9-Administration

(1) The Influence of Social Media on Society

Assignment - Most of what is posted on the Internet has never been subjected to the rigors of peer review common with many traditional publications. Students must learn to evaluate the reliability of information of the websites they visit. and the influence of Social Media.
- - Summarize the potentially harmful aspects of social media discussed in The Social Dilemma (Netflix). Include its effects on mental health, privacy, misinformation, and social behavior. Include a discussion of past and pending court cases related to social media and youth harm.

Assignment - The ease of information access can accelerate the learning process, but it can also be counter-productive by facilitating plagiarism.
- Discuss the importance of intellectual honesty with your students and illustrate how you can easily identify work plagiarized from sites on the Internet.
- Create a document that has material plagiarized from three or more soutces. Submit it on Canvas to the Authenticity assignment and tunitin will check it for plagiarized material. Upload a screen capture that shows sources where material may have been plagiarized from.

Assignment - one of the challenges facing educators today is to distinguish if written work submitted by students represents the students on thinking or is simply text generated by an AI tool. Here are some ways to help teachers make such determinations. Use one of the. AI detection tools to analyze a series of three documents created by generative AI ,and three of your own. Show the results and comment on the effectiveness of the AI Detection tool you used.

Assignment - Teachers must regularly assess student progress. Many textbook publishers make test construction easier by providing test generators, software which allows the teacher to quickly compose tests and keys from question databases. Large language models (LLM) like Gemini, Claude and ChatGPT can be used to generate questions relevant to your curricula. Work together with colleagues to generate a test in class in Google Forms. Make the quiz auto-grading. Provide a link to the quiz as well as to a sample scoring. (Sample - Lab Safety)

Assignment - Teachers should model "life-long learning" by attending workshops, reading journals, and participating in professional organizations. Describe a professional conference (related to your field) you may benefit from attending. Describe the purpose and scope of the professional organization sponsoring the conference and provide a synopsis of the conference and one or more selected workshops or presentations you would like to attend. Include a link to the professional organization and to the specific conference.

Assignment - Most schools and districts advertise job openings on the Internet. Teachers should use such resources not only to find employment for themselves, but also to attract others to their schools and thus build strong departments.
Find a job announcement for a teaching position for which you are qualified. Include a screen capture of the advertisement. Describe the school and community using information found on the Internet. Cite your resources.

Assignment - Post your resume online, either using LinkedIn or one of the professional job sites. (Note: If you prefer not to put your resume online, you may simply embed your resume as a doc; sample resume.)

Assignment - Describe the key features of a learning management system such as Canvas, Schoology, or Google Classroom. Describe how you can use a LMS such as Google Classroom to promote mastery learning.

Assignment - List and describe 5 or more possible uses of AI in the teaching and learning of your subject. Describe multiple ways you can detect AI in student work.

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