This episode features 5 education updates including new features from Canva, Edpuzzle, and Google Classroom, a really cool new edtech tool, and my very favorite article ever written.

#EduDuctTape Episode 113

• Edu News I’ve Got My Peepers On:
  • Canva and Affinity - canva.com/newsroom/news/affinity
  • Edpuzzle adds Teacher Assist - support.edpuzzle.com/hc/en-us/sections/14355696963981-Teacher-Assist
  • Grouper - grouper.school
  • Gemini in Google Classroom - workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/09/gemini-education-tab-in-google-classroom.html?ck_subscriber_id=1727952374
  • Developing "Assessment Capable" Learners - ascd.org/el/articles/developing-assessment-capable-learners

Dan Stitzel joins me to explore ways to turn whole-class review games into engaging formative assessments by using generative AI to build custom question sets for Jeopardy, Quizizz, and beyond. We also dig into the latest AI features in Quizizz and discuss Gimkit, Blooket, and Quizlet. Plus, I share about Blue Sky, Canva Magic Studio, Google Forms’ new star rating, and MagicSchool’s Presentation Generator.

#EduDuctTape Episode 112

• Today's Sponsor - Short Answer - myshortanswer.com, code jakemillerwrites
• SoapBox Moment - “BlueSky is the New Adjacent Possible!”
• 1) Create your account - https://bsky.app
• 2) Follow me, @JakeMillerEdu.
• 3) Fill out the EduSky Form -  tinyurl.com/EduSkyForm
• 4) Use the StarterPacks - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-5yMDbXCShYEsEGSckmVlo9pHAnMB0_ldn5Joo81sOY/edit?resourcekey=&gid=1348428220#gid=1348428220
• 5) Check out the list of EduChats - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-5yMDbXCShYEsEGSckmVlo9pHAnMB0_ldn5Joo81sOY/edit?resourcekey=&gid=1429248465#gid=1429248465
• 6) Post about the podcast on BlueSky with the hashtag #EduDuctTape, and I’ll add you to a dedicated listener list.

• Today’s Guest: Dan Stitzel has worked for the Streetsboro City Schools for 15 years as a classroom teacher, District Technology Coach, and now as the Director of Technology. Through these years, Dan has had the chance to present at the district, local, state, and national level on various tech integration tools and strategies. Dan's current tech obsessions are generative AI and Computer Science!
• Contact Info:  Email - [email protected]
• 2 Truths & 1 Lie
• Educational Duct Tape Question: What tool or strategy would you use to do a whole class review game with formative assessment included? 
• Ask a generative AI tool to create a gamified set of questions for a specific standard or topic with point or monetary values that reflect the depth or challenge level of the specific question.
• Use that set of questions for a Jeopardy game, in a Google Form, or in another platform like Quizizz.
• If you have it organize the questions, answers, and point values correctly, you can easily turn them into a spreadsheet upload for Quizizz or Blooket.
• Quizizz - use AI features to generate questions from topics, uploaded documents, articles, etc or use the AI feature to change questions to being a “real-world scenario.”
• Gimkit - gimkit.com
• Quizlet Live - quizlet.com/live
• Kahoot - kahoot.com
• Quizlet - quizlet.com
• Blooket - blooket.com
• Save your generative AI prompts so that you can copy and paste them and continue refining them!
• Edu News I’ve Got My Peepers On:
• Canva Magic Studio - canva.com/newsroom/news/what-happened-at-canva-create-2024
• Google Forms’ new star rating - workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/10/ask-responders-for-rating-in-google-forms.html
• MagicSchool’s Presentation Generator - youtu.be/omZx3vVnPig?si=3tmAOe8b0fNYCgsY

Amy Storer joins me to explore creative tools to replace Google Jamboard, including FigJam from Figma and Padlet Sandbox, as well as the more robust Figma for Edu. We also dive into digital calming rooms and I share about Canva’s Magic Media for generating custom visuals and Padlet’s new auto-captioning feature for videos and audio that enhances accessibility for all learners.

#EduDuctTape Episode 111

• Today's Sponsor - VIZOR - vizor.cloud/jake
• SoapBox Moment - “Walking Toddlers, Driving Teenagers, and AI Integrating Teachers”
• Gayle Smerdon, PhD’s LinkedIn Post - linkedin.com/pulse/effortful-effortless-stages-how-we-learn-gayle-smerdon-phd
• Jen Sincero - You Are a Badass - a.co/d/01e4NLb
• Link to the SoapBox Moment on YouTube -

