🗑️ Virtual learning, TED Ed student talks + more

📺 FREE WEBINAR: Building AI-fluent students

AI is growing by leaps and bounds. It’s going to change our world and our workforce.

Will your students be prepared?

Join me and fellow AI strategist/author Holly Clark in a FREE webinar hosted by FETC in partnership with National AI Literacy Day.

Date: Friday, March 28, 2025
Time: 4pm U.S. Eastern / 3pm Central / 2pm Mountain / 1pm Pacific
Location: Online
Recording: Available 24 hours afterward
Certificate of completion: Yes

Holly and I will discuss AI literacy, how to incorporate it into our schools, and how to prepare our students for the future.

You’ll leave with real talk and practical strategies you can use to support AI literacies in your classroom, school and district right away.

As Holly, my co-presenter, says: “AI isn’t science fiction. It’s the future your students will inherit.”

📚 EDUCATOR RESOURCE 📚

📖 FREE: Future of EdTech for K-12 online magazine

Intelligence Enterprise Leaders Alliance (IELA) published an interview with me in their digital magazine — and you can download the whole thing for free.

This digital edition of the magazine includes pieces on:

• How AI-powered personalized learning is reshaping education

• Strategies for career exploration and workforce readiness

• Best practices for cybersecurity and digital safety

• Solutions for bridging the digital divide and ensuring equitable access

• How to balance technology with human-centered teaching approaches

In my interview, I talk about emerging technology for 2025, how AI is impacting teaching and learning today, AI literacy, and more.

You’ll also find contributions from Vicki “Cool Cat Teacher” Davis, Ms. Abbott (Abbott Elementary), Sharif El Mekki, Eric Sheninger, Kasey Bell, Jenny Vega, CoSN, ISTE, NSBA, EdTrust, and more!

💡 THE BIG IDEA 💡

Guest posts: 💻 Virtual learning AND 🎙️ TED Ed Student Talks

I love sharing new teaching ideas, resources, and tools with you.

The reality, though?

The 135,000+ educators I send this to — just like you — have an ENORMOUS collective wisdom — and lots of suggestions, too.

You may have noticed that we publish guest posts by our readers and others we invite. (Want to write a post? Email Karly at [email protected].)

Today, we’ll hand the microphone — the keyboard? the pencil? — to two of our readers, who share great tools and a powerful program for student voice.

Paula Johnson has been teaching virtually — all online — for almost five years.

• As a special education teacher, she meets with between 12 and 17 students.

• Each student gets 30 minutes of virtual face-to-face instruction daily.

• She meets weekly with all of them weekly via Google Meet.

That means that most of the learning activities her students do with her (and for her) are asynchronous — not in a live video call.

So … what tools keep that virtual learning humming along efficiently?

Paula shares her 5 best tools for virtual learning (plus why she loves them and how she uses them) …

… and by the way, even if you teach face-to-face, these tools are great.

Trinidad “Trini” Algorta, a teacher in Uruguay, knew that her students had a story to tell. Each of them … no matter what.

She heard about the TED Ed Student Talks program and wanted to give it a shot.

The result? Students got to talk about their passions. AND, they spoke in English — a new language — so they practiced their language skills.

In her guest post, Trini shares details about the program, how to apply, the process, and more. Plus, you can watch clips of her students’ TED Ed Student Talks!

👋 How we can help

There are even more ways I can support you in the important work you do in education:

1. Read one of my six books about meaningful teaching with tech.

2. Take one of our online courses about practical and popular topics in education.

3. Bring me to your school, district or event to speak. I love working with educators!