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CAST Releases Universal Design for Learning Guidelines 3.0 New!
On July 30, 2024, CAST released version 3.0 of its well-known Universal Design for Learning Guidelines. This latest release includes an updated set of guidelines designed to help educators create…
AI and Inquiry
…to summarize a website or ask a question about that website, which can speed up or enhance the research process. Before using AI to gather information and research, students can…
Draft With Direction: Step 2 in Powering Up and Enhancing the Writing Process With Technology
…allows teachers and students to scan their writing for potential plagiarism. Google Assignments: The free version of this tool offers three plagiarism checks for free, and it can be integrated…
AI as a Student’s Personal Tutor
…The Khan Academy website describes this exciting new product as “a new experimental artificial intelligence (AI) guide.” It continues, “. . . Khanmigo aims to mimic one-on-one tutoring experiences by…
Manage Your Teacher Workload in a Remote-Learning World
…to the AVID Open Access podcast, Tech Talk for Teachers. Follow @AVIDOpenAccess on Twitter for support from a community of practitioners. Join the AVID Open Access Twitter chat every Tuesday,…
Explore Computer Science
…using a free online code editor with simulator. Used worldwide since 2003, MIT Media Lab’s Scratch was one of the first block-based code editors designed for young students. Kids aged…
Educators and the AI Revolution
…and learning? While AI is new, the roots of these questions are not. These are goals educators have had as long as they’ve been teaching. What’s new about them is…
Connect Positively With Families
…open house. Does your school sponsor events, like open house, activity sign-up day, student pictures, or technology distribution nights? When you reach out, be sure to include information about these…
#140 – Recognizing and Honoring Holiday Traditions: Listening to Their Voices
…New Year’s Day to welcome New Year’s God to our house. We don’t want our New Year’s God to go away, so we clean our house. We eat noodles before…
Khanmigo as an AI Personal Tutor and Assistant
…to attain, it can be transformational, and this is exactly what Sal Khan is doing with his new AI tool, Khanmigo. Khanmigo is both a “tutor for learners” and an…
Empower Students Through Creativity and Choice
…increasingly technological world. By leveraging an abundance of free online tools, students have access to a huge palette of creative opportunities and inspirations. Many of these digital resources are free…
ChatGPT: The Basics
…screen features the most important part of the page: a single search box that functions much like a Google search field. To begin, you can simply type your question or…
Strategies to Protect Yourself From Misinformation
…new technology will come along that helps them spread it faster and further. Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are just the latest example. It’s up to us to make sure…
#318 – Roadtrip Nation, with Mike Marriner
…do it too.” Resources: Free resources are accessible at roadtripnation.com. On the site, you’ll find the open access Roadtrip Nation experience, which includes a five-lesson curriculum where students can build…