A controlled intervention showed that relative to students in a comparable group, students who participated in the program “… reported more bonding to school, concern about doing well in school, ‘balanced’ possible selves, plausible strategies to attain these possible selves, better school ...
AI+ ethics curricula for middle school youth: Lessons learned from three project-based curricula International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (2022), pp. 1-59 CrossrefGoogle Scholar Williams et al., 2021 R. Williams, S. Kaputsos, C. Breazeal Teacher perspectives on how to train...
Regarding Negative School Culture (which is a real thing so must be capitalized): To the teachers I see who get easilypissed offaggravated by the students they teach, and complain about their students, I want to tell them it’s not the kid’s fault they are behaving that way: it’s br...
This paper reports on the ways in which a group of middle school students who received character education in elementary school define and experience character. The research was designed to improve our understanding of the meanings that the children ascribe to their character lessons in the long ...
Middle School Science Minute by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com) K12Science Podcast: Gemologist I was recently reading the November/December 2024 issue of “The Science Teacher” a publication of the National Science Teaching Association. In this issue, I read the “Care...
Best Short Stories for Middle Schoolers 1. Recitatif by Toni Morrison “The minute I walked in and the Big Bozo introduced us, I got sick to my stomach. It was one thing to be taken out of your own bed early in the morning—it was something else to be stuck in a strange place wit...
This study aims to explore the middle schoolers' common naive conceptions of AI and the evolution of these conceptions during an AI summer camp. Data were collected from 14 middle school students (12 boys and 2 girls) from video observations and learning artifacts. The findings revealed 6 naive...
I now enjoy working in online public school education as a Master Teacher. After 13 years, it’s still a fascinating profession and always earns me the “…huh?” look when I tell people what I do. My “classroom” and meetings are virtual, and I get to work from home. How cool ...
Job exhaustion is not uncommon among Chinese middle school teachers, but the key antecedents of job exhaustion and the underlying mechanisms in this historically underrepresented population remain poorly understood. This study examined the association between job demand and exhaustion, and tested the mediat...
Middle School Science Minute by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com) K12Science Podcast: The Importance of Math in Science I was recently reading the May/June 2024 issue of “Science & Children” a publication of the National Science Teaching Association. In this issue, I...