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Sample Super Mario Passages created by AI services

 3rd Grade Level Fiction- Bing AI Mario and Luigi were taking a walk in the Mushroom Kingdom when they saw a strange portal. They had never seen anything like it before. "What do you think it is?" asked Luigi. "I don't know," said Mario. "But let's go find out!" Mario and Luigi jumped into the portal and disappeared. When they opened their eyes, they were in a strange new world. The sky was purple and the trees were blue. Mario and Luigi had never seen anything like it before. "Where are we?" asked Luigi. "I don't know," said Mario. "But it looks like we're going to have an adventure!" Mario and Luigi started walking through the strange new world. They soon came across a group of friendly creatures called Yoshis. The Yoshis told Mario and Luigi that they were in the Land of Yoshi. "Welcome to the Land of Yoshi!" said one of the Yoshis. "We're so glad you're here." T

Switch Tracking and the SLP

My listening habits take some strange turns from time to time. I have been listening to Season 3 of the Revisionist History podcast recently.  While I wish I could “binge listen,” I have to slug it out and wait for the weekly updates.  If you haven’t listened to this podcast, you really must.  Malcolm Gladwell breaks apart issues in only his way- I often think of his delivery in twisting out your preconceptions about a topic and then serving them to you on a nice plate.  I also love how he says the word “years.”  But that’s just a speechie thing. I stumbled across the podcast “Hidden Brain” from Shankar Vedantam (NPR) today because there are no new Revisionist episodes and was immediately intrigued by the idea of switch tracking.  While it has a psychology/social science base in it’s research and discussion, I find there is a specific link to what we do in SLP. Switch tracking refers to the way in which we receive feedback from others.  For instance, someone gives you f

Keys to Improving Attention for Students

“I’m too poor to pay attention.” I would love to say I can take credit for that statement because it sums up my experience working in schools. Our students are experiencing more and more difficulty with attention in classrooms. As any good educator, I want to know.. “why?” Is it environment? have we inundated our students with too much technology?  have we put on the TV too early in life and not cultivated play?  have we put too much pressure on younger students thus causing a fallout of anxiety and inattention that is hard to dig out of?  is it what we are feeding our children? The dyes and chemicals that are wrecking the balance in their brains?  It could be all of these and more… is it nature?  are kids just born with more inattention than before?  have kids been like this and now we are overdiagnosing?  have kids been like this and our culture now frowns on a child with too much energy?  It also be these reasons and more… Causes and explanations aside, th