Saturday, November 29, 2025
Saturday, November 01, 2025
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Weekly Links (weekly)
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"ZENgaged: Effective Approaches for Teaching the Anxious Generation"
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PaintMyMap.com – Free Custom Map Maker & Map Chart Tool
"PaintMyMap.com is the easiest and most powerful way to make custom maps. Choose from world, continent, and country maps, or upload your own data (GeoJSON, TopoJSON, Shapefiles, KML, CSV)."
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How to create and use Google Gemini Gems in the classroom - Ditch That Textbook
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Saturday, August 30, 2025
Saturday, August 23, 2025
Weekly Links (weekly)
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Shifting Schools Mega-Prompt Playbook.pdf - Google Drive
When we model these conversations for learners, we demonstrate that when it comes to AI or any technology, it is always our critical thinking that needs to be in the driver’s seat.
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Teacher's Guide to Notebook LM
This video introduces teachers to Google’s NotebookLM, a powerful AI tool designed to support educators at all levels. Whether you're crafting lesson plans, reviewing dense curriculum documents, or designing accessible study materials, NotebookLM can help streamline the most time-consuming parts of the job. In this walkthrough, I demonstrate how to: Generate study guides in seconds Create podcast-style summaries from multiple sources Get feedback on lesson plans Build timelines, FAQs, and more
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Monica Burns
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Icons for school
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The AI Education Project Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education
Excite and empower students with crucial AI literacy lessons
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5E Pac-Man ReDesign Challenge Playbook CRCS Winter 2025 - Google Slides
This is the slide deck from my one-hour workshop featuring framing, suggestions for literacy integration, scheduling and pacing, and a couple of graphic organizers to help including my intention map. Feel free to use and share widely.
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Reading Journey Reflection: AI Mentorship Framework - Google Docs
This framework guides the implementation of an AI-based mentoring system designed to support students in developing reflective narratives about transformative moments in their reading lives. The mentorship takes place within an experimental writing class where students have sanctioned access to AI tools and participate in exploring the impact of significant reading experiences on personal development. When we position AI as an inquiry tool rather than a text generator, students develop sophisticated ways of testing both its limits and opportunities. They're preparing to integrate AI thoughtfully as both a research tool and editing assistant, but always on their own terms. Some might say this approach complicates what should be simple. But consider what we're gaining: 1. Student-designed assessment outcomes 2. Deeper engagement with writing process 3. Enhanced critical evaluation skills 4. Authentic technology integration 5. Empowered learner agency We're not just using AI – we're developing a new kind of writing pedagogy where students lead the investigation into its potential. The focus isn't on what AI produces, but on how we critically engage with it as writers. The real breakthrough happens when we trust students to help design the frameworks for meaningful AI integration in writing. Try out one of our prompts. Copy and paste the blue text in this Google doc into a secure AI model in order to start brainstorming:
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for educators in search of learning technology solutions. the EdTech Index provides educators better visibility into high-quality solutions.
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SimulateAI - AI Ethics Education Through Interactive Simulations
As AI advances, it brings with it a lot of ethical questions and challenges. SimulateAI is a free, interactive platform where students navigate high-stakes AI ethical dilemmas. From autonomous vehicle accidents to hiring bias to consciousness rights, each scenario invites users to make tough decisions, experience their consequences, and reflect on the moral complexity of real-world AI systems. Highlights include: 25+ branching narrative scenarios across medicine, transportation, justice, identity, and governance Customizable educator tools and assessment rubrics Emotionally resonant learning designed for ages 12–adult No sign-up, totally browser-based, works on any device
Saturday, August 02, 2025
Saturday, May 03, 2025
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100+ Breaks for students brains! Curated by Tony Vincent. https://learninginhand.com/snacks
Saturday, April 05, 2025
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Explore lessons from "unplugged" projects to creating chatbots and simple video games that strengthen students' AI literacy.
