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🔎 SPOTLIGHT SPONSOR 🔎

Loud and Proud: Encouraging Students to Share Their Work with Confidence with Vivi

When students get done with classwork — important, meaningful classwork — sometimes they don’t want to share it.

They might be shy. Or getting up in front of class might embarrass them.

What if students WANTED to share their work with the class?

This is the effect that Juliana Finegan has seen in classrooms with Vivi for Teachers, a FREE screensharing tool you can start using right away.

• Students join with a code you give them.

• You see them appear in your Vivi for Teachers dashboard.

• Click on the student to start screen sharing.

• Your student’s screen is displayed on the big screen in front of class.

Vivi for Teachers is that easy. (Did I mention it’s free??? Like, completely completely free???)

It’s created by Vivi, a company that helps schools network their interactive displays and digital signage …

… but Vivi for Teachers is free and doesn’t require any special hardware.

In this spotlight sponsor session, Juliana shows you how Vivi works — and how it can empower student voice.

🔎 WATCH: Loud and Proud: Encouraging Students to Share Their Work with Confidence with Vivi

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5 Ditch Summit sessions to check out

If you’d like to make the most of these last days of the summit — and make sure you’re watching a great session — here are a handful of my favorites (from a variety of topics) …

🔎 Media Literacy in an Ever-Changing AI Landscape
Speaker: Julie Smith
These days, it’s getting harder than ever to know what’s true … what’s false … what’s twisted and spun … what’s artificial and synthetic. How do we keep it all straight and be smart about our media? It’s all about media literacy, Julie Smith tells us, and AI is making it tougher than ever.

👨‍💻 The Building Blocks of Blended Learning
Speaker: Holly Clark
You might notice Holly’s name a few times in the summit. I can’t resist bringing her in because of her insight into meaningful use of technology in the classroom. She and I co-host the Digital Learning Podcast, by the way. In this session, we unpack some of our essentials to tech integration and blended learning.

🌱 Teacher Wellness: From Disengaged to Fulfilled
Speaker: Mandy Froehlich
So many educators feel disengaged and burned out. You can figure out why — and do something about it. In this powerful session, educator and speaker Mandy Froehlich explains educator disengagement. She outlines several causes of it. And she provides some steps forward.

📲 The Intersection of TikTok, Social Media, and the Classroom
Speaker: Merve Lapus
Social media is a force in the lives of young people — and it’s often a negative force. The effects of it show up in schools and the classroom, and social media is having a profound impact on the students we serve. What can we do? What do we need to know? Merve Lapus from Common Sense Media shares some tips to follow and steps to take.

❤️ The Heart of Culturally Responsive Lesson Design
Speaker: Nyree Clark
Culturally responsive teaching is multi-faceted and shows up in schools and classrooms in many ways. The heart of it: when students see themselves in school and in your instruction. In this session, Nyree Clark explains culturally responsive teaching — and how it can be reflected in the lessons we teach.

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