• Today’s Guest: Amy Storer - Amy, a Lead Learning Guide at friEdTech, is a Google & Microsoft Certified Educator and Trainer whom is known for her exceptional teaching skills, meaningful use of tech in education & her love of connected classrooms. She inspires & pushes others to explore avenues outside traditional teaching methods, making learning engaging & “sticky”.
• Contact Info:  @techamys (X, IG, TikTok), [email protected], friedtechnology.com
• 2 Truths & 1 Lie
• Educational Duct Tape Question: What tool or strategy would you use to replace Google Jamboard? 
  • never-ending canvas whiteboard, build sections like frames, mimics one-stop shop
  • Timers, youtube videos, google docs, dice, spinners, connect four, images, links, audio
  • Widgets (we) - Polaroid, Voice Memo
  • and plugins (me)
  • Digital calming room
  • Templates
  • Free for teachers or students, contact figjam team, accounts are required, though there’s a 24-hour version that doesn’t require login, Microsoft or google SSO
• FigJam (from Figma) - figma.com/figjam
• Students have access to Figma for Edu - figma.com/education
• Padlet Sandbox - padlet.com/site/sandbox
• Amy’s sister Dyann Wilson:
• [email protected], @techcarewilson
• Wakelet Calming Rooms (click Calming Room on the left) - wakelet.com/@techCAREWilson#5fvPPNPm8C2vdggEXvoMPJ7510cbf0
• Google Side Digital Calming Room - sites.google.com/willisisd.org/bms-calming-corner
• FigJam Digital Calming room - figma.com/board/sGdIqFJObOhRs3EnNk6lUa/duplicate
• Edu News I’ve Got My Peepers On:
• Canva Magic Media - canva.com/ai-image-generator
• Padlet Captioned Videos - padlet.blog/auto-captions-for-video-uploads

Dan Fitzpatrick, the author of the bestselling book The AI Classroom joins Jake to discuss frontier AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini, as well as some special educational AI tools including MagicSchool, SchoolAI, Diffit, Brisk, and Gamma.app. Dan also shares PREPARED Framework for generative AI and Jake shares about the CIA Coaching Model (Control, Influence, Accept & Adapt). Plus, updates from Canva and Padlet.

#EduDuctTape Episode 110

• Today’s Sponsor - VIZOR - vizor.cloud/jake
• SoapBox Moment - Dr. Strange and the CIA
• The Critically Reflective Practitioner by Sue Thompson, Neil Thompson - a.co/d/gDn997W
• Today’s Guest: Dan Fitzpatrick
• Bio:  Dan wrote the bestselling book "The AI Classroom." He has helped countless educators worldwide navigate AI. Dan’s purpose is simple: to help keep educational systems relevant, so that all learners are prepared for success in a rapidly changing world. He also writes weekly for Forbes on educational transformation for educators, parents and entrepreneurs.
• Contact Info:  theaieducator.io, X - @theaieducatorx
• 2 Truths & 1 Lie
• Educational Duct Tape Question: What tool or strategy would you use to . . . complete "teacher tasks" more efficiently?
• “Don’t think of AI as a technical tool.”
• Start with a “Frontier AI Tool” like ChatGPT
• 3 Pillars that educators bring to discussions with AI: Knowledge of your subject, knowledge of pedagogy, knowledge of your students
• Steve Jobs - “Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do.”
• MagicSchool - magicschool.ai
• SchoolAI - schoolai.com
• Diffit - creating differentiated resources - web.diffit.me
• Brisk - briskteaching.com - works with Google products
• “Outsource your doing, not your thinking.”
• Gamma.app - creating presentations
• Aieducator.tools
• PREPARED Framework to help focus the generative AI - Propose, Role, Explicit Instructions (general instructions, subject knowledge, pedagogy, knowledge of students), Presentation, Ask, Rate, Emotions, Diversity)
• Edu News that I've got my eye on:
• Canva's UI Upgrade - canva.com/newsroom/news/what-happened-at-canva-create-2024
• Canva Courses- canva.com/newsroom/news/what-happened-at-canva-create-2024
• Padlet - Video Comments - padlet.blog/add-videos-to-comments

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In today's episode of #EduDuctTape, 6 listeners join Jake to share their thoughts on AI and Academic Honesty in the age of AI. We discuss schools prohibiting AI and tools including MagicSchool, TextBlaze, and Google Arts & Culture. Plus, new updates are coming to Canva!

Thanks to today's guests:

• Bryon Carpenter - @BryonCar @FreshAirAtFive
• Isaac Marquez - @iMarquezEDU
• Eric Guise - @guisegotteched @edtechthrowdown
• Nicholas Marohl - @nicholasmarohl (instagram) @mr.marohl (tiktok)
• Cindy
• Vicki Huepel - @33huepel

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Molly Klodor joins the show to talk about encouraging and ensuring academic honesty in an educational ecosystem that includes AI. We’ll talk about MagicSchool, Google Arts & Culture, Google Applied Digital Skills Lessons, aiEDU, Code.org, SchoolAI, Brisk, DraftBack, TurnItIn, AI detectors, and more! And you’re not going to want to miss the strategies for implementation that she suggests for different grade levels.

