Elevate Academic Solutions

This is an important article for families who think “educational”computer programs & games are improving their students real learning. The data show that you just can’t beat the gains that come from the difficult mental work of a rigorous curriculum.

I’m hoping you can access this gift article. If you can’t but would like to read it, let me know.

Opinion | You Can’t Game Your Way to a Real Education (Gift Article) Technology must return to its proper place in the classroom — as a supplemental tool rather than the source and summit of education.

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Beware the Algorithms
A humorous reel by H. Pray

Understand Journalistic Genres
A student-drawn art reel by N. Dickson

Be Aware of the Illusion of Choice
A cool special F/X reel by J. Glaser

Check Fact & Source Credibility
An A.I-collaboration project by T. Correlli

Identify Bias--Yours & Theirs
An excellent project by S. Glaser

Our American Comp & Lit course has wrapped for the year, and I'm excited to share some of my students' final projects. Our Post-Truth Media Project required students to create an original reel and to repurpose a well-known meme to teach teens strategies for navigating media and news sources.

Students worked with ChatGPT to generate a rough draft script that they revised and edited to meet project requirements.

In this post I'm including all of the memes students created for 6 of the 8 strategies they learned.
Identify Bias–Yours & Theirs
Check Fact & Source Credibility
Be Aware of the Illusion of Choice
Understand Journalistic Genres
Acknowledge Bad Actors
Beware the Algorithms
Triangulate Information
Avoid Rushing to Positions

Homeschooling parents need to be aware of overly gamified curriculum. Listen to Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation” and “The Coddling of the American Mind,” explain why.

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@jonathanhaidt appeared on @armchairexppod today to sound the alarm on #edtech and the mass migration of childhood to the virtual world. Highly recommend listening to the full interview! Parents can get additional resources on ed tech safety at @techsafelearning.