🗑️ 101 practical, techy teaching ideas

🎙️ Book me: The AI for Educators Workshop

How do we make the most of AI in school? How do we get it right — and help prepare students for the future?

My AI for Educators Workshop gives teachers hands-on practice — and space to discuss the tough topics AI has confronted us with.

• Practical teaching ideas to use right away

• Effective time-savers for teachers

• Solutions and discussion about academic integrity and AI

• How to prepare students for an AI future

• Perspective from my own classroom this year

Want to bring this to your school, district, or event? I’m booking workshops, keynote speeches, and presentations for 2025 now.

Spots fill up quickly. No harm in getting some details now, right? Email [email protected] for pricing, availability and details.

💡 THE BIG IDEA 💡

📚 Ebook: 101 Practical Ways to Ditch That Textbook

Our updated ebook is here: 101 Practical Ways to Ditch That Textbook!

It’s part of a collection of free ebooks we offer you when you join the email newsletter. They include:

• 🤖 Our NEW AI Teacher Toolkit

• 🗄️ 100 Free Templates for Teachers

• ⚡ The Attention Switch Student Engagement Pack (for my keynote speech, The Attention Switch)

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You’ll find a TON of great teaching ideas in our new book, including …

Section 1: Teach and learn like an influencer! 📱

• The “Spotify playlist” assignment

• The “create your own Amazon product” assignment

• Create TikTok video activities with Google Slides

Section 2: Make activities interactive 👆

• Write “choose your own adventure” stories

• The “design your locker” activity

• Build a digital portfolio

Section 3: Transform worksheets to WOW 🤩

• Try Wordwall instead of vocab matching

• Use Google Slides for interactive mapping

Section 4: Work smarter, not harder, with AI 🤖

• Capture creativity with Microsoft Designer AI images

• Create interactive slides with Curipod

• Use AI for student feedback with Brisk Teaching

Section 5: Teach with Teachflix 📺

• Create a wordsplash

• Design a movie poster

• Create a storyboard summary

… and that’s only halfway through the ebook! Other sections include:

• Turn your classroom into a game show

• Engage students with digital escape rooms

• Explore the world with your class

• Discover Google’s buried treasure

• Boost long-term learning

• Upgrade your assessment tools

📚 Get the ebook: 101 Practical Ways to Ditch That Textbook

💻 TECH TIP 💻

Transform Your Teaching with 🚀 Brisk Boost!

As teachers, we have all sorts of learning resources for our students -- documents, web pages, slide decks, YouTube videos, and more.

Getting students to consume our content -- and understand it -- and know how to apply it?

That's the tricky part.

Enter Brisk Boost, the latest feature of the FREE Brisk Teaching Chrome extension, that can revolutionize your classroom!

Brisk Boost allows you to turn any online resource—whether it's an article, webpage, YouTube video, or Google Doc—into an interactive learning activity.

With Brisk Boost, it's easy to add an interactive chatbot to a learning resource that will ...

• act as a tutor to help teach students new concepts

• hook students into learning, helping them to see why it's interesting

• help them to explore new topics through inquiry

• debate back and forth with students about new ideas

• ... and more

Brisk Boost is designed to make learning more interactive, personalized, and effective, all while saving teachers valuable time.

Sounds pretty good right?

Check out our NEW post Transform any online resource into interactive learning with Brisk Boost for:

• How to make a Brisk Boost activity for students step-by-step

• How to teach mitosis using of allllllll of the Brisk Boost learning modes

• 10 ways to use Brisk Boost in the classroom

• a tutorial video to walk you through everything step by step

👋 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!