Some sharp artwork — via embroidery!

 

Culminating Art Projects That Boost Students’ Confidence — from edutopia.org by Mary Beth Hertz
At the end of the year, high school students enjoy the opportunity to create a final product dictated by their own interests.


Boosting Engagement by Taking Math Outdoors — from edutopia.org by Sandy Vorensky
Bringing elementary students outside for math lessons provides a welcome change of pace and a chance for new activities.


Using a School Mural Project to Showcase Students’ Growth — from edutopia.org by Gloria Sevilla
Step-by-step instructions from an elementary school educator whose annual mural assignment is displayed at the spring open house.


How to Help Students Avoid Procrastinating — from edutopia.org by Sarah Kesty
A simple strategy can help students map out their assignments in manageable chunks so they can stay on top of their work.

Long-term projects and assignments present a unique challenge for many students, requiring several layers of executive function skills, like planning and time management, to be able to manage steps over an extended period of time. Much to our frustration, students may procrastinate or avoid working on an assignment when it seems overwhelming. This can lead to late, missing, or incomplete work, or it can push students into a stressful all-nighter, as they complete an assignment designed to take weeks in the span of just a few hours.

An effective way to address the challenges of overwhelm and procrastination—and a way that requires only a tweak to your teaching instead of another task on your plate—is to teach students to “scan and plan.” Scan and plans happen during the introduction of an assignment, usually one that takes more than a few steps. Teachers organically fold in the scan and plan approach as a layer to the assignment’s announcement to the class.

 

7 ways to use ChatGPT’s new image AI — from wondertools.substack.com by Jeremy Caplan
Transform your ideas into strong visuals

7 ways to use ChatGPT’s new image AI

  • Cartoons
  • Infographics
  • Posters
  • …plus several more

 
 

Some sharp creativity and artwork!



 
 

An incredible musican/guitar player!

 

Some sharp photography, art, and creativity

 

Some sharp art and creativity

Mous Lamrabat’s Striking Portraits Put Unity, Love, and Compassion in Sharp Focus — from  thisiscolossal.com by Kate Mothes and Mous Lamrabat


 



Magic and Mystery Illuminate Hari & Deepti’s Paper-Cut Dioramas — from thisiscolossal.com by Grace Ebert and Hari & Deepti

 

Ethereal, Glowing Curtains Drape Over Lake Michigan in Reuben Wu’s Light Paintings — from thisiscolossal.com by Kate Mothes and Reuben Wu




Artist Spotlight: Jessica Vollrath — from booooooom.com by Staff and Jessica Vollrath


Colossal’s Top Articles of 2024 — from thisiscolossal.com


 

Where to start with AI agents: An introduction for COOs — from fortune.com by Ganesh Ayyar

Picture your enterprise as a living ecosystem, where surging market demand instantly informs staffing decisions, where a new vendor’s onboarding optimizes your emissions metrics, where rising customer engagement reveals product opportunities. Now imagine if your systems could see these connections too! This is the promise of AI agents — an intelligent network that thinks, learns, and works across your entire enterprise.

Today, organizations operate in artificial silos. Tomorrow, they could be fluid and responsive. The transformation has already begun. The question is: will your company lead it?

The journey to agent-enabled operations starts with clarity on business objectives. Leaders should begin by mapping their business’s critical processes. The most pressing opportunities often lie where cross-functional handoffs create friction or where high-value activities are slowed by system fragmentation. These pain points become the natural starting points for your agent deployment strategy.


Create podcasts in minutes — from elevenlabs.io by Eleven Labs
Now anyone can be a podcast producer


Top AI tools for business — from theneuron.ai


This week in AI: 3D from images, video tools, and more — from heatherbcooper.substack.com by Heather Cooper
From 3D worlds to consistent characters, explore this week’s AI trends

Another busy AI news week, so I organized it into categories:

  • Image to 3D
  • AI Video
  • AI Image Models & Tools
  • AI Assistants / LLMs
  • AI Creative Workflow: Luma AI Boards

Want to speak Italian? Microsoft AI can make it sound like you do. — this is a gifted article from The Washington Post;
A new AI-powered interpreter is expected to simulate speakers’ voices in different languages during Microsoft Teams meetings.

Artificial intelligence has already proved that it can sound like a human, impersonate individuals and even produce recordings of someone speaking different languages. Now, a new feature from Microsoft will allow video meeting attendees to hear speakers “talk” in a different language with help from AI.


What Is Agentic AI?  — from blogs.nvidia.com by Erik Pounds
Agentic AI uses sophisticated reasoning and iterative planning to autonomously solve complex, multi-step problems.

The next frontier of artificial intelligence is agentic AI, which uses sophisticated reasoning and iterative planning to autonomously solve complex, multi-step problems. And it’s set to enhance productivity and operations across industries.

Agentic AI systems ingest vast amounts of data from multiple sources to independently analyze challenges, develop strategies and execute tasks like supply chain optimization, cybersecurity vulnerability analysis and helping doctors with time-consuming tasks.


 





 

Masakatsu Sashie’s Mysterious Spheres Hover Over Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes — from thisiscolossal.com by Kathe Mothes and Masakatsu Sashie

 

Mikko Lagerstedt Photographs the Quiet Grandeur of Snowy Nordic Landscapes — from thisiscolossal.com by Grace Ebert and Mikko Lagerstedt


Color and Repetition Form Optical Rhythms in Daniel Mullen’s Geometric Paintings — from thisiscolossal.com by Kate Mothes and Daniel Mullen


 
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