Kane from the Teachers’ AI Cafe shares an update for educators on AI platform usage, model selection, and new OpenAI tools. He cites a report reviewing 9,500 AI tools (May 2025–Apr 2026) and 144B visits across the top seven platforms: ChatGPT leads with 64.7B (44%), followed by Canva 10.5B (7.3%), Gemini 6.9B (4.8%), DeepSeek 3.8B (2.6%), Claude 3.4B (2.5%) with 250% growth, Grok 2.5B (1.7%), and Perplexity 2.3B (1.6%). He explains ChatGPT’s Sol (complex units/rubrics), Terra (routine lesson planning/differentiation), and Luna (modifying existing resources), plus Claude’s Fable 5, Opus 5, Sonnet 5, and Haiku 4.5. He also previews OpenAI educator plugins (K–12 translation, exit tickets, family updates, practice tests; college tools) and invites viewers to join his Facebook group and share questions.

00:00 Welcome to the AI Cafe

00:25 What Today Covers

01:13 AI Platform Market Share

03:58 ChatGPT Models Explained

06:17 Claude Models and Costs

09:45 Choosing the Right Model

10:44 New OpenAI Educator Plugins

14:15 Wrap Up and Community

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Kane from Teachers’ AI Cafe shares an Aug 3 weekly AI update for educators. 

00:00 Welcome to AI Cafe

00:23 Weekly AI Update Intro

00:48 AI Destroying Old Books

02:16 Why Physical Books Matter

02:54 Anthropic Response Concerns

04:14 Sandbox Escape Hacking

05:02 Policy and China Models

05:32 OpenAI Research Access

06:14 Gemini Spark Tasks

07:08 Copilot Super App Push

08:13 Magic School District Rollout

09:58 Robot Teacher Controversy

10:25 Wrap Up and Community

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Kane from the Teachers AI Cafe demonstrates OpenAI’s new ChatGPT/Codex “Sites” feature, showing how teachers can quickly build and refine custom student websites with low-literacy-friendly content, quizzes, and shareable URLs. He walks through creating a Year 8 Battle of Hastings site, then showcases an interactive Year 10 “Rise of Hitler” online escape room with six challenges, codes, hints, and a reset button, built from an existing paper resource. He explains privacy and permission settings, URL structure, and how Sites can automatically link to external primary sources. Kane also shares a “Democracy Under Pressure” Weimar Germany lesson site, notes rapid iteration times, discusses restyling attempts using the Bayeux Tapestry aesthetic, and shows generating a downloadable standalone offline HTML version for classroom use.

00:00 Welcome to AI Cafe

00:41 Sites Feature Overview

01:41 Why Teachers Need Sites

02:51 Build Hastings Lesson Site

04:10 Escape Room Concept

05:08 Hitler Escape Room Demo

08:52 Hastings Site Walkthrough

11:21 Restyle With Bayeux

13:28 Democracy Under Pressure

17:35 Post Task Wrap Up

18:18 Tapestry Style Preview

19:40 Live Fixing The Design

22:34 Why Visual Style Matters

23:37 Classroom Use Cases

24:31 Sharing And Hosting Options

27:26 Offline Downloadable Version

28:42 Adding Primary Sources

31:38 Review Results And Timing

33:47 How To Access Sites

34:24 Final Thoughts And Community

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Kane shares an AI update for educators.

00:00 Welcome to Teachers AI Cafe

00:23 AI Agent Escape Warning

02:19 What It Means for Schools

03:51 ChatGPT Work and Codex App

04:35 Gemini Notebook Upgrade

05:55 Copilot Research Paywall

06:44 Grok in Excel and Outlook

08:04 Chinese Models and Open Source

09:28 Weekly Wrap Up and Goodbye

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Kane from the Teachers AI Cafe explains a six-level progression for educators using Claude (and applicable to ChatGPT)

00:00 Welcome to AI Cafe

00:27 Episode Setup and Mailing List

01:38 Level One Amateur Basics

03:59 Level Two Projects for Consistency

07:21 Level Three Integrations and Artifacts

11:46 Level Four Skills and Workflows

15:42 Level Five Vibe Coding Builder

21:33 Level Six Agent Orchestration

26:36 Wrap Up and Next Steps

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Kane from the Teacher’s AI Cafe shares a weekly AI tech update for educators.

