Tag: Risk

NotebookLM Digital Safety Parent Guide

The Digital Minefield Parent's Guide to Online Dangers infographc generated with NotebookLM.

I had a list of items that were concerning enough that I wanted to share with my 6th graders’ families. I just couldn’t figure out the best way to share it all. I started by giving NotebookLM a try. I added links to the 10 or 11 articles I collected. Here is the NotebookLM with …

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Is Variety Better?

Coming up on the last two weeks of school I started to reflect on something I’ve maybe been taking for granted. I’ve noticed that I offer my students variety. Variety in Science instruction (and curriculum to an extent), variety in integrated technology and variety in how students show what they are learning. Lately I’m wondering, …

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Inspiring Our Students

One of my 8th graders showed me this thought piece she wrote (this is what she decided to call it since it made the most sense, I called it a story and she said that it wasn’t exactly a story). It was just the kind of piece that I thought would fit perfectly in this …

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