Cashatt's Corner (761 & 794)

Hi 3 rd , 4 th , 5 th grade friends!   I recently came across a resource that I think will be useful in your teaching of reading this year, particularly when it comes to reader response. I have heard from several of you, and know from my previous time in the classroom, that one of the most challenging things to teach can be text-dependent analysis. I think this tool may  help with that!   ChatGPT is a writing assistant that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate answers to questions in the form of an essay. I read Making New Tech Tools Work for Your Classroom from Edutopia and the blog  gave a few suggestions for using the app. One of the suggestions was using it to summarize a book that students are reading and have them evaluate   the summary for accuracy based on text evidence. You could also have the students discuss if there are any important ideas or details that were left out that should have been included.   Something else I thought migh...

Information literacy requires being able to locate and evaluate various sources to fulfill an information need. For many people, that means using technology or media of some kind . Reading through The Big6 (Eisenberg & Berkowitz , 1990 ), I recognized it as something I had both taught and used myself, while not knowing it had a formal name. I think we assume most people are information literate, but it appears to be the opposite many times . Information seeking is much more involved than typing a keyword or question into Google.      In some ways, technology has complicated the quest for information . Clay Johnson a lluded to this in The Liturgists   podcast episode . With the advent of the internet, and especially social media, the amount of mis-, dis-, and mal-information has increased dramatically (Gungor & Science Mike, 2017) . Locating credible sources and evaluating the information takes many more steps than it did when we could simply pull a ...