📺 Ditch Summit: Two of my own sessions!

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🗓 Ditch Summit: 22 days down, 4 days to go
The Ditch Summit closes on Jan. 10, 2025. After that, sessions + resources are unavailable until December 2025.

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Creativity and STEM in ANY Classroom with Book Creator

Book Creator is more than a way to publish text books online.

It’s a multimedia powerhouse where students can mash up images, text, video, and content from other sites to show what they’ve learned.

In fact, it’s a great way to infuse STEM into any subject area — and in this Ditch Summit session, Katie Fielding shows you how.

She has created several Book Creator books you can copy and use right away (get them here), including:

• 5E Scientific Notebook

• Engineering Notebook

• Design Thinking Notebook

• Data Science Notebook

• Nature Journal

Book Creator is for any content area or grade level, with page templates and tons of visual, interactive ways for students to display learning.

🎁 BONUS: You can get 3 months of premium Book Creator for FREE! (Their free version — one library with up to 40 books / unlimited students is great, too.)

• Use code DitchSummit at checkout before Jan. 12, 2025. (No credit card necessary.)

OK, enough talk … let’s see this session!

🔎 WATCH: Creativity and STEM in ANY Classroom with Book Creator

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AI in the Classroom: Today, Tomorrow and Beyond with Matt Miller

We hear lots of talk these days about the impact of AI on the classroom. It’s efficient. It’s engaging. It can create new learning experiences.

I wrote all about this in my book, AI for Educators, a practical primer to get educators up to speed about AI.

At the end of the book, I started asking a question I don’t hear as much about:

What about tomorrow?

How can we prepare students for a future where AI is everywhere, where AI skills are crucial?

In this session, I look at AI in the classroom today — some tips and suggestions for making the most of it.

But I also look at the future. How can we prepare students for the future TODAY? And what might school look like in the future?

📺 WATCH: AI in the Classroom: Today, Tomorrow and Beyond with Matt Miller

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Create a Memorable Class with Techy, Pirate Teaching with Matt Miller

It seems harder than ever to capture — and keep! — students’ attention.

With cell phone notifications, social media and constant distractions everywhere, attention is scarce.

How can we capture our students’ attention — and make learning fun in the process?

In my book Tech Like a Pirate, I share tons of ways to make learning feel like the things that students love — social media, videos, games, and all of their favorite interests outside of school.

In this Ditch Summit session, I sketch on my whiteboard as a fun intro — and then share my 8 ways to Tech Like a Pirate.

You’ll walk away with tons of practical ideas to make learning memorable!

📺 WATCH: Create a Memorable Class with Techy, Pirate Teaching with Matt Miller

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