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Where's Jen at ISTE 2015?

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Getting Ready for Rockstar

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Delay Your Re-Tweet To Spread It Further

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Review of 50 Things You Can Do With Google Classroom

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I have withdrawn my support

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Annenberg Learner: Videos for Content Area Literacy

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Stop Pretending: Five things to #makeschooldifferent

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The focus of a technology rich classroom: TPACK needs an S

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Preparing Students for Online Testing

February 25, 2015

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Photo Apps for Sharing Classroom Pics

February 23, 2015

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Potential Plot and Plot Profile: Two organizers helping my students with challenging fiction

February 21, 2015

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Doc to Form and Save as Doc: My Two Favorite Google Add-ons This Week

February 20, 2015

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Models of Learning: A team building intersubjectivity activity

February 19, 2015

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In a few words: Short form writing

February 01, 2015

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Tech is a Four Letter Word

November 08, 2014

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Why do NaNoWriMo with students?

November 07, 2014

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How to add an "Entry Code" to a Google Form

October 08, 2014

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My Son Tells Me What He Thinks Kids Should Be Learning

September 19, 2014

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How do you keep students engaged with a class novel?

September 11, 2014

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How do you get to know your students?

August 31, 2014

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Jen is available to speak virtually and in person depending on your needs and geography. Please reach out if you have an event coming up where her perspective would be helpful. Jen(at)Litandtech.com

Jen's Edutopia Articles

🗣️ When Students Use AI in Ways They Shouldn’t
✍️Authentic Writing in the Age of AI
⛔️ Proactively Limiting the Use of AI in the Classroom
🤖 What ELA Teachers Should Know About AI Detectors
📄 Using AI Tools to Give Feedback on High School Students’ Writing

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Curriculum Planner Spreadsheet for Secondary Teachers: You can have a copy

I'm a big fan of teacher collaboration. (I wasn't always, but that's another post.) My team has been collaborating together, in various combinations, since 2011. At first we organized each unit in an excel sheet in a shared dropbox folder. Now we mostly use a Google Drive folder and instead of a separate spreadsheet for each unit, we have combined them all into one year long planning sheet. Each year we make a copy of this living document and start changing. It's messy. It contains some legacy stuff we don't really use. It's incomplete sometimes, but it gives us a starting point for our conversations. It holds our end of unit reflections about what did or did not work well for our students last year. It keeps us from getting blindsided by events we know happen annually, but never seem to get enough notice about. If you are looking for a way to get yourself or your team more organized. If someone has said you need a year long planning doc and you...

I Let AI Redesign My Canvas Pages (And You Should Too)

My latest favorite way of using AI in my classroom is to vastly improve the look of my Canvas course pages and assignments. Update: I've built a custom tool in Magic School called HTML Improver . You can make a copy of it for yourself and use it to quickly improve the HTML of any Canvas page. It's easier than working with Claude or ChatGPT. Once you make a copy of the tool, click generate. Then paste in the HTML you have and click generate again. (The rest of this post below has more helpful tips.) Original Post: I've tried making my Canvas pages better by adding color and images ever since I first started using it in 2020. I've attended webinars about how to make small tweaks to HTML to add borders to my images, or turn horizontal lines into dotted horizontal lines. And, of course, emojis help. Then, one day earlier this year, I was frustrated with how much trouble students were having with the directions for an assignment. Admittedly, the directi...

Google AI Educator Series: Free AI Lessons for Teachers

At this time last week I was at Google, enjoying a lovely meal on the patio of Charlie's cafe with educator colleagues from all over the country. We were there for a two day convening to learn more about the Google AI Educator Series , or GES as they call it. Full disclosure, Google paid for my travel to the event. Which is remarkable in that for the 15+ years I've been involved in Google events, the teacher academies, energizers, and champion summits, Google has never once paid for any of my travel expenses before. That alone told me this would be something different. So what is GES? Quite simply, it is a collection of short lessons on AI literacy, focusing on Google Gemini of course, that teachers can do independently or as part of a professional learning event. Each lesson comes with a quiz and a badge for those who demonstrate their understanding of the teaching concepts in the lesson. Someone once told me that the eloquence of an idea is reflected by the small numbe...

Making Your Own Teacher Toolbox

Over the summer, someone shared a teacher toolbox on Twitter and I went down a rabbit hole learning all about them and how to make them. I bought a set of labels online, but I decided I didn't like them much and they were challenging to customize, so I made my own one day. And, because I like to share all the good things that come out of my classroom, I am sharing my creation with you. I bought the large box on the left, but the drawers are only 5-6" deep, so I needed another solution for pens and pencils. I already had the shorter box on the right. It was stuffed with a hodgepodge of other things that fit well in the larger box, so reorganization worked in my favor. The availability on the large box I bought fluctuates. Sometimes it is only available with a red front edge . (And right now the price is higher than I paid. It might be worth waiting because the price fluctuates a lot on these. $30-$40 is the reasonable range.) There are lots of drawer combinations, th...

Can AI Assist You With Grading? Probably

Ideogram: A synthwave-inspired illustration depicting an AI and a teacher collaboratively grading papers. Teachers are adding AI tools to their classroom workflow and lots of educational technology companies are offering products that help with daily teacher tasks like preparing materials and designing lessons. But, can an AI grade student writing? And if it can, should teachers consider using an AI grading assistant? To the first question, yes, AI can grade student writing. There are already tools like Cograder built specifically to grade student work. Other tools like Writable have added AI scoring and feedback to their offerings. Individual teachers have found that, with the right prompt, chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude can grade student writing and provide feedback. Are these scores and feedback accurate though? In many cases, yes. They are at least as accurate as a range of human teachers scores would be. A 2023 study using ChatGPT 3.5 (Steiss) ...

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