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🗑 Meet Snorkl: Instant feedback + visual learning
Plus info on deepfakes and a giveaway!
Matt Miller
January 23, 2025
A new way for students to show learning
A student solving a math problem in Snorkl.
I’m pretty blown away by Snorkl.
I found out about them at a teacher conference. When I got a demo of what it’s capable of? WOW.
Students can draw on a canvas (blank or with templates you provide). They record themselves explaining their process or what they know.
Then Snorkl takes ALLLLLL of it and provides feedback — AND gauges their mastery of content.
All on its own.
In today’s 💡 Big Idea, you’ll meet Snorkl (snorkl.app) — and see how it can be plugged into learning in your classroom right away.
(Or you can just check out the post: 10 ways to provide instant feedback to students with Snorkl.)
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Inside:
🤔 What makes you successful? Share your insights and win!
👀 DTT Digest: AI, tabs, template, coloring
💡 The Big Idea: NEW TOOL: Meet Snorkl, visual learning + instant feedback
🎯 Quick Teaching Strategy: Teach students the dangers of deepfakes
😄 Smile of the day: Student sorcery 🪄
👋 How we can help
🤔 What makes you successful? Share and win $200 Amazon gift card!
This message is sponsored by Vivi.
Take a quick survey and let Vivi know about the structures and supports that help you thrive in the classroom.
Your feedback will guide school leaders in creating environments where teachers can succeed. Plus, Vivi will share findings from the survey with the Ditch That Textbook community.
As a thank-you, you’ll be entered to win 1 of 5 $200 Amazon gift cards! Winners will be notified via email on February 12th—don’t miss out!
Note: Your responses will remain anonymous and contact information won’t be used for marketing purposes.
👀 DTT Digest
4 teaching resources worth checking out today
❤️ Why AI won’t replace teachers — Is AI going to put me out of a job? Nope. Not anytime soon. In this post, I share six reasons why artificial intelligence won’t replace teachers.
🪄Magically reopen a closed tab — Ever close a tab accidentally and think, “Noooooo! What was I thinking?!?” Use this shortcut to resurrect closed tabs from the dead! It’ll even keep the back history.
Teach ✅ Curation ✅ Creation ✅ Retrieval with the Top 3 template — We love a good list, and we love to know exactly how many things are on those lists and why! That’s why this top 3 graphic organizer is so versatile. Students can use this graphic organizer in a variety of ways.
🖍 Take a coloring brain break — Coloring can be a relaxing and meditative activity that can help reduce stress and anxiety. Print out some mindfulness coloring pages from Canva to have on hand when you want to try it.
💡 THE BIG IDEA 💡
🤿 NEW TOOL: Meet Snorkl, visual learning + instant feedback
This message is sponsored by Snorkl.
If you haven’t heard of Snorkl (snorkl.app) yet, it’s pretty incredible …
Students get a problem to solve / question to answer.
The teacher can include a visual, a graphic organizer, a chart, a map … something visual for the student to mark up.
The student clicks “record” and starts drawing, writing — even talking.
Snorkl takes the verbal commentary — and analyzes annotations by the student — and provides instant feedback.
🤯🤯🤯
Math teachers are LOVING Snorkl (feels like math gets left to the side with edtech products sometimes) …
… but it’s not just for math.
Social studies students can annotate maps.
Science students can work with diagrams of cells and atoms.
English students can submit graphic organizers for feedback.
P.E. students can submit a diagram of a strategy/play for soccer.
World language students can get oral language practice.
… and the list goes on and on and on.
Today, we’re sharing 10 ways to provide instant feedback to students with Snorkl.
10 ways to provide instant feedback to students with Snorkl
Snorkl has a great free plan with a limited number of activities (but you can always delete your old activities to stay within those limitations).
The premium plan for schools and districts adds unlimited activities, an admin dashboard, Snorkl Coach — an AI coach to help students before they submit a response — and more.
Get to know this new tool that has me excited about its instant feedback AND its multimodal ways for students to show what they’ve learned!
🎯 QUICK TEACHING STRATEGY 🎯
⛔️ Teach students the dangers of deepfakes
I created a deepfake of myself in 5 seconds with Deepfake Sandbox.
Deepfakes are becoming easier and easier to create.
Using artificial intelligence, people can create incriminating or objectionable images and videos of others in compromising situations — situations that can ruin or harm lives.
CivAI has created the Deepfake Sandbox, a place that demonstrates how quickly and easily a deepfake can be made.
It includes educational articles about why deepfakes matter, how quickly AI is moving, and what the game plan is.
😄 Smile of the day
Their sorcery overcomes me 🪄
h/t Mimio Educator
👋 How we can help
There are even more ways I can support you in the important work you do in education:
Read one of my six books about meaningful teaching with tech.
Take one of our online courses about practical and popular topics in education.
Bring me to your school, district or event to speak. I love working with educators!
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