Summary:
Shawn and Troy talk about AI, ACTEM, collaboration, and more. Dave is cultivating collaboration.
Jokes:
if two boats go under at the same time, that’s sinkronicity
Does the spork go on the left or right of a paper plate?
Delleps is spelled backwards.
How do they figure out who’s the best fighter in Candyland?
- They turn a mint.
I hated my old job where all I did was push buttons all day…
- …it was depressing.
Middle School Science Minute
by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com)
K12Science Podcast: Cultivating Collaboration
I was recently reading the Fall, 2023 issue of “Science Scope” a publication of the National Science Teaching Association.
In this issue, I read the section, “From the Editor’s Desk,” written by Patty McGinnis. She wrote an article entitled, “Cultivating Collaboration,”
Collaboration is a key skill that is foundational to society. The expansion of scientific knowledge, coupled with today’s complex global issues, makes collaboration among scientists and engineers crucial if we are to develop solutions to difficult problems.
http://k12science.net/cultivating-collaboration/
Collaborating on The Mysteries – Bill Watterson and John Kascht
Reports from the Front Lines
- ACTEM
- AI Creation
- Carl Hooker
- Apple Pop Up Classroom
- Game Based Learning
- Podcasting in the Classroom
- H5P Presentation
Eileen Award
Facebook: Dr. Pat Williams-Boyd
The Social Web
Word of the day is ‘snerdle’ (18th century dialect): to wrap up cosily beneath the covers and hold off the day for a little longer.
Kevin Honeycutt @kevinhoneycutt
Download my black line master PDF of the Space capsule Learning Pod and print on cardstock for great results your kids can use as a pencil/pen holder or just take home for more adventures! https://kevinhoneycutt.org/ewExternalFile
Word for the Weekend
The importance of punctuation (Commas save lives)
MrBerard@MrBerard@pilote.me
Explaining CPU exceptions to A-Level #CS Students:
“It’s a priority queue. So when I’m teaching your colleagues of Year 7, if one needs me, I go help them…. Another calls, they have to wait their turn… But if one gets a nosebleed, I have to address that first…”
Resources:
AXIS: The Culture Translator
The Cost of a Bargain
What it is: Chinese-owned shopping app Temu is drawing teens in with absurdly cheap prices.
How to Help Students Avoid Getting Duped Online — and by AI Chatbots
Students these days are terrible at sorting true facts from misinformation online and on social media, many studies show. But it’s not because students aren’t good at critical thinking, …
One problem that students — and, really, any of us — face, Caulfield argues, is that people often approach information they encounter online with the same strategies for telling fact from fiction that worked well in an earlier time, when most published material had undergone some level of vetting and verification.
“There wasn’t suddenly a massive decline in critical thinking,” Caulfield says. “People were just applying approaches to information on the internet that weren’t really appropriate to the internet, that people were applying some of these pre-internet approaches that weren’t really applicable.”
One of the primary things you’re doing when you’re reading on the internet is you’re trying to decide if something’s worth your attention or not.
In traditional models we’ve often taught students that the way you solve any problem is by giving it deep critical attention. And of course, this is disastrous on the internet.
Web Spotlight:
Random Thoughts . . .
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