Brienne Peers

Heading back to school? Don’t forget the essentials! 🍎📚
☕ Personalized cup
📘 Retro book cover
🧲 Locker magnets
🧪 Lab coat
📓 Custom notebook
✨ Let's make this year unforgettable!
#BackToSchool #TeacherStyle #ClassroomVibes

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Tip Tuesday! Presenting with Canva? You can use your phone as a clicker! In Present mode, tap More ⋮ in the bottom corner and select Share remote control. Scan the QR code with your phone to open controls in your browser. Use the arrows to change slides and even access Magic Shortcuts.

Today was the last day of Ozobots in the summer school program so, of course, we had to have some fun and build an Ozobot City for our Evo to tour using color codes to guide the way! 🤖 #ozobot #STEM #EduSky

Against "Brain Damage" AI can help, or hurt, our thinking

I wrote about "brain damage" from AI. Despite scary headlines, AI won't hurt you brain, but it can undermine your thinking and learning. Increasingly, however we are finding ways it can help us think and learn instead (some included prompt examples as well). www.oneusefulthing.org/p/against-br...

Fun afternoon at summer school learning about coding with #Ozobot Evos! Students learned the parts that make up an evo, then used color code magnets to start coding. Next time we’ll do paper-based coding! 🤖

Screenshot with the sidebar and agenda building blocks highlighted

Noticed the new panel in Google Slides? On the right side, it gives quick access to images, templates, and best of all—Building Blocks. Drop in ready-made layouts like Agendas and customize them without starting from scratch. #EduSky #EdTech

Featured Resources for Summer!🏖️
📖: How to Balance Resting, Reflecting, & Learning This Summer www.edutopia.org/article/work...
📺: 4 Steps to Help Teachers Reset This Summer www.youtube.com/watch?v=19n1...
🎧: Why Summer is the Perfect Time to Learn About AI podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

#EduSky

Featured Resources for June! 🎓
📖: Why ‘authentic learning’ is the secret sauce schools need ditchthattextbook.com/authentic-le...
📺: Chromebooks Can Do That?! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2VU...
🎧: Understanding the Different Types of Scaffolds www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMRH...

#EduSky #EdTech

The recent history of AI in 32 otters Three years of progress as shown by marine mammals

I wrote a history of recent AI development in 32 images of otters using wifi on airplanes, from images to video to code.

It shows two big trends: rapid improvements in AI models of all types and the growth of open weights AI models. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-recent...

How a Vacation Improves Your Coaching (Opinion) Turning away from your professional life allows you to become a more compassionate, curious person—and a more effective coach.

How a Vacation Improves Your Coaching 🏖️ www.edweek.org/leadership/o...

☀️Tech Tip Tuesday! ☀️ Create a checklist in Google Docs by clicking the Checklist button in the toolbar (next to the bullet points icon). You can check off items as you complete them – perfect for managing your end of the school year tasks!

#EduSky #TechTip #EdTech

⭐ Tech Tip Tuesday! ⭐
Need to quickly locate a word or phrase on a page? Press Ctrl + F to open a search bar and instantly highlight matching text.

This is perfect for scanning documents, websites, or spreadsheets in seconds!

#EduSky #TechTip #EdTech

😎Sizzlin' Summer Ideas for Fun Ways to Learn & Practice Ai: Summer is finally upon us, teacher friends, and I've cooked up some fun ways you can play-to-learn with Ai all summer long!

#edusky #Ai #edtech

This is such a great resource! Saving this prompt in ChatGPT so I can easily reference as needed!

Lots of fun preparing to present at the BOE retreat tomorrow 🤖

The ending is my favorite 🌎 #EduSky #Ozobot

Happy #TechTipTuesday! 🌺

Did you know that you can change how your folders and files appear in Google Drive?

You can click the list/grid view toggle in the top right corner to switch between list mode (detailed view) or grid mode (thumbnail view) – choose the one that works best for you!

#EduSky

Featured Resources for May! ☀️
📖: A Guide to Healthy Screen Habits for Teens blog.youtube/news-and-eve...
📺: Bulk Create Certificates and Awards in Canva www.youtube.com/watch?v=88Pm...
🎧: The Best Tech Tools for Educational Summer Activities classtechtips.com/2025/04/15/e...

#EduSky #EdTech

We're now up to 800 people registered for this free event! 🤯

In case you missed it, our big Tech Coach Ed Camp is coming up on May 15th 🕺🏻

It honestly might be the biggest event for tech coaches this year.
30+ sessions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Register: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#edusky

Fun day ahead at the Wayne RESA Maker STEM Summit! #RESAmakers

✨Tech Tip Tuesday!✨
If you or your students are unsure how to pronounce a word, just open Google and search “how to pronounce [word].”

Google will provide an audio clip and an animated video to demonstrate. You can even slow down the pronunciation and practice it yourself!

#EduSky #EdTech #TechTip

The Best Tech Tools for Educational Summer Activities - Easy EdTech Podcast 315 - Class Tech Tips Explore my list of educational summer activities to keep kids curious, creative, and learning with tech tools, virtual reality, and more!

🌞 Looking for fun, educational ways to keep students engaged this summer #EduSky?

🎒 Today, I share tech-friendly summer activities for kids.

📸 From digital photo journals to creative projects that spark curiosity, there’s something for every learner!

classtechtips.com/2025/04/15/e...

Tech Tip Tuesday: It's time to spring clean your Google Drive! 🌷

Use the search bar in Drive to find files named “untitled”
Review these files and decide what to do with each:
Rename the files you want to keep and organize them -OR-
delete the files you don’t need
#EduSky #TechTip #EdTech

Why AI Detectors Fail and How We Can Foster AI Fluency Instead - Krause Center for Innovation The question isn’t if students will use AI. It’s how. While AI literacy has been the baseline, aiming for AI fluency, where students not only understand but can critically engage with AI, is now cruci...

A really great read on the importance of AI fluency over AI literacy (& why AI detectors don't work)... krauseinnovationcenter.org/why-ai-detec...

#EduSky #edtech

When Students Use AI in Ways They Shouldn’t Here are some ways teachers can respond when students don’t follow classroom guidelines for using AI.

When you realize a student has turned in an AI-generated text instead of something they actually wrote, what do you do next? 🤖

@jen.litandtech.com takes a Ted Lasso-esque approach: Be curious, not judgmental. Here’s her advice for navigating these conversations.

#EduSky #teachers

Introducing Visual Suite 2.0: Productivity, meet creativity At Canva Create 2025, Canva unveiled its biggest product launch yet: Visual Suite 2.0. Get all the details.

SO excited for all the new Canva launches!! Visual Suite 2.0, Canva Sheets, Canva Code, and more! 🤯 Total game changers!!

www.canva.com/newsroom/new...

Never has anything been more true! 🙈😂

#Microsoft #Word #EdTech #EduSky

🖼 Have you ever tried to download images out of a Google Doc?

You can't. Right? Right?!?!?

Actually, you can ... you just have to know where to look. 👀

#googleedu #edtech #teachertip

I’m not sure! The teacher is going to have the kids eat it tomorrow so we aren’t quite sure how long it’ll last beyond that.

Harvesting some lettuce and herbs 🥬 from our LettuceGrow farmstand in 4th grade!

#edusky #hydroponics

🖥️ Tech Tip Tuesday! 🖌️
Try out AutoDraw, which pairs machine learning with drawings from talented artists to help users create drawings quickly & easily. This is a great way for students of all ages to draw their understanding of a lesson or create a digital drawing.

#EduSky #techtip #EduSkyAI