🗓 New year. New teaching resources.

🤖 Want to understand all this “AI stuff”?

It’s here. It’s changing the way we work. And it’s going to change things in the classroom.

Artificial intelligence.

• What are its implications on the classroom?

• What about cheating and plagiarism?

• Where is all of this headed?

Get answers in my book, AI for Educators. It’s a quick, engaging page turner that’ll help you start moving forward.

“I read this book in 2 sittings, but I kept revisiting chapters to take notes. Matt Miller does a great job with a candid, straightforward book about AI for educators. His conversational, down-to-earth style makes it feel as if you're having a professional chat in the teacher workroom with him.” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (Amazon: Kim)

“Recommended for any educator who is only contemplating AI as a way for students to cheat. Matt does a super job of helping the reader to think beyond that!” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (Amazon: soyalba)

📙 Get AI for Educators on Amazon

💡Welcome, new Ditch Summit friends!

It's the first day after Ditch Summit. 

I hope you got to watch what you wanted to watch -- and got some ideas for 2024.

It also means we have new faces around here!

If you subscribed for the first time during the summit, I'm glad you're here!

You'll find these emails to be a pipeline of new teaching ideas. They start in your inbox and end up in your lesson plans.

Been here a while? I'm glad you're still here!

Either way, we’d like to offer you a welcome pack — with SEVEN free ebooks full of teaching ideas.

If you’ve been a part of our #DitchBook family for a while you might have already downloaded these resources. However, if you’re anything like me, you might have forgotten you even have them!

I'm hopeful (confident even) that the ideas in these ebooks will lighten your lesson planning load in the coming days and weeks -- and your students will enjoy them!

Here are your SEVEN free ebooks.

Let’s get some fun lessons planned so you can relax …

1. 101 Practical Ways to Ditch That Textbook: Lots of creative, techy teaching ideas you can use in class right away

2. 101 Ways to Ditch That Textbook with G Suite: Lots of fun ideas that use Google tools (Teaching at a Microsoft school? You can still use most of these ideas!)

3. 50 Templates for Teachers: Lots of pre-made files you can copy (or download), adjust as necessary, and assign to students immediately

4. The Attention Switch Student Engagement Pack: A packet of resources and teaching ideas related to my keynote speech, The Attention Switch

5. AI in the Classroom: 10+ Tools for Teachers: Get a boost of productivity and extra time to do what matters most. These AI tools can help you and your students.

6. Tomorrow Glasses Teacher Resource Pack: Help your students prepare for THEIR future, not ours. These resources will help align your classroom with the future.

7. Teaching with TEACHFLIX: A companion guide to our TEACHFLIX website. This guide includes several plug-and-play activities you can do with your students after watching almost any TEACHFLIX video. (Or almost any video you find on YouTube or other places, for that matter.)

Want to find all of them in one place?

Click here to view and download all of the ebooks.

🎯 QUICK TEACHING STRATEGY

💭 Set goals for 2024 with this Hopes and Dreams HyperDoc

At the start of the new year, it's a great idea to do a fun and engaging activity where students can share their dreams and goals.

This online lesson includes videos, quotes, and prompts to get them thinking and talking about the future. They will even use tools like Google Drawings or Canva to help them create their own special quote. After that, they can write a letter to their future selves and even create a vision board as an extension activity.

This updated resource is perfect for the beginning of the year because it helps students focus on the future and make plans for what they want to achieve.

You can make a copy of the resource below and follow the prompts in the doc to make it your own and then share it with your class.

🔗 Updated Hopes and Dreams HyperDoc

👋 How we can help

There are even more ways I can support you in the important work you do in education:

1. Read one of my six books about meaningful teaching with tech.
   

2. Take one of our online courses about practical and popular topics in education.
   

3. Bring me to your school, district or event to speak. I love working with educators!