Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Paul Cancellieri @mrscienceteach.com · 17h

Afterschool math instruction sounds like a hard sell, but maybe it’s the solution that we need.

OPINION: After-school and summer programs can help more students learn to embrace numbers and become ‘math people’ after all

In everyday life and across nearly every industry, mathematical reasoning is becoming more essential. We need to rapidly expand access to the after-school and summer programs that help young people…

buff.ly

Paul Cancellieri @mrscienceteach.com · 1d

Oof, McSweeney’s. This one stings.

I Need AI to Write Better Lesson Plans So My Students Stop Using AI to Write Their Papers

I care deeply about my students’ learning, but with all the new technologies available to help them cut corners, I worry that they’re not doing the...

buff.ly

Paul Cancellieri @mrscienceteach.com · 2d

I’m not sure that I agree with this assessment—my newly phone-free classroom is a more positive, less narcissistic, and more empathetic place—but I appreciate the unique perspective.

buff.ly/KGSoiVK

Paul Cancellieri @mrscienceteach.com · 3d

Great reminder of how important the “teacher-led station” can be when using stations/rotations in your classroom.

buff.ly/759Zg3D

Paul Cancellieri @mrscienceteach.com · 4d

This is an interesting first for North Carolina’s public schools when it comes to #AILiteracy. I’ll be curious to see what this means for the students of our state.

NCDPI partners with AI Innovation Index, becoming first state partner in the nation

The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) is partnering with the national AI Innovation Index, an initiative of AI for Equity, to measure and accelerate artificial intelligence…

buff.ly

Paul Cancellieri @mrscienceteach.com · 5d

I love that @LeonFurze.com is chiming in with these steps for better using the AIAS

How (not) to use the AIAS

In our new commentary for the Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching, we explore everything we have learned after two years of working on the AI Assessment Scale AIAS

buff.ly

1 1

Paul Cancellieri @mrscienceteach.com · 13d

More than 10% of ALL CHATGPT MESSAGES are requests for help learning something. I'm not sure if that is a statement about demand or about perceived capabilities, but it's important news nonetheless.

buff.ly

Paul Cancellieri @mrscienceteach.com · 14d

Just when you thought chatting with historical/literary chatbots was dead, Mike Kentz has a great lesson that uses that strategy to great effect.

Redesigning Literary Assessment for the AI Age

How Character Chatbots Became Critical Thinking Tools

buff.ly

Paul Cancellieri @mrscienceteach.com · 15d

Specific examples of the kind of "co-intelligence" that Ethan Mollick described and I see daily with educators who use AI to help them create better learning experiences. Amazing work!

buff.ly

Paul Cancellieri @mrscienceteach.com · 16d

As an 8th grade Science teacher, survey results like this scare me and (frankly) don't match the reality of what I see everyday. I had seen more than 20 years of students learn about science with me and interest in the subject seems *higher* than in past years. Why the discrepancy?

Students’ Skills — and Interest — in Science Tumble in First Post-COVID Test

At a time of rapid technological change, 8th graders are less likely to say they “definitely can do” many science-related activities.

buff.ly

Paul Cancellieri @mrscienceteach.com · 17d

Having a shared definition of what AI literacy is and how we assess it is going to be critical to how we plan our classroom lessons that involve AI tools. buff.ly/bSV5wnt

Paul Cancellieri @mrscienceteach.com · 18d

Interesting perspective. Reinforces for me the need for educators to continue to push student use of AI not as a crutch, but as a catalyst. buff.ly/7Y950AF

Paul Cancellieri @mrscienceteach.com · 19d

Student perspectives like this are SO important. I think that she nails the idea that we owe it to our students to make our assessments harder to outsource. We need to do better for them. buff.ly/AoHR7YK

5 Trends Reshaping K-12 Education Across the U.S.

COVID catapulted trends like homeschooling and microschooling into the mainstream, altering the way parents, teachers and kids think about learning.

buff.ly

Paul Cancellieri @mrscienceteach.com · 20d

Glad to see that AI has made this list (how couldn't it, right?) and I hope that it does lead to more personalized learning.
buff.ly/AoHR7YK

Paul Cancellieri @mrscienceteach.com · 21d

I am a fan of Twenge's writing and I think her advice here is important–if somewhat impossible to employ. I have started keeping my phone in another room at night and it feels better.

Kids Shouldn’t Access Social Media Until They’re Old Enough to Drive, Book Says

The idea is among 10 ‘actionable rules’ psychologist Jean M. Twenge offers for raising kids in a media-saturated world.

buff.ly

Paul Cancellieri @mrscienceteach.com · 22d

In business, they say "What gets measured gets done." We need to be careful that we are measuring the right things. buff.ly/HZ0ymOc

1

Paul Cancellieri @mrscienceteach.com · 23d

As someone who has made sacrifices to become a teacher and to remain the classroom for more than 20 years, I agree that it is an uphill battle to persuade high-performing college graduates to enter the profession. What's the solution?

The state playbook for teacher recruitment, development, and retention - Kappan Online

As teacher shortages continue, statewide systems to build up the profession are necessary. Missouri provides an example.

buff.ly

Paul Cancellieri @mrscienceteach.com · 24d

Working with teachers I spend time disabusing them of the notion that there is an AI tool for each individual purpose. We don't need the cognitive load of keeping track of all of them or hoping that they don't go broke and disappear. Learn to prompt chatbots. Period buff.ly/5iItqp4

The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps - 5th Edition | Andreessen Horowitz

Which AI apps are people actively using? What’s actually making money, beyond being popular? We analyzed the data.

buff.ly

Paul Cancellieri @mrscienceteach.com · 26d

Author Robin Sloan (whose writing I adore) wrote this in a blog post about why humans don’t misremember like AI models do.

buff.ly/Lk2oThl

1

Paul Cancellieri @mrscienceteach.com · 27d

Nope. Nopety nopety nope. Step into a classroom that is using AI tools to assist with learning right now and you will understand why the human will always be necessary.
buff.ly/U4MnWTW

Paul Cancellieri @mrscienceteach.com · 28d

Great summary of where AI evolution is right now, and why the latest advances will really make a difference for a TON of users.

Mass Intelligence

From GPT-5 to nano banana: everyone is getting access to powerful AI

buff.ly

Paul Cancellieri @mrscienceteach.com · 29d

Love this balanced perspective from my neighbors in GCPS! Great plans always "go slow to go fast", right?

www.ednc.org/perspective-...

Paul Cancellieri @mrscienceteach.com · Sep 8

McSweeney's at its best–shining the light of satire on the lives of public school teachers and families.
buff.ly/XFuA2Ow

Paul Cancellieri @mrscienceteach.com · Sep 7

I will never tire of John Warner and his writing. It goes straight to the heart of an issue and (even when I sometimes disagree) brings the reader to an awakening of sorts.
buff.ly/zC4nrJE

Paul Cancellieri @mrscienceteach.com · Sep 6

If you haven't taken the time to read this FANTASTIC article from Esquire, now is the time. Painfully accurate depiction of the current state of affairs in the U.S.
buff.ly/Vfd82nm

1 1