🤖 How teachers use AI to teach

🖥 Webinar: AI: Your Interactive Display's Hidden Classroom Superpower

This message is sponsored by Samsung.

If you have an interactive display, I’ll bet your big question is this:

How do I make the most of it? How do I maximize this interactive technology to best support my students?

Using artificial intelligence tools with it can be part of the answer.

Samsung is hosting me for a FREE webinar on Wednesday called: “AI: Your Interactive Display’s Hidden Classroom Superpower.”

In it, we’ll outline several activities and teaching strategies you can use to make the most of your interactive display with AI.

I’m inviting you to be our guest! Here are the details:

• Wednesday, December 6 (2pm U.S. EDT / 1pm CDT / noon MDT / 11am PDT)

• FREE 1-hour certificate of completion for PD credit

• Recording available afterward to those who registered

FYI: Samsung has several upcoming free webinars on topics like web tools, digital citizenship, Google Tips, and more. Use the “Select all upcoming webinars” option or choose other topics you’re interested in, too.

Register for this FREE webinar here!

🎁 Ditch Summit starts in 1 week; win prizes!

Wow, it’s almost here!

Next Monday is the start of the Ditch Summit, our free online conference for educators (Dec. 11 to Jan. 5)!

You can win prizes for sharing the Ditch Summit!

Just go to DitchSummit.com and register to get your special referral link.

(I’ve been telling you that if you get these email newsletters you’re already signed up. That’s still true. But if you want to win prizes, go sign up at DitchSummit.com. Trust me.)

Share that link with others. When they click the link and sign up, you earn a referral.

• 5 referrals gets you a DTT sticker pack.

• 10 referrals gets you a DTT online course for free.

• 20 referrals gets you a t-shirt/tote bag from our merch store.

• 40 referrals gets you a hoodie from our merch store.

I took LOTS of envelopes with stickers to the mailbox last week. Plus, we’ve had some t-shirt winners already, and it’s still early!

It’s easy to share Ditch Summit, and the email with your referral link has some ideas to help you share.

What is Ditch Summit? It’s our free online conference for educators.

• When the summit opens next Monday, you’ll immediately have access to ~80 previous Ditch Summit sessions.

• Every day for the first two weeks, we’ll release a new featured speaker session and a new spotlight sponsor session.

• You can get a certificate of completion for PD credit and a downloadable notes page for each session.

• Enjoy everything before Jan. 5, when the summit closes and everything becomes unavailable until next December.

I’m so excited to share our new sessions with you — and for you to win some prizes!

📺 VIDEO: AI in Education: Examples, Ethics and Implications

This message is sponsored by Samsung.

How do we make the most of AI in the classroom?

What ethical implications must we be aware of?

How is it already being used to improve student learning?

Three educators — including myself — weighed in on these topics in a recent panel discussion. Good news: We captured video of the whole thing!

It was part of my ongoing partnership with Samsung and another collaboration with their amazing PD team! FYI: They’re the ones running this series of webinars about teaching with tech.

Watch the full video here, or jump to the section that interests you most …

• At 6:55, we discussed the ethical implications of AI in schools and classrooms.

• At 15:22, we discussed our favorite ways AI can be helpful in schools.

• At 25:15, we shared our favorite practical uses of AI in the classroom.

The panel consisted of me; Rachel Swanson, Samsung Education Coach; and Austin Fleischer, former third grade teacher from Business Network Team. It was moderated by Samsung Education Coach Dee Lanier.

🤖 NEW POST: Leveraging AI to spiral essential standards

Spiraling is a core teaching practice. It involves revisiting key concepts and skills throughout the academic year.

There’s a good chance you’re already using this strategy.

With the advent of AI assistants like ChatGPT, we can now better align any topic or content to our essential standards.

In this guest post, Jake Boll shares some practices we can use — and three tools that support them — to spiral essential standards.

READ: Leveraging AI to spiral essential standards

🎧 DTT Podcast 192: Celebrate CS Education Week and the Hour of Code

This week’s new podcast episode covers a LOT of ground, including:

• ways to bring Computer Science Education Week and the Hour of Code to your class — no matter what you teach

• details about the upcoming Ditch Summit

• how to use AI to know what your students might struggle with before you begin teaching

• the learning awards template

Click here to listen — or find the Ditch That Textbook Podcast in your favorite podcast player to subscribe!