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Looking for a framework for teaching students about climate change? Check out my conversation with Laura Schifter of the Aspen Institute's This Is Planet Ed initiative. Listen on your favorite podcast app including Apple, Spodify, iVoox and all other major platforms or The Thoughtful Teacher Podcast website: https://www.thoughtfulteacherpodcast.com/
#education #ClimateChange #edutooter

The new season of The Thoughtful Teacher Podcast begins with a conversation about how to make grammar instruction relevant and useful-instead of an exercise in memorization. Join me as Patty McGee co-author of the book Not Your Granny's Grammar on your favorite podcast app or listen at:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/889552/episodes/18496880-yes-grammar-can-be-fun-to-teach-with-patty-mcgee.mp3?download=true
#education #edutooter #EnglishTeacher #grammar

Want to know how to create a sustainable outdoor education program at your school? Check out my conversation with Kyra Stephenson who shares how she did that in the latest episode of The Thoughtful Teacher Podcast. Kyra walks us through the nature based learning program development at her school in Rochester, NY. Available on your favorite podcast app or listen at the link below!
https://www.buzzsprout.com/889552/episodes/18320261-our-students-say-they-feel-free-outdoor-learning-with-kyra-stepenson.mp3?download=true

#education #edutooter #outdoors #learning

Teaching is unlike other adult jobs, and that makes it very difficult to change or improve.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brokenhand/p/desert-island-desks?r=105e3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#teaching #education #edutooter

Ever wonder if social emotional learning (SEL) really matters? Well it does and in the latest episode of The Thoughtful Teacher Podcast, I share a conversation with Dr. Christina Cipriano and we discuss her research-a recent meta-analysis of over 250 interventions and programs worldwide that demonstrate that SEL is essential to quality school and classroom success for students. Find more at our website
https://www.thoughtfulteacherpodcast.com/
The Thoughtful Teacher Podcast is available on your favorite podcast app!
#education #socialemotionallearning
#edutooter

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Vagus Nerves! Both of them.

Also: can't recommend enough to make a "List" here on mastodon that's just you. Not all my posts show up on my profile and I have no gd clue why.
Not as helpful for older, since you can't search them, but great for "where tf did my toot 3 min ago go?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfqhKKITC1w

#VagusNerves #neurology #nerves #nervate #body #human #humans #Biology #science #ScienceMastodon #sci #SciPost #EduTooter #ed #edu #education #EducationForAll #spoonie #ChronicHealth #ChronicPainMemes #ChronicIllnessMemes #PostViralIllness #VeRantDa #VeRamble

No, you're not a bad PERSON for having been rude to a disabled person or people before.
But the BEHAVIOURS can be bad.

Yes, the assumption of "knowing" someone else's intent (often negative, from experience) hurts people.

Disabled people get that a lot. Ask me how I know. Yes, disabled people do it to each other too. Almost like we're also human individuals or something. 🙀

(d/Deaf people, I'm not trying to overreach here, sorry. I'm more responding to things other hearing people have said to me when I mention how gd useful and interesting BSL is.)

https://www.teachmesign.co.uk/bsl-courses-online/

#active #ActiveListening #Communication #Comms #info #Information #Idea #Ideas #learn #learning #learningEnglish #LearningEveryday #ed #edu #EduTooter #education #EducationForAll #lang #LangDev #lang_en #language #linguist #linguistics #collocation #corpus #attention #PayAttention #focus #AmbientFocus #intent #meditation #mediation #arbitration #conflict #ConflictResolution #VeRantDa #VeRamble

No, not everyone else wants to "just learn English".

Should they have to anyway, just because it'd be easier for *you*?

Would you like to learn Portuguese, Swahili, or Hindi? Many people speak those languages too.

Except try learning when you can't hear other speakers very well, and it's tonal, and people assume you're being rude EVERY single time you make an honest mistake.

(d/Deaf people, I'm not trying to overreach here, sorry. I'm more responding to things other hearing people have said to me when I mention how gd useful and interesting BSL is.)

https://www.british-sign.co.uk/

#active #ActiveListening #Communication #Comms #info #Information #Idea #Ideas #learn #learning #learningEnglish #LearningEveryday #ed #edu #EduTooter #education #EducationForAll #lang #LangDev #lang_en #language #linguist #linguistics #collocation #corpus #attention #PayAttention #focus #AmbientFocus #intent #meditation #mediation #arbitration #conflict #ConflictResolution #VeRantDa #VeRamble

While I'm at it: learn BSL!
(Or the gestural / facial expression language, created by and for d/Deaf people in your region.
ASL can mean American Sign Language or Australian Sign Language.)

