Toby Fischer

I’ll be presenting at #FETC2026 Join me!

I’m excited to share that I’ll be speaking at #FETC2026 in Orlando! 🎤✨ Join me as we explore fresh ideas, bold strategies, and game-changing innovations shaping the future of K–12 education. Let’s level up learning together, see you in January!

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20 Creative Leaders Share Their Best Advice for 2026 20 creative leaders share leadership advice for 2026 covering uncertainty, creativity, relationships, and staying human at work.

Some excellent advice for the new year in these thoughts.

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What Does it Mean to be Literate in the Age of AI?

“By effectively leveraging AI, schools can ensure that their classroom activities are aligned with the goals they’ve outlined for their students in their Portrait of a Graduate. The Portrait of a Graduate has always been about more than a poster on the wall. It’s about equipping students with the skills and purpose to thrive in a rapidly changing world.” —Toby S. Fischer, Educator

Educator @tobyfischer.bsky.social shares 3 ways you can leverage AI to help students see purpose in their learning: https://edut.to/4n9ZAFe

#EduSky #EduSkyAI #EduAI

3 Ways AI Can Help Teachers Integrate Long-Term Goals Into Daily Instruction With AI tools, teachers can efficiently align their everyday activities with the vision articulated in their school’s Portrait of a Graduate.

Educator @tobyfischer.bsky.social shares 3 ways AI can help you make your school’s Portrait of a Graduate more relevant to students *and* your daily classroom activities. 🌟

#EduSky #EduSkyAI #EduAI

3 Ways AI Can Help Teachers Integrate Long-Term Goals Into Daily Instruction With AI tools, teachers can efficiently align their everyday activities with the vision articulated in their school’s Portrait of a Graduate.

Check out my most recent @edutopia.org article: 3 Ways #AI Can Help Teachers Integrate Long-Term Goals Into Daily Instruction.

It provides you with actionable ways to bring your #PortraitofaGraduate to life in your classroom or school. #edusky

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Finding Your Why: Why It’s Worth Saving from the Unfair Reputation – Creating Learners A few years ago, you couldn’t scroll through social media without seeing someone talking about finding your why. Teachers, leaders, and motivational speakers were all echoing Simon Sinek’s now-famous…

New Blog post: Finding Your Why: Why It’s Worth Saving from the Unfair Reputation: For many good reasons teachers cringe when they "what is your why?" Check out our newest post and see why you should think about "your why."

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Join the #EduProtocols + #CurriculumGenie Giveaway!

Sign up, create a unit, and export to Google Drive, post the public link to the EduProtocols Community Facebook Page, and we'll send you our wheel spinner to unlock 6 free units & amazing prizes!

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Please vote for my session: What Does it Mean to be Literate in the Age of AI? to be part of SXSW 2026. #edusky #sxswedu

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New Personalized Learning AI Activity Cards will be out next week with a back-to-school theme.
Till then, check out July's feature activity. What's My SuperPower: where students make themselves into a superhero. www.canva.com/design/DAGsg...

See all 23 activities here: wakelet.com/wake/ShVIpZ8...

Yesterday I learned about Playlabs. A new AI platform for education to build your own apps. Best thing I have seen in a while.

July 2025: One Great Tech Tool, Two New AI Cards, and Three Good Reads. It's incredible how much of a difference it makes when students feel genuinely connected to their learning, isn't it? This issue is all about helping you foster that sense of ownership, agency, and se...

July 2025: One Great Tech Tool, Two New AI Cards, and Three Good Reads.
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The next round of #PersonalizedLearning with #AI Activity Cards are coming out in a few days. wakelet.com/wake/ShVIpZ8... What is your favorite activity card and why?

If you haven't seen the cards yet, check them out and this Edutopia Article about them. www.edutopia.org/article/5-en...

5 Engaging AI Classroom Activities to Try With Your Students From targeted writing prompts that get pencils moving to an interactive radio show where students join as the co-host, these AI classroom activities help students take learning to the next level.

‪Teacher @tobyfischer.bsky.social‬ shares 5 classroom-ready activities that AI can quickly tailor to your students’ specific needs and interests! 🌟

#EdTech #EduSkyAI #EduAI

Couldn't have done it without all your help. I look forward to working together again soon.

5 Engaging AI Classroom Activities to Try With Your Students From targeted writing prompts that get pencils moving to an interactive radio show where students join as the co-host, these AI classroom activities help students take learning to the next level.

