Welcome to the EdTech Throwdown.  This is Episode 188 called 10 Tips for Using AI in Your Classroom.   Nick and I have each selected 5 of our top tips for using AI to increase student learning and to help you manage your classroom, and sometimes your life.  Nick presented his 5 tips last episode and today I will do the same!  Listen in to learn about what they are, why we like them, and how they might advance your classroom!  This is another episode you don’t want to miss.  Check it out.

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Nick’s Tips Part 1

• Acceptable Use Poster
• Google WorkFlow
• Animated Drawings
• Battle AI Over Reliance
• Prompt Collection

Guise’s Tips Part 2

• AI Works Cited
• Khan Academy Writing Coach
• Teacher Server
• Prompts for Google Sheets
• AI Lesson Creation WorkFlow

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Welcome to the EdTech Throwdown.  This is Episode 187 called 10 Tips for Using AI in Your Classroom.   Guise and I have each selected 5 of our top tips for using AI to increase student learning and to help you manage your classroom, and sometimes your life.  Listen in to learn about what they are, why we like them, and how they might advance your classroom!  This is another episode you don’t want to miss.  Check it out.

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Nick’s Tips Part 1

• Acceptable Use Poster
• Google WorkFlow
• Animated Drawings
• Battle AI Over Reliance
• Prompt Collection

Guise’s Tips Part 2

• AI Works Cited
• Khan Academy Writing Coach
• Teacher Server
• Prompts for Google Sheets
• AI Lesson Creation WorkFlow

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Welcome to the EdTech Throwdown.  This is Episode 186 called 12 AI Tools to use in the 2025-26 School Year.   Guise and I have each selected 6 of our favorite AI tools for the classroom.  Listen in to learn about what they are, why we like them, and how they might advance your classroom!  This is another episode you don’t want to miss.  Check it out.

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Guise’s AI Tools

1. Snorkl.app
2. Suno
3. notebooklm.google.com
4. Diffit Books
5. Google Lens
6. Sky Followers Bridge

Nick’s AI Tools

• Twin Pics
• Khanmigo
• Teachable Machine
• Debunkbot
• Sidekick from SchoolAI
• Deledao

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Welcome to the EdTech Throwdown.  This is Episode 185 called How to Teach Students about AI.   Have you ever tried to teach your students about AI, what it is, and what role it can serve in education and their future lives?  This is a tall task and in this episode, we’ll discuss how we go about this complex process.  This is another episode you don’t want to miss.  Check it out.

For years now we’ve been involved in trying to get our district to adopt a formal AI policy.  Now that this is happening, we’re being asked to put together an education program for students.

• What is AI?
• What can it do?  What can’t it do?
• How can it be used to benefit you while in school?  In your future lives?
• How can it hurt you in school?  In your future lives?

What is AI?

• Ask students what they think AI is?  Share their thoughts in a digital space like Padlet.  Facilitate some discussion.
• Show a video that explains what it REALLY is.  There are tons of good ones, here are a couple we like
• For older students:  https://www.ted.com/talks/mustafa_suleyman_what_is_an_ai_anyway
• For younger students:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttIOdAdQaUE

What can AI do?

• Choose an AI tool to demo (we use ChatGPT).  Show three prompts:
• A bad prompt, something very vague that gives a general and bland response.
• A better prompt, something that includes lots of detail and specific requests.  Show that this yields a much better response from the AI tool.
• A prompt that gets untrue results.  Students need to know that AI tools can give incorrect information, sometimes that it just “makes up” due to lack of other information.
• ACTIVITY:  Have students play with prompts:  Ask them to try a bad, vague prompt on purpose.  Then ask them to try it again but with more specificity, comparing the results.  They share out what they notice.
• Provide a prompt library as a resource.  Here is a great one from AI for Education.
• ACTIVITY:  Ask them to head to TwinPic and try and complete the challenge there.  Give a prize to the most accurate recreation.

What Can’t AI Do?

