As the end of the school year is a few days away for many educators, it can be a struggle to find ways to fill instructional minutes with much more than paper packets of review work. The concept of paper packets are often mimicked with digital review activities in an LMS such as Google classroom […]
AI is not merely transforming the tools students use, it is transforming how they interpret the concept of truth itself. And in order to teach students to seek out truth rather than blindly accepting what comes across their feed, we must encourage them to question thoughtfully. Across the globe, students scroll through TikTok, YouTube Shorts, […]
Unplug the Internet and Construct it Again As the end of the school year nears and standardized testing, finals, and review sessions come to a close, students and educators alike benefit from novel activities. Packet puzzles can be a great way to engage the brain in playful, interdisciplinary brain teasers, all the while teaching how […]
In an age of AI, where information is released constantly and often contains mistruths or exaggerations, we need to encourage our students to pause, consider, and discuss with each other. Students in the 21st century need to learn how to analyze, reflect, and speak with care.
We are living in an age where deepfakes attempt to rewrite history, search engines tailor what we see, and students scroll past more misinformation in a day than I encountered in a semester in the 1900s. In this moment, teaching history isn’t optional. It is urgent. You might be wondering, “Where do I find the […]
Using Google’s Teachable Machine to Reinforce Academic Vocabulary and Deepen Understanding There is a legitimate concern that students will use artificial intelligence as a shortcut, that their critical thinking skills will be negatively affected by using AI. Conversely, safe and ethical AI use requires critical thinking and media literacy. AI systems have been known to […]
Legitimate concerns arise when we consider potential negative impacts of artificial intelligence on student writing. After all, generative AI platforms can create an essay in a matter of seconds while it may take students multiple drafts to get a similar result. But rather than seeing AI as an enemy of critical thinking and creativity, what […]
At first glance, literacy and computer science may not appear to have much in common. However, students of all ages can benefit from thinking like a programmer as they work to decode text they are reading, or as they structure writing. Consider your struggling readers. Might they be more likely to engage in ELA if […]
In November of 2022, ChatGPT was released and reached over 1 million users in just 5 days. Educators began to express concern that students would ask generative AI tools to write essays for them. It is 2025 and trepidation about this technology remains. As a classroom educator, I loved to engage my elementary aged students […]
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