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09/03/2025

🔍 Rethinking Assessment in the Age of AI: From Output to Authentic Learning 🧠📊

With AI tools like ChatGPT generating high-quality responses in seconds, one big question is echoing across classrooms:

➡️ How do we assess real learning—not just polished output?

In this timely blog, we explore:
📝 The limits of traditional assignments in the AI era
🎯 Strategies for designing authentic, process-driven assessments
💬 How to encourage reflection, creativity, and student voice
🧰 Tools that support deeper learning and integrity in a tech-enhanced world

Assessment should evolve to meet the moment—and reflect what students truly know and can do.

📖 Read the full article: https://myibsource.com/a/blog/rethinking-assessment-in-the-age-of-ai-from-output-to-authentic-learning

💬 What changes are you making to your assessments in light of AI?

08/27/2025

⚠️ AI and the Race to the Bottom: How Automation in Education Risks Widening Inequity 📉🤖

As schools embrace AI to save time and stretch budgets, a hard truth is emerging:

➡️ Not all automation is progress—especially if it comes at the cost of human connection, depth, and equity.

In this powerful blog post, we explore:
🛠️ How AI can unintentionally prioritize cost-cutting over quality
🏫 The danger of widening gaps between under-resourced and well-funded schools
📉 Why reliance on automated tools could lead to “minimum viable teaching”
💡 What we must do to ensure AI supports—not erodes—transformative learning

AI can be a force for good—but only if we center people, purpose, and pedagogy.

📖 Read the full article: https://myibsource.com/a/blog/ai-and-the-race-to-the-bottom-how-automation-in-education-risks-widening-inequity

💬 How is your school using AI without compromising equity or educational integrity?

08/20/2025

💬 When AI Replaces Empathy: Preserving Human Connection in the Age of Intelligent Tutors 🤖❤️

As AI tutors and chatbots become more common in classrooms, one critical question emerges:

➡️ Can technology teach—and still care?

Our latest blog explores:
🧠 The risk of prioritizing efficiency over empathy
🫱 Why students still crave emotional presence and real relationships
🧭 How to strike the right balance between AI support and human touch
💡 Practical ways to keep connection at the heart of learning, even with AI in the mix

Because education is more than information delivery—it’s a human experience.

📖 Read the full article: https://myibsource.com/a/blog/when-ai-replaces-empathy-preserving-human-connection-in-the-age-of-intelligent-tutors

💬 How are you ensuring that AI complements, not replaces, the relationships that make learning meaningful?

08/19/2025

"📚 **How to Measure SEL Progress in Students** 🎯

Measuring Social Emotional Learning (SEL) progress is essential for evaluating the effectiveness of SEL programs and ensuring students develop key emotional and social competencies. Unlike traditional academic subjects, SEL growth is often qualitative, requiring a combination of assessment tools and observation methods to track progress accurately.

This guide outlines the most effective ways to assess SEL in students, offering practical strategies, real-world applications, and assessment tools for educators and administrators.

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08/13/2025

🛡️ AI-Resilient Teaching: Strategies for Designing Assignments That Promote Thinking—Not Cheating 🧠✍️

In the age of generative AI, it’s time to ask:

➡️ Are our assignments built to foster deep thinking—or are they too easily outsourced to ChatGPT?

Our latest blog explores how to design learning experiences that are:
✅ Resistant to AI misuse
✅ Rooted in process over product
✅ Focused on critical thinking, originality, and authentic voice

You’ll discover:
🎯 Practical assignment tweaks that discourage shortcutting
📚 Examples of tasks that AI can’t do well—but students can
🤖 Ways to embrace AI as a learning partner without compromising academic integrity

📖 Read the full article: https://myibsource.com/a/blog/ai-resilient-teaching-strategies-for-designing-assignments-that-promote-thinking-not-cheating

💬 How are you rethinking your assignments to stay ahead of the AI curve?



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08/12/2025

"📚 **How to Foster Self-Awareness in Students** 🎯

Self-awareness is a fundamental skill that helps students recognize their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. When students develop self-awareness, they gain a deeper understanding of their strengths, areas for growth, and personal values. This essential Social Emotional Learning (SEL) competency empowers students to set realistic goals, build confidence, and navigate challenges effectively.
Here are practical strategies educators and parents can use to foster self-awareness in students.

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08/06/2025

🌍 The AI Equity Gap: Who Has Access—and Who’s Left Behind? 💻📉

As AI tools reshape learning, a critical issue is coming into sharper focus:

➡️ Who gets to benefit from AI in education—and who doesn’t?

Our latest blog dives into the growing AI equity gap and explores:
⚖️ The disparities in access to devices, connectivity, and training
🏫 How under-resourced schools risk falling further behind
🧠 Why AI literacy must be part of every student’s education
🔧 Action steps to make AI tools inclusive, ethical, and equitable

If we don’t address this now, AI may amplify existing inequities instead of bridging them.

📖 Read the full post: https://myibsource.com/a/blog/the-ai-equity-gap-who-has-access-and-whos-left-behind

💬 How is your school or district working to close the AI equity gap?

08/05/2025

"📚 **How to Develop a Clear SEL Mission Statement** 🎯

A strong Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) mission statement is a guiding framework for schools and communities, ensuring all stakeholders—including educators, students, parents, and administrators—align on key SEL objectives. A well-crafted mission statement defines an SEL initiative's purpose, goals, and values
and establishes a long-term vision for fostering emotional intelligence and well-being in students.

This guide will explain the importance of an SEL mission statement, the key components to include, and actionable steps to create an impactful and effective statement for your school or community.

🚀 Start now: https://heyzine.com/flip-book/0ec7f0bf63.html

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07/30/2025

🧑‍🎓 What Students Really Think About AI: Insights from the Classroom 🎤🤖

We often hear what adults think about AI in education—but what about the students actually using it?

In this eye-opening blog post, we explore:
🗣️ Candid feedback from middle and high school students
📈 What excites them—and what concerns them—about AI
🤝 How student perspectives can (and should) shape AI integration in schools
💡 Tips for creating student-centered AI guidelines and classroom practices

Students aren’t just tech users—they’re active stakeholders in shaping the future of education. And their voices matter.

📖 Read the full article: https://myibsource.com/a/blog/what-students-really-think-about-ai-insights-from-the-classroom

💬 How are you involving your students in conversations about AI?

07/29/2025

"📚 **How to Build SEL Skills in Elementary Students** 🎯

Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is crucial to a child’s development. It helps them build self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making. Developing SEL skills enhances academic success, emotional intelligence, and positive social interactions for elementary students.
This blog post explores effective strategies, activities, and best practices to integrate SEL into elementary education.

🚀 Start now: https://heyzine.com/flip-book/bf053fd561.html

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07/23/2025

📘 AI Literacy Is the New Digital Literacy: What Should We Be Teaching? 🤖💡

In a world where generative AI is reshaping how we learn, work, and communicate, AI literacy has become essential—not optional.

🧠 But what exactly should we be teaching students?

In this timely blog post, we unpack:
🔍 The shift from digital fluency to AI fluency
🧭 Core components of AI literacy: transparency, bias, ethics, and use cases
🛠️ Classroom-ready strategies for building student understanding
💬 Why AI literacy is about empowerment, not just tech skills

Whether you're an educator, school leader, or curriculum developer, this article offers a clear framework to guide your AI integration efforts.

📖 Read the full post here: https://myibsource.com/a/blog/ai-literacy-is-the-new-digital-literacy-what-should-we-be-teaching

💬 What does AI literacy look like in your school?

07/17/2025

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