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- 📺 Ditch Summit: Atomic Habits author James Clear
The light at the end of the Ditch Summit tunnel is getting brighter and brighter.
We’re getting close to the finish — only one week left! In seven days, the summit will close for 2024/2025. When that happens, all summit resources — videos, certificates, notes, all of it — will become unavailable until next year’s summit in December.
Today, let’s look at a Ditch Summit speaker whose book is #2 most sold on Amazon right now — and has been on the top 20 sellers list for 310 weeks in a row … James Clear, author of Atomic Habits.
And might I suggest browsing this year’s new featured speakers?
Learning Students LOVE Through Curiosity and Questions with Trevor MacKenzie
How to ACE Student AI Literacy in Schools with Holly Clark
Amplifying Student Voice: Podcasts, Identity, and Choice with Stevie Frank
Cautious Steps Toward AI Implementation in Education with Ken Shelton and Dee Lanier
Don't be Bajiggidy: How to Slay with Classroom Tech with Manny Curiel
How Will You Spend the Time that AI Saves You? with Ed Campos Jr.
Coaching Educators: PBL, Life Skills, and Influence with Jorge Valenzuela
The AI Generation: Student Perspectives on AI with Students for Innovation
They’re all at the top of our Ditch Summit video library page. Check them out!
Watch any of the +100 Ditch Summit sessions on the Ditch Summit Video Library page.
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🔎 Spotlight Sponsor: Student Portfolios with Wakelet
🗄 From the Archive: Atomic Habits for Educators with James Clear
📚 The Ditch Summit Library: All videos in one place
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🗓 Ditch Summit: 19 days down, 7 days to go
The Ditch Summit closes on Jan. 10, 2025. After that, sessions + resources are unavailable until December 2025.
🔎 SPOTLIGHT SPONSOR 🔎
Student Portfolios for Growth and Reflection with Wakelet
Students are working on assignments and creating artifacts of learning in class every day.
But where do those artifacts go?
Once students have learned, how can they show others what they’ve learned — prospective employers, college admissions boards, even family and friends?
A student portfolio makes it visible.
With Wakelet, students can collect evidence of their learning and growth throughout the school year — and throughout their entire school career.
They can update that student portfolio with a variety of media (images, video, audio, etc). And they can take their portfolio with them post-graduation.
That’s just scratching the surface of what Wakelet does. (I use it every day to collect and organize links and things I find on the web, for instance.)
In this Spotlight Sponsor session, Ryan McGinnis helps you see all the possibilities with Wakelet.
🗄 FROM THE ARCHIVE 🗄
Building Habits to Be the Most Efficient, Effective You with James Clear
James Clear published his book, Atomic Habits, in 2018.
When nobody had heard about it yet, he started reaching out to bloggers, podcasters … anyone who would tell others about his book.
I was one of them.
He sent me a copy of Atomic Habits — way before it sold 20 million copies and turned him into a #1 New York Times bestselling author.
I replied to his email and told him about the Ditch Summit — and how he could tell teachers about habits and how they can impact themselves and their students.
And he said yes! So, from a hotel room the day before an in-person speaking event in 2018, James Clear told me about Atomic Habits and how they can impact teachers.
Today — at the beginning of a new year, a very popular time to set goals and evaluate habits — Atomic Habits is one of the most popular books on Amazon.
You can watch James’s Ditch Summit session about habits for teachers and students right now.
Watch any Ditch Summit session from previous years on the Ditch Summit Video Library page any time.
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Enjoy today’s sessions — and any of our previous Ditch Summit sessions. I’ll see you in your inbox tomorrow with two more great new sessions!