🗑 Resources + videos from ISTELive 25

🚨 50% off Teacher AI Literacy Level 1

The AI Fluency Lab has released its first online course, and it’s starting with a bang! 💥

We’re offering a 50 percent to Ditch That Textbook readers who enroll in the course before July 7!

This early bird rate gets you the full course — instructional videos, learning activities, pre-written prompts, discussion boards, and tons of valuable resources.

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Take advantage of this opportunity before it disappears!

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💻 TECH TIP 💻

📦Google Applied Digital Skills has moved

Since 2017, Google’s Applied Digital Skills has helped educators and students build essential tech skills through free, hands-on lessons. Starting June 30, 2025, these lessons will move to a new home: the Google for Education Learning Center. While the lessons will remain free, the platform shift brings some changes.

Here’s what’s changing:

• ✅ Lessons are still free and available to all educators and students. ✅ You can now access them on the Google for Education Learning Center. See which lessons are being migrated here.

• ✅ You can still bookmark lessons, complete quizzes, and access lesson plans, rubrics and certificates.

• ✅ You’ll still be able to share lessons with students via Google Classroom or your preferred LMS.

• ❌ Class management features (like creating classes or tracking progress) are no longer available.

• ❌ Direct integration with Google Classroom or LMS rosters has been removed.

• ⚠️ All existing accounts and data will be deleted after June 30, 2025. 

To get started, visit goo.gle/AppliedDigitalSkills, sign in with Google, and explore the newly organized lesson collections!

💡 THE BIG IDEA 💡

📋 My ISTELive ‘25 sessions and resources

One of the biggest edtech events in the world — the ISTELive Conference — is happening this week in San Antonio, Texas.

And, of course … you know I’ll be sharing as much as I can with you!

IF YOU’RE AT ISTE: You can find times, locations, resources and other great stuff at my ISTELive 25 resources page here. The sessions below with a 📚 emoji are also the ones with free book giveaways.

IF YOU’RE #NOTATISTE: You can get lots of my slides, resources and even session videos on my ISTELive 25 resources page here. Yep, same one as above. (Note: I’ll share recorded videos of sessions as they become available on that page.)

📆 MONDAY JUNE 30 (All times U.S. Central time)

• 8:30 AM Stars and Night Ballroom 2/3: How I Used (and Didn't Use) AI in My Classroom

• 📚10 AM WeWillWrite Booth #628: Gamified Writing Students Will Beg For (with WeWillWrite)

• 10:30 AM Brisk Booth #628: How to Trim Hours Off Your Grading Time with Brisk

• 📚11:30 AM Figma Booth #2418: Quick Collaboration Ideas with FigJam

• 📚12 PM Brisk Booth #628: Ditch That Tool (and Save That Time) with Brisk

• 📚2 PM Figma Booth #2418: Fun, Digital Brain Dumps with FigJam

• 3 PM Brisk Booth #628: Step Into Matt Miller’s Classroom: Using Brisk to Teach

• 4 PM Brisk Booth #628: Create an Entire Unit Plan -- with Activities -- in 10 Minutes with Brisk

📆 TUESDAY JULY 1 (All times U.S. Central time)

• 📚10 AM Figma Booth #2418: Quick Collaboration Ideas with FigJam

• 11 AM SchoolAI Booth #3136: How to Personalize Learning with SchoolAI: 10 Activities You Can Use Tomorrow

• 📚12 PM Figma Booth #2418: Fun, Digital Brain Dumps with FigJam

• 1 PM Hemisfair Ballroom 3: Beyond ChatGPT: Navigating AI-Generated Images, Video and More

• 📚2:15 PM Vivi Booth #819: Top 5 Ways to Build Teacher Student Connections in a moment of AI

• 3 PM HBGCC - 006CD: Like TPT for Free: Free Pre-Made Digital Teaching Resources

• 4:15 PM Kami Booth #1900: How to Customize Your Own Copy and Assign Templates

• 5 PM Wayground (formerly Quizizz) Booth #1500: How to Ditch That Textbook with Interactive Quizzes and AI

📆 WEDNESDAY JULY 2 (All times U.S. Central time)

• 9:45 AM ScreenPal Booth #3231: Your Class, But Cool Like TikTok

• 📚10:30 AM Figma Booth #2418: Fun, Digital Brain Dumps with FigJam

• 11:15 AM Class Companion Book #521: Speedy Differentiation with Class Companion

• 12 PM Diffit Booth #1954: All About Diffit: How Diffit Can Support Engaging Lesson Planning

😭 Not At ISTE? Check out the FREE #NotAtISTE Conference from SchoolAI!

Each session is free, online, and built for educators who want real solutions with real impact.

📆 Live Sessions Run June 30 – July 1 in the morning and afternoon.

Each event is 1 hour long and includes live demos, interactive moments, and actionable tools you can use right away!

Click here to register for #NotAtISTE Sessions

👋 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!