Even just enough to say "hello, my name is..., how are you?, goodbye" is a huge step, thank you!

British Sign Language is important for d/Deaf culture across the UK. It's useful in noisy or distance environments too.

Consider pubs, train stations, through windows in a car or building, or communicating near a housemate, child or pet who is sleeping.
(These are examples of 'situational disability'. Anyone can be affected by a situational disability, including otherwise abled people.)

https://rnid.org.uk/information-and-support/deaf-awareness/british-sign-language/

#active #ActiveListening #Communication #Comms #info #Information #Idea #Ideas #learn #learning #learningEnglish #LearningEveryday #ed #edu #EduTooter #education #EducationForAll #lang #LangDev #lang_en #language #linguist #linguistics #collocation #corpus #attention #PayAttention #focus #AmbientFocus #intent #meditation #mediation #arbitration #conflict #ConflictResolution #VeRantDa #VeRamble

Learn about Active Listening. It's literally just listening, tbqh.
Pay attention with intent to understand, not to form your reply.

Yes, this is a skill for d/Deaf people, people who are Hard of Hearing (HoH), people with auditory impairments or Auditory Processing Disorder, too.

(APD is like when d/Dyslexic people or other ND people struggle to understand what you say in a café or restaurant.)

To listen can mean "to intake sensory input or search for information" as well as "to hear sound or speech".

https://www.mindtools.com/az4wxv7/active-listening
https://positivepsychology.com/active-listening-techniques/
https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/wellbeing/how-to-talk-about-health-problems/active-listening

https://www.coursera.org/articles/active-listening
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_listening
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK442015/

#active #ActiveListening #Communication #Comms #info #Information #Idea #Ideas #learn #learning #learningEnglish #LearningEveryday #ed #edu #EduTooter #education #EducationForAll #lang #LangDev #lang_en #language #linguist #linguistics #collocation #corpus #attention #PayAttention #focus #AmbientFocus #intent #meditation #mediation #arbitration #conflict #ConflictResolution #VeRantDa #VeRamble

Mutual Aid? It means "to help other people".

Mutual means something is shared, 'held in common' or by 'multiple parties, toward each other'. To aid someone means to help, support, or assist them.

You do not need to enjoy or 'agree' with other people to want them to not feel pain or discomfort.
You do not need to solve everyone's problems. You do not need to solve anyone's problems.

You're not their therapist, social worker, parent or carer, supervisor, auditor, personal assistant, or authority figure.
You are not responsible for their actions after you offer / give help.
Free yourself from that responsibility.
Be kind; then return to your own life.

https://www.mutualaid.coop/what-is-mutual-aid/
https://www.mutual-aid.co.uk/
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_aid

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/769258/Mutual-aid-framework.pdf
https://www.fool.co.uk/personal-finance/your-life/guides/what-is-mutual-aid-and-how-is-it-different-from-charity/
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/669047/Mutual-aid-briefing.pdf

#active #ActiveListening #Communication #Comms #info #Information #Idea #Ideas #learn #learning #learningEnglish #LearningEveryday #ed #edu #EduTooter #education #EducationForAll #lang #LangDev #lang_en #language #linguist #linguistics #collocation #corpus #attention #PayAttention #focus #AmbientFocus #intent #meditation #mediation #arbitration #conflict #ConflictResolution #VeRantDa #VeRamble

Got money?
(e.g. your income or livelihood is stable enough not to affect covering next month's needs, plus some fun for a life worth living)

Now may be good to invest in local organisations.
Time, energy, money, equipment, networking, social media, cleaning, babysitting, etc.

My opinion? Focus on: youth groups, public health education, adult retraining, intercommunity outreach, and mutual aid.

Plus any fallible online orgs you believe in, e.g.
Internet Archive, Wikipedia, Posteo.de, Ecosia, PillowFort, Signal, SonarPen, specific indie devs and artists, Nebula, MakerTube.net, LiberaPay, Artisans Coop, etc.

