Edcerpts for December 19, 2022

Internet Travels

Edcerpts are my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week

Apps

• Google Workspace Updates: Collaborate with colleagues in Google Slides through a new ‘Follow’ feature – The follow feature lets collaborators easily keep track of edits in real time, switching slides and watching the changes of the person they are following. This is helpful for those teachers who use Slides as an interactive whiteboard. No long will you have to give directions such as “go to slide 3”.

Pedagogy

• Attention, trust and GPT3 | Seth’s Blog – Meaningful work in the age of Artificial Intelligence and GPT3.
• Human Skills in a World of Artificial Intelligence – John Spencer – How AI and GPT3 are going to change the idea of teaching.
• You have heard about elf on a shelf, but have you heard of … | Mike Kaechele – Names, and the importance thereof.
• SIFT on Mastodon – “SIFT is a web literacy and media literacy strategy which is constantly needed and relevant in our modern information landscape.”
• Neuroscience Says This Is the Best Way to Make Better Decisions, Almost Instantly – This idea of chunking is what I call “geek intuition”. It’s not that I’ve done everything with technology, it’s also because I’ve broken a lot of stuff that I then have to fix.
• CURMUDGUCATION: Finding the Sweet Spot for Teacher Autonomy – •On the one hand, a teacher with no autonomy, who simply reads from the book or the canned script is not an actual teacher at all. Some autonomy is absolutely necessary for real teaching. On the other hand, there are limits to how much autonomy a teacher should have. Teachers are hired by taxpayers to teach children with professional judgment and expertise. The best teachers are real people, and they bring their real people stuff into the classroom – this includes beliefs and values. However, personal beliefs should not interfere with work or student relationships/treatment in class. It can be difficult to find a balance between too little and too much autonomy as a teacher – there is no simple answer.
• Outcome of the AVID College Preparatory Program on Adolescent Health: A Randomized Trial – Academic tracking is a widespread practice that separates students by prior academic performance. Clustering lower performing students together may unintentionally reinforce risky peer social networks, school disengagement, and risky behaviors. The Advancement via Individual Determination (AVID) program supports placing middle-performing students in rigorous college-preparatory classes alongside high-performing peers. A randomized, controlled trial of AVID was conducted in the United States with 270 participants. Results showed that AVID positively impacts social networks, health behaviors, and psychosocial outcomes suggesting academic untracking may have substantial beneficial spillover effects on adolescent health.

Technology

• Chinese students use remote access software to cheat on US college entry exams – Rest of World – Don’t stop at thinking this is only an education issue, businesses are having the same issue with remote interviews.
• My Welcome Message for Educators New to #Mastodon (Updated) – Mastodon is an open, decentralized microblogging site in the same vein as Twitter. The initial onboarding is a little different than what you may be used to, but not much different than when you initially signed up for an email service.
• Using screens to calm children may lead to future emotion regulation problems: study – New research suggests that using smartphones or tablets to soothe children may be linked with worse behavior challenges in the future. The association was strong among children who already experienced hyperactivity, impulsiveness or a strong temperament. Authors hypothesize using the devices could displace opportunities for children to learn emotional regulation strategies over time.
• Playing around with ChatGPT from OpenAI | @mcleod – Scott McLeod dives into ChatGPT to see what is and isn’t possible.

Tips

• Time to Talk Tech : How to quickly create a list that uses emojis for bullet points. 😀 – This is pertty cool, I would usually change the bullet point character in Google Docs, but this takes that boring approach to a whole new level!

Pop Culture

• Meetings Are Miserable – The title spells it out.
• ‘Schoolhouse Rock’ Co-Creator George Newall Dies at 88 – “🎶 Conjunction junction, what’s your function” will forever live rent free in my head.

Pot Pourri

• ” COMPUTERS ” 1970 EDUCATIONAL FILM IBM MAINFRAME PUNCHCARD & MAGNETIC TAPE BASED COMPUTERS XD11964 – YouTube – Anytime I think computers are hard to use, I look back on how far we’ve come.
• Little screens and productivity | Seth’s Blog – I could link to Seth Godin’s stuff every single day, he’s one of the most insightful people I’ve ever followed.