I’m doing some spring cleaning of recent training sessions and believe I can best share my impressions of various GPTs by breaking down my thoughts into six major sessions. 1. **Setting Up Your AI Introduction to AI and its capabilities Necessary hardware and software requirements …
I’m attending a week-long seminar critical thinking series in Portugal with people from Finland, Germany, Holland, Iran, Ireland, and Portugal. Today’s in-class assignment has us drilling down into the Gibbs Reflective Cycle. I think I’m going to make a Sway about the findings …
Impressed with some of the facets of Microsoft Copilot. Much of the student work I now get uploaded into SharePoint can be cross-referenced by colleagues who teach alongside me but never enter my classrooms. Now they can dynamically see the evolution of student portfolios as core elements percolate …
Reviewing my listing of power words because many of them work well on me.
Imagining hundreds of cars approaching the poorly marked entrance to our university campus at the start of our academic semester. And knowing that challenge will be faced by dozens of the young students who may feel stressed when they miss the entrance on their first attempt.
My daughter Misty approaches teaching as a vocation. She wants “to help my students reach Self-Actualization–or at least some academic content–while at school, so I try to have an environment where students feel safe, loved, and included in my classroom.” So she has an …
Spotted a worthy project that will help young teens stay focused during math classes: www.donorschoose.org/project/f…
by Bernie Goldbach, content wrangler. We’re counting down to 13 May and the next iteration of #ictedu in County Tipperary. In the run-up to the opening events, we’re combing through standard print and e-book materials that support education in Ireland. See more about #ictedu23
I’m experimenting with transcription services, starting with the bog-standard YouTube transcript while listening to Euro Python discussions shared by Chris Reina.Chris was with MakerMeet.ie at EuroPython 2022 in the Dublin Convention Centre. He described the work he does, providing Maker-Led …
I found OpenAlex.org to be an open and comprehensive catalog of scholarly papers, authors, and institutions. It’s inspired by the ancient Library of Alexandria. It holds an index of hundreds of millions of interconnected entities across the global research system. It has a web interface, API, …
Everything is rooted in story. I teach to meet learners where they are and help them write the future narratives of their lives, and even re-write the past from a different point of view. If kids matter, then so do their stories. We must therefore honor each student as a rounded whole and embrace …