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Itwas a dramatic moment in a Guyot Hall laboratory as elementary school teacher Debbie Baker injected a syringe of red water into the underside of a mound of gelatin. Four other teachers huddled with rapt attention, then broke into whoops and gasps as a red stream erupted through the gelatin and gushed down the mound onto a cluster of Monopoly-game houses.

The mock disaster was a demonstration of the dynamics of volcanoes and lava flows. It was the kind of hands-on learning experienced by 57 New Jersey middle and elementary school teachers who participated in Princeton University's Quest program, which ran through Friday, July 18.


The Quest program brings local teachers together with Princeton scientists and students in a series of workshops aimed at enhancing their knowledge of science and inspiring new ways to present the material to students. The program is hosted by the University's Program in Teacher Preparation, in collaboration with the Princeton Environmental Institute and the Princeton Center for Complex Materials.


The year's Quest program was an emotional experience for many of those involved because it followed the recent death of Princeton physicist Aaron Lemonick, the longtime director of the program whose enthusiasm and teaching skill were legendary. Lemonick had been working up until his death at age 80 on plans for the astronomy workshop, which he led.


The recent heat wave in Princeton provided a perfect backdrop for the Summer Institute in Environmental Science, a program dedicated to helping New Jersey teachers broaden their knowledge about the environment and other science topics.


Although classes are no longer in session, the summer is a season of learning at Princeton University. Princeton students, faculty and staff will lead an array of on-campus programs for students and teachers from around New Jersey and beyond, with the goal of exposing them to cutting-edge research and building their skills in a variety of fields.


Carol Hill has been attending classes at Princeton University on and off since 1989. But she isn't a student. Hill, who teaches fourth grade at Grant School in Trenton, is one of approximately 1,300 teachers from schools across New Jersey who have come to Princeton University over the past 25 years to learn new and better ways to teach science through the QUEST Summer Institute.


From children's workshops to advanced scientific research, numerousoutreach programs are supporting a summer of learning on the Princetoncampus. Princeton students, faculty and staff are leading arange of programs this summer for elementary, high school and collegestudents, as well as teachers from around New Jersey and beyond.


You can become a professional educator, academically and technologically proficient in the science of art education. You will be knowledgeable, skilled and reflective in your practice and committed to the empowerment of students so as to develop their full potential. Build your own portfolio as a studio artist while learning cutting-edge educational methods.


Test your moxie under the supervision of your professors through the After School Arts program, which gives you hands-on authentic art education experience with elementary, middle school, and special-needs children. Prepare yourself under the direction of seasoned veteran teachers through multiple preprofessional experiences. Graduate with the skills you need to change the world, one young artist at a time.


Candidates in art education should be passionate about art, teaching, and children. Students should work to produce their own art, while continuing their personal study of art and the developmental theories of child art.


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Second-year special education teacher Samantha Dawson, 26, doesn't want to quell the back-to-school thrill she felt in 1990 when she walked into kindergarten at State Street Elementary School in Baden.


And the excitement of first days hasn't gotten old for Linda Szabo. On Monday, the 53-year-old will begin her 34th year in teaching, 26 of which have been in New Brighton Area School District, most as a special education teacher.


The long hair she sported in 1975 at Central Bucks West High School is now short and silver, and her eyes light like blue crystals when she talks about the lessons she's learned and the students she's taught.


"I wasn't boiling off 4.0 semesters. I was a regular-Joe student," said the 2007 Slippery Rock University graduate, who now teaches language arts, reading and a replacement math course to sixth- and seventh-graders.


Dawson co-teaches the special education students in the classroom with the regular classroom teacher, an approach called inclusion. In elementary school, she remembers special education students -- those with speech and hearing needs -- leaving the classroom in what was called a pullout system.


During the 29 years she taught special education in New Brighton, Szabo said the number of students with special needs has increased, and more special needs are addressed -- specifically behavioral problems and autism.


Dawson remembers working at a computer in the second and third grade (circa 1992). It had the old floppy disc, a large monitor that was an icky tan color and a printer that spit out reams of accordion-folded paper.


Whiteboards have replaced chalkboards. Interactive whiteboards let teachers project most anything, including information from the Internet. Last year, Szabo found a Pythagorean theorem rap on the Internet.


The district's cutting-edge technology requires teachers to become students. Sometimes, Szabo said, the students know more about the new-tech stuff than the teachers do. Today's computers, calculators and smart phones were their parents' and grandparents' encylcopedias, graph paper and slide rules.


"The kids want to use computers for everything, which doesn't work," Szabo said. Particularly with research papers, she said, because they don't know how to pull the information from the Internet. "They need some old-fashioned research teaching."


Teaching is good work that works best, they said, when the connection between the teacher and student goes beyond curriculum, technology, test scores and grades to life lessons about respect, values, truth and confidence.


Learning a new language can be challenging, but with cutting-edge technology such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), it has become more accessible and exciting. AI has recently become a trend in language education and has the potential to revolutionize the way we learn languages.


This article explores the challenges of learning a new language and the solutions provided by AI, including Duolingo, Praktika.ai, and Class Point AI. We also share successful stories of using AI in education and discuss the limitations and future of AI in language learning. We hope this article will encourage you to explore the exciting possibilities of AI in language education!


When learning a new language, people often face several challenges. The most common examples include fear of speaking, getting intimidated at the pre-intermediate level, lack of time, and the inner voice. Most teachers are aware of these challenges and address them in various ways. They often help students overcome the fear of speaking by explaining their mistakes as a natural flow of the learning process and encourage students to excel, noted Spence.


However, it is essential to note that AI is still new to society and faces some technical limitations. There is a need for massive training data and difficulties in generalizing across use cases, concluded the McKinsey study on AI, automation, and the future of work. Nevertheless, researchers are working hard on addressing the issues, and AI will likely play an integral role in language learning in the coming years.


Another solution to these challenges is using cutting-edge technology such as artificial intelligence. McKinsey highlighted that AI-powered language translators and assistants, including Apple\u2019s Siri and Amazon\u2019s Alexa, are already being used by some people as a way to learn a new language. On top of that, BBC reported that many people have discovered the benefits of AI-based chat for language learning. A vivid example is \u201Ca Costa Rican who works in the construction industry found that his AI-powered keyboard has been useful in polishing up his technical vocabulary in English.\u201D Another remarkable instance of using AI comes from South Africa: \u201CA South African caf\u00E9 owner improves his Spanish grammar with the aid of AI by using ChatGPT to quickly generate and adapt study aids like charts of verb tenses.\u201D The list of examples can go on forever.

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