LINK YOUR FAVES too! 📝 🫵📑

Repeated small support is more reliable than big irregular donations, but 'better is always better'.

https://80000hours.org/

(also hi If you like how I phrase things and try to help people,
throw me $2 USD, £2 GBP, etc. Very thank. Much many.

https://ko-fi.com/mxverda or https://patreon.com/MxVerdaArt or https://mxverda.itch.io/ or https://liberapay.com/MxVerda/ or https://subscribestar.adult/mxverde or https://artistree.io/mxverda or https://twitch.tv/mxverda or https://paypal.me/mxverda
)

#active #ActiveListening #Communication #Comms #info #Information #Idea #Ideas #learn #learning #learningEnglish #LearningEveryday #ed #edu #EduTooter #education #EducationForAll #lang #LangDev #lang_en #language #linguist #linguistics #collocation #corpus #attention #PayAttention #focus #AmbientFocus #intent #meditation #mediation #arbitration #conflict #ConflictResolution #VeRantDa #VeRamble

Staying alive, you can learn or run. You can help others, even when you don't know wtf you're "meant" to be doing.

If you need to recover in the closet to be who you are later, there's nothing wrong with you.
If you need to kick the door down to breathe, I'll kick with you. ("Together, we have great strength of feet!")

This is so fucking stupid, but fuck it. It's where we're at.

Whatever your journey of processing this and surviving it looks like, you are not weak.
Even fellow chronically ill people: your bodies are not weak.

We are surviving the utmost fuckery -- despite Seymour's directions -- while the arc of history bends to conviviality.

https://www.transtexas.org/get-involved

#active #ActiveListening #Communication #Comms #info #Information #Idea #Ideas #learn #learning #learningEnglish #LearningEveryday #ed #edu #EduTooter #education #EducationForAll #lang #LangDev #lang_en #language #linguist #linguistics #collocation #corpus #attention #PayAttention #focus #AmbientFocus #intent #meditation #mediation #arbitration #conflict #ConflictResolution

You may need to question dangerous situations for your own sake. (Ideally BEFORE you get near them, but please: it's not your fault if you don't realise until later.)

If no one else and no other organisation, Samaritans is probably your best bet. Otherwise, you can search online but PLEASE. Fuck, there is no general advice I can even give here.

You want "near you" / local, and f2f / in-person where you can. Unfortunately, people of same demographics are most likely to care, but this is NO guarantee, nor should it be.

If you know tech shit:
VPN is probably helpful, depending where you live and what you need to know.

If you don't know tech shit:
only ask people certain questions face to face / in person. Turn your devices off, batteries out, and in another room.
Make it a game! Like training to be a spy, yeah?

https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/

#active #ActiveListening #Communication #Comms #info #Information #Idea #Ideas #learn #learning #learningEnglish #LearningEveryday #ed #edu #EduTooter #education #EducationForAll #lang #LangDev #lang_en #language #linguist #linguistics #collocation #corpus #attention #PayAttention #focus #AmbientFocus #intent #meditation #mediation #arbitration #conflict #ConflictResolution

Seek community with people who feel safe:
actually warm, stable, secure, NOT upsetting, worrying, or 'wrong'. ("Oh, I want to trust them, but..." then DON'T. "But what about--" NO.
If you *need* something from them to survive or help someone else, take the risks you think you can survive the worst outcomes of sustainably. But otherwise, please value yourself and your wellbeing. If not, please value yourself because I do.)

TRUST YOUR GUT.
Yes, your gut *can* be wrong. Your gut can be racist, sexist, or otherwise shitty. It can keep you from connecting with people who mean well but can't match your expectations while trying to help.
But it's among the best advice I can give.

It's not easy to tell who is safe(r) or not; I'm sorry. I wish it were easy.

It's not your fault if you get it wrong! That's the point of being young and inexperienced: you haven't been alive long enough to experience what you need to know to stay alive and healthy(ish) yet.

You should never have to figure this out alone.

http://mermaidsuk.org.uk/

#active #ActiveListening #Communication #Comms #info #Information #Idea #Ideas #learn #learning #learningEnglish #LearningEveryday #ed #edu #EduTooter #education #EducationForAll #lang #LangDev #lang_en #language #linguist #linguistics #collocation #corpus #attention #PayAttention #focus #AmbientFocus #intent #meditation #mediation #arbitration #conflict #ConflictResolution

Baby queers, questioning people, and anyone else, we got you.

This sucks: it's terrifying and unnecessary suffering. This was avoidable, but for powerful people making their selfish fear into our problem.

It's not your fault, never was, and never will be. Your feelings matter, your experiences matter, and even unmet, your needs matter.

