I teach 6th grade Math, Science, STEM, Robotics, and Esports in the lovely Pacific Northwest in a small, rural town called Chimacum. My goal is to help students discover that all learning is life-long and that 21st century tools can be used for work as well as fun.
Feb 17
I had a list of items that were concerning enough that I wanted to share with my 6th graders’ families. I just couldn’t figure out the best way to share it all. I started by giving NotebookLM a try. I added links to the 10 or 11 articles I collected. Here is the NotebookLM with …
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Feb 16
I am so fortunate that I get to go back to the best educational technology conference in the Pacific Northwest, the Northwest Council for Computer Education or NCCE’s 2026 conference! My first year at NCCE was 2014, I’ve been to NCCE 12 times, and this is going to be my eighth time presenting! I have …
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Dec 01
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 …
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Nov 30
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 …
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Nov 26
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 …
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Nov 12
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. …
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May 27
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 …
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May 15
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 …
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Apr 25
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 …
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Mar 02
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 …
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I've presented at NCCE
2016, 2017, 2019, 2022,
2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026!
Cohort 7!
I'm a Curipod Ambassador! :)
I presented at WSTA 2015!