• Hallucinations:  LLMs can generate plausible but inaccurate information, also known as "hallucinations".  This can mislead users into believing that the generated content is factual and reliable.
• Bias:  LLMs can exhibit biases in their responses, often generating stereotypical or prejudiced content.  This bias stems from the large datasets they are trained on, which may contain biased information.
• Exhibit True Creativity:  Since LLM’s can only repurpose old information, they can’t exhibit creativity like a human can.  After reading enough AI responses, you can start to tell a sample of writing is AI generated.
• ACTIVITY:  Have students ask ChatGPT to write a brief biography of themselves.  Try the prompt:  "write a brief biography of [insert name here], a student in [insert town here]” but have them sub in their own names.  Have them share the results as accurate or inaccurate.

How AI Can be Used to Help Learning

• Intro Video:  https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_gruber_how_ai_can_enhance_our_memory_work_and_social_lives
• Yes AI can write essays for you.  But this hurts you long term because then you never learn to write yourself.
• Better prompts that help learning, not hurt it:
• "Proofread my writing above. Fix grammar and spelling mistakes. And make suggestions that will improve the clarity of my writing"
• "I want to learn about [insert topic]. Identify and share the most important 20% of learnings from this topic that will help me understand 80% of it."
• “Give me a step by step guide for solving the following problem.  I am a complete beginner.”
• "I am currently learning about [insert topic]. Ask me a series of questions that will test my knowledge. Identify knowledge gaps in my answers and give me better answers to fill those gaps."
• Tools like Khanmigo Writing Coach are tailor made for students and use AI to help you learn, not get around learning

How can AI Hurt Learning and Future

• Using AI to do work for you is academic dishonesty and will be treated as such if suspected?
• AI can save you lots of time, but what are you replacing that time with?  If the replacement is scrolling through IG, this is really bad for your brain.
• New research shows that over-reliance on AI results in cognitive decline.
• Tip sheet for battling over-reliance
• Research on the topic as of 2025:  https://www.forbes.com/sites/larsdaniel/2025/02/14/your-brain-on-ai-atrophied-and-unprepared-warns-microsoft-study

Fun Wrap-Up Activities:

• Debate about AI and if it’s good or not
• Ask students to create a story about a robot that helps a lost puppy find its way home using facial recognition. After the story, discuss how AI can recognize faces, make decisions, and help people.
• AI Art Project:  Kids can use different AI tools like Google’s AutoDraw and DeepArt to create unique artwork. These tools use AI and offer different tools. Kids can draw and transform photos into art in their desired form.
• Create a 3 slide presentation about how they think AI will impact the world in the future.  Use Canva presentations and encourage them to use Canva’s AI tools as part of the process.  
• Teachable Machine with google.  Allows students to train an AI model without any coding experience.  Ask them to create an AI model that recognizes different facial expressions or body poses.

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Welcome to the EdTech Throwdown.  This is Episode 184 called 10 Project Ideas for Students to Show Mastery.   In this episode, we’ll discuss some of our favorite project ideas that you can use in your classroom to check for student mastery.  Of course we’ll share some of our favorite edtech and AI tools along the way.  This is another episode you don’t want to miss.  Check it out.

How has checking for mastery in education changed over the past 10 years?

