This episode introduces Nearpod AI Create, a new AI-powered question generator for educators. AI Create helps teachers quickly create formative assessments, such as quizzes and games, by generating multiple-choice questions based on specified learning objectives or topics. The episode provides tips for writing effective prompts to optimize AI Create's output, including customizing questions for different student needs and reading levels. It emphasizes the importance of teacher oversight in reviewing and editing the AI-generated questions to ensure accuracy and appropriateness. Finally, it highlights additional uses for the generated questions beyond Nearpod's built-in assessment tools.

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This podcast describes Brisk Teaching, a tool for educators to rapidly generate interactive guided notes for classroom resources like articles or videos. The process involves selecting a resource, using a browser extension to create a fill-in-the-blank document in Google Docs, and customizing the notes before sharing them with students. The podcast provides examples and resources to help educators learn the process, including tutorials and social media links. The generated notes are answer-key free, requiring teachers to create a separate answer document. 

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This podcast describes how to use the "Open with Kami" button in the web version of Canva to transform Canva creations into interactive learning resources using the Kami extension for Chrome. Both platforms provide pre-made templates, but Kami adds interactive elements to your designs and those pre-made templates. The podcast emphasizes the combined power of these tools for educators, providing links to further resources and support. The integration streamlines workflow, saving resources to Google Drive. The podcast encourages you to explore these tools and offers assistance.

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This podcast explains how to use the Quizizz Google Slides add-on to enhance presentations. The add-on allows educators to integrate interactive quizzes directly into their slides, creating engaging lessons and assessing student understanding in real time. Features include AI-generated questions, various question types, and interactive tools like annotation, whiteboards, and a classroom pulse for monitoring student progress. The add-on facilitates sharing lessons, tracking student performance, and providing follow-up activities. Finally, the podcast encourages educators to explore this tool and offers access to additional resources.

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Brisk Boost is a new feature within the Brisk Teaching extension that allows teachers to create interactive and trackable learning activities for their students. Boost can generate various engaging activities, such as quizzes, simulations, and problem-solving exercises, and provides a chatbot to help students learn. Teachers can monitor student progress and even review chat conversations to gauge understanding. Boost provides a user-friendly interface and allows teachers to customize activities before sharing them with students.

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Brisk Teaching is a Chrome browser extension that offers a variety of tools designed to streamline teachers' workflows and enhance student learning. The extension includes features for creating resources, providing feedback, inspecting student writing, adjusting reading levels, and translating text. Brisk Teaching aims to help teachers save time and reduce decision fatigue by automating tasks and offering pre-made resources, allowing them to focus on instruction. Brisk Teaching works directly on any Google Document or Slide. It works with any YouTube video. It works with a PDF or it works with just about any website. Easily create resources or grade student work in a flash.

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Kami is a platform for collaborative whiteboards that has recently undergone a major redesign, featuring a cleaner interface, improved touch capabilities, and an updated dashboard. The redesign also includes enhancements to Class View, providing teachers with real-time metrics and personalized feedback on student assessments. Additionally, Insights Dashboard offers data on class averages, score distribution, and assessment completion, helping teachers and students monitor progress. The newsletter encourages exploration of the new Kami templates and there are links to previous newsletters and resources on the website and social media.

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The newsletter provides resources and ideas for teaching students digital citizenship, highlighting the importance of this topic and emphasizing the role of technology in modern education. The newsletter presents a comprehensive list of resources from various organizations like Common Sense Media, Google Applied Digital Skills, and KQED Education, focusing on topics like online safety, media literacy, and responsible social media use. The source also encourages educators to incorporate digital citizenship into their teaching methods through creative approaches such as themed spirit weeks and interactive trading cards.

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Kami is an online tool that allows teachers to create and share learning materials with their students. Users can access a free library of Kami templates, which are pre-designed resources that can be customized and assigned to students. The templates can be used online or downloaded for offline use. This makes Kami a flexible tool that can be incorporated into various classroom settings.

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This episode focuses on the Quizizz platform, a tool for educators to create engaging Quizizzes for students. The article specifically highlights the Strike vs. Shield game mode, which adds an element of competition to the classic Quizizz experience. Students can either try to steal points from others or protect their own score with a variety of options. The article also showcases different question types within Quizizz, emphasizing math-based questions, drawing, labeling, and hotspots. These features offer a variety of ways for teachers to assess understanding and keep students engaged in their learning.

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