Tech & Learning Magazine

13/09/2025

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With at our fingertips, “blank slide syndrome” should be a thing of the past.

With AI at our fingertips, “blank slide syndrome” should be a thing of the past

12/09/2025

Veteran educator Steve Baule offers some suggestions for using for behavior intervention planning:

Behavior intervention planning is a critical component of supporting students with diverse needs. AI can play a significant role in this process by providing tools that help educators develop personalized behavior intervention plans, which can be tailored to address the unique needs of each student, ensuring that interventions are both effective and evidence-based. Several AI-powered tools provide specific behavior plan generators, including Poe and MagicSchoolAI.

Goblin.tools is a set of tools to help break learning down into smaller pieces and create to-do lists for students as an example. It will also compile random thoughts and try to create a task list for students who need that level of organization.

Some of these tools offer innovative solutions for creating individualized educational plans (IEPs). For example, Easy-Peasy.ai provides an IEP generator that simplifies the process of developing comprehensive plans for students with special needs. Taskade.com and LogicBalls also provide IEP-generation tools.

12/09/2025

Here’s a closer look at how OpenAI’s Deep Research works, and how it performed on various academic prompts when tested.

ChatGPT’s Deep Research tool acts as a research assistant and can quickly find great sources on a variety of topics.

12/09/2025

Research has disproven the notion that students fall into different categories of learners such as visual, auditory, or kinesthetic. However, many educators continue to believe in learning styles and build lessons accordingly.

The idea that different students have different learning styles pervades education, but cognitive scientists say there is no evidence learning styles exist.

11/09/2025

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By leveraging generative tools, educators can develop personalized behavior intervention plans, modify curriculum materials for diverse learners, and create targeted instructional resources.
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11/09/2025

From author and educator Erik Ofgang's recent article about what he wishes someone would've told him before his first day of

It Gets Easier As The Semester/Year Progresses

During the first few weeks of the school year, I get a familiar feeling: dread. The work starts to feel overwhelming; everything is happening at once, student papers are piling up, new submissions are coming in, and it's not uncommon for me to declare around mid-September that I’m overextended and to quote Joan Didion, “The center will not hold.”

Over time, however, I’ve realized that the school year ebbs and flows, and there’s more and less work at different points, and my classes tend to get easier while going along.

The same can be said for teaching in general: the first time you teach a given class is always the hardest. Realizing this helps offset the panic when it starts to set in.

11/09/2025

Yoodli allows students to record themselves giving a speech, which is then analyzed by the AI to offer immediate feedback

Yoodli is an AI speech coach that can help students work on public speaking and more

10/09/2025

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Guided learning is integrated into and builds on LearnLM--a family of AI models designed for education and based on learning science principles.

Gemini’s new learning mode is built on educational science, and that helps set it apart from some of the competition in our tests.

10/09/2025

Becoming an advocate for public and is one way to learn more about policy and make a difference for students, says Reg Leichty, Founding Partner of Foresight Law & Policy, a firm that helps translate complex education policy and funding developments into actionable strategies. To stay informed, he suggests you can:

- Subscribe to federal education policy updates and newsletters from organizations, such as Foresight, which publishes a weekly update, that cover education politics and policy.

- Follow legislative updates from professional associations and advocacy groups.

- Regularly check the websites of the U.S. Department of Education and state-level education agencies.

- Stay connected with education journalists and policy experts on platforms such as LinkedIn for real-time developments.

10/09/2025

Good news! If you have sources you know and trust (like Tech & Learning!), Google now allows you to select those sites as “Preferred Sources"

Google now allows users to select trusted sites such as Tech & Learning as “Preferred Sources,” which will appear atop search results

10/09/2025

Constitution Day (Sept 17) offers an excellent opportunity to teach history, civics and and current events

These free Constitution Day lessons and activities will inspire students to understand, question, and debate the most important issues of our day.

09/09/2025

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Ways to use Plickers, polling, and QR codes to capture real-time formative assessment data in math classrooms.

Choosing digital tools that you and your students have access to can help you gather real-time, formative math assessment data