N-gated Hacker NewsMay 23
Iowa lawmakers are on a mission to trick students into caring about intellectual freedom by forcing them into mandatory classes, because nothing says "freedom" like #compulsion. 🎓🤔 Expect enrollment to spike with all the excitement of a DMV line! 🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️
https://www.kcrg.com/2026/05/20/iowa-lawmakers-move-mandate-students-take-center-intellectual-freedom-classes-amid-low-enrollment/ #IowaLawmakers #IntellectualFreedom #Education #StudentEngagement #DMVLine #HackerNews #ngated
Iowa lawmakers move to mandate students take Center for Intellectual Freedom classes amid low enrollment

A last minute Republican legislative push could force University of Iowa college students to take classes at the newly-created Center for Intellectual Freedom. It's exactly what a report highlighted was needed to make the center successful.

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IndiaTutor.in TutoringPlatformMay 17
Want More Student Engagement in Online Classes? Discover Proven Teaching Strategies Used by Successful Tutors. Read Now: https://indiatutor.in/teacher-resources/top-teaching-strategies-to-engage-students-in-online-classes/ #OnlineTeaching #StudentEngagement #TeachingTips #IndiaTutor #TutorLife
Jess Torley (Wilson)Apr 12

Interesting Edutopia article by Cathleen Beachboard, 'Why Students Give Up on a Task—and What Teachers Can Do About It'

I guess not really anything new, but I found it a helpful reminder and clear statement of strategies to use in the classroom:

"Students today are often described as unmotivated when they struggle with challenging work. But motivation is not always the issue. Students begin the task—they open the laptop, pick up the pencil, and start thinking. They are ready to try. The challenge appears when the path forward becomes uncertain and the work becomes uncomfortable.

Persistence is the skill that carries students through that moment.

When teachers normalize struggle, encourage students to talk about strategies, and structure tasks into manageable steps, students stop seeing difficulty as a sign that they’re failing and begin to see it as evidence that they’re doing the kind of thinking that leads to learning."

https://www.edutopia.org/article/guiding-students-persist-work-gets-difficult?utm_content=linkpos1&utm_campaign=weekly-2026-04-08&utm_medium=email&utm_source=edu-newsletter

#Education #Teaching #StudentEngagement #Persistence #EduTooters #Edutopia

Why Students Give Up on a Task—and What Teachers Can Do About It

Students often start working on a task, but disengage if it gets difficult. You can use these three tips to encourage them to persist.

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Dr Leon FurzeSep 12, 2023

UNESCO Guidelines for Generative AI: Practical Applications for Schools

Following Digital Learning Week in Paris, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization published a comprehensive document containing guidelines for Generative AI (GAI) in education and research, and exploring the implications for policy. The guidelines are linked to the UN Sustainable Development Goals through Goal 4: ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, and reflect the "Education 2030" agenda of the […]

https://leonfurze.com/2023/09/12/unesco-guidelines-for-generative-ai-practical-applications-for-schools/

Dr Leon FurzeSep 26, 2023

Rethinking Assessment for Generative AI: Orals and discussions

This post is part of a series on rethinking assessment in light of generative AI. The posts draw on research and resources from K-12 and tertiary to suggest ways that educators can design engaging, compelling assessments which shift the narrative away from GAI and "cheating". In a previous post, I talked about the risks associated with trying to "catch" students, such as the ethical issues with detection software, the mistrust created by heavy-handed academic integrity policies, and the […]

https://leonfurze.com/2023/09/27/rethinking-assessment-for-generative-ai-orals-and-discussions/

Dr Leon FurzeFeb 5, 2023

Teaching Writing in the Age of AI

With Victoria the latest state to ban ChatGPT, teachers everywhere are grappling with the implications of the large language model and the impact it will have on the classroom. We know that banning and blocking technology is - at best - a temporary solution. Students will find ways around the blocks, and teachers will be faced with policing the technology and its use. Aside from the "cheating narrative", many teachers are also very hopeful of how the technology could be integrated into their […]

https://leonfurze.com/2023/02/06/teaching-writing-in-the-age-of-ai/

Dr Leon FurzeOct 3, 2023

Rethinking Assessment for Generative AI: Beyond the Essay

This post is part of a series on rethinking assessment in light of generative AI. The posts draw on research and resources from K-12 and tertiary to suggest ways that educators can design engaging, compelling assessments which shift the narrative away from GAI and "cheating". Click here for the previous post on oral assessments. There are plenty of good reasons to use the essay as a formal piece of assessment. Essays offer an opportunity for students to demonstrate their knowledge in a […]

https://leonfurze.com/2023/10/04/rethinking-assessment-for-generative-ai-beyond-the-essay/

Dr Leon FurzeJan 28, 2023

Creative but critical: How educators can learn to live with AI

December 2022 represented a step-change in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. With the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, suddenly the whole world (or at least the millions of users who logged in within a week of its launch) were talking about Large Language Models. LLMs represent just a portion of AI technologies, but ChatGPT shifted the public narrative in ways we hadn’t seen before, even with impressive image generation applications like DALL-E 2 and Midjourney. LLMs are a form of […]

https://leonfurze.com/2023/01/29/creative-but-critical-how-educators-can-learn-to-live-with-ai/

Technische Universität MünchenMar 11

Our university has once again received the "#EngagedUniversity" certificate by the Association of German #StudentInitiatives (VDSI).👏It is awarded to universities that support #studentengagement and enable responsibility beyond their studies: http://go.tum.de/515317

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TUM Receives "Engaged University" Certificate

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) has once again received the "Engaged University" certificate. The Association of German Student Initiatives…

KoodugalganeshanMar 8
At the 19th Annual Day of School4Change, Bala Murugan, an auto driver who voluntarily manages traffic every morning for student safety, was honored by Hari Haran.
Inspired by his community spirit, Koodugal Trust, along with students from School4Change, installed sparrow nest boxes in Rajiv Gandhi Nagar, Tondiarpet, **Chennai – 600081.
#SaveSparrows #UrbanBiodiversity #CommunityImpact #StudentEngagement #NatureInCities #Chennai #Koodugal