After much reflection and contemplation, I have decided to prompt-inject my students essays with helpful prompts Too many teachers try to hide instructions in white text to "catch" their students cheating with AI I just want them to write better and understand the content, so I'm sneaking some

AI Avatar sub plans with @descriptapp are peak Gen AI use Sprinkle in cringe slang your students use for extra effectiveness!

Ask & Learn is showing up on my free @youtube account for the first time These are the kind of AI integrations that further reduce the importance of teachers as content knowledge experts And reinforces the idea that we need teachers to be application of knowledge experts

You hide instructions in white font to derail students who copy & paste into AI I hide prompts to help them get feedback from AI We are not the same

Character limits on text posts are different across platforms Re-writing captions is tedious Which is why I made a Perplexity Space to do this for me (while retaining the key details & my authentic tone) Pair this with Comet browser as a /command shortcut, and you have a fully automated pr

Have you tried live translation on AirPods Pro yet? I put it to the test with ESL teachers & students. It's a novel idea and futuristic feeling format for translation, but it is slow and Spain Spanish felt too formal for our group. Have you found a real-world use case for this? Let me kno

There is a huge opportunity for anyone to become the AI person in any market if you can do one of these well: -> What can AI do for XYZ industry? -> What should you use AI for in XYZ industry? -> Train my team to use AI for XYZ industry?

Creative format idea from one of my students: Turn a historical event (Treaty of Versailles) into a live "tweet" style transcript All students are creative, they just need the space to practice their creativity!

People love to blame AI for taking jobs But entry level postings are calling skills like these "essential" And essentially none of your school's graduates have these skills So I'll ask again: is AI taking jobs or is our unwillingness to adapt to the AI era costing people the opportunity?

Heads up: Apple’s new iCloud terms let them delete inactive data, can’t help if you lose encrypted access, may share info with authorities, change your account after login, and nuke files for non-payment. Backup and know the risks before agreeing.

Reminder for the "students need to write essays to show their thinking" crowd: >this is writing too >I can see their thinking (more clearly!) >they enjoy it >it's more AI resilient (but not 'AI proof') >encourages students to be more creative I have nothing against essays, but students sho

POV: you taught your students how to create AI edited/generate images (and detect them) then they send you re-imagined versions of yourself meeting your favorite historical figures tell me again how AI kills creativity?

The synergy between products is amazing with Perplexity Ex: Deep Research report --> output a table comparing two things Then switch to Labs --> turn this Deep Research report into an animated & interactive web app

POV: you teach Gen Z and they don't understand normal English so everything has to be in Brain Rot™️ terms

Your school is blocking AI sites like ChatGPT Meanwhile entire countries are buying paid subscriptions for their students or citizens

My students only pay attention to sub plans when they are in the form of a @DescriptApp video that makes fun of me with AI avatars and uses Gen Z slang

A recurring complaint from my students is attaching too many resources to assignments The solution? Put everything into one link. The best format for this? A @canva whiteboard Example: a Treaty of Versailles assignment that had a Google Sheet, a set of maps, and a web page linked. Studen

I would love to see @google Gemini add "link to chat" as a share option. Thousands of schools are now using Google's AI tools, but students and teachers cannot share links to chat logs Export to Docs or Gmail only shares AI output, not user input

A room full of English teachers when I brought up using Wikipedia as a source...

All the @Google Classroom hype is focused on Gemini integration But the best new feature by far is actually the analytics tool How many students opened the assignment vs made a single edit on it, all in one view

🎙️ Just published a new episode of FutureProof You: EP 19 Career Pivots with Terri Dien. Have a listen:

People sleep on @canva Sheets Adding images and videos to a spreadsheet built into your slides, docs, whiteboards is amazing Feature request 🙏: Zoom out more than 50% Would be great with content that has a large number of rows

Does this mean Gmail thinks a message from @canva is a package being delivered to me? If so, what an awesome mistake. A design being sent to me now feels way more fun to open!

New laptop sticker. For when your colleagues say you are an AI powered NPC, and not a human… you get that too, right?

