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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 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…
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The Grading Trap: Why a 95% Was Never the Problem
On more than one occasion, a student has opened their PowerSchool account, seen their grade, and come to talk with me about it. When I asked what it was, they responded: a 95%. I knew I didn’t turn my poker face on fast enough. This was not the first time, and it will depressingly not…
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Your Body Already Knows What You Think
I want you to try something. Think about a topic you have a strong opinion about. Something you feel clearly and specifically. Not something abstract, something real. A policy, a decision, a choice someone you know made, a position your school or district has taken that you either love or deeply disagree with. Now: stand…
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The Difference Between Tolerating a Perspective and Understanding One
I have spent the better part of my life constructing arguments. Since 1998, policy debate tournaments have been a large part of my life. Argument construction is my identity. Arguments are the air I breathe. Competitive debate does something to rewire the way you think about argumentation and the world that is genuinely difficult to…
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Year Zero: What Happens When a 20-Year Teacher Starts From Scratch?
I have been teaching for almost twenty years. That sentence used to feel like a credential. Lately, it has started to feel like a question. Not in a crisis-of-confidence way, I love this job as much as I ever have, maybe more! But in a genuinely curious way. What would I do differently if I…