1. Infographics
2. Visme
3. Canva
4. thinglink
5. Posters/Memes Poster/Calendar
6. Canva
7. Adobe Express
8. Snappa
9. Pixlr
10. VistaCreate
11. Timelines                  
12. Thinglink
13. Online Timeline Maker     
14. Canva
15. Timeline YouTube Video
16. Choose Your Own Adventure
17. Google Slides
18. Canva
19. Student Made Games                                       
20. Board Games Digitally via Canva
21. Escape Rooms/Puzzles
22. Flippity.net
23. Discovery Puzzle Maker
24. Interacty              
25. Podcasts
26. Research
27. NotebookLM
28. Shownotes/Storyboard
29. Google Docs
30. Bookcreator
31. Storyboardthat
32. Recording Audio
33. cell phone
34. Audacity
35. Wavacity
36. Editing Audio
37. Audacity
38. Wavacity
39. Publishing
40. Class Site
41. Canva
42. Google Sites
43. Slides Presentation
44. Slidesmania
45. Slides Carnival
46. Slidesgo
47. Video
48. Davinci Resolve
49. WeVideo
50. Adobe Premier
51. Portfolio
52. Canva Sites
53. Google Sites
54. Padlet
55. See-saw
56. Bookcreator
57. Wakelet   
58. Old School Assessment with Edtech
59. CoGrader
60. 100 Student Submissions per month FREE
61. Mote
62. Leave Audio Feedback
63. Snorkl
64. Instant Feedback with AI
65. Debates
66. Face-to-face
67. No-Talk debates
68. Google Docs
69. Presentation-Gallery Walk
70. Poster
71. Figjam
72. Miro
73. Canva whiteboard

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• 1:1 Chromebook Integration
• EdTech Throwdown
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Welcome to the EdTech Throwdown.  This is Episode 183 called 8 Great Edtech Tools for Literacy.   In this episode, we’ll discuss some of our favorite websites for enhancing literacy in your classroom.  We’ll also take another look at an AMAZING new feature in google notebook lm.  This is another episode you don’t want to miss.  Check it out.

Guises mind is blown

n over notebook lm’s new feature

1. No Red Ink lessons
2. Maps.com.  Not a literacy site, but these are some cool maps and would make for great writing prompts.
3. Diffit Books, How it works:  Select “Books” on the Diffit homepage, Choose your book and chapters, Get student-ready resources!  We’re rolling this feature out to all schools over the next few weeks, but your access is live now as an admin on your Diffit account. Test it out and let your teachers know it's coming to their accounts soon!
4. ESL BITS:  Wide selection of audio books and text.  The sole purpose of this site is to help students improve their listening and reading comprehension of the English language.'BITS English Language Learning' is completely non-profit; it sells nothing, advertises nothing, and asks for nothing."BITS" is an online-only site. No links for downloading items are available and none will ever be provided.  Skip is wholly responsible for this site and has all the credit or all the blame as the case may be.
5. Write the World:  A nonprofit dedicated to developing teenagers’ writing and critical thinking skills. We empower young writers to become global citizens and succeed in school, career, and life.
6. NYT Writing Prompts
7. Wonderopolis Writing Prompts
8. DeepSeek AI Article 
9. DeepSeek-R1 is an AI model developed by Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek. Released in January 2025, R1 holds its own against (and in some cases surpasses) the reasoning capabilities of some of the world’s most advanced foundation models — but at a fraction of the operating cost, according to the company. R1 is also open sourced under an MIT license, allowing free commercial and academic use.

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Welcome to the EdTech Throwdown.  This is Episode 182 called, “Using Edtech and AI to Personalize the Classroom”  In this episode, we’ll talk about how edtech an AI can personalize both your classroom physical space AND content creation and delivery.  This is another episode you don’t want to miss.  Check it out.

Narrative:  With all the AI and the COVID days behind us, have we lost the focus of personalizing learning for students in the classroom?

How can we use Edtech/AI to personalize the physical appearance of the classroom to be a more inviting place to learn?

