Mica Mulloy

How A Pillow Fort Can Make Your Podcast Sound Better As the NPR Student Podcast Challenge kicks off its second year, here's our short video guide to making your podcast sound great. A good way to start? Build a pillow fort!

Want their podcast audio to sound good? Build a pillow fort!

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Practical classroom suggestions from @danikachorskyphd.bsky.social over at @mindfulaiedu.bsky.social. If you want students' authentic voices, ask them to record it! #EduSky #AIEdu

A new post from me with podcast recs for AI news and mindset shifts. Hard to go wrong on AI conversations with @kevinroose.com @caseynewton.bsky.social at Hard Fork and @emollick.bsky.social

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Every school needs to anchor its AI approach in its mission and values. Whether it's Ignatian spirituality, progressive education, classical pedagogy, or any other foundation, AI integration should align with the mission.

A new post from me. #AIEdu #EduSky

Here we go.

AI Isn’t the Main Problem—It Just Shows Us What That Problem Is Students are chasing points and grades because that’s what the education system prioritizes, but we can guide them to focus on learning.

"Generative AI just demonstrates that schools have gotten so caught up in the points-grades-GPA game that students have lost sight of the real goal: learning."

➡️ Is AI the biggest problem, or is it that kids see grades as their goal rather than learning? #EduSKy #AiEDU

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AI video slop is everywhere, take our quiz to try and spot it There's no one way to be absolutely sure about a video's authenticity, but experts say there are some simple clues that can help.

I showed this to my high school class today. Most got them right, but not all students got all of them right. That is good data and emphasizes a pressing need for AI literacy. #EduSky #AIEdu #AIinEducation

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College Students Flock to a New Major: A.I.

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Check out some of the great work @danikachorskyphd.bsky.social and @mindfulaiedu.bsky.social are doing with AI to reach all learners where they are at. If you're not sure where to start with differentiation, here it is. #EduSky #AIEdu #AIinEducation #UDL

"Not magical — just math."

This is our starting point with AI and students. Not magic, not God, nothing mystical. Just a tool.

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Big things going on over @mindfulaiedu.bsky.social!

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Is your school wrestling with AI and cheating? A new @mindfulaiedu.bsky.social post encourages transparency over detection with 4 steps to try in your classroom. #EduSky #AIEdu #AIinEducation

Great point. Any decent promoter knows your work is rarely done after the 1st response. Narrowing and pushing back are key. This moves even novice users to better results. #AISky #EduSky

Details and lessons learned from a #Veo3 video I made over @mindfulaiedu.bsky.social #EduSky #AIEdu

Does a roomba clean your house perfectly? No. But is it better than not cleaning your house at all? For sure.
Still think this is the right way to think about current AI tools for the foreseeable future, as productivity enhancers in domains that tolerate failure

I put Google's Veo 3 to the test. It did not disappoint. My video and a behind-the-scenes post on how I made it and what I learned about this potentially game-changing tool are below. #EduSky #AIEdu #AIinEducation

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A new post over @mindfulaiedu.bsky.social on the cautionary tale and hope that updated AI videos reveal.

If you are a teacher and you aren't thinking about AI Literacy, now is the time.

#EduSky #AIEdu #AIinEducation

My intention was for that to be a visual representation of the process I described in the post, and “light-skinned male teacher with short hair and blue glasses” describes me. I think it did a pretty good job for an abstract illustration. Thanks for reading!

What was your breakthrough moment with AI 🤔? I would love to hear about it. #EduSky #AIEdu

The Flashing Cursor That Changed Everything: How I Found My AI Breakthrough Small Wins with AI Can Lead to Big Changes in How You Teach, Lead & Connect With Students

Is getting started with AI on your summer to-do list? Not sure where to begin?

Everyone has to find their breakthrough moments. Maybe my journey can help you discover some useful AI possibilities. #EduSky #AIEdu

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But! I do see kids regularly digging into graphic novels and following along in novels while listening to an audiobook. Different types of stimulation, but also still digesting books. So not all hope is lost!

With 2 young kids, I see this daily. I watched plenty of TV when I was a kid, but had minimal choices. Whatever was on was it. Once Little House on the Prairie came on, it was time to go outside and play. Different ball game now that absolutely competes with other interests.

“Writing is thinking” is true; I learn so much when I admit I need to rip up most of a draft.

But in spite of building revision stages into assignments, I think I’ve rarely led students to grasp this for themselves in a writing course. It takes a long project they care about, like a thesis. 1/2

Our @mindfulaiedu.bsky.social colleague @danikachorskyphd.bsky.social has been churning out content this summer! If you're an educator looking for approachable guidance on AI, check us out over on Substack 👀. #EduSky #AIEdu #AIinEducation

Tired of cobbling together exam questions from publisher banks and archive folders? There's a better way to dial in test questions. We have a new post over at @mindfulaiedu.bsky.social #AISky #AIEdu #EduSky

I was asking rhetorically (and sarcastically). I appreciate your posts and the evidence for my future arguments!

This line seems to indicate there's value to a human to AI process: "Brain-to-LLM users exhibited higher memory recall and activation of occipito-parietal and prefrontal areas"

Wait a second, this study is saying if kids use AI to write their essays they don't learn from that work??? That's the least surprising finding ever. Just more data that intentional AI use shouldn't just replace human thinking, it should support it.

You could do a find/replace of "Google" and "Cellphone" for "AI" and this 2006 article would still be relevant in 2025.

"No, the problem is not cheating. The problem is firmly one of instructional and evaluation technique."

#EduSky #AIEdu