Talking The Read
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Teacher Burnout
Tapping into Trust, Voice, and Courage to Treat the Burn Since the start of summer, I’ve been pretty busy building out initiatives for Braving Education’s mission, gaining experience in new roles and tasks. I’ve started consulting in other school districts, I’m planning a new PLC for this upcoming school year for my home district, and…
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Salt Life, Teacher Edition
Learn and Teach in the Ocean of Technology I’ve been thinking a lot about how educators need to respond to some of our biggest issues in education: the rapid decline in student engagement, the steep decline in curricular relevancy, and the steady increase in teacher burnout. I don’t have all the answers to these problems,…
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“Tech-Scendentalism”
Living Deliberately in a Tech-Infused World Last week, I listened to Kevin Roose and Casey Newton (hosts of the tech podcast Hard Fork) speak with Demis Hassabis, the chief executive of Google DeepMind. Toward the end of the show, Kevin posed a question that took his usual “tech exec” interviews down a not-so-usual path. It…
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Floating Fish
The Dangers of Pre-Packaged EdTech You know those learning platforms that have a library of curated articles for you to assign your students to read or listen to, maybe even annotate, and then answer some standardized questions? No doubt, they’re convenient; but, honestly, what does anyone really learn from fishing in a stagnant pond? Allow…
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A Chatbot Walks Into a Classroom
When the Joke Falls Flat While working on this week’s episode of Talking the Read, I asked some of my family members to listen to the opening. I was trying something different with the music, and I wanted some feedback. I wanted to, simultaneously, poke fun at and validate the hype surrounding ChatGPT. Like what…
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The Grid
Standardized Testing and Holistic Consideration “I don’t do well on standardized tests.” I hear this often from my high schoolers. My response? “Me neither.” I quickly follow up with the fact that standardized tests don’t tell your whole story as a student–nor do they define your future. I tell them my story of taking the…
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The Value of Questions
Claude’s Ode to the Socratic Seminar Many of us can probably recall our first ah-ha moment with AI–when we realized we could no longer view this as some ruinous technology in our field of education. Instead, we realized, despite our concerns (which are real concerns), there are some powerful learning opportunities to be had with…
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Dynamic Discussions
Using AI to Differentiate Reading (and Writing) Experiences As a high school English teacher, I’m always open to new and fresh ways to engage my students with reading material. While I’m well aware of the concerns surrounding how students use AI to essentially bypass all opportunities to hone their ELA skills, I do think there…
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