You might even say, perhaps -- bizarrely?! -- that b/Black and b/Brown (wait, does that one get the double case slash or) peoples' lives matter.

https://naacp.org/take-action

#active #ActiveListening #Communication #Comms #info #Information #Idea #Ideas #learn #learning #learningEnglish #LearningEveryday #ed #edu #EduTooter #education #EducationForAll #lang #LangDev #lang_en #language #linguist #linguistics #collocation #corpus #attention #PayAttention #focus #AmbientFocus #intent #meditation #mediation #arbitration #conflict #ConflictResolution

Much like b/Black people, disabled people, queer people, and other groups pushed out of everyday life all keep saying in various words and intensities over the years:
shit has hit the fan, will continue to hit the fan, and yes, this is going to be tedious and deadly to fix.

But we do, in fact, need to turn off the fan, remove the faeces, sterilise all surfaces and objects in the room, and LEARN what went wrong.

The time will pass either way. We need to accept our current situation to plan how to fix it.

https://zeppelin.flights/@Shelly/113874819486684236

#active #ActiveListening #Communication #Comms #info #Information #Idea #Ideas #learn #learning #learningEnglish #LearningEveryday #ed #edu #EduTooter #education #EducationForAll #lang #LangDev #lang_en #language #linguist #linguistics #collocation #corpus #attention #PayAttention #focus #AmbientFocus #intent #meditation #mediation #arbitration #conflict #ConflictResolution

ALL information is biased, as are conclusions and instructions.

The 'trick' is prioritising your ideal outcomes, revieiwing sources' validity at each step, and maintaining integrity in your recommendations.

https://mastodon.online/@Pkbwood/113874185412424886

#active #ActiveListening #Communication #Comms #info #Information #Idea #Ideas #learn #learning #learningEnglish #LearningEveryday #ed #edu #EduTooter #education #EducationForAll #lang #LangDev #lang_en #language #linguist #linguistics #collocation #corpus #attention #PayAttention #focus #AmbientFocus #intent #meditation #mediation #arbitration #conflict #ConflictResolution

Bed and Bread.

Everyone deserves Bed and Bread.

There we go. Brexit means break shit?

Give mad lads bed and bread.

#BedAndBread #uk #UK_politics #UKpol #UnitedKingdom #UnitedNations #WHO #UN #world #global #GlobalGoals #human #humans #humanity #people #person #politic #politics #policy #politicians #political #EU #active #ActiveListening #Communication #Comms #info #Information #Idea #Ideas #learn #learning #learningEnglish #LearningEveryday #ed #edu #EduTooter #education #EducationForAll #lang #LangDev #lang_en #language #linguist #linguistics #collocation #corpus #attention #PayAttention #focus #AmbientFocus #intent #meditation #mediation #arbitration #conflict #ConflictResolution

Hard academics and soft skills won't help students if they can't tell truth from fiction.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brokenhand/p/live-not-in-nonsense?r=105e3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#logic #teaching #fallacies #cognitive_biases #education #edutooter

5 Tips for Critical Thinking

▪️ Use it where it matters most.
▪️ Morning time might be best.
▪️ Question your assumptions.
▪️ Be your own devil's advocate.
▪️ Reason without emotion.

⭐ Critical thinking is not a short list of tips, it is a different way of thinking; invest in it every day.

🌐 https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/thoughts-thinking/201711/5-tips-critical-thinking

#CriticalThinking #education #edutooter #misinformation #disinformation #ThinkCritically

There are no new links today … even if it’s Sunday
But I bet you will find older posts that you’ve missed if you scroll down in this searchable collection of links to free #education content
https://saraslistofedresources.wordpress.com/

Enjoy the early summer! Go outside!
Or check out last week:
https://mastodon.social/@sarahjelm/112466888946380801

#EduTooter
#TeachersOfMastadon
@education
@socialscience
@edutooter
@politicalscience
#schoolreform

Lovely presummer Sunday, so only 1 new post in this searchable & translatable collection of links to free access #education content (You can always save it for later or prescribe)
https://saraslistofedresources.wordpress.com

Thanks to author Larry Cuban for this❣️

I’m grateful if you boost this here or in networks elsewhere 🙏🏻‼️ this website is meant to be used
Have a great a great day!
@edutooters
#EduTooter #TeachersOfMastadon
@education
@socialsciences
@edutooter
@politicalscience
#schoolreform

How does your #school promote #pedagogical #innovation? @edutooters @edutooter #EduTooter #teachers #teaching

I've made it through another term at the coalface, and I'm so, so tired. I have a heap of marking that I should have done but haven't, as always. I just think, fundamentally, in teaching - we need more prep time and less contact time. 10% is not enough. I feel that statement needs those obnoxious clapping hands, but I'll resist. What is it in other countries...? #Education #Teaching #Teachers #UKSchools #SecondarySchools #edutooter @edutooters

#education #edutooter #edutooters

Is anyone here working with The Writing Revolution?

