📺 Ditch Summit Day 6: AI & media literacy / BookWidgets

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Matt Miller
December 18, 2023

Ditch Summit Day 6: AI & media literacy / BookWidgets

  • NEW Today: Learn about how important media literacy is in a world growing in artificial intelligence

  • NEW Today: Learn how to create fantastic interactive activities with BookWidgets

🗓 18 days remaining in the Ditch Summit

  • Tomorrow: 10 InterACTIVE, Engaging Edtech Classroom Ideas with Joe and Kristin Merrill

  • Tomorrow: Teaching Reflection as a Skill with Mirror with Sara Candela

Inside the Ditch Summit today:

  • 📢 SOCIAL: The buzz about Ditch Summit

  • ☝🏼 REMINDER: If you’re from Illinois …

  • 🎁 PRIZES: 4 contests happening now!

  • 💡 SPOTLIGHT SPONSOR SESSION: Create Awesome Assignments with BookWidgets and Google Classroom

  • 📺 FEATURED SPEAKER SESSION: Media Literacy in an Ever-Changing AI Landscape with Julie Smith

📢 SOCIAL: The buzz about Ditch Summit

Kudos to Alexis Snider for sketchnoting our Day 1 session with CJ Reynolds! Loved her takeaways about student relationships. ❤️

"I'm going to ear hustle with the students so I can hear what they're thinking so I can use that with my curriculum." — @andredaughty #DitchSummit

Kyle Leonard (@MrLeonard4) via Twitter/X

Building Relationships with Students also requires having consistent rhythm...not routine! Change up the lexicon to get the same idea across! @realrapreynolds @jmattmiller #DitchSummit

AnnamariaDiBenedetto (@Mme_DiBenz) via Twitter/X

☝🏼 REMINDER: If you’re from Illinois …

Our friends from TeachIllinois are helping you get FREE Illinois certified PD hours! On any session page, under the video, use the button that says “From Illinois? Get Official PD Credits.”

🎁 PRIZES: 4 contests happening now!

Here’s where you can enter RIGHT NOW to win prizes …

  • Watch my AI session: Watch the “AI in the Classroom: Today, Tomorrow and Beyond” session. Then click the contest button below it. You can register to win two of my books, an item from the DTT merch store, and DTT stickers! We’ll draw THREE winners on Wednesday.

  • Watch the DTT session: Watch the “Our Best DTT Resources: 8 Ideas You Can Use in Class Tomorrow” session. Then click the contest button below it. You can win a free year of Shapegrams! We’ll draw a winner on Friday.

  • Refer friends to Ditch Summit: Win stickers, online courses, and merch by sharing Ditch Summit with others! Go to DitchSummit.com and enter your email address. In the welcome email you receive, you’ll get a unique referral link. Share it with others. The more people that sign up, the more prizes you’ll win!

  • Share what you’re learning in a Flip video: Reflect on Ditch Summit sessions using the “View/Record Flip Videos” button in any session. Each time you do, you’re entered to win a Flip prize pack including a stainless steel water bottle, stickers and tote bag!

💡 SPOTLIGHT SPONSOR SESSION

Create Awesome Assignments with BookWidgets and Google Classroom

BookWidgets really is a one-stop shop for interactive learning.

  • 36 question types for activities (most autograded!)

  • 40+ digital activity templates (that you don’t have to make!)

  • Drag and drop sorting questions with text and images

  • Audio word match questions

  • Embed videos into practice activities

… and the list goes on and on.

In this video, Kate Baker shares how to make assignments in BookWidgets and share them to Google Classroom (or your own learning management system)!

PS: Want to use BookWidgets for FREE for the rest of the school year? Use this link to get 6 months of BookWidgets for FREE!

📺 FEATURED SPEAKER SESSION

Media Literacy in an Ever-Changing AI Landscape with Julie Smith

Media literacy has already been a crucial skill to prepare students for the future.

We’re already battling what’s real and not, the credibility of news sources and more.

As the capabilities of artificial intelligence grow, it’ll get more and more complex.

We’re adding deepfakes and shallowfakes into the mix.

Digital citizenship needs an overhaul.

What can we do? In this session, professor and media literacy author Julie Smith shares thoughts and ideas to support you.