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I Said I Would Scream From the Rooftops. Consider This Me Screaming!
Back in June, at the end of an Adobe session at ISTE 2026, Claudio Zavala Jr. showed a room full of educators a one-minute and fifteen-second animated video that stopped me completely in my tracks. It was rich, layered, professionally rendered, and made entirely with AI-generated prompts. Every element editable. No animation degree required. No…
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Diffit to the Rescue!
Yesterday, I did not like my lesson planned for US History. Not in the “this is boring but necessary content” way that we have to march through content. This was in the “I taught this to one section yesterday, and it was painful for everyone in the room” level of dislike. The lesson landed with…
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Stop Pressing Play and Walking Away: How Edpuzzle Live Mode Changes Using Video in the Classroom
We’ve all been that teacher… You find the perfect video. Twelve minutes. Covers exactly what you need. You assign it, press play on the projector, and spend the next twelve minutes watching students do one of three things: take notes with varying degrees of engagement, stare at the screen with the particular glazed expression that…
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Why Your Students Are Studying Wrong…and What to Do About It
A Knowt a day keeps the IDK away. I will see myself out. Actually, no. I will not. The research behind that terrible pun is genuinely extraordinary. And we need to remember, really remember, the power of memory and old-school pedagogical techniques to augment our reliance on technology. On Monday, I wrote about the Fast…
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Fast, Curious, and Growing: How to Use the Fast and Curious EduProtocol With Wayground
Monday morning. Students are shuffling in. The weekend is not quite over for anyone in the room, including you. Here is a routine that takes fifteen minutes, requires almost no prep once you have set it up, and will produce some of the most visible evidence of student growth you have ever seen in a…
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How I Built an AI Planning Space That Actually Knows How I Teach
This may look similar to last Monday’s post. I had several people reach out and ask for some additional steps or context on how I built the structure of my Claude project space. Also, the World History resource page is LIVE!!!!!! Every August I tell myself this will be the year I stay ahead of…
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My First Two Days of School, Redesigned Around One Idea: Your Story Matters
The first two days of school are a negotiation. Students are figuring out who you are. You are figuring out who they are. Everyone is performing slightly more than they will for the rest of the year: students performing compliance, teachers performing authority, while the actual relationship that will make learning possible has not yet…
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Year Zero Update: What We’ve Built for World History (and What’s Coming Friday)
When I wrote the Year Zero post back in June, I made a promise. . Everything I build gets shared. Two dedicated resource pages: one for US History, one for World History, updated as the year goes on. Not a highlight reel of the things that worked perfectly. Everything! It’s August. I’m in my 2nd…
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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…