How AI Helps Our Students Deepen Their Writing (Yes, Really) (Opinion) Since ChatGPT’s release, we have witnessed generative AI’s potential to push our 9th grade English students in ways that have surprised us. With ethical safeguards and guidance, they rise to the challenge of analyzing and questioning AI’s responses. Rather than viewing the technology as a way to cut corners or an unquestionable authority, our readers and writers use its responses to deepen their writing and thinking. For a number of years, we have used in our classrooms the workshop model where the emphasis is always on process and discovery. Whether our students are drafting a personal narrative or crafting a polished argument, we guide them to embrace the messiness of writing. The workshop model is not just a structure for our classes but an educational philosophy that centers student ownership and authentic voice. In that frame, we present AI as another tool within the workshop, one that offers insights that may or may not be applicable. Visit For More:- https://vexrobotics.ai/how-ai-helps-our-students-deepen-their-writing-yes-really-opinion/ #AI #AIinEducation #ArtificialIntelligence #EdTech #FutureOfEducation #EdTechAI #EducationTechnology

Time for an update! 2025 continues it's crazy trajectory and we've now hit full throttle! People continue to hint at me writing books about our wild food and medicine escapades. The textbook idea is taking shape, and I've decided the herbal compendium will be a trip through history as we follow herbal medicine as far back as we can. Currently, that promises to be a food and medicine list of at least 217 foods, herbs and spices, just under half the current number of plants in my nutrtional/medicinal wholefood database. Just today, someone hoped my foraging notebook had more in it than just the basics of how to forage for wild foods. So I may take parts of my "textbook" and build both a "herbs in the Central Okanagan" book, and either share in it or share in yet another book, the experiences we've had with using wild herbs as our pharmacy at home. ANNOUNCEMENT TO CENTRAL OKANAGANITES!!! The Advanced Foraging Workshop: Thistle Dip and Breaded Thistle spears, is coming up June 28th and we have two people already registered! The last day to register is June 7th. For those who like to pay in person, come see us at Booth 105 in the Vernon Rec Centre in the hallway between the Auditorium and the gym. If you want to catch us in person before Creative Chaos, come to see us at the Rutland Flea Market on June 1st. https://naturalhealthgodsway.ca/2025/05/25/book-fair-and-workshop-update/

Former CBC reporter mocked Pope's funeral, compared Poilievre to Hitler! Global Affairs Canada refused to comment on self-published writings by Neil Macdonald, a former CBC reporter and spouse of Canada's Ambassador to the Vatican. 🇨🇦 #MarkCarneyCantBeTrusted 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #NoMoreLiberalsAndNDP 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #SayingTheQuietPartOutLoud 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #JustSayNoMore 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #CarneyLies 🇨🇦 https://www.rebelnews.com/former_cbc_reporter_mocked_pope_s_funeral_compared_poilievre_to_hitler

We are a couple days away from the Arrowleaf Balsamroot Advanced Foraging Workshop on Saturday. Registration closed for this one back on May 3rd. The next Advanced Foraging Workshop is June 28th, and will cover making yummy foods with the flower buds of Canada Thistle, and the leaf ribs of Scotch Thistle. Right now, early registrants for the Thistle workshop are in Vernon. As I do not know the trails around Vernon very well, I am open to anyone telling me where they've seen both canada Thistle and Scotch or Bull Thistle on public-use land. Foraging has exploded this year. We are seeing evidence of other foragers, so for those reading this who also forage, remember the 5% rule! Never take more than 5% of any given patch so that animals and people coming behind you can avail themselves of the abundance too. The textbook-writing idea is slowly taking shape. I've come to the conclusion that we are not traditional herbalists, we are phytotherapeutic herbalists! As I start writing my textbook dig up research to confirm what I want to say and verify or add to it, discovering why colleges teach backward herbalism, labelling it as Traditional, is a slap in the face and explains why so many believers are so wary of anyone who claims to be a Christian AND claims to be a herbalist or healer. My textbook will teach a version of Western Herbalism I am terming: The Phytotherapeutic Herbalist! The working title for the book is A Christian Perspective on Western Herbalism. If you know people who would like to be kept in the loop about this book, tell them to register for this newsletter. They can visit the site to do that, or you can forward my newsletter emails to them and they can respond asking to register for the newsletter. https://naturalhealthgodsway.ca/2025/05/15/foraging-escapades-writing-and-workshops/

“Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That’s not democracy—it’s tyranny in disguise. What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD—which took second in the recent election—but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies.” The German Foreign Office even responded, writing: “This is democracy. This decision is the result of a thorough & independent investigation to protect our Constitution & the rule of law. It is independent courts that will have the final say. We have learnt from our history that rightwing extremism needs to be stopped.” https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/what-hell-going-germany-hungarian-pm-orban-trashes-germanys-tyrannical-move-against

The research, commissioned by World.org, uncovered a troubling reality: when tested, only 30% of participants could correctly identify which business reviews were written by humans versus AI. Of the three options written by people, two ranked at the very bottom of the list, demonstrating how challenging it has become to recognize genuine human writing. https://www.technocracy.news/is-realty-vanishing-ai-makes-americans-suspicious-of-everything-on-the-internet/

Is Elon Musk Quietly Instituting technocracy in America and the World? WATCH HERE: https://rumble.com/v6ky4xy-is-elon-musk-quietly-instituting-technocracy-in-america-and-the-world.html Derived from Technocracy News and Trends Website. Find the entire article and supplementary related writings here: https://www.technocracy.news/what-is-everybody-missing-about-elon-musk-he-is-instituting-technocracy/

Update (1545ET): Politico has responded to the controversy, writing in a Thursday memo that they have "never received any government funding — no subsidies, no grants, no handouts. Not one dime, ever, in 18 years," but that $27 million in government subscriptions to "Politico Pro" is simply "a transaction," akin to the government buying "research, equipment, software and industry reports." https://www.zerohedge.com/political/politico-ny-times-propped-millions-dollars-us-government

What does "health" mean to you? Does it refer to the state of your body, or the state of your relationships, or your emotional state, or what's on the plate at dinner? In reality, it's all those things and more. One of the ways I offer to assist you in your health journey, is helping you understand the connection between how you handle life, and how your body responds to it. We like to talk about good stress and bad stress, but to the body, it's all just "stress". Life has it's stresses for sure, and how we deal with them is incredibly important to our mental, emotional, social, relational, and physical health. Before I obtained my NHP, I was writing about stress and it's effects on the mind and body over on my author blog. This is one of those articles: https://songdove.fa-ct.com/wordpress-mu/songdovemusings/2022/02/28/de-stressing-gods-way-and-what-to-watch-out-for/ (actually considering copying this article to my coaching blog)