00:00 Welcome to AI Cafe

00:23 Google Gemini Notebook

02:34 Claude for Teachers

04:37 ChatGPT Search and Projects

05:36 Grok Automations

06:28 GitHub Copilot Skills

06:59 Humanoid Robot Sally

08:23 Wrap Up and Next Steps

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Kane from the Teachers AI Cafe explains Claude Skills as a way for teachers to avoid repeatedly copying long prompts by saving preferred instructions, lesson structures, and reference documents into reusable “skills,” similar to templates but more flexible. He outlines benefits like faster workflows and consistent lesson, worksheet, and assessment formatting, plus the ability to attach curriculum documents, rubrics, and policies so Claude can reference them automatically. He advises creating multiple focused skills (e.g., lesson planner, guided reading, assessment writer, PowerPoint creator, parent email writer) rather than one large skill. Kane walks through setup steps—naming, describing when to use the skill, writing detailed instructions, adding documents, saving—and shows using skills via automatic activation or manual slash commands, updating skills over time, and combining multiple skills for one request.

00:00 Welcome to AI Cafe

00:23 Invites and Mailing List

00:48 Why Claude Skills

02:10 What a Skill Does

04:08 Teacher Benefits

05:42 One Skill or Many

07:10 Create Skills Stepwise

08:17 Naming and Descriptions

09:40 Instructions and Documents

11:53 Using Skills Automatically

12:47 Slash Commands Control

16:32 Multiple and Updating Skills

18:07 Wrap Up and Next Steps

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Kane from the Teacher’s AI Cafe shares this week’s AI updates for educators.

00:00 Welcome To AI Cafe

00:29 OpenAI 5.6 And Work

02:10 Agent Risks For Schools

02:28 ChatGPT Live Voice Mode

03:45 Atlas Browser Shutdown

04:19 Claude Cowork Goes Web

05:19 NotebookLM Video Shorts

06:36 Wrap Up And Next Steps

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Kane from the Teachers AI Cafe argues that AI won’t replace good teachers but will expose weak thinking and weak assessment by making polished output easy to generate without real understanding. He warns against mistaking fluent AI work for genuine learning and notes students aren’t automatically “AI native,” often lacking the judgment to evaluate accuracy, bias, and reasoning. Rather than banning AI, he recommends redesigning tasks to make thinking visible through process evidence such as annotated drafts, oral questioning, in-class writing, and defending claims. He cautions that AI can remove the apprenticeship struggle that builds expertise, improving products while weakening learners. Used well, AI should be a thinking partner—challenging arguments, prompting deeper analysis, and supporting feedback—while students remain responsible for final judgment.

00:00 Welcome to Teachers AI Cafe

00:51 AI Hype vs Reality

03:19 Students Aren’t AI Native

04:40 Polished Work Isn’t Learning

07:11 Redesign Assessment for Process

09:17 Protect the Apprenticeship Stage

10:02 AI as Thinking Partner

11:14 Make AI Disagree

12:02 Future Proof Skills

13:14 History and Human Judgment

14:33 Agency and Better Systems

16:13 Practical Example Retake Tests

17:55 Wrap Up and Subscribe

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Kane from the Teachers AI Cafe shares a weekly AI update for educators focused on practical classroom use. 

00:00 Welcome to AI Cafe

00:23 This Week’s AI Update

00:39 NotebookLM Short Videos

01:24 Classroom Uses and Tests

02:25 Claude Science Workbench

03:09 Claude Safety Filters

04:13 OpenAI Codex Hardware

05:36 AI Tutors and Impact

06:23 Emu War Fun Example

07:05 Wrap Up and Next Episode

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