Todays’s GarageCast talks about our most recent Noodle Pitch Competition that took place April 26, where student led companies in our accelerator program pitched to investors. Secondly we have some exploration of ongoing emerging thoughts, tools and experiences in Artificial Intelligence.

This week’s episode I explore the nature of “failure” and how we shift the narrative on that. We dip into the digital mailbag and hear from some listeners. Lastly we have a tech tool tip of the week that helps you to find things you’ve seen before.

In today’s episode we unpack whether having coding as a skill we teach to young learners is important within the “AI-age” we see emerging. I also take some time to talk about a recent article and to highlight a powerful tool that lets you ask questions of your PDF documents.

In today’s episode I explore the importance of an arts education for students to become their authentic selves and be able to develop an innovator’s mindset. Plus I share a few interesting web browser extensions that tap into ChatGPT.

Welcome to Episode 22 of The GarageCast, where we talk about the importance of creating a culture of innovation. As well in segment 2 we explore two educator focused AI tools that are good examples of how specialized new use cases and unique user interfaces are emerging as extensions of Large Language Models.

Happy Friday everyone. Here is episode 21, where I delve into how search has really changed for me. As well, I reflect on AI and our youngest learners. Lastly, we will chat about the culture of busyness that is all around us at work.

Hello dear listeners. Welcome to Episode 20 where I share some thoughts about the benefits of digital portfolios for students and educators. As well, segment 2 focuses briefly on latest developments in AI applications.

In this special episode of The GarageCast, I have five Grade 9 students reflect on their wind turbine interdisciplinary unit (IDU) and their learning throughout the week. In addition to designing and building wind turbines, they also learned how to create a podcast and collaborated to develop run sheets, and scripts, record audio, edit the audio and develop music. This podcast is an engaging showcase of their creativity and knowledge.

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What a fabulous week and so nice to have you join me on Episode 18. I’ll be talking about what might come after an interdisciplinary approach to education, a really cool place that AI surprised me inside an app this week, and finally we will look at What exactly is artificial general intelligence and why does it matter?

In Episode 17 I talk about AI and how it will evolve to fit our lives as educators. After starting the week and ending the week with AI, I thought I’d share some reflections. Secondly I talk about a platform I’ve been using for my own PD that helps me refine my practice as an educator.