• Interest-Driven Decor:
• Survey students about their favorite movies, games, and hobbies using tools like Google Forms or Mentimeter.
• Use the results to create themed areas, posters, or bulletin boards that reflect their interests.
• Digital Displays:
• Incorporate smart displays or projectors (e.g., Promethean boards) to showcase rotating slideshows of student artwork, photos, or inspirational quotes.
• Use Canva templates to make slides visually appealing and personalized.
• Interactive Wall Art:
• Use AR tools like QuiverVision to create augmented reality wall displays. Students can scan wall art to see animations or interact with digital layers.
• Mood Lighting:
• Integrate smart lighting systems to adjust classroom lighting based on the mood or theme of the lesson.
• Collaborative Space Design:
• Use Edtech tools like RoomSketcher to co-create the classroom layout with students. Allow them to choose how desks, chairs, or collaboration spaces are arranged.
• Personalized Name Tags:
• Create digital name tags with platforms like Adobe Express, incorporating students' chosen colors, symbols, or avatars.
• Digital Soundscapes:
• Use tools like Noisli or Spotify to set background sounds (e.g., nature, coffee shop ambiance) that align with classroom themes.
• Spotify Collaborative Playlists
• Digital Vision Boards:
• Have students create personal or classroom vision boards using platforms like Padlet or Figjam, which can be displayed on a digital screen.
• Interactive Check-In Boards:
• Use tools like ClassDojo to create a digital check-in system where students can indicate their mood or share a "fun fact" as they enter the classroom.
• Themed QR Code Stations:
• Create QR codes using a generator (like QR Code Monkey) that link to personalized student projects, fun facts, or favorite classroom activities.

How can we use Edtech/AI to personalize our content in the classroom?

• Adaptive Learning Platforms:
• Use platforms like Khan Academy, IXL, or DreamBox to provide personalized practice tailored to each student’s proficiency level.
• AI-Driven Content Creation:
• Tools like ChatGPT or Canva Magic Write can help craft custom lesson plans, study guides, or quiz questions aligned with individual learning needs.
• Student-Generated Playlists:
• Allow students to create playlists of educational videos or podcasts using YouTube or Edpuzzle that align with their interests or learning goals.
• Gamification of Lessons:
• Use platforms like Kahoot! or Quizizz to create custom quizzes or games featuring content and themes relevant to students’ lives.
• Individualized Feedback Tools:
• Use AI tools like Grammarly or Turnitin’s Revision Assistant to provide personalized writing feedback and improvement suggestions.
• Virtual Field Trips:
• Use tools like Google Earth, Nearpod, or Discovery Education to take students on virtual field trips tied to their personal interests or course content.
• AI-Assisted Reading Recommendations:
• Tools like Epic! or Lexia can recommend reading materials tailored to individual students’ interests and reading levels.
• Project-Based Learning Platforms:
• Platforms like PBLWorks or Trello can help students design and track personalized projects based on their unique interests.
• Differentiated Assignments:
• Use tools like Diffit to assign work to groups or individuals, catering to different skill levels or interests.
• AI-Powered Class Insights:
• Use analytics tools from platforms like snorkl ai to identify trends in student misconceptions and tailor activities accordingly.

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Welcome to the EdTech Throwdown.  This is Episode 181 called, “Educational AI Hub Breakdown”  In this episode, we’ll compare and analyze the mega-AI hubs that are competing for every teacher's attention.  By the end, you’ll know which ones we think are actually worth your time.  This is another episode you don’t want to miss.  Check it out.

Narrative:  Holy Hubs

What are AI Hubs?  

• We are using the term “hub” a little incorrectly here.  An AI hub is a thing in the tech space where AI models can be trained.  
• When we say hub, we mean AI platforms or workspaces that do LOTS of different teacher related things
• Most of these use ChatGPT or something similar in the background.  For example, let’s say you wanted to write a lesson plan … you could get the same results if you just went to ChatGPT and put in a very specific prompt, but Magic School’s lesson plan generator has done that for you.
• Also, Khanmigo uses GPT, but it has been specifically trained on the videos and resources held by Khan Academy.

What are the big ones?

• Magic School
• Some free, some paid
• Khanmigo
• All free for teachers
• Eduaid
• Pay for pro features
• Teachershub.ai
• Free for teachers but they do list limits, no other pricing there
• Teach Mate
• For the Brits!  Some for free, £6.99 per month and goes up from there
• MIT Sloane
• Can’t find a price
• Theres an AI for That
• ***Teacher Server
• Free for teachers

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Need a Presenter?

