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Fighting distractions and disinformation in the age of AI
A course taught by UD professor Matt Kinservik gave Delaware K-12 teachers insight into digital distraction, disinformation and how generative AI is making the problems worse for students.
Yale National Initiative Fellows for 2025
Since 2005, teachers from New Castle County in Delaware have participated in the Yale National Initiative, which promotes the establishment of new Teachers Institutes based on a partnership between a high-need school district and a local college or university to improve teachers' content knowledge. Six teachers from Delaware have been named Yale National Fellows for 2025.
UD faculty invited to lead Delaware Teachers Institute seminar
University of Delaware faculty members have an exciting opportunity to shape the future of K-12 education by applying to lead a seminar for the Delaware Teachers Institute (DTI) for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Featured Fellows
Nancy Rudolph
Fellow
School: McKean High
District: Red Clay Consolidated School District
Reflection on the DTI experience:
“I am a 5-time Yale Fellow since 2007, and a 7-time DTI Fellow (since it began); also part of the Planning Committee to start DTI!
Teachers Institutes are the BEST Professional Development I have ever participated in. It is all of the best things about teaching ? collaborating with other teachers from different schools, states, grade levels, learning content, finding ways to help your own students, and ‘walking out’ with a product I can use in my classroom.
One highlight comes from my unit on Nanotechnology. My vocational students did research about a use of nanotechnology in their career areas and presented their findings to the class. The presentations were excellent and there was a lot of excitement and support during the presentations. They found similarities in the properties that made nanomaterials useful from one field to the next. Nanotechnology is an emerging field and my students are leaving high school with some background knowledge they can apply in college or to what they see or hear in the news.”