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Your Story Matters: A Reflection on the Adobe Education Summit
It is less than twenty-four hours since the Adobe Education Summit wrapped, and I am writing this on a train headed home. Not a plane. A train. (#RimmeyOnTheRails) What was initially an economically efficient method of traveling because I forgot to book a flight, has become the best decision I’ve made about travel in a…
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Drawing is not an Art, it is a Thought!
I did not expect to have my entire worldview surrounding art and creativity blown away at ISTE, but here we are. Manuel Herrera said something I wish I had heard as I was limping through all of my theatrical design classes in college (I was the rare speech/theater ed person who was in the program…
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Adobe Education Teased Something at ISTE 2026, and I Squeed Loudly
I am going to keep this one short because the thing itself was short. At the end of an Adobe Education booth session at ISTE 2026, our presenter, Claudio Zavala, showed us a one-minute and fifteen-second video. It was a 3D-animated short, the kind of visually rich, layered, genuinely beautiful piece of content that you…
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Microsoft Education at ISTE 2026: From Shortcut to Scaffold
There is a phrase that kept appearing across multiple sessions at ISTE 2026, in different contexts and from different presenters, so consistently that it started to feel less like a talking point and more like a genuine shift in how the education technology industry is thinking about AI. From shortcut to scaffold. Microsoft made it…
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Classkick: The Tool That’s Been There All Along
There is a specific kind of discovery that only happens at a conference. Not just the periphery finds I love: the small booth, the student founder, the tool you would never have stumbled across any other way. This is a different kind. The kind where you walk past a booth, catch something on a screen…
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Kami Coach: When a Platform You Already Love Gets “Smarter”
There is a particular kind of excitement that happens when a tool you already trust announces something new. It is different from the excitement of discovering something unknown. It is more like watching a favorite restaurant add a dish to their menu that you did not know you needed until you saw it, and then…
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From the Classroom Floor: Code AI and the Case for Teaching Coding WITH AI
I spent forty-five minutes actively rethinking the most common criticism of vibe coding. The criticism goes something like this: if students are using AI to generate their code, they are not actually learning to code. They are learning to prompt. They are outsourcing the thinking to a machine and calling it programming education, and the…
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Expanding Reality: How zSpace and ClassVR Made Me Feel Like a Kid Again
There is a moment at ISTE where the conference stops feeling like professional development and starts feeling like the future arrived early and forgot to send a warning. For me, that moment happened twice on the main expo floor. Once with my hands around a holographic human heart. Once standing in the trenches of World…
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From the Periphery: MYdys; the App That Hands the Text Back
I stopped at this booth for every student I have ever taught with dyslexia. Past and present. The ones who sat in the back and pretended the worksheet was not defeating them. The ones who worked twice as hard as everyone else to produce half as much on paper and knew it. The ones who…
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From the Periphery: Typed by Hand ISTE 2026
Let me tell you about the problem with AI detectors. They are trying to answer the wrong question. Every AI detector on the market: GPTZero, Turnitin, Copyleaks, all of them, asks some version of the same question: does this finished text look like it was written by a human or a machine? They analyze the…