As experienced presenters and content creators, you can contact Nick and Guise to speak at your school, event, or conference. They can customize a workshop that meets your organization’s unique time and content needs. While no topic is out of bounds, we are best known for sessions on:

• AI For Teachers, Admin, and Parents
• 1:1 Chromebook Integration
• EdTech Throwdown
• TargetED Learning
• Gamification (Badge Systems)
• Game-Based Learning (Escape Rooms, Amazing Race, and more)
• Google apps and extensions
• Personalized learning and Choice Boards
• Teacher productivity (Lesson Planning, Online Grading. and Feedback)
• Digital content creation
• Student Podcasting
• Screencasting
• Flipped Classroom
• Student-Centered Learning

Welcome to the EdTech Throwdown.  This is Episode 180 called, “Edtech Hot Topics, Tech Tools, and Resources Heading into 2025”  In this episode, we’ll wrap up 2024 by taking a look what is hot in educational technology right now as we start a new year.  We’ll also share of the tools and resources we’re most excited about for 2025.  This is another episode you don’t want to miss.  Check it out.

Narrative:  Edtech Throwdown Traditional Episode

• Where are we with AI?
• AI pushback - are you still seeing it?  Do you have it?
• Is the standard edtech tool without AI dead?

• Guise
• Snorkl
• NotebookLM
• Nick
• Padlet Sandbox
• Khanmigo

• Steph and Joe on the go
• Canva’s free teaching resources

1. NotebookLM Podcast
2. Make Memojis in Canva
3. How-to Guides w/ Tango
4. Top 10 Canva Apps
5. Accessibility Tools For Teachers
6. Canva Guide for Administrators
7. AI Edtech Toolkit
8. Make a Customized Song with Suno
9. Auto-Feedback with Snorkl Student View
10. Teacher Dashboard in Snorkl
11. Set the Tone with Goblin Tools
12. Connecting Google Drive with Canva
13. AI Prompt Library for EDU
14. 3 Wheel of Names Resources
15. There’s an AI For That
16. Content-based Scattergories
17. Padlet Sandbox
18. Twitter Bluesky Bridge
19. Google’s Canva Apps
20. Teacher Resources Using Khanmigo
21. Quizizz Flash Cards
22. Online Stopwatch Tools
23. Google Lens Applications
24. Polls and Quizzes in Canva
25. 3D Models in PowerPoint

Edtech Throwdown: 

Vote on twitter @edtechthrowdown and under the pinned post on the profile.

Do us a few favors:

1. Subscribe to the Edtech Throwdown Podcast
2. Apple Podcasts
3. Spotify
4. Amazon Podcasts
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6. YouTube  
7. Twitter   
8. Facebook
9. Write us an Apple Podcast Review!
10. Tell your friends about www.edtechthrowdown.com
11. Tell your friends about the Teach Better Podcast Network

Subscribe to our Podcast Channels and Socials

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• Spotify  
• YouTube  
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Music Credits:

• Intro and Outro Music- American Idle - RKVC
• Segment Identifiers- Duck in the Alley - TrackTribe
• Edtech Throwdown- Born a Rockstar (Instrumental) - NEFEX

Need a Presenter?

As experienced presenters and content creators, you can contact Nick and Guise to speak at your school, event, or conference. They can customize a workshop that meets your organization’s unique time and content needs. While no topic is out of bounds, we are best known for sessions on:

• AI For Teachers, Admin, and Parents
• 1:1 Chromebook Integration
• EdTech Throwdown
• TargetED Learning
• Gamification (Badge Systems)
• Game-Based Learning (Escape Rooms, Amazing Race, and more)
• Google apps and extensions
• Personalized learning and Choice Boards
• Teacher productivity (Lesson Planning, Online Grading. and Feedback)
• Digital content creation
• Student Podcasting
• Screencasting
• Flipped Classroom
• Student-Centered Learning

Welcome to the EdTech Throwdown.  This is Episode 179 called, “How Can Teachers Use Google Lens in the Classroom”  In this episode, we’ll talk about Google Lens, what it is, how to use it, and best of all - ways that it can support learning and make your teaching life easier.  This is another episode you don’t want to miss.  Check it out.

