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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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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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The Playlist Is the Point: What Music Does for Teenage Brains and What We Can Do About It in the Classroom
I was always the headphones kid. From my first Walkman, to Discman, to a revolving door of MP3 players, and now my phone, which can stream music in an instant, I have always needed music in the background. I was even the kid who would try to break my over-ear headphones to run them up…
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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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The Best Thing I Found at ISTE 2026 Wasn’t at the Loudest Booth
I have a theory about conferences. The best stuff is never where the speakers are the loudest and the lights are the brightest. I developed this theory the same way I developed my best opinions about food: by ignoring the obvious choices and wandering until something unexpected stopped me cold. I am the person who…
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Who’s Ready to Soak Up the Sun at ISTE 2026 in Orlando?
The laptop, headphones, and portable batteries have been charged. The sunscreen has been forgotten. The kids have been hugged and kissed goodby with the promise of seeing them again in a week. I’m currently in KCI chatting it up with some World Cup fans and some Europeans who’ve traveled here to support their team, and…