I have seen plenty of posts on other platforms, curiosity finally had me buying the book and I am keen to learn more. It is a challenge for my 'mainly maths brain'!

#TWR #TheWritingRevolution
#teaching

This post is easily translated If you scroll down. This seems to be the state in #schools almost anywhere … (Read also the first part by @Skolinkvisition too)

https://tankesmedjanbalans.se/forbjud-politiker-att-lagga-effektiviseringskrav-pa-forskolan-och-skolan/
@[email protected] @education @edutooters @edutooter #TeachersOfMastadon #CPD #workconditions #EduTooter #sweden #teacherunions @politicalscience @economics

Excellent discussion on the use of #ChatGPT and generative #AI in UK education (starts around 48mins) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001ryh8

#UKEdChat #Schools #DigitalSkills #EduTooter

Just realized that Lumi will let you export H5P activities as plain HTML files.

Which means that you can host those just about anywhere (even Google Drive). So, one can use H5P in Google Classroom.

Even better, kids can use Lumi to create activities to share with the class.

#EduGlow #EduTooter #H5P

Upon playing with Goblin Tools (https://goblin.tools), I think that this could be very useful for students and teachers.

I'll have middle school students using it for themselves. A couple of teachers will be creating model to do lists to share with students.

A couple of elementary teachers are printing and providing to students.

#EduTooter #Eduglow

Yesterday #philjemmet and I ran #TurtleStitch workshops at the #RoyalInstitution. Great fun, and lots of interesting patterns were created.

Link to our @turtlestitch resources: http://warwick.ac.uk/turtlestitch

Our next TurtleStitch CPD is online on 04/10/23 16.30 (link above).

#STEMeducation #WMGoutreach #UniOfWarwick
#EduTooter

Did you forget to register for next week's @humrespro Conference to #RestoreHumanity? No worries! There's still time. Visit https://www.humanrestorationproject.org/conference and join us in reimagining schools and public education for a better future. #ctrh2023 #education #EduTooter #teaching #progressiveeducation #systemschange 📚🌟🌎

Want to learn #Python? And how to use it in the classroom with your students? Check out this new self-paced, online course from #TCEA - This online, self-paced course will introduce you to the basics of the Python programming language. Python is the world’s most popular language and is used by 3.5 million programmers worldwide.

https://courses.tcea.org

#education #edtech #tceajmg #coding #code #k12 #teaching #ComputationalThinking #computational #edutooter

One of the most neglected areas on the site has been "Classroom Resources." While never intended to be exhaustive or even particularly impressive, it's crazy how many of us appreciate ready-made resources (which we can then "fix" to use as we wish).

None of what's here is going to win any awards, but you never know what you might find that comes in handy one day when you're behind or something else doesn't work.

https://bluecerealeducation.com/classroom-resources/

#education #edutooter #teacher #teachers #LessonPlans #resources #history #ela

We decided it was time to finally revamp the entire Blue Cereal Education website - https://bluecerealeducation.com/

Because I'm delusional, I believed this would largely be a matter of cleaning up a few links and reorganizing a few pages. Clearly I was in deep denial about just how out of control the site had gotten over the years - which was ALL on ME.

BUT it's getting there. I'd say at this rate that by the dawn of the next millennium, I should have 90% of things where they should be and more or less functional. IN THE MEANTIME, I'd love it if you'd pay a visit and poke around.

Just... pretend there are orange cones and construction signs up everywhere. But it's getting there.

#education #edutooter #history #PublicEducation #teacher #teachers #BCE #H2H

#introduction #EconTwitter #econodon #HigherEd #sociology #edutooter

I am the resident education economist at the Finnish Institute for Educational Research at the University of Jyväskylä. My research is about weird things like why Finnish institutes of higher education reject many of their top applicants, and whether Finnish academics all come from the same few families. I also hang around at the local econ department, and teach microeconomics courses there.