Narrative:  Google Lens does what?

Google Lens is a visual search tool that uses image recognition to understand what you're looking at and provide relevant information.

1. Identifying items: Students can use Google Lens to find names for items they encounter, such as plants or archaeological sites.
2. Biology Outdoor Classroom
3. Solving math problems: Google Lens can help math learners solve problems and understand key conception
4. Teacher Assistant when the teacher isn’t around
5. Getting help with homework: Students can point the Lens at a homework question to get help. 
6. Taking notes: Google Lens can capture images, texts, bar codes, and QR codes, which can be transferred to a file for future reference.
7. Getting synopses: Students can point the Lens towards a book cover to get a synopsis.
8. Image search and product search: find images and items similar to the ones you’ve provided.
9. Scanning QR Codes from a computer screen

Special Education Uses:

1. Reading: Google Lens can convert text images into readable text, which can be helpful for learners with dyslexia.
2. Translating: Google Lens can translate selected words into any language. 
3. Listening to text: Google Lens can listen to selected text, which can help students improve their listening skills and learn pronunciation. 
4. Text detection and OCR: recognize the writing on an image and extract its data.
5. Language detection and translation: identify the language of the text on the image, and then translate it.
6. Accessibility and alt text: find the alt text of the image.

1. NotebookLM Podcast
2. Make Memojis in Canva
3. How-to Guides w/ Tango
4. Top 10 Canva Apps
5. Accessibility Tools For Teachers
6. Canva Guide for Administrators
7. AI Edtech Toolkit
8. Make a Customized Song with Suno
9. Auto-Feedback with Snorkl Student View
10. Teacher Dashboard in Snorkl
11. Set the Tone with Goblin Tools
12. Connecting Google Drive with Canva
13. AI Prompt Library for EDU
14. 3 Wheel of Names Resources
15. There’s an AI For That
16. Content-based Scattergories
17. Padlet Sandbox
18. Twitter Bluesky Bridge
19. Google’s Canva Apps
20. Teacher Resources Using Khanmigo
21. Quizizz Flash Cards
22. Online Stopwatch Tools
23. Google Lens Applications
24. Polls and Quizzes in Canva
25. 3D Models in PowerPoint

Edtech Throwdown: 

Vote on twitter @edtechthrowdown and under the pinned post on the profile.

Do us a few favors:

1. Subscribe to the Edtech Throwdown Podcast
2. Apple Podcasts
3. Spotify
4. Amazon Podcasts
5. Stitcher  
6. YouTube  
7. Twitter   
8. Facebook
9. Write us an Apple Podcast Review!
10. Tell your friends about www.edtechthrowdown.com
11. Tell your friends about the Teach Better Podcast Network

Subscribe to our Podcast Channels and Socials

• Apple Podcasts
• Spotify  
• YouTube  
• Twitter   (@edtechthrowdown)
• Facebook
• Instagram

Connect with us on Social Media

Guise’s Social Media

• Twitter (@guisegotteched)
• LinkedIn

Nick’s Social Media

• Twitter (@nickgotteched)

Music Credits:

• Intro and Outro Music- American Idle - RKVC
• Segment Identifiers- Duck in the Alley - TrackTribe
• Edtech Throwdown- Born a Rockstar (Instrumental) - NEFEX

Need a Presenter?

As experienced presenters and content creators, you can contact Nick and Guise to speak at your school, event, or conference. They can customize a workshop that meets your organization’s unique time and content needs. While no topic is out of bounds, we are best known for sessions on:

• AI For Teachers, Admin, and Parents
• 1:1 Chromebook Integration
• EdTech Throwdown
• TargetED Learning
• Gamification (Badge Systems)
• Game-Based Learning (Escape Rooms, Amazing Race, and more)
• Google apps and extensions
• Personalized learning and Choice Boards
• Teacher productivity (Lesson Planning, Online Grading. and Feedback)
• Digital content creation
• Student Podcasting
• Screencasting
• Flipped Classroom
• Student-Centered Learning