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Is Big Testing driving secondary reading instruction?

I just read a Forbes article arguing that standardized testing companies have driven secondary English educators to abandon a focus on book-length literature in favor of short documents. Forbes is not exactly a scientific journal focused on careful research methods, … Continue reading

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AI added to the Brave browser

I have reached the point at which I no longer explore the most recent AI services and concentrate instead on a limited number of AI services for the work I do. This is efficient and also allows me insights into … Continue reading

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Consensus Discovery

Consensus is an AI-powered search tool that identifies and integrates sources on a user-defined goal. Responses to queries are based on an ever-expanding database of studies now mostly from Semantic Scholar. At this time there are approximately 200,000 studies in … Continue reading

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Three Kindles or a substack

I have no intention of abandoning the blogs I write and host, but I have been exploring what I would describe as collective hosting services – Medium and Substack. I have cross-posted a few of my blog posts to Medium … Continue reading

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PHET simulations

I have written about PHET simulations several times over the years. If I remember correctly, the originals were developed in Flash and with the demise of Flash, they have been reworked in HMTL5. New additions are constantly being added to … Continue reading

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Now on SubStack

I don’t know if this will be considered drifting over to the dark side or not. I have started adding a few of my posts to SubStack. I have no intention of requiring a subscription to view anything I cross-post … Continue reading

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