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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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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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Walden on Wheels: What the Rails Taught Me About Slowing Down
I talk a lot about being intentional. About deliberate practice, deliberate design, deliberate teaching. And then, when life got in the way, and I forgot to rebook my travel to/from the Adobe Education Summit and accidentally had the most unintentionally intentional six days of travel that I’d never dreamed of. A summer that included traveling…
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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…