More than 30 years ago I entered the profession as a sixth-grade language arts and social studies teacher at a gritty middle school in Los Angeles. Since that time I have noticed a slow, relentless disempowering of teachers. Economics and technology as well as societal attitudes that have been in place for more than a […]
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For the last eight months I have been screeching, loudly, for the need to revise content standards, skills frameworks, and educational policy because of generative AI’s invasion of education. We in education must be prepared for the widespread use by students and teachers of generative AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Bard, Claude and newly launched
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The urgent need to overcome the hurdles faced by challenged learners has been a driving force in my 30-year career in education. There is a personal component to this calling. My grandfather never went to high school and my dad never graduated from high school. We were working class poor, with the emphasis on poor.
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The educational policy equivalent of a call to arms has been setting off alarm bells in the U.S. and abroad. In June, UNESCO published global survey data from more than 450 K12 schools and universities. The key finding: Fewer than “10% have developed institutional policies and/or formal guidance concerning the use of generative AI applications.”
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Rewriting of the E/LA Standards Can you think of an instructional task in any setting that doesn’t involve the use of language in some form or another? Every teacher in the K-12 space, no matter the assignment or credential, is a teacher of English/Language Arts. Now look at the words that surround the use of
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