EdTech and AI I Use and Frequency

Disclaimer: I am NOT posting this as a recommendation or even as a suggestion of what tools any other teacher should use or how often they should use them. This is just what I use and how frequently I use them and I decided to post this because in just about every workshop I facilitate …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2025/04/25/edtech-and-ai-i-use-and-frequency/

Class Character Cards

2025-26 Starship Equinox Book Creator Book Cover Image

Having students use image generating AI to make character cards for my Star Trek gamification class theme proved to be so cool last year that I did it again this year! I wrote about it last year when we did it and one year later, image generation has gotten much better and easier! Last year …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2025/12/01/class-character-cards/

School AI and MagicSchool AI for Some Math

Screenshot of a MagicSchool hexagon area problem.

With School AI’s upgrade to 2.0 way into the beta stage, I tried it along with MagicSchool AI to see how they perform in Math. I have been creating Magic Student rooms for each Math unit I teach to provide students an optional support if they are feeling stuck and either I’m not available or …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2025/11/30/school-ai-and-magicschool-ai-for-some-math/

Setting Up Classroom AI Policy

Cartoon class of students working with teacher to make classroom AI policy.

I’m updating how I facilitate creating a classroom AI policy with my 6th grade Math and Science students. Things have changed since I first wrote about this process. I start with the following slideshow presented with Pear Deck so that all students can interact with the interactive slides. Slides 12 through 21 were taken and …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2025/11/26/setting-up-classroom-ai-policy/

Did Google Go Too Far This Time?

AI generated image using Nano Banana of Mr. Gonzalez in class alarmed.

I have not written a new post since May! That is the longest I’ve gone without reflecting or sharing something. I’ve been going non-stop since May, especially since we did not get out for summer until the first of July, and I just haven’t had the urge to stop and write about any of it. …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2025/11/12/did-google-go-too-far-this-time/

Quick Veo vs Sora Comparison

Google Flow Subscription screenshot.

I would like to preface this post by affirming that what I did here, type a few words into a textbox and minutes later received a short video clip of what I typed, is nothing short of amazing. And it’s only getting better as these AI giants keep pushing the envelope. It’s daily that new …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2025/05/27/quick-veo-vs-sora-comparison/

ChatGPT Gave Me Chills – Should I be concerned?

Ever since ChatGPT was updated to remember not just conversations, but all my conversation history I’ve been compiling articles that I’ve been reading about AI in education and how we can leverage AI to truly reform education instead of trying to do the same things better. I’ve also been giving ChatGPT as much information about …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2025/05/15/chatgpt-gave-me-chills-should-i-be-concerned/

My #NCCE25 Notes and Resources

Resistance is futile image.

I kept track of all the sessions and workshops I attended and presented at this year’s NCCE 2025 conference by Tweeting and BlueSkying (what do we call it on BlueSky?). I then took all my BlueSky posts and collected them with conferences resources on the following Wakelet, which is also embedded below: Do you have …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2025/03/02/my-ncce25-notes-and-resources/

My #NCCE25 Workshops

This year’s NCCE Conference starts February 26! I was fortunate enough to have two workshops accepted for this year’s conference. I had the pleasure of collaborating with Tammie Schrader again, which is always a bonus for me to get to benefit from her expertise. I do not seem to get innovative ideas on my own …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2025/02/19/my-ncce25-workshops/

AI Robots as Companions??

[Added on May 5th, 2025: I recently came across this Common Sense Media article about Social Companions. Bottom line? They have rated social companions as an Unacceptable Risk and recommend that NO child under the age of 18 have access to a social companion! The rest of this post focuses on a specific “companion,” the …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2025/01/22/ai-robots-as-companions/

Load more