Faster than everyone goes running to the market for bread and milk at the first snowflake, here are the week’s best articles from Tech & Learning!
- 4 Ways I Improved My AI Prompt Writing - Like building a better mousetrap, crafting a better AI prompt can result in a higher rate of success in accomplishing your goal–and without accruing any dead rodents in the process!?
- Poe AI: How to Use It to Teach - This platform gathers more than 70 AIs in one place so you can effectively compare results. That it seems like Skynet's origin story is just a bonus and obviously nothing to worry about.
- Teaching With Drones: 6 Skills Students Can Learn - Speaking of not fearing technology: Despite recent headlines (it’s not aliens, people!), drones can provide real-world job training for careers in aviation, engineering, coding, and much more.
- Leveraging Technology to Assess Student Learning - Using digital tools such as infographics, mind maps, and diagrams can be engaging ways to assess student learning, says Dr. Stephanie Smith Budhai. Here are some to try!
- Brisk: How to Use It to Teach - Brisk is an AI teaching assistant tool that's designed to help teachers work smarter not harder, which is good since it seems most days that the rest of the world is already focused on making you work harder!
- Talking Tech: 4 Strategies to Help Districts Manage the Device Boom - By implementing efficient management practices, districts can help maximize the effectiveness of their investments and maintain a seamless learning experience. Here are tips from edtech experts.
- 13 Ways to Detect AI Writing Without Technology - "Thanks to my own observations and conversations with colleagues, I’ve developed what I think is a pretty solid AI detection toolkit," writes educator Erik Ofgang. (Editor’s note: None of Erik’s ways overlap with 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (although why would they?)
Regardless, time to slip out the back, Jack! Enjoy the weekend ahead!
