Mindy and Gina are back with our final championship round of AI Madness. In this episode, Mindy and Gina take a deep dive into Brisk Teaching and School AI. Join them as they put these two AI tools against each other in completing similar tasks and reveal the good, the bad, and the truly amazing about both of these tools. Curious to know which tool wins? Take a listen to find out! Brisk Teaching Plans - Free for teachers. Paid version with additional features/tools for schools. Become a Certified Brisk AI Professional 20-minute course for 45 days of premium Brisk feature School AI Free f ..read more

In the spirit of March Madness and how much we love Iowa Women’s basketball on our team, we have taken the idea of bracket play into the AI world. In the last episode, we shared eight tools within the four categories of productivity and communication, lesson planning, scaffolding, and assessment and feedback.  In this episode, we narrowed those eight tools down to four to face off in head-to-head competition.  Ghostwrite  Cost: 15 emails a month, unlimited for $10/mo Integrations: Outlook, Gmail, Zendesk Student Use: Age restricted to 18 and up, but you could use as exemplar e ..read more

In the spirit of March Madness and how much we love Iowa Women’s basketball on our team, we have taken this idea of bracket play into the AI world and have come up with four different categories for AI tools. Within those four different categories, we have chosen two tools that we feel fall into that category to match against one another. To compare these two tools, we will share the cost, what integrations the tool has, and usability of the original output.    For the next two weeks, we will advance tools through the bracket and we will share more in-depth analysis of these tools ..read more

News and Updates: Google BardAI is now GeminiAI  Google Doodle contest Seesaw has instructional templates: Seesaw Library=> Daily Routines => Instructional Templates Pear Deck adds additional tools with its new name, Pear Deck Learning: Pear Assessment, Pear Deck Tutor, and Pear Practice. Main Course: National Educational Technology Plan What it is: This 2024 National Educational Technology Plan (NETP) examines how technologies can raise the bar for all elementary and secondary students. It offers examples of schools, districts, classrooms, and states doing the complex work of est ..read more

These are a few of our favorite Google Updates: Gifs and stickers in slides - Insert >> Image >> Gifs and Stickers (Gina) Customize notification settings in Google Docs - Tools >> Notification Settings Insert Emoji in Google Docs - Insert >> Emoji There are a few of our favorite new tools: GirlJams Revision History - Extension to see how long you have written for, copy and pastes, deletions, etc. MyLens.AI - Generate different timelines quickly. Download timeline as a PNG. You can now export YouTube questions from MagicSchool.ia into Google Forms with the new MagicScho ..read more

Mindy and Gina explore some Jamboard replacement tools. Figjam Get verified as a Figjam educator Eric Curts Figjam for Schools Webinar. Miro Miro education templates Miro for Teachers (Video) Canva Whiteboard Getting started with Canva Whiteboard video series ..read more

In this episode, we are jumping back into Universal Design for Learning or UDL and brought our resident experts Lynn Kleinmeyer and Bridget Castelluccio in to share more about this topic. We’ve talked about UDL in the past, but it is such an important topic, we wanted to bring it back to the forefront again. 6 Myths about Universal Design for Learning - UDL UDL in the ESSA MTSS: What Is a Multi-Tiered System of Supports? | Understood Lesson Planning with UDL CAST UDL Guidelines Katie Novak’s website Zooming in on MTSS (Katie Novak) - learning session at GWAEA GWAEA “Foundations of Univers ..read more

Welcome back to the Edtech Takeout–this is episode 114. This episode is a fan favorite – News and Nuggets!  A little fun fact: This week we reached our 100,000th download!   News and Updates: Canva: Magic Draw, Magic Eraser, Magic Write What’s New Wednesday Webinar - April (Canva)  Newsela: Moving to Newsela Lite, access to four articles at a time with five different reading levels, teacher can access student quiz scorers and writing prompts Seesaw: Add frames (in drawing template) and student responses snap into the frame so no sizing is necessary, Present to Class 5 Chromebo ..read more

Join Mindy, Gina, and Corey for a conversation with AI education expert Charlotte Dungan from AI Edu.  Show Notes: MarI/O - watch AI learn to play Mario. This is a great example of machine learning. ChatGPT - Generative AI that creates written content. Content Detector AI - Detector that used AI to recognize AI-generated content. Kahnmingo AI Tutor - Kahn Academy AI tutor AI Edu - Resource for educators interested in teaching more about AI. Includes AI snapshots mentioned by Corey. These are great bell ringers or discussion starters around the topic of AI ..read more

News and Updates: Include Captions with a Google Meet Recording Padlet has added a slideshow (Tony Vincent) Bing AKA Sydney The Online Search Wars - The Daily 2.15.23 The Online Search Wars Got Scary. Fast. - The Daily 2.17.23 AI - Chat GPT for positive use in the classroom Create & Edit a Timeline View - Google Docs Editors Help Table Templates in Google Docs   Tech Nuggets: Mindy:  Take the background out of your iPhone pictures (iOS16) Force captions on in YouTube: Thanks, Amber!  ?cc_load_policy=1 (embed code comes after video ‘name’) The Achievery: Has Learning Units ..read more