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Professors Try ‘Restrained AI’ Approach to Help Teach Writing

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When ChatGPT emerged a year and half ago, many professors immediately worried that their students would use it as a substitute for doing their own written assignments — that they’d click a button on a chatbot instead of doing the thinking involved in responding to an essay prompt themselves. And it’s still a concern.

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What Can AI Chatbots Teach Us About How Humans Learn?

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It’s called “ ChatGPT and the Future of AI, ” and the author is Terrence Sejnowski, a professor of biology at the University of California, San Diego, where he co-directs the Institute for Neural Computation and the NSF Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center. Get EdSurge journalism delivered free to your inbox.

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Universal Design for Learning: What is it? Why use?

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Today, we offer one more: Universal Design for Learning (UDL) What is UDL Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an educational framework based on research in the learning sciences that can accommodate individual learning differences. UDL at its core is simply good teaching.

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Online Teaching Is Improving In-Person Instruction on Campus

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Since the earliest days of colleges experimenting with teaching over the internet, the goal has been to replicate as closely as possible the physical classroom experience. And now that campuses are back from pandemic restrictions, many instructors are trying to incorporate those remote practices into their in-person teaching.

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How to Teach Digital Citizenship in Kindergarten

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Use the lines in front of the steps to check off completed work: Overview/Big Ideas Students learn how to live in the digital world of internet websites, copy-righted images, and virtual friends who may be something different. What did they learn? Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Learning Designers Call for More User Testing of Edtech Products and Teaching Materials

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These days there’s a wave of new edtech products hitting the market, and teachers and professors are increasingly making teaching videos and other materials for their classes. Then designers should make small improvements based on what they learn, he says, and keep doing that in an iterative way throughout the development process.

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Teach Speaking and Listening Skills with Student Presentations–the video

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Teach Speaking and Listening Skills with Student Presentations This video is from a series I taught for school districts. Highlights Engaging Topic: Student presentations warm up students and foster excitement for learning. Highlights Engaging Topic: Student presentations warm up students and foster excitement for learning.

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