#EduDuctTape Episode 108

• Today's Sponsor - VIZOR - vizor.cloud/jake
• Share With the Duct Tapers!
  • Padlet - EduDuctTape.com/Padlet
  • SpeakPipe - EduDuctTape.com/SpeakPipe
• SoapBox Moment - “Great Presidents & Lizard Brains”
  • Think Again, by Adam Grant - https://adamgrant.net/book/think-again/
  • Link to the SoapBox Moment on YouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=glRYTwA9tLA
• Today’s Guest: Molly Klodor
  • Bio:  Molly Klodor is the Instructional Technology Coach at Chagrin Falls Exempted Village School District in Ohio. She is a Google Champion, former English teacher, and an advocate for using technology to enhance student learning. You can find her at @MrsKlodor on Instagram, Threads, or LinkedIn.
  • 2 Truths & 1 Lie
  • Educational Duct Tape Question: What tool or strategy would you use to . . . ensure academic honesty in the age of ubiquitous AI? 

• • “Students have cheated and will continue to cheat in different ways as new technologies evolve and emerge. So we don't want to do everything we do just to prevent cheating because then we're going to be stymying our own opportunity to innovate and try new things. We don't want the fact that students will cheat to limit us from educational innovation.”
  • Stanford study (ed.stanford.edu/news/what-do-ai-chatbots-really-mean-students-and-cheating) 
  • Ken Shelton - “Am I sacrificing long term benefits for short term gain?”
  • Root causes of cheating - 
    • Learners are risk averse because of grading
    • Performance vs. mastery orientation
  • Strategies:
  • 1) Design AI resistant assignments
    • Ask AI to create Ask AI for AI-proof assignments
    • MagicSchool - AI resistant assignment suggester (freemium) - magicschool.ai/tools/ai-resistant-assignment-suggestions
  • 2) Have students use Ai in the assignment
    • Google Arts & Culture - artsandculture.google.com
    • Google Quick, Draw - quickdraw.withgoogle.com
    • Google Say What you See - artsandculture.google.com/experiment/say-what-you-see/jwG3m7wQShZngw?hl=en
    • Google Applied Digital Skills Lesson - applieddigitalskills.withgoogle.com/c/en/coding
    • aiEDU - aiedu.org
    • Code.org - code.org
    • * Ask your tech coach person to help!
    • Magic School - Magic Student (freemium) - magicschool.ai/magicstudent
    • SchoolAI - freemium - 75 users per day - good for 3rd grade up - schoolai.com
    • Use station rotation model to minimize amount of users
    • ChatGPT 18+, 13+ with parent approval - chatgpt.com
  • AI Detectors - unreliable, disproportionately flag non-native English speakers and neurodivergent learners
    • “GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers” - Cornell, arxiv.org/abs/2304.02819
    • “AI-Detectors Biased Against Non-Native English Writers” - Stanford, hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-detectors-biased-against-non-native-english-writers
  • Be your own AI Detector:
    • Use Google Docs Version History
      • Or use a Google Chrome Extension like Brisk or Draftback
      • briskteaching.com
      • chromewebstore.google.com/detail/draftback/nnajoiemfpldioamchanognpjmocgkbg?hl=en-US
    • Ask yourself, “Does this sound like what this student (or a student) would write?”
    • Look for the words (vocabulary) that you used (or did not use) in class.
    • Have a discussion with the learner!
  • Have language in your syllabus and in assignment directions about how they can or cannot use AI
  • Matt Miller graphic - ditch.link/ai
  • TurnItIn - plagiarizing and ai detecting tool
    • TurnItIn’s White Paper - go.turnitin.com/l/45292/2023-11-21/cl3clv/45292/170057442751hShVzB/TII_AI_HE_AIWritingDetectionModel_Whitepaper_US_0923.pdf
    • The other TurnItIn info Jake referenced - x.com/mrsparkstweets/status/1746970908642668729
• EdTech News that I've got my eye on:
  • Padlet - Automated Moderation with Safety Net - https://x.com/padlet/status/1815526922346254735
  • Padlet - Talk for Me - https://x.com/padlet/status/1816260636663505339
  • Padlet Sandbox - https://x.com/padlet/status/1813610019948302741
  • Padlet Gradebok - https://x.com/padlet/status/1816894401362514208

Today's Sponsor - VIZOR - vizor.cloud/jake

Rory Vaden Article - https://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2015/01/23/buffalo-face-lifes-storms/22187351/

Padlet - EduDuctTape.com/Padlet

SpeakPipe - EduDuctTape.com/SpeakPipe

Link to the SoapBox Moment on YouTube - youtu.be/z6CCZHKAmAg

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