I'm thrilled to announce that my very first article has been published on @edutopia.org, '5 Engaging AI Classroom Activities to Try With Your Students' Read & share your thoughts/questions. www.edutopia.org/article/5-en... #Edutopia #AIinEducation #Teaching #edusky #eduskychat

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: UDL and Student Voice/Choice in Unit Creation. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join Jennifer Levine to explore how AI and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) can help create inclusive, student-centered curricula. Learn how to remove learning barriers, boost engagement, and supp...

Looking forward to this webinar Thursday May 29th at 9:00 AM PT featuring Jennifer Levine. Her presentation, "UDL and Student Voice/Choice in Unit Creation," tinyurl.com/UDLWebinarJL #edusky #UDL

Looking forward to this webinar tomorrow. As AI becomes more of a force in our world, what are districts' new priorities? www.learning-genie.com/new-webinar/ #edusky

10 factors to consider when lesson planning with AI Lesson planning can be a chore.But unit planning? That can be an even bigger headache, with so many standards to integrate, big-picture goals to achieve,

If you haven't played with Learning Genie, it's a must-try. The best #AI planning tool I've seen so far. Here is a great post from @ditchthattextbook.com explaining how to use it. ditchthattextbook.com/learning-gen... #edusky

The AI English Teacher The AI English Teacher isn't about replacement, it's about evolution. How we can use AI to enhance our classrooms?

This great read gets us thinking and talking about how #AI impacts topics such as #literacy, #assessment, and student products. I love his comment that today, process matters more than the product when AI can create any product.

What do you think? Agree? Disagree? alicekeeler.com/2023/06/01/t...

Learning Genie - AI Agent for P-12 Curriculum and Portfolio-based Assessment Discover the power of Learning Genie, the innovative tool designed for directors, administrators, and teachers in Head Start, UPK, and Early Childhood Education. Enhance your technology stack today!

The more I use www.learning-genie.com, the more I like it. It is the best #AI lesson/unit planning tool I have found. The fact that it builds in SEL and Portrait of a Graduate skills into lessons is amazing. Anyone else using it? What do you think? #edusky

Creating Learners March #AI activity cards are out.

1.Co-Building a Unit with Your Students
2. Interactive History Timelines
3. Language Translation Practice

Check out these and the other 17cards for ideas how to use AI to #personalizelearning.

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YouTube video by Daniel Pink How To Be a Better Leader..

Curious what leaders out there think of this idea, Dan Pink shared that 10% of people should hate you as a leader? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruTH... #edusky #leadership

Embracing Change: Lessons from the Automobile Revolution to the AI Era - George Couros One of the concerns with Artificial Intelligence (AI) is that it will lead to significant job losses through industries becoming "outsourced" to the

Great post by George Couros about the change AI is bringing. Must read for anyone who doesn't want to jump in yet. georgecouros.com/ai-disruption/ #edusky #AI

Issue 1: One Great Tech Tool, Two New AI Cards and Three Good Reads. Each month we review a great tech tool we have tested and recommend you trying, share the two new AI Activity Cards we created, and give you three good reads connected to personalized learning.

Check out the first edition of our new Monthly Newsletter. Great resources for using AI to personalize learning for students. #Edusky #AI #personalizedlearning
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At #FETC I introduced these #AI activity cards for teachers. They are a great way to get you thinking about how to use AI with students to personalize their learning. Each month new ones will be released. wakelet.com/wake/ShVIpZ8... Let us know what you think about them. #edusky

Comparison of AI Literacy (knowing about AI) and AI Fluency (thinking with AI). AI Literacy includes understanding AI, its strengths, and ethical concerns. AI Fluency focuses on questioning AI’s accuracy, using it ethically, and integrating it into learning. Created by Stacy Kratochvil.

Love this graphic that @stacykratochvil.bsky.social shared on LinkedIn!

I think education has largely focused on AI literacy, but for AI to be truly impactful, we need to shift our focus to AI fluency!

#EduSkyAI #EduSky #AIinEducation #AIinEdu

I just put a research article into #NotebookLM and asked it to make a podcast. The result may have been the best education podcast I have ever. Next, I went into the interactive mode and 🤯. Live interaction mimicked a call in radio show. notebooklm.google.com/notebook/484... #edusky #GoogleEDU

Playing around in Google Labs and found labs.google/fx/tools/whisk. I don't know what I would use this for yet, but it is fun. Is anyone using this with students? I made myself into a Plush. #googleedu #edusky

Protecting kids from unhealthy AI relationships Some of us saw the warning signs. For others, it had to hit the news before they realized.Unhealthy relationships between kids and artificial

One of my students wrote about this post from ditchthattextbook.com/protecting-k.... While I love #AI and how it can #personalizelearning for students, this makes me ask new questions. Do we need to be purposeful in teaching kids about AI? At what age do we start?