📺 Ditch Summit Day 8: Demystifying AI / ScreenPal

Overwhelmed by AI? Today is your day.

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Matt Miller
December 20, 2023

Ditch Summit Day 8: Demystifying AI / ScreenPal

  • NEW Today: Learn about simple challenges you can try to better understand how AI assistants work (and can help you)

  • NEW Today: Learn about all the ways you and your students can create with ScreenPal screen capture tools

🗓 16 days remaining in the Ditch Summit

  • Tomorrow: AI: Navigating a New Era in Education with Five Star Technology

Inside the Ditch Summit today:

  • 📢 SOCIAL: The buzz about Ditch Summit

  • ☝🏼 REMINDER: Share learning via video

  • 🎁 PRIZES: 1 contest ends TODAY! 🚨

  • 💡 SPOTLIGHT SPONSOR SESSION: Teaching Reflection as a Skill with Mirror

  • 📺 FEATURED SPEAKER SESSION: 10 InterACTIVE, Engaging Edtech Classroom Ideas with Joe and Kristin Merrill

📢 SOCIAL: The buzz about Ditch Summit

Ever seen a YouTuber do an unboxing video?

What if your students were the YouTubers … and they were unboxing content related to your class? (Learn how here.)

Thanks to super Ditch Summit sharer Kyle Leonard (@MrLeonard) for sharing this quick teaching idea on the #DitchSummit hashtag on Twitter/X!

Love the idea of using the four Fs as a reflection protocol while we track our reflection practice 😊 Great ☕️ session with #DitchSummit this morning

Donna Golightly (@donnagolightly1) via Twitter/X

#ditchsummit Media Literacy in an Ever-Changing AI Landscape - Wow! This needs to be made available to all; I'd love to share with the parents of my students - they need what Julie is sharing

Kevin Storey (@KStoChoa) via Twitter/X

☝🏼 REMINDER: Share learning via video

For every Ditch Summit session, you can share what you’ve learned via video using Microsoft Flip.

It’s a great way to get to know other Ditch Summit participants and to talk about what you’re learning.

BONUS: One of our prize contests is connected to these videos! We’ll draw three winners (see below) from the Ditch Summit video reflections.

(As of this email, we only have 20 entries … so if you record a video, you have pretty good odds to win!)

🎁 PRIZES: 1 contest ends TODAY! 🚨

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

  • 🚨 ENDING TODAY: 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 at the end of the day today.

  • 🚨 ENDING FRIDAY: 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

A Wonderland of Creation with ScreenPal

ScreenPal (formerly Screencast-O-Matic) is SO much more than a screen recorder. It’s your ticket to a wonderland of creation!

  • Capture your screen with video or image

  • Generate captions for accessibility

  • Record via iOS or Android mobile devices

  • Use storyboards to streamline video creation

  • Drag and drop media to create

  • Use quizzing features to measure learning

ScreenPal has a great free option … but the paid version is SO affordable. With a Ditch Summit promo offer, the Deluxe EDU version is 30 percent off — just $1.40 per month — and gives you unlimited recording time.

PS: Sarah created a great ScreenPal Ditch Summit resources for us with tutorials and copy-and-use templates. Check it out here!

📺 FEATURED SPEAKER SESSION

Demystifying AI

Fely García López has worked with lots of teachers who are learning about AI — and how it can support their work in the classroom.

An observation she’s made:

If you can just try it out, you start to see how helpful it can be.

So … what should we do? How do we try it?

In this session, Fely and I brainstorm 10 challenges — easy tasks you can try out using an AI assistant like ChatGPT.

Watch the video. Hit pause. Try a prompt. Then press play again.

You’ll feel much more CONFIDENT after this session!