3️⃣ ways to differentiate content in our classrooms.
👀 Watch, learn, ask questions—& if you want more ideas, I recommend checking out the recent Would You Rather series on my blog: https://t.co/EIDoXDqSze
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Introduce your students to Career Dreamer, an experiment from #GrowWithGoogle that uses AI to help them explore career possibilities in a simple and playful way. It identifies paths that might align with existing skills, experiences, and interests. 🧠 🤔 https://t.co/aZR4UmfV6z
Our Literacy Coordinator, Sara, and I hosted another AI training to a small but mighty group about Empowering Student Writers using AI. Such rich conversations and ideas from teachers, instructional coaches, district admins, and even a retiree!
A school in Antwerp, Belgium, is using AI apps and other Microsoft technology to connect its 425 students — who speak 70 different languages. And it is a measurable success. https://t.co/OYMvpAFjPX
🚨TEMPLATE ALERT🚨
When your students are ready to take charge of their own project, but they still need guidance. USE THIS!
https://t.co/ykecuiTiIQ via Templates for Teachers
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🚀 After implementing research-based instructional strategies, our #TTA teacher shared their insights! 📚✨ Lots of great ideas that boost student engagement & learning. Keep inspiring! 🔥👏 #RBIS@TechECISD
📢 It’s #BeAnAuthor Month! 📢
Calling all educators and young storytellers—this is your time to shine! ✨
📚 What’s happening this month?
✅ Inspiring webinars with expert educators
🏆 The #BeAnAuthor competition—get your students' stories published!
📝 A treasure trove of writing resources to spark creativity
💡 Ready to ignite a love for writing in your classroom? Explore the Be An Author hub now! → https://t.co/7suva4Co2I
#StudentVoices #CreativeWriting #EdTech #BeAnAuthor
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Create a 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆 🤝 for designing meaningful collaborative learning tasks in the classroom!
✅ Download my template for support ➡️ https://t.co/MW9ESIVBO9
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Troubleshoot the flipped classroom!
Get 3️⃣ of my go-to strategies + a walkthrough on how to move flipped instruction into the classroom 💥
Now on The Balance podcast—recommended listening by @Edutopia 👉🏻 https://t.co/qEOFaj4Wnp
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I found some other smaller announcements or "announcements of announcements" but those are the main interesting things I found.
Again, please let me know if I'm missing anything from this week.
I've been out of the loop most of the week and playing some catchup on all the AI news from this week.
Here's what I've got:
- OpenAI shares roadmap with 4.5 coming soon and o3 on hold
- OpenAI makes Deep Research available on mobile app
- Elon tries to buy OpenAI for $97.4B
- Perplexity introduces Deep Research for all users
- Perplexity adds file uploads to free users
- Google's Gemini Advanced now remembers past chats
- Adobe launches its Firefly video model
- Luma launches Ray2 Image-To-Video feature
- YouTube rolls out Veo2 into YouTube shorts
- YouTube shared upcoming AI features to help creators with titles, thumbnails, and dubbing
- US VP, JD Vance, speaks on US AI dominance at AI Action Summit
- Christie's announces an AI Art auction
Again, I've been sick so I'm sure I missed quite a bit. Let me know about (and link me up to) any other news that I might have missed.
I'm sharing the sources to all of the above in the thread below so you can dig deeper.