Defining Equity, Building Chatbots, Developing AI Literacy & More

June 15, 2023

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Funding & Recognition

Funding That Suits Your Needs

GetEdFunding is a grant-finding resource sponsored by CDW•G that is dedicated to helping educators, schools, and other institutions identify the funding they need in budget-tight times. Explore the sample funding finds and experience the depth, breadth, and ease of use of GetEdFunding.

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Funding & Recognition

Exelon Foundation Green Lab Grant

The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago has partnered with the Exelon Foundation in championing science learning for middle school and high school students and encouraging new thinking about our environment.

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Funding & Recognition

FAA Airport Design Challenge

The Airport Design Challenge is an interactive learning collaboration opportunity for K–12 students. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Aviation & Space Education (STEM AVSED) Program organizes and sponsors this challenge.

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Digital Learning • Learning Support

Curriculum Inspiring Compassion and Empathy

TeachKind’s free Challenging Assumptions curriculum offers teachers a way to address social justice issues such as racism, sexism, and other harmful forms of discrimination with their students. In these polarized times, a social justice curriculum focusing on animals diffuses the politics and allows the message of empathy to shine through.

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Digital Learning • Learning Support

Media Literacy Strategies for Navigating AI Content

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to change information students see online in both positive and disruptive ways. A new minilesson from Facing History & Ourselves introduces students to changes AI could bring to the media landscape.

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Digital Learning • Learning Support

Tool for Combining Generative AI Models to Build Chatbots

Microsoft’s new Azure AI Studio enables users to combine generative artificial intelligence models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT with their own text or images to build chatbots, or other “copilots.”

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Digital Learning • Learning Support

AI-Powered Tools to Streamline Teachers’ Work

Harnessing the power of AI can assist in simplifying and speeding up certain administrative tasks, allowing teachers to concentrate on delivering exceptional educational experiences. TeachMateAi is a collection of AI-powered tools designed to create custom teaching resources and streamline various aspects of a teacher’s work.

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Professional Growth

Report Examining the Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Teaching and Learning

The US Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology (OET) has released a report entitled Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning: Insights and Recommendations. The report notes that “two broad perspectives” arise around AI in education: “AI in support of student learning” and “support for learning about AI and related technologies.”

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Professional Growth

Videos Highlighting Positive, Lasting Impact of SEL on Students’ Lives

The Committee for Children offers a series of videos and research studies that advocate for strong social–emotional learning (SEL) programs in schools and highlight the positive outcomes associated with SEL programs.

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Professional Growth

Initiative to Develop AI Literacy in K–12

Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education (RAISE) is a new Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) initiative headquartered in the MIT Media Lab and in collaboration with the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and MIT Open Learning. In the face of accelerating change, the research and impact mission of the initiative is to advance equity in learning, education, and computational action—to rethink and innovate how to holistically and equitably prepare diverse K–12 students to be successful, responsible, and engaged in an increasingly AI-powered society.

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Professional Growth

Report on “The Condition of Education” in 2023

How has the US education system changed over time? What are the characteristics of students and teachers? How does the US education system compare with others around the world? The Condition of Education, a federal report of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), provides data and information on these questions and much more.

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Professional Growth

Study on “Equity: Definitions and Perspectives from US Educators”

A 2023 report from NWEA features voices of US teachers, school leaders, and district leaders providing their understanding and definition of equity, challenges, and opportunities in implementing equity initiatives. It also addresses the impacts of the COVID disruptions on schools and offers recommendations for moving forward in a postpandemic world.

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Professional Growth

Coalition of Organizations Addressing the Policy, Pedagogy, Pitfalls of AI

The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) programs such as ChatGPT has led a coalition of organizations to form the TeachAI initiative. The group intends to create guidelines around K–12 AI policies, pedagogy, and ethics, as well as a framework for computer science instruction, which steer clear of AI’s potential pitfalls and address students’ privacy and online safety.

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STEM • STEAM • STREAM

Real-World Problem Solving in Out-of-This World Scenarios

Infini-D Learning gives teachers access to a library of prebuilt missions that transport students into outerspace, the human body, and even back in time. Backed by the National Science Foundation, Infini-D helps teachers facilitate real-world problem solving within the context of standards-based, high-stakes scenarios the class must resolve together.

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STEM • STEAM • STREAM

Coding and Computational Thinking with a Virtual Robot

Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy’s Virtual Robot Curriculum features a programmable interface and virtual robot embedded directly within the curriculum. Teachers and students can follow along with the included videos, animations, challenges, and step-by-step lessons using a fully virtual solution.

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Mobile Learning

Customizable Skill-Building Math Adventures

Prodigy is a curriculum-aligned, fantasy-based math game for iOS and Android. The game includes content from every major math topic and covers more than 1,500 skills from first to eighth grade and from Depth of Knowledge levels one to three.

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Mobile Learning

Science and Engineering Worlds at Students’ Fingertips

NSF Science Zone is a free science and engineering news app for iOS and Android, published by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The app is updated weekly with content gathered from scientists, universities, and NSF science and engineering centers.

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