AI is transforming our society at a rapid pace. Help your students understand the implications by using Common Sense Media's ready-to-use AI literacy lessons, appropriate for middle school and high school students. The lessons range from "What is AI" to "How AI Bias Impacts our Lives." You will need to sign-in with Google to access lesson plans, handouts, and slides. 

Media helps us bridge physical cultural divides. Every green dot on the world map to the right represents a radio station that users can immediately listen to for free. By selecting the Browse menu, I was able to find Radio En Ba Mango. It's a Dominica station that broadcasts tunes of the Caribbean. 

According to John Hattie's Visible Learning site, peer grading has an effect size of 0.54. Peer grading is when students get to be the judges of their classmates' work. The TAG feedback method is designed to give students the structure to make corrective changes and suggest revisions. The steps are simple:

• Tell a peer something you like about their work

• Ask the same peer a question you still have after looking at their work

• Give the peer a suggestion for how they can improve their work

Students can digitally "tag" their peers by adding a file comment with the "@" symbol & their peer's rialtousd.org name.  

The EdTech department has 10 QBalls for weekly checkout!

QBalls are designed to increase student participation in class discussions by adding a fun feeling to a potentially stressful situation. 

What I've personally witnessed in classes using the QBall:

• Students raise their hands to participate at a greater rate

• In most classes, EVERY student participates in the conversation

• Shy students are willing to speak (they still speak quietly, but now we can hear them)

• English language learners are willing to practice speaking English out loud

Email me at shidalgo@rialtousd.org to arrange a QBall checkout.