Category: EDTech
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Getting Ready for the New School Year, Part 1: Reset & Reflect
Look back before you look forward… Grab a notebook or open a blank doc and answer three questions about last year: What actually worked? What did you keep meaning to try but never got to? What drained you?
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📗 Part 2: Five Assessment Shifts That Make Learning AI‑Resilient (and More Meaningful)
If Part 1 exposed the cracks, Part 2 is about rebuilding — with strategies that make learning stronger, more authentic, and far less vulnerable to AI outsourcing. Here are five shifts educators can implement right now. 1. Anchor Assessments to the Specific AI can write a great essay on fast fashion. It cannot reference the…
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📘 Part 1: AI Didn’t Break Assessment — It Exposed What Was Already Broken
For years, educators have quietly wrestled with a truth we didn’t want to admit: many traditional assessments reward task completion, not real learning. Then came agentic AI — tools capable of logging into LMS platforms, navigating assignments, interpreting prompts, and submitting work without the student ever engaging. AI didn’t break assessment. It simply made the…
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📘 Blog Series: Mastering Canva Whiteboards for Collaborative PD
Part 2 — How to Create and Share a Canva Whiteboard (Step‑by‑Step Guide) TLDR: This post walks educators through creating, customizing, and sharing a whiteboard with colleagues. Body: Setting up a Canva Whiteboard takes only a few clicks: This post focuses on clarity and confidence: educators learn exactly how to set up a collaborative board…
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📘 Blog Series: Mastering Canva Whiteboards for Collaborative PD
Part 1 — Why Canva Whiteboards Are the CPD Tool Schools Didn’t Know They Needed TLDR: This post introduces the problem educators face with traditional virtual whiteboards and explains why Canva’s collaborative whiteboard solves it. Collecting staff input during PD sessions can be surprisingly difficult. Zoom’s built‑in whiteboard tools are often limited or locked behind…
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