📺 Ditch Summit Day 3: Student voice + MirrorTalk

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📢 New speaker days: 3 days down, 5 to go
We’ll send Ditch Summit emails every day thru Mon. Dec. 23, when all speakers will be released (then less frequent emails until the summit ends Jan. 10).

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🗓 Ditch Summit: 3 days down, 23 days to go
The Ditch Summit closes on Jan. 10, 2025. After that, sessions + resources are unavailable until

🤔 What to do during the Ditch Summit: Talk to MirrorTalk (win prizes!)

When someone asks you questions about what you’ve learned, the way you answer can strengthen your learning.

That’s reflection. And that’s what MirrorTalk is all about.

They’ve set up a special Ditch Summit reflection space for us:

• It asks you about a Ditch Summit session you’ve watched

• You reflect on your experience and what you learned

• MirrorTalk asks you follow-up questions

• It summarizes your learning and provides a detailed report

I reflected on the first two Ditch Summit featured sessions in MirrorTalk, and you can see my whole experience step-by-step here.

Ready to try it yourself?

🪞 Reflect on your Ditch Summit sessions in MirrorTalk here

🎁 BONUS: The first 100 educators to reflect will receive a FREE MirrorTalk poster about student thinking. (See the posters here.)

Want to use MirrorTalk with your students? Get it for free here.

📺 VIDEO: If you’re new to Ditch Summit — or want to make sure you’re not missing out on anything — watch our Ditch Summit welcome / tour / tutorial video here.

📲 SOCIAL: Don’t forget to share what you’re learning on social media using the #DitchSummit hashtag on social media — Twitter/X, Instagram (log in to view hashtag), Bluesky, wherever!

📺 FEATURED SPEAKER 📺

Amplifying Student Voice: Podcasts, Identity, and Choice with Stevie Frank

Stevie Frank knew she wanted to help her fifth grade students understand who they were — and who they wanted to become.

She wanted to help them find their voice — their identity.

That started a years-long journey of incorporating student voice in the teaching and learning in her classroom. That included:

• recording student podcasts

• bringing a variety of books into the classroom

• gathering student input on how projects were graded

In this session, Stevie shares lots of observations and practical ideas right out of her classroom.

She also shares her thoughts on the importance of student voice, including:

“You can’t speak to student voice until you first understand student identity.”

📺 WATCH: Amplifying Student Voice: Podcasts, Identity and Choice with Stevie Frank

🔎 SPOTLIGHT SPONSOR 🔎

Reflection, Critical Thinking, and AI with MirrorTalk

Earlier, you read about the MirrorTalk reflections we have available in the Ditch Summit.

Now, you can learn more about what powers them — MirrorTalk.

MirrorTalk (mirrortalk.ai) encourages students to talk about what they’re working on — what they’re learning, what they’re writing, what they’re creating.

Then, it asks them questions to get them reflecting on their learning.

Finally, it summarizes all of it and provides the student and teacher with a report analyzing their responses for further growth.

It really helps teachers bring a powerful and underutilized practice — reflection — into the classroom with little to no prep work ahead of time.

In this session, Brian Lamb of Swivl talks about how MirrorTalk works and how it supports student learning.

🔎 WATCH: Reflection, Critical Thinking, and AI with MirrorTalk

Watch any Ditch Summit session from previous years on the Ditch Summit Video Library page any time.