MESD Digital Learning News

January 2024

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Welcome to the MESD Digital Learning Newsletter! This monthly newsletter includes resources and information to support digital learning in the classroom to empower students to become active critical thinkers, creators and responsible digital citizens.

This month's newsletter includes:

Best of 2023
Monthly UDL Resources
AI Resources
Monthly Tech Highlight: MagicStudent

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Best of 2023

Top Booklists of the Year

Who doesn't love a booklist? SLJ's got 'em. From Best Books and Refreshing the Canon-our joint effort with NCTE-to Spanish-language picture books and titles on non-apparent disabilities, our most popular booklists of 2023.

slj.com

Google Play's best apps and games of 2023

We're announcing Google Play's Best of 2023 awards, celebrating the best apps, games and books of the year.

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Our favorite Chrome extensions of 2023

Here are some of our favorite Chrome extensions from this year to help you get work done and have fun.

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New Resource: Learning for Justice Media Literacy Page

Media Literacy Resources

Critical thinking skills are imperative for resisting harmful disinformation and countering hate and bias. Educators, parents and caregivers should be essential partners in introducing media literacy concepts to children and young people.

learningforjustice.org

Digital Literacy

Digital and Civic Literacy Skills The internet is an amazing tool for teaching and learning. But, before we can teach students to harness its power and become good citizens of the web, we need to understand the intricacies of how it works and how it can be manipulated to mislead and even harm users.

learningforjustice.org

Monthly UDL Resources

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The Shift to Student-Led | Workflow #1: Shifting From Transfer of Information to Student Discovery

AI Resources

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Prompt Library - AI for Education

We have a variety of prompts to help you lesson plan and do administrative tasks with GenAI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, Bard, and Perplexity.

aiforeducation.io

AI Snapshots - aiEDU

Educator Empowerment Professional Learning Project Dashboard AI Snapshots Intro to AI AI in 5 Minutes AI Challenges AI Trailblazers Fellowship

aiedu.org

Monthly Tech Highlight: MagicStudent

MagicStudent

The MagicStudent platform is designed for building AI literacy for students. You can expect that if you're a teacher using MagicSchool's AI tools for educators, MagicStudent will be familiar when you bring it to students.

magicschool.ai