tool. Critical thinking Education reform Lesson plans play'

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How Students Use AI to Design Solutions for Their Community

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Kumar has been a teacher for 19 years and is passionate about creating a learning environment that fosters critical thinking, collaboration and creativity among her students. Kumar believes prioritizing youth voice can bring fresh and innovative ideas to the development of AI tools.

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What’s Changed in Lesson Planning

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For example, spreadsheets should teach critical thinking and data analysis, not Excel or Sheets. Lesson plans must reflect those skills. Lesson plans must be platform-neutral, not a cheerleader for the school’s favorite tool. What students use at school may not be what their future employer requires.

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Education and Artificial Intelligence: Navigating the Path to Transformation

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You have to show students how [generative AI] is just a tool and let them know that this is not supposed to replace their own critical thinking, creativity and all these skills they need,” says Poth. This includes using AI in edtech tools for data analysis, pattern recognition and resource recommendations.

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Our 10 Most Popular K-12 Stories of 2022

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The truth, she realized, is that she often deviates from lesson plans and works outside her job duties, to prepare her students “to change the world, to navigate the unpredictable with critical thinking and resilience.” In this piece, she describes what parents and lawmakers would really see inside her classroom.

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Generative AI, Chat GPT, and Learning

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I remember the 1990's when search began and everyone bemoaned how kids wouldn't think and how it was the end of education as we know it. Instead, we changed and started teaching in ways that required critical thinking that could not easily have the answers found on Google. However, it is a genesis of an educational redefinition.

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