Liz Smith

Former Career & Tech Teacher and EdTech Coach | Now supporting IT for a large public school system. Exploring how #AI is revolutionizing education.

[Liz Smith @teachMrsSmith]

@capitalweather That app is awesome! So glad you’re outside the pay wall. I’ll happily donate to the cause.

[Liz Smith @teachMrsSmith]

This school year, I built a few @Google Scripts + Workspace school-based solutions using @ChatGPT and @Gemini but what I’m building now with @Codex will change my daily operations. Codex is a game changer.

[Rohit @ai_rohitt]

Claude just dropped 13 free AI courses (with certificates).

No $500 course needed.

No “guru” required.

Just real skills, straight from Anthropic.

Here’s the full list:

1. Claude 101
https://t.co/9bQ7NlWwmL

2. AI Fluency: Frameworks & Foundations
https://t.co/2H6Wr4eOWN

3. Introduction to Agent Skills
https://t.co/qozyrdLwyV

4. Building with the Claude API
https://t.co/60bwB2FFQ0

5. Claude Code in Action
https://t.co/88VdISzLIi

6. Introduction to Model Context Protocol
https://t.co/EQrdwEQZdQ

7. MCP: Advanced Topics
https://t.co/3pDv4Bpdgk

8. AI Fluency for Students
https://t.co/nLWu1PbxVa

9. AI Fluency for Educators
https://t.co/kRz3G2gMOp

10. Teaching AI Fluency
https://t.co/8MLctE9O4L

11. AI Fluency for Nonprofits
https://t.co/qGuWQiV5lI

12. Claude with Amazon Bedrock
https://t.co/HCPSbQ72nv

13. Claude with Google Vertex AI
https://t.co/0NKyFoZ1a6

If you go through even half of these, you’ll be ahead of 95% of people using AI.

Most people won’t.

Because they’re still watching random YouTube videos, buying overpriced courses, or “learning AI” without actually building.

Don’t be that person.

Do this instead:

1. Bookmark this post (you’ll come back)
2. Pick 1 course and start today
3. Share it with someone who needs this

👇Comment "Course" for more resources.

Free. Practical. No excuses.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Mark Cuban just described the largest wealth transfer of the AI era.

Almost nobody understood what he said.

Cuban: “There are 33 million companies in this country. Aren’t going to have AI budgets. Aren’t going to have AI experts.”

Not tech startups.

The shoe store. The regional trucking outfit. The accounting firm with 12 employees.

The businesses that actually run the physical economy.

They know AI is coming. They have no idea what to do with it.

Cuban: “You’ve got the head of Microsoft saying software is dead because everything’s going to be customized to your unique utilization.”

Software is dead.

The SaaS era ran on one rule. Build a generic product. Force millions of companies to bend their workflows around it. Charge rent forever.

AI ends the contract.

The business stops bending to the software. The intelligence bends to the business.

But customized by whom.

The third-generation manufacturer cannot tell Claude from Gemini. The county hospital is staring at a reactor asking where the light switch is.

Cuban: “Who’s going to do it for them?”

That question is worth more than the frontier models themselves.

Hundreds of billions are being burned to build the foundation. The smartest engineers alive are locked in a bloodbath over who owns the base layer.

Let them fight.

Let them burn the capital. Let them drive the cost of raw intelligence toward zero.

Because the wealth does not collect where the brain is built.

It collects where the brain meets the business.

Every ambitious kid in college right now thinks survival means a seat at OpenAI or Anthropic.

Cuban is staring at the other 99 percent of the economy.

Learn the models. Then learn the messy, unglamorous reality of how a 50-person company actually operates.

Walk through the door. Understand their problems. Wire the intelligence directly into their revenue.

That is not a job title. That is an entire economic class being born.

You do not need to build the brain. You need to build the nervous system.

The biggest winners of the electricity era were not the engineers who built the generators. They were the ones who walked into dark factories and showed the owners where to plug in.

33 million companies are standing in the dark right now.

Silicon Valley is racing to build the god. The fortunes will belong to whoever teaches him a trade.

[HokieFan @Bluegrass504]

Happy Birthday, Derek Smith!!

🎉🎂🎈🎊🎁🎉🎂🎈🎊🎁

#Hokies OT Derek Smith was a 3rd-team All-American in 1998. He was drafted by Washington in 1999.

🦃 #ThisIsHome

[Jason Walls @walls_jason1]

Yesterday Mark Cuban reposted my work, DM'd me, and told me to keep telling my story.

So here it is.