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Why Gemini Unlocking the potential of AI in your school Recording
a beginner-friendly session exploring the exciting possibilities of Gemini in education. Discover how to use this free generative AI tool, and learn how it can enhance teaching and learning, with a practical introduction to its key features and applications. Slidedeck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JaY7NLJI1hwi3JkdLCODt0NHy-VvRnFhvHwv4DaS9P8/template/preview Webinar Notes: http://bit.ly/whygemini_notebook
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for educators in search of learning technology solutions.
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an educational programme that offers cutting-edge resources on artificial intelligence and machine learning for teachers and students aged 11–14. Developed in collaboration by the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Google DeepMind, the programme supports teachers in the exciting and fast-moving area of AI, and gets young people passionate about the subject.
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AI Power Up: Supercharge Your Learning | UniSQ
Explore fundamental AI concepts and their transformative applications in the educational landscape. The goal was to create a resource that supported student understanding of AI for personal learning and with a focus on our universities current approach to AI integration into assessment. (Julie Lindsay) The resource is now also public: https://lnkd.in/gVRfdBgX
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Google NotebookLM for teachers: 10 things to know for educators
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Saturday, March 22, 2025
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UNESCO AI Framework 1-Pager.pdf - Google Drive
"UNESCO AI Framework 1-Pager"
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2025 EdTechTeacher AI in Edu Summit — Behind the Scenes of AI - Google Slides
Training an AI model
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This manifesto critically examines the unfolding integration of Generative AI (GenAI), chatbots, and algorithms into higher education, using a collective and thoughtful approach to navigate the future of teaching and learning. GenAI, while celebrated for its potential to personalize learning, enhance efficiency, and expand educational accessibility, is far from a neutral tool.
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Lessons by Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) - Image Generator
5 Image Generator
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Mainedoe AI Guidance Toolkit
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AI4K12 – Sparking Curiosity in AI
"The initiative is developing (1) national guidelines for AI education for K-12, (2) an online, curated resource Directory to facilitate AI instruction, and (3) a community of practitioners, researchers, resource and tool developers focused on the AI for K-12 audience. Check out the following information to learn about this initiative."
Saturday, March 15, 2025
Saturday, February 15, 2025
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AI for Educators: Actions to Drive Student Growth [Infographic] | EdSurge News
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Share of teens using ChatGPT for schoolwork doubled from 2023 to 2024 | Pew Research Center
"About a quarter of U.S. teens have used ChatGPT for schoolwork – double the share in 2023"
Sunday, February 02, 2025
ACTEM's ISTE+ASCD Virtual Book Study
DETAILS:
- Pre-registration is required ASAP, but not later than 2/5/2025. ACT QUICKLY so we can get the booked shipped to you!!
- Six (6) contact hours will be awarded to those who participate in all four virtual book study Zoom sessions.
- Registration includes shipping the book directly to YOUR preferred address.
MEETING DATES: [Four afternoon sessions from 4:30-5:30 PM]
- Thursday, February 13th, Meet & Greet with Alice Barr
- Thursday, March 6th
- Thursday, March 20th
- Thursday, April 3rd with Dr. Monica Burns
REGISTRATION FEE: ACTEM Members - $15 Non-Members - $35
PLEASE NOTE: ACTEM Individual Members should login with their membership email address to access the special $15 registration fee [Click the blue LOG IN link on the top right corner of ACTEM's home page - www.actem.org]
REGISTRATION LINK: https://www.actem.org/
Register today to so we can get your book shipped out promptly!
Saturday, February 01, 2025
Saturday, January 25, 2025
Saturday, January 18, 2025
Weekly Links (weekly)
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Anyone Can Code: Supporting Beggining - Google Slides
Jeff Bailey - ACTEM presentation
Saturday, January 11, 2025
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Teacher Tools - Flipped Classroom Tutorials
Welcome to my homegrown Teacher Tools page, where you’ll find a variety of easy-to-use educational tools designed to support teachers in both Primary and Computer Science classrooms. Each tool has been created with minimalistic design principles in mind, ensuring that students can focus on learning without unnecessary distractions. All tools are ad-free, fast-loading, and built using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, making them compatible with most devices, including interactive whiteboards and computers. These tools are especially suitable for students who may have learning difficulties or find themselves easily distracted, providing a clean, simple interface to enhance their learning experience.