The EdTech Take Out

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. 

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 usabil...

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 ho...

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. MyL...

In this episode, Mindy and Gina interview their new teammate Shalyn Huber. 

News:

Kahnmingo is coming to Canvas: Kahnmingo is an AI tutor that was developed by Kahn Academy. 

Seesaw - Computer Science Activities and English Language Explorers: Newcomers

Teach AI Toolkit

Catch up with the team from ITEC: bit.ly/DLGWAEAitec2023

Nuggets:

Reader Mode in Chrome

Text FX with Google: Suite of tools to support figurative language gener...

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

• UD...

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 c...

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 ...

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

T...

Our theme for today’s episode is Start, Stop, Keep. Gina and I have been using this prompt with teachers for quite a few years now–the frame is What will you start doing? What will you stop doing? What will you keep doing? We asked our team to think about this as a New Year's resolution with a technology focus and they’ve sent us some nuggets that might be helpful for you in the year ahead!

• Gina - T...

In this episode of The Ed Tech Takeout, Mindy Cairney is joined by Amber Bridge, Beth Swantz, and Gina Rogers to discuss the Transformative Classrooms Tool that they developed. The conversation focuses on the throughline of collaboration and discourse and what that looks like in all three tenets of the Transformative Classrooms Tool. 

Resources:

• The Tenets of Transformative Classrooms

In case you missed it, the Edtech Takeout will look a bit different moving forward….at the end of last season, we said goodbye to Jonathan Wylie as he moved to a different position in the agency. However, the team felt strongly that the podcast needed to continue on. Our plan is to record shorter episodes in more bite-sized chunks. This episode is just a news and nuggets episode. The next episode will be more like the main course p...

Well, here we are. This is our last episode before our summer hiatus and we wanted to take a few minutes of your time to talk about what The Edtech Take Out will look like when we come back in August. 

So, we hope you enjoy this episode and stick with us as we get ready to embark on a new adventure.

You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter and see all the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team twee...

The end of the school year is approaching. Are you ready? If not, we can help! We have some tips on how to best wrap up your school year by giving you some best practice advice for the apps and services you have been using all year. 

Here are the links for some of the things we talked about:

News and follow-up:

• Use new table templates and dropdown chips in Google Docs
• Control Alt Achieve: Create "Cloze Reading" Activities with ...

We're back, and so is ITEC - Iowa's premier edtech conference! Mindy and I were in attendance, as were the rest of the team, so in this episode, we are going to reveal some of our takeaways from this always popular conference.

Here are the links for some of the things we talked about:

News and followup:

• iOS version of ExpeditionsPro
• Apple introduces a new version of iMovie
• iMovie Trailer Templates
• Spring Forward with Zoom White...

We have been wanting to have an episode like this for a long time, but we have never been able to find a good guest to talk to. All that changed when Katie Wardrobe (@MusicTechTchr) agreed to come on the show and talk about the intersection of music and edtech.

Whether you teach music or not, this was a really fun conversation with great ideas for any classroom, including TikTok challenges for students!

Here are the links for some ...

In this episode, we decided to try something a little different. We invited Micheal Cohen (aka @TheTechRabbi) to join us to talk about the implication of NFTs for students and educators. 

If you haven't heard of NFTs or web3 before, you're not alone but that's one of the main reasons why we decided to have this conversation. It will make you think differently about all kinds of things.

Here are the links for some of the things we t...