Google Workspace for Education 100+ Ways to use Gemini in Education Slideshow

*Check out this op-ed by 20-year veteran teacher, Adam Grant: No, You Don't Get an A for Effort 

*Guide to Integrating Generative AI for Deeper Literacy Learning

*Virtual Field Trip Website: This website has an AWESOME compilation of virtual field trips for students of all ages.  

*I wanted to share some tools that may help when scrambling in the early morning to come up with some lesson plans if you or a loved one isn't feeling their best.

https://app.magicschool.ai/tools  

Magic School AI has some amazing tools, and "Raina" a chatbot assistant that can help you in the development of lesson plans.  You can enter text and have questions generated within seconds.  Play around with some of these tools!

Also, an unexpected absence may be a good day for students to sharpen their knowledge of current events.  If you head over to the LLC Website and click on "NewsBank", you will find a new daily lesson plan everyday that includes a current event article and lots of questions for students to respond to.  I attached today's lesson to this email (and there is a full archive of lesson plans which can be sorted by curricular area.)

*Jethro Jones AI Resources Website: https://www.jethrojones.com/bestai 

*I found this article about Helping Anxious Kids interesting and thought you might too: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/04/opinion/anxiety-depression-teens.html

*We have been working on purchasing some new books for the library if you are interested in borrowing them:

The four book series, The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Barnes

The three book series, The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

Spare by Prince Harry

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry

I'm Glad my Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy

Becoming (Young Adult) by Michelle Obama

Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum

*Matt Miller is an educational technology expert that I met at ISTE.  He has a great podcast and website and also has a website https://teachflix.org/ with a curated collection of educational videos by topic and grade level.  Here is a link to slides that he also created with activities to use with any types of videos in the classroom.

*Check out https://beta.diffit.me/#topic 

All you need to do is type in any topic, term or question, pick a grade level and generate.  You can also have the work translated into various languages if you have ELL students in class.