“If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.”
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Ways to Use AI Tools in the Classroom
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Learn More About the Changing World of AI
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Tom Barrett has launched a new newsletter called Promptcraft where he will share everything you need to know about artificial intelligence for education. ( Sign Up HERE). He writes that Promptcraft is for anyone who wants to: Stay updated on the latest news, developments and research in AI for Education.
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A Teacher's Prompt Guide to ChatGPT
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Ways To Harness the Power of AI for Learning
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✅ Pressto This is a free writing app that uses generative AI to provide writing prompts and assist teachers with lesson planning and differentiation. It motivates students to write more. Students make writing booklets to develop their voice, agency, and share their ideas. ✅ Parlay GenieParlay Genie will generate higher-order thinking questions for your class based on a topic, YouTube video or article. For Grades 5+. View the Parlay AI tool. ✅ Openverse Openverse can be used as a valuable resource for teachers and students. Teachers can use the platform to find images, audio, and video files that are licensed for educational use, and incorporate them into their lesson plans. This can help to create engaging and interactive classes that promote critical thinking and creativity. ✅ Perplexity AskTry out Perplexity Ask which is a new search interface that uses OpenAI GPT 3.5 and Microsoft Bing to directly answer any question you ask. Instead of displaying a list of links, Perplexity Ask summarizes search results and includes citations so that you can easily verify the accuracy of the information provided. View the Perplexity AI tool.
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UOI Planning Process & Resources
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PYP Standards and Practices Policies Checklist
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Getting Creative with the Learner Profile Attributes
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Trust & Inspire: Unleash Greatness in Others
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Learn about schemas in play. Schemas are described as patterns of repeated behaviour which allow children to explore and express developing ideas and thoughts through their play and exploration. The repetitive actions of schematic play allow children to construct meaning in what they are doing. Here you will find guides for teachers and parents, posted and flash cards. Thank you Toddle for creating these resources.
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Using Reggio Emilia ‘Image of the Child’
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Two Instructive Articles About Facilitating Inquiry
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Podcasts, Websites, Blogs, Videos etc. |
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OCED have posted a variety of educational webinars that are worth viewing. The webinars focus on high level, global educational issues such as: The role of Education in an interconnected world; Are students ready to take on environmental challenges?; and Assessing creative thinking: What, why and how?
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Da Vinci Life-Skills: A Biophilic Education Movement |
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This video is an intriguing and provocative watch about a new model for teaching and learning. Together, Rosina Dorelli, Zach Reznichek and Farhaan Mir, have built the Da Vinci Life-Skills curriculum and assessment model, supported by young people, teachers and academics. It is a vision for the future of education. Da Vincian Learners are insatiably curious, take risks and learn through all their senses and from their mistakes. They appreciate the interconnectedness of all things and nurture their intuition, creativity, relationships and practical abilities as well as their academic critical thinking skills.
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Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities
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Check out the updated PD page to find workshops provided by Kath Murdoch, Chapters International, Toddle, Professional Learning International, Innovative Global Education, and many more. You can check them out here.
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Roots ConnectED - Anti-bias Education
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Roots ConnectED empowers educators to create classrooms and schools where children and staff are community builders, critical thinkers, understand biases, and realize their capacity to create change. Their Anti-Bias Education model uses curriculum, classroom practices, ( Universal Design Learning), and deep Community Building with all stakeholders to identify and dismantle the thinking and ideology that contributes to bias and discrimination before it gives way to harmful acts of oppression. This all leads to agentic learners. The framework and its tools are holistic and intended for long-term integration throughout the curriculum and environment. Explore the website and their educator workshops.
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Outdoor Learning Free Virtual Workshop Series
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Concept-Based Inquiry in Action: Strategies to Promote Transferable Understanding
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By: Carla Marschall, Rachel FrenchCreate a thinking classroom that helps students move from the factual to the conceptual. Concept-Based Inquiry in Action provides teachers with the tools and resources necessary to organize and focus student learning around concepts and conceptual relationships that support the transfer of understanding. Step by step, the authors lead both new and experienced educators to implement teaching strategies that support the realization of inquiry-based learning for understanding in any K–12 classroom.
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UDL Now!: A Teacher's Guide to Applying Universal Design for Learning , 3rd Ed
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By: Katie NovakIn the third edition of UDL Now!, Katie Novak provides practical insights and savvy strategies for helping all learners succeed in a post-pandemic world using the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). She presents examples throughout the book to make the content relevant and digestible. She concludes each chapter with reflection questions to help teachers apply key concepts to their work. UDL Now! is a fun and effective playbook for great teaching. Learn more about UDL.
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Affirming Identity in Multilingual Classrooms
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✅ In Your Arms - Kina Grannis - Stop Motion Animation
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✅ Slow Motion Magnet Collisions
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✅ The Inside of Tropical Fruit
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UN Sustainable Development Goals |
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SDG student-friendly resources can be found on the Inspiring Inquiry website HERE
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February 2023 421.40 ppm. February 2022 419.89 ppm.
1 Year Change +1.51 ppm (0.36%) Suggested sustainable level = 350 ppm +71.4 ppm
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IPCC Final Climate Change Report
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A must read and call to action! The scientific body that advises the UN on rising temperatures has released its final report that summarizes its six key pieces of research completed over the past five years. Briefly the report states that the world will soon burn through its “carbon budget” and may surpass the key threshold of 1.5C of warming by 2030. Scientists say the severity of climate events - droughts, floods, deadly storms - increases dangerously after 1.5C of warming. And the world could warm by 3.2C this century unless nations lift their game. That level of warming would leave much of the planet inhospitable to plant, animal, and human life. Also see a visual ( Possible Future Global Temperature Changes) that shows the consequences of the choices and actions taken now in reducing [greenhouse gas] emissions for generations now and in the future, for our children.
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SDG 4 Quality Education: Transforming Education Survey
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Check out the World’s Largest Lesson’s latest student report. The report provides invaluable student insights into the current state of education and highlights their ideas on how education should be transformed. Very enlightening!
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UN Ocean Biodiversity Treaty
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