Skilled reading requires students to become adept with many different cognitive processes. Being able to make inferences sets students up for success in reading comprehension. One of the best ways to develop automaticity with inference (being able to make inferences automatically) is explicitly teaching inference and providing numerous opportunities to practice. Download Everything You Need– for free! This free PDF guide will allow you to have all of the inference resources right at your fingertips. It's packed with checklists, book lists, lesson plans, anchor charts, practice activities, and more! The Basics of Teaching Inference It's important for most upper elementary students to understand the difference between inferences and predictions. This can be very difficult for students to understand though, so...
What is Conversational AI?We all remember conversing with a Chatbot at some point in our lives.And we also remember having to then connect with a Human because the chatbot couldn’t understand our query. It was simply too complex for the Bot to decipher. The customer support executive, however, could easily understand our intent and satisfy us with an appropriate solution.Conversational AI is the use of Machine learning and advanced algorithms where you interact with a computer naturally using audio, and the machine/computer understands the intent behind your query and responds accordingly. The response is usually in the form of audio, which mimics an actual human conversation and is the closest you can get to “speaking to a machine.” Ever used Amazon...
What if a language test could simulate real-time conversations? The DET’s latest item uses generative AI to do just that, allowing us to test language skills like never before—this is just one of the ways we use new technology to enhance how we measure language ability.Understanding “interactional competence”Imagine you’re a student and you’d like to ask your instructor for an extension on an assignment. Now imagine you want to invite a classmate to get together to study for an upcoming exam. You might use more formal language with your instructor, and be more casual with a fellow student… and that makes sense! These are two different requests, and two different power relationships, so your approach for each is going to...
While I don’t think I’d ever be frontrunner for any Peter Pan-themed trivia game in a hundred years, watching any reiteration of the tale feels a bit like riding a bike for the first time in years. Going through the familiar motions — crocodiles leering from the water, the looming threat of walking the plank, sass-talking between children and pirates — feels like flexing a set of nostalgic muscles. By choice or not, the story is ingrained in my subconscious (and presuming the American experience upon the average person, I won’t give a rundown of the synopsis — partly because my attempts to phrase this folktale into factual statements may seem more clunky than vibing out the impression that we kinda...
