I often think of soundscapes as a collection of audio in nature or the out of doors but check out the blog post from Of the People Widening the Path - by 2024 CCDI Junior Fellow Janiya Peters as she uses Audio to Explore the Cotton Gin as a Technological Artifact and take a listen to how she integrated primary sources with technology.  Pretty powerful!

Sharing the videos of Library 2.0's conference on school libraries and artificial intelligence. All panels and presentations are available for free on their YouTube channel and can be accessed on the page linked. 

Presentations include: 

• College-Developed AI Ethics Guidelines for K-12 Teachers and Librarians
• How AI Can (Ethically) Supercharge Student Research
• Personalizing Test Prep Using AI
• Literacy Reborn - Chapter 3 - Never-ending Ai Explosions
• Empowering Students with Free AI-Powered Homework Help
• AI Prompt Engineering for Teacher-Librarians
• Captivate & Click: Using AI to Craft Engaging Library Social Media & Canvas Posts
• Librarians Lead the Way to AI Integration
• Canva AI Magic: 20+ Tricks to Transform Librarians and Teachers into Design Wizards
• Beyond the Shelves: A Novel Approach to Book Talks and Literacy in School Libraries
• Using Historical Figure Chatbots to Gain Perspective, Uncover Bias and Foster Innovation
• Ethics of Generative Artificial Intelligence
• The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Navigating AI in Schools and Libraries

I don't know about you all, but all the AI resources are a bit overwhelming at times and hard to get in front of. The best advice I've heard is to educate and inform about these technologies so that we aren't dealing with the same lack of skills the beginning of the internet age brought us. 

Irresistible : poetry in motion! STEAM in action.   3 - 5    6 - 8    9 - 12    13+    Technology    Science    NASA    Europa    Poetry  

Hold the laughter. There is science here. Parrots seem to be able to acquire the skills to call out using video chat and it seems they are making the requests often.  There's a lot to be learned here (and students might have fun reading this) as 18 parrots were enrolled in this experiment. 

Science, STEM, and TPS Commons -- wasn't sure how to post this so I'll simply share.  

Serious discussion could include pros and cons, and historical research into behavior modifications with monkeys (think Pavlov).  

My favorite quote: "Video calls should be deployed thoughtfully, giving the birds agency and putting their welfare first, they [scientists] said."

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From the School Library Journal. Mentions Library of Congress Twitter feed as well as other tools.

What are some helpful tech tools that you use in your classroom or library?