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Teacher question: I just read your piece on how you would schedule reading instruction, and while it was helpful, I'd love to hear more about what that looks like at the middle school level. Specifically, how much do you think it is...
The world’s all atingle with artificial intelligence (AI). OpenAI reports that ChatGPT serves 700 million users each week. Seventy-eight percent of businesses and other organizations depend upon it, too. Private investment in AI is more than $100 billion in the U.S. alone. Given that, it shouldn’t be surprising that the nose of this technology camel is poking under the Education tent. Even when educators eschew it, students themselves find ways to bring it in. In my last blog entry, I decried some uses of AI in the teaching of reading comprehension. My concern was that th...
Teacher question: I am writing with a question about AI and reading comprehension instruction. Our school recently circulated an AI research framework indicating levels of permissible AI use in students’...
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