MESD Digital Learning News

January 2023

Welcome!

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 Books of 2022
World Read Aloud Day
Multnomah County Library: Library Connect
ChatGPT Resources
News Literacy Week
Data Privacy Week
Monthly Tech Highlight: Helperbird
Google Educator Group Oregon
Upcoming ODE Digital Learning & EdTech Events

Best Books of 2022

Best Books 2022

The SLJ reviews editors and 22 educator committee members have selected 155 titles for this year's Best Books lists. We hope that you find a lot to cherish in these. Above all, we hope that every one of your readers will find among these pages that thing that rings true, sparks something inside, and shines a light in the darkness the way only a book can.

slj.com

The New York Public Library: Best Books of 2022

The New York Public Library is proud to present our Best Books of 2022. Our annual recommendations for kids, teens, and adults, curated by our expert librarians, encompass fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, poetry, kids' books in Spanish, and much more.

nypl.org

World Read Aloud Day: February 1st

World Read Aloud Day - LitWorld®

Join millions around the globe as we celebrate the power of reading aloud with World Read Aloud Day, held annually on the first Wednesday of February! As we begin the countdown to the next World Read Aloud Day on February 1, 2023, check out the Activity Hub below for free resources to help you celebrate reading aloud all year long.

litworld.org

Multnomah County Library: Library Connect

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Message from Multnomah County Library:

More than 113,000 K-12 public school students in Multnomah County have access to Multnomah County Library resources with Library Connect. We have 20-minute introductory and advanced videos for educators to learn more. Need help getting started? Contact us at libraryconnect@multco.us.

ChatGPT Resources and Approaches

ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue

We've trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in

openai.com

How Disruptive Will ChatGPT Be?

It depends. If educators use class time to present information and send the bulk of writing or work to be done at home, then ChatGPT could be incredibly disruptive. However, it will be less disruptive if educators are strategic about the tasks they ask students to do beyond the classroom and dedicate class time to supporting them as they work with process feedback.

catlintucker.com

Creative Learning Solutions in a ChatGPT World - A.J. Juliani

I leaned over the shoulder of a student in the library. She was quietly working with headphones in, and completely focused. What caught my attention is that she would continually lift her phone up over the textbook, and then jot something down on the paper to her left.

ajjuliani.com

ChatGPT, Chatbots and Artificial Intelligence in Education

Now, we're wondering ... Calculators.Search engines.Google Translate.Wikipedia.PhotoMath.#ChatGPT. They disrupt traditional teaching. We adapt. Education evolves forward. Blocking them isn't the answer. Making education more relevant is.- Matt Miller (@jmattmiller) December 14, 2022 Jump straight to a section (click a button below): ⭐️ Add thoughts, ideas, resources in the comments at the bottom!

ditchthattextbook.com

ChatGPT & Education

ChatGPT & Education Designed by Torrey Trust, Ph.D. @torreytrust This work is licensed under CC BY NC 4.0, meaning that you can freely use, remix, and share it as long as you give attribution and do not use it for commercial purposes. NOTE: This slide deck is a work in progress and will continue ...

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News Literacy Week: January 23-27

National News Literacy Week

This annual event, held in partnership with The E.W. Scripps Company, underscores the vital role of news literacy in a democracy and providesaudiences of all ages with the knowledge and tools to become more news-literate.

newslit.org

Data Privacy Week: January 22-28

Data Privacy Week

DATA: THE STORY OF YOU All your online activity generates a trail of data. Websites, apps, and services collect data on your behaviors, interests, and purchases. Sometimes, this includes personal data, like your Social Security and driver's license numbers.

staysafeonline.org

Join the CTA Data Privacy Week Training: January 25th

As part of the National Cybersecurity Alliance's Data Privacy Week, we want to share some techniques and approaches that you can use to protect your privacy online. Click here to register.

Monthly Tech Highlight: Helperbird

Literacy, Accessibility & Dyslexia Software

Helperbird is a browser extension that gives you the features to make the web more accessible and you more productive. Providing you with dyslexia fonts, dyslexia support, text to speech, overlays, dyslexia ruler, immersive reader, reader mode, annotations and more.

helperbird.com

Join the Oregon Google Educator Group

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GEGs bring local educators together to provide a forum to share, collaborate, and support each other in using technology in impactful ways with students.

GEG Oregon Meets Virtually every month. Our monthly meeting is always the second Thursday of the month at 3:30. Click here to get more details. All skill levels are welcome.

Upcoming ODE Events

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Teaching & Tech: Cadre Connection Corner

Teaching and Tech sessions are an opportunity for educators to come together on a monthly rhythm to learn something new, discuss digital learning problems of practice, talk about teaching with tech, and connect with other educators across the state! Sessions take place through Zoom on the first Thursday of each month, 4:00-5:00PM. You can join us every month or whenever able.

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