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The following was something I wrote for a course I took last year. I just found it again. ### I am currently working at Osaka YMCA International School as an Inclusion Teacher in Grades K-9. (An inclusion teacher is a learning support teacher.) I work with Tier 2 and 3 students to help them meet the expectations of the classwork. I also work with teachers to modify instruction to meet the needs of all the students in the class to help the class run more smoothly. I feel the de Oliveria, et. al. article sums my position up with the quote, "teachers need to be able to create inclusive learning environments where all students have the opportunity to succeed." (2019) This is exactly what my goal as an Inclusion Teacher. I am a native speaker of English having been born in the USA. For the majority of my adult life, I have lived in Japan. I was about to write that I have studied the majority of my time here, but thinking back on it again, that would not be a true statement. As I h...

Photo by  Jehyun Sung  on  Unsplash I was recently watching a video on YouTube. The person was telling an anecdote about Vince McMahon. Years ago, when he was running the WWE/WWF, he was be the deciding factor when creatives pitched their ideas.  All ideas ran through him and he solely had the power to approve or reject ideas. I think overall he was very successful, but the person narrating said that he would sometimes approve poor ideas that would eventually tank or be unsuccessful. It goes to show that there should be check on one's power by committee. What happens when the committee is ineffective?

Post by @power.ai View on Threads This video could be a good one to use for media literacy. I asked ChatGPT to use Stanford's Civic Online Reasoning framework to evaluate the video. The Civic Online Reasoning framework is the following: Fact checkers prioritize these questions: Who’s behind the information? What’s the evidence? What do other sources say? PROMPT I have an april fools video from google showing a self driving bicycle. I want to use it to teach media literacy using the Standford civic online reasoning  framework. help me think of some questions  I could ask about the video to verify if it is true or not. ChatGPT Certainly! The Stanford Civic Online Reasoning framework is a great tool for analyzing media content critically. Here are some questions you could use to assess the credibility of the April Fool's video about the self-driving bicycle: Source Evaluation: Who created this video? Is it from a reputable source? Does the source have a history of prod...

This is what Bing made for me when I described my blog post. I am an IB teacher. I have been teaching in IB schools for about the last 15 years. The other day my wife, who is a Japanese teacher at an IB school, was talking to me about her unit design.  When I was explaining the how I should structure her unit, I said the lines of inquiry and all the activities should help students build an understanding towards the Central Idea. This should also happen when anything happens in a school. Everything a school - or organization does - should be able to point back to to that vision or central idea. It is really a case of knowing and understanding your why.  What is your why?