I'm a Master Electrician. IBEW Local 369. 15 years pulling wire in Kentucky. Zero coding background. I didn't go to Stanford. I went to trade school.

Every week I'd show up to a home where someone just bought a Tesla or a Rivian. And every time, someone had already told them they needed a $3,000-$5,000 panel upgrade to install a charger.

70% of the time? They didn't need it.

The math is in the NEC — Section 220.82. Load calculations. But nobody was doing them for homeowners. Electricians upsell. Dealers don't know. And the homeowner just pays.

I got angry enough to build something about it.

I found @claudeai. No coding experience. I just started talking to it like I'd explain a job to an apprentice. "Here's how load calcs work. Here's the NEC code. Now help me build a tool that does this."

6 months later — @ChargeRight is live. Real software. Stripe payments. PDF reports. NEC 220.82 calculations automated. $12.99 instead of a $500 truck roll.

I'm still pulling wire. I still take service calls. I wake up at 5:05 AM for work.

But something shifted.

Yesterday @vivilinsv published my story as Claude Builder Spotlight #1. Mark Cuban saw it. The Claude community showed up. And for the first time, I felt like this thing I built in my kitchen might actually matter.

I'm not a tech founder. I'm a dad who wants to coach little league and be home for dinner. I just happened to build something that helps people.

If you're in the trades and thinking about using AI — do it. The barrier isn't technical skill. It's believing you're allowed to try.

https://t.co/cDVdY5mcLv

[Peter Agboola @baba_Omoloro]

Anthropic has launched free courses to master AI with certificates for $0.00

https://t.co/hwJvuJHIdo

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg

[Google @Google]

We’re launching full-length, on demand practice exams for standardized tests in @GeminiApp, starting with the SAT, available now at no cost.

Practice SATs are grounded in rigorously vetted content in partnership with @ThePrincetonRev, and Gemini will provide immediate feedback highlighting where you excelled and where you might need to study more.

To try it out, tell Gemini, “I want to take a practice SAT test.”

[FREEDOM (FSR) HS VARSITY FOOTBALL @FSR_Varsity_FB]

Today's FSR Varsity Football Coaching Staff Highlight recognizes Coach Derek Smith (Offensive Line). Coach Smith is new to FSR Football, but has already made an enormous impact on our program and players. We are greatful to have him be an Eagle @FHSSOUTHRIDING @UtProsim74

[Derek Smith @UtProsim74]

3-0 #OneHeartbeat

[FREEDOM (FSR) HS VARSITY FOOTBALL @FSR_Varsity_FB]

Shoutout to our BIG guys upfront! #beautiful - Coached by the best @UtProsim74

@novafootballpod @BURGSportsnet @LoCoSports

[Liz Smith @teachMrsSmith]

@LoMcanaw @HoyaSoftball @VGWillemssen @FrederickSports @SSN_Softball @d1graphicsco @urbanahawksSB So happy to hear! Congratulations!!!! Georgetown got a great one. 🎉

[Liz Smith @teachMrsSmith]

@OaktonHS

[Derek Smith @UtProsim74]

Ran into Girls bball legend (& friend) Fred Priester this weekend. Ended up talking football in between bball games. ���. He gave me this article about the SLED. Truth!

[Liz Smith @teachMrsSmith]

This is a long read but an important one. In education, we have the biggest task of figuring out how to prepare our students for this future. ⁦⁦ https://t.co/y4khVEoxRa

[Liz Smith @teachMrsSmith]

If this doesn’t give you goosebumps…
Amazing.

[HokieSports @hokiesports]

Lane like you’ve never seen it before 🤯

[Liz Smith @teachMrsSmith]

Here’s to another trip around the sun! 🥳

[HokieFan @Bluegrass504]

Happy Birthday, Derek Smith!!

🎉🎂🎈🎊🎁🎉🎂🎈🎊🎁

#Hokies OT Derek Smith was a 3rd-team All-American in 1998. He was drafted by Washington in 1999.

🦃 #ThisIsHome

[Liz Smith @teachMrsSmith]

@BayleyBB2027 @GhanaShock @RiversideRamsSB @VAGlory_Hills @kevinbednoski @SuzyWillemssen @DrJJFoster @VAGloryFP This is incredible Bayley! ❤️

[Liz Smith @teachMrsSmith]

@UtProsim74 ❤️

[Liz Smith @teachMrsSmith]

@AshleighBrono @USASoftball @USASoftballJWNT @usaspresident @VAGloryFP @VGBronowicz @LineDsoftball @ExtraInningSB @SBronowicz14 @kelly_bronowicz Incredible experience! 🥰