📺 Ditch Summit Day 4: AI concerns + Wakelet

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📢 New speaker days: 4 days down, 4 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: 4 days down, 22 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: Get a certificate of completion

One of the things that educators love the most about Ditch Summit? The certificates of completion.

It means that, for many educators, they can turn their Ditch Summit learning into professional development credit to renew their teaching license.

You can generate a certificate for ANY Ditch Summit session, past or present:

• Open the video presentation page

• Watch the video presentation

• Click the “Generate PD Certificate” button

• Fill out the form and hit “Submit”

• Check your email for a certificate

We “automagically” send you the certificates — so you don’t have to wait very long.

Will they count for my state / province / district? Our certificates aren’t accredited by any governing body for professional development, but we have found that lots of schools and districts do accept them.

Illinois educators: We do have a partnership with TeachIllinois to offer official PD hours for Illinois! Get more details 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 📺

Cautious Steps Toward AI Implementation in Education with Ken Shelton and Dee Lanier

There’s a lot of talk about AI in education right now. And lots of companies are trying to sell AI-related products in the education space.

Ken Shelton and Dee Lanier are telling us: We need to slow down and think.

In this session, we discuss some hot button topics about AI in schools: cheating, teacher efficiency, and bias. (They address topics like these and others in their book, The Promises and Perils of AI in Education.)

Ken and Dee also shine a light on conversations that aren’t happening enough: data governance, system design, algorithmic bias, data weighting, and personalization.

Ken: “You cannot talk about personalization if you don’t know the person.”

In this session Ken and Dee share insight and wisdom. They share questions we should be asking. And they offer tips to navigate this AI space.

📺 WATCH: Cautious Steps Toward AI Implementation in Education with Ken Shelton and Dee Lanier 

🔎 SPOTLIGHT SPONSOR 🔎

Student Portfolios for Growth and Reflection with Wakelet

Students are working on assignments and creating artifacts of learning in class every day.

But where do those artifacts go?

Once students have learned, how can they show others what they’ve learned — prospective employers, college admissions boards, even family and friends?

A student portfolio makes it visible.

With Wakelet, students can collect evidence of their learning and growth throughout the school year — and throughout their entire school career.

They can update that student portfolio with a variety of media (images, video, audio, etc). And they can take their portfolio with them post-graduation.

That’s just scratching the surface of what Wakelet does. (I use it every day to collect and organize links and things I find on the web, for instance.)

In this Spotlight Sponsor session, Ryan McGinnis helps you see all the possibilities with Wakelet.

🔎 WATCH: Student Portfolios for Growth and Reflection with Wakelet

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