Interesting video on Swedish public service TV-stream (subtitles in Swedish but English language).

Via: Dylan William on the #Birdsite

#formativeassessment #video #pedagogy #research #education #EduTooter

https://urplay.se/program/233365-researched-2023-badda-in-formativ-bedomning

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'Now, one could point out that Prince didn’t spend a lot of time on that solo. He just stepped up and killed it in the moment, but this ignores the innumerable hours of purposeful practice Prince put into becoming Prince, the kind of musician who could, without rehearsal, perform the greatest guitar solo of all time.
He spent a lifetime preparing for that moment.'

#Prince #Creativity #Creativiteit
#PurposefulPractice #DeliberatePractice
#Edutoot #Edutooter #Onderwijs

Are you tired of being a brain in a jar? A content dispensary? Do you want to embrace yourself & your students in all your full, radiant humanity? What do you think would change if we embraced the necessity of radical self love as educators?

Join the Galactic Cow for E4: Bodies, Shame, and Learning

https://sites.libsyn.com/442035/bodies-shame-and-learning

#Education #Teaching #GalacticCow #TeachingAndLearning
#HigherEducation #Vision
#Transformation
@galacticcow @edutooters #Edutooter #Educators
@edutooter @meoutloud

Are you tired of being a brain in a jar? A content dispensary? Do you want to embrace yourself & your students in all your full, radiant humanity? What do you think would change if we embraced the necessity of radical self love as educators?

Join the Galactic Cow for E4: Bodies, Shame, and Learning

https://sites.libsyn.com/442035/bodies-shame-and-learning

#Education #Teaching #GalacticCow #TeachingAndLearning
#HigherEducation #Vision
#Transformation
@galacticcow @edutooters #Edutooter #Educators
@edutooter @galacticcow

It is time to write this again. The *Five Paragraph Essay* saved my life.

While roundly hated by "true lovers of the written word," as a student who struggled with #LanguageArts, the #5PE let me break the daunting task of 1500 words into a task that could be taken one part at a time; one sentence at a time. It let me use the problem solving skills that made me successful on math and science to tackle academic writing. Most importantly it was good enough to get a C or better whenever I applied it and kept me from failing out of first high school then college. The grades were not stellar but sometimes C is for complete and even D can be for Done with that s**t.

If you are a hater of the 5PE, my challenge for you is to name an alternate tool that a poor writer - esp a poor writer with diagnosed cognitive challenges - a way to break a huge writing task down into bite sized pieces, very small bite sized pieces.

#edutooter #english #EnglishLanguage #writing #writingtips #pedagogy

Some similes and metaphors come up over and over in literature, poetry, pop songs, and the visual arts. Most lend themselves just as easily to larger uses like symbolism theme-ish stuff. In this post, I look at a few easy examples suitable for the classroom.

"Raining In The Dark Cave Of My Winter Car (Part Two)" -

https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/raining-dark-cave-my-winter-car-part-two

#metaphors #similes #LiteraryDevices #ELA #symbolism #teacher #edutooter @edutooters

Like A Metaphor (Compared for the Very First Time) - https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/metaphor
#ELA #metaphors #similes #teachers #edutooter @edutooters

Generative AI Tools & Chatbots are ripe to be powerful brainstorming or collaborative partners for teachers. This article shows how you can dig in deeply when planning lessons -> Your Human Advantage: How to SPARK Ideas with ChatGPT - Designing Schools with Dr. Sabba Quidwai https://designingschools.org/2023/03/29/your-human-advantage-how-to-spark-ideas-with-chatgpt/ #edutoot #EduTooter #K12 #COSN #ISTE #AI #ChatGPT

Finished up the AI art project with the 8th graders today. They have created Chindogu projects (they had to describe it, draw it, and create it using AI Art).

Great class. Great kids.

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8th grade Art students created an AI image of a student. Then we did a Gallery Walk where students reviewed each other's prompts and images.

Pulled class back together to discuss what they noticed.

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With our latest episode, we’re excited to open a space dedicated to #AI in ESOL: http://AIinESL.com —In http://diesol.org/81 we revisit our AI predictions from last year, and share updated ideas on ways to use AI in the #ESOL classroom. #esl #efl #enl #tesol #edtech #ells #ellchat #edupodcast #DIESOLcrew #edutooter #edutooters