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This digital reconstruction of a face of a woman from the bronze age is really fascinating. This is a great way to weave AI/digital tech into history. "Dr Emily Hauser, the historian who commissioned the digital reconstruction, told the Observer: "She's incredibly modern. She took my breath away. "For the first time, we are looking into the face of a woman from a kingdom associated with Helen of Troy - Helen's sister, Clytemnestra, was queen of Mycenae in legend - and from where the poet Homer imagined the Greeks of the Trojan war setting out. Such digital reconstructions persuade us that these were real people.""

National Library week is coming up, April 6-12. here are some resources for it.

In a day when AI graphics are all the rage, more people are talking about the AI features built into Microsoft Paint. Here's a rundown of those features for those of you using PC's and without access to some of the other AI tools out there.

One of the most exciting things my college-bound seniors learned this semester is Notebook LM. Now, Google has rolled out three more features for students as they study for exams (many of which are college-level exams for my seniors.)

Discover sources is a new feature in Notebook LM that will let you find new sources to go into your notebook. As always, verify those sources.

"You can only take advantage of this offer if you are a full or part-time student at a degree-granting school in either the U.S. or Canada. Don't be dissuaded if you don't see your school when attempting to sign up for the offer: OpenAI has a support link to help find or add your school to the list. This tool may also confirmed whether your school is ineligible. You need to be physically present in the U.S. (and its territories) or Canada to sign up for this offer, too-VPNs will not work, unless its a whitelisted educational VPN. OpenAI says it'll confirm your student credentials through a service called SheerID. If the service is unable to verify you through your school's registrar office, or via your school's single sign-on service, you may need to provide SheerID with extra documents to prove your eligibility. SheerID says it only uses this data to authenticate your eligibility for this promotion, and does not sell or share your data with third parties."

AI may not be the writing boon that, well, AI claims it is. From the image study, Youngblood warned, "If consumers determine that AI images are poor quality or a bad fit they may hold that against your brand/product/services." The content study showed: 50.1% of respondents would think less of writers who use AI. 40.4% would view brands more negatively if they used AI-generated content. Only 10.1% would view the brands more favorably.

"Although it's still experimental, they hope the brain-computer interface could someday help give voice to those unable to speak. A new study described testing the device on a 47-year-old woman with quadriplegia who couldn't speak for 18 years after a stroke. Doctors implanted it in her brain during surgery as part of a clinical trial. It "converts her intent to speak into fluent sentences," said Gopala Anumanchipalli, a co-author of the study published Monday in the journal Nature Neuroscience."

For the first half of 2024-2025 overall K12 school attendance rates have improved, says eschool news, in a study that analyzed more than 1 million students in 143 districts. The overall rate is 93.45%. They noticed that 7th grade is the "tipping point" where attendance rates drop and chronic absenteeism rises. The report goes on to recommend early warning systems and proactive intervention. Perhaps this is a conversation for middle school teachers in your staff meeting this week.

I do agree with the "knowing the reasoning behind" and the ability to analyze photos and I also do use the "talk to ChatGPT" features in the car. If you're feeling like a beginner and want to sharpen up your ChatGPT skills, this is a good place to start.

If you use gmail, the new AI-powered search results factors in how you click on things, frequent contacts and they say that emails you are looking for are more likely to be at the top of your results. The new "most relevant" search results are rolling out now.

Tech and Learning has information on how this works and why they are so effective. If you don't have one, check it out!

Airpod Live Translation Coming soon? While we're talking Apple, the AirPods might get a live translation feature soon. It will be able to translate life in-person conversations from one language to another. When this happens, it will be truly a game changer for communications (and also possibly training data for the apple devices, but they are already full of data.) Could you imagine what this would do in ELA classrooms?

from Android Police shares some great tools to get the most of out of your phone when you're in the car if you have an android. On my iphone I love the live radar and the podcast apps that help me get the most out of my commute.

AI will soon be taking your drive-thru orders at 500 Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and KFC locations as they partner with nVidia starting in April and through June. Let's see how this goes.

I do this with my truth or fiction game but this approach helps students learn about how people manipulate media and is a simulation. I'm not sure I'll do with students until I spend some time testing it but the interface and approach are intriguing.

Ethan Kross, says that we spend ⅓ of our time focused on the past or the future and not living in the moment and we engage in those conversations with ourselves. The negative self talk can consume us as anyone who loves a personal struggling with mental health knows. This article says that if you can address yourself by name and use second-person pronouns in a strategy called "distanced self talk" that you can literally help yourself. There are other powerful strategies in this article and it is worth reading.