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Much of the conversation around children’s use of technology focuses on the potential risks and harms of exploring the digital world. While protecting children is an essential focus, it cannot be the only one. As children’s lives become increasingly digital, we also have an obligation and an opportunity to reframe the discussion using a whole child approach, in support of children’s ability to learn, create, connect, play, and, more broadly, in support of “well-being” – a state inclusive of happiness, health, safety, and comfort.
With this goal in mind, The LEGO Group and UNICEF have brought together a global coalition and initiated a new multi-year project called RITEC – Responsible Innovation in Technology for Children – to empower business and policy leaders to protect and promote children’s well-being in a digital age.
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15Five’s VP of People and Culture maintains that these skills can ground us and allow us to redirect our energy toward helping colleagues and our organization during challenging periods.
Teachers and professors across the education system are in a near-panic as they confront a revolution in artificial intelligence that could allow for cheating on a grand scale.
The source is ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence bot released a few weeks ago that allows users to ask questions and, moments later, receive well-written answers that are eerily human.
Podcast review: American schools adopted a method of teaching children how to read that harmed a generation. How did it happen?
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We asked educators in our community to share their favorite middle-grade books that were published in the last 10 years. Here are your top picks.
Consensus is a search engine that uses AI to find answers in scientific research.
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There is nothing like the feeling of learning something new. Whether it’s a factoid about some pop culture icon or a game-changing statistic that will teach you how to win at Monopoly on game night, the world is full of opportunities to make us more knowledgeable. If you also love learning something new every day, your mind is about to be blown. Get ready to learn about the most common birthdays in the US and the amount of air in all kinds of bags of chips. The following charts and graphs will teach you a lot about the world and give you a brand new perspective.
As artificial intelligence and robots continue to share work with us, almost every job is going to change – and the pace of that change will continue to accelerate as we further enter the fourth industrial revolution. But with the newest wave of technology, work will become more, not less, human. Workplaces will automate manual, repetitive tasks that can be automated, but people will still be critical for the tasks that rely on distinctly human skills that computers can’t yet replicate. The people who will be most successful in the workplace of the future will be those who cultivate soft skills that relate to how you think, work, and relate to other people.
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Have you ever played a name game with your new classes? Typically everyone stands in a circle and the first person says their name, the next person says their own name and the name of the first person, and the third person says their own name, the name of the second person, and the name of the first person, and so on.
Can you imagine how the last person in the group feels? There’s so much pressure to remember everyone’s names.
Over the years, name games have been a go-to tool for me when learning the names of students. I noticed that my students and I learned names faster through name games. Now, however, I approach these games differently.
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With effective supports, all students have an opportunity to participate in problem-solving and higher-level mathematical thinking.
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Whether you’re buying for your own kiddos or someone else’s, these educational books for kids are bound to delight. And books make excellent gifts. Just ask my many niblings, who each receive a book along with another item for every birthday and Christmas.
Okay, so one of them might say that “books are so boring,” but she doesn’t mean it and happens to read voraciously. Do you know why? Because we encouraged this love of learning early. (And because she’s awesome.)
If you’re here, you know the value of books, or at least want to teach that value to some young soul. You’ve come to the right place! Books are my love language. I pride myself on recommending and gifting titles that I know the recipients will love.
Shortly after leaving high school as a student, I was bantering with some friends about our teachers and someone remarked about Stan, a gnarly old poetry teacher. The comment was that Stan had “really taught them how to think”.
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When Thanksgiving break rolled around last month, teachers all over the country breathed a collective sigh of relief. This school year hasn’t exactly been a cakewalk, and, like most teachers, I was delighted to finally be getting a few days off and some quality time with my children. I was looking forward to big meals, cozy nights at home with my family, and lots of love, laughter, and relaxation.
Unfortunately, I know that this kind of fun and fulfilling break is not a reality for many of my students. And a couple of days into the break I couldn’t resist texting my co-teacher to chat about the same worries that plague us day in and day out.
“Do you think Jake’s parents are leaving him at home alone all day?”
“Mia complained of an earache Friday. I hope her grandmother will take her to the doctor if it gets worse.”
“Did Kira say she was going to her dad’s over Thanksgiving? She’s always so emotional after she visits him, and she’s allergic to his dog.”
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For seven years running, the first thing I've published each year is a compendium of 365 inspirational quotes (366 quotes in leap years).
Some of this year's quotes are classics. Others are more recent, or simply interesting or amusing. But they're all inspiring, and I think seeing them all together multiplies the effect.
Here's this year's edition: best inspirational quotes for 2023. Have a happy new year!
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As 2022 turns into 2023, EdSurge asked educators and education leaders to share reflections on learning “lost” and “gained.”
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There are so many free courses you can take online with Canadian universities that are actually interesting and will teach you something useful.
You can find these online courses with post-secondary schools all over the country including at the University of Toronto, the University of British Columbia and the University of Alberta.
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Students in kindergarten through second grade can develop the ability to share original stories, strengthening their literacy skills.
With just 15 minutes, you can easily bring in social emotional learning to your classroom daily! SEL can be easy and fun for your students!
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Scrolling through content and tapping their fingers on ads, some people think social media is a blessing. Unfortunately, it's not true all the time. Social media, sometimes, becomes pretty draining and is addictive physically and psychologically.
The little positive reinforcement from a like or notification is enough to get us hooked. If you are feeling exhausted, it's probably time to put your devices away for a while.
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Every classroom has neurodiverse students, and these tips from a neurodiverse teacher can guide them to feel focused and ready to learn.
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Community and connection are more vital than ever as children reconnect after nearly two years of disrupted learning and isolation. Last year—the toughest one in terms of behavior management that I can remember—I used three tools to create a positive community in my second-grade classroom. They helped me build students’ self-esteem, teach empathy and problem-solving, and inspire leadership among my students. This was my most successful year for behavior management, despite having a handful of children who needed a lot of support.
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Teachers can create emotionally safe spaces in their classrooms while also recognizing when students need mental health help from outside sources.
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A four-stage framework can help teachers understand the burnout process—and what they can do to protect their well-being and career.
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Strengthening community bonds in elementary school can start with simple ideas like celebrating personal and academic milestones.
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