"I wonder if students will think my Gen Z slang stickers are stupid?" -me "Can I cover my entire planner with your stickers?" -student

I have wasted so much time trying to format visuals to print out in Google Docs I wish someone showed me @figma years ago

Do everyone who reads your @google Docs a favor and use Document Tabs

I don't see anyone talking about ChatGPT 5's biggest change: responses consistently ending with a "if you want..." style line that nudges users towards the next prompt. This has always been an issue: people don't know what to do with LLM outputs. GPT 5 handles this better than any model I've seen

🎙️ Just published a new episode of FutureProof You: The Seasons of Hiring. Have a listen:

Last semester my students’ most used Gen AI tool was… Snapchat! My guess when I meet new students next week is: Way more will be using Gemini Very few to none using Claude ChatGPT will be the most commonly used What do you see from your students’ AI use? PS if you want a link to the

Tis the season to get 8 separate @Google Docs shared with you Please do your colleagues a favor and show them how to put related content into the same Doc as tabs, and not overwhelm your team with tons of shared files

Turns out Perplexity Comet CAN generate working QR codes. First it hallucinated an image of one, but when pressed to make a working QR code, it generated a functional one via QR Code Monkey API, which it linked and I downloaded Welcome to the @perplexity Comet Era ☄️

This is either going to be the best PD I've delivered, or the worst! @figma is so much more engaging than slides for the audience, I had to try building a training as a FigJam Will report back on how it went!

This is the "best" update to ChatGPT CustomGPTs in awhile: creators can choose default models, users are clearly prompted when not using recommended model Custom GPTs have so much promise, but seem to be all but abandoned by @openai

A great example of how "thinking" models aren't always better: I use a /command structure for most Custom GPTs /menu took 24 sec to get a response from ChatGPT 5 Thinking despite it being mapped to a command /menu took 2 sec to start a response from GPT 5 auto/fast

If you haven't tried out the new Spaces in SchoolAI 2.0, you should! Every educator should have customized AI tools for themselves and their students You don't need to know how to program or write prompts

Everyone needs customized /commands for YouTube videos in Perplexity Comet browser Make one for each niche, interest, etc and run the command before you waste your time watching that 18 min snoozefest someone sent you Welcome to the Comet Era ☄️

The pain of trying to compare AI models on tasks when the models keep changing daily is real... Google Gemini's Guided Learning vs ChatGPT's Study Mode comparison coming soon PS @canva Sheets are amazing for embedding images

This was the most enjoyable experience of any podcast I've been on, more people should use some of these elements: -guests encouraged to bring hot-takes & unpopular opinions -live stream the recording -cool intro music and graphics -focus on unscripted, human interactions

"but people will leave nasty comments on my content!" -everyone who knows they should post more content Is your ego so fragile that you are afraid of negative comments from e-strangers with usernames like this?

Browsers used to be cluttered and desktop apps meant fewer tabs, more focus With agentic browsers like @PerplexityComet more people will be running apps in their browsers

AI Mode search is finally showing up for @google workspace accounts Have you tried it yet?

"ChatGPT, stop being a sycophant" -doesn't work Want brutally honest AI feedback instead of endless "that's a great idea!" responses? Here's a simple prompting strategy I use: Frame your idea as belonging to a coworker: "My colleague has this concept and I need help critiquing it to save them

Well hello there, Google Gemini Guided Learning Mode 👋 Just in time for the new school year...let's see how it compares to ChatGPT Study Mode

Pro Tip for my fellow conference go'ers: 90 sec test each session Stand in the back, give the speaker 90 sec to convince you it's worth staying. If not, you can leave without interrupting or being rude

One thing we can all agree on in the AI world: Don't rely on AI detection tools They are expensive, unreliable, and easily defeated They only catch the lazy/unsophisticated AI users I used a free tool and dropped the GPT Zero report from 52% AI Generated --> 19% AI Generated Please do

A lot of people bash on @google 's privacy policies but they are the ONLY platform to default opt out of AI training that I've seen unlike LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads which all default opt in to training their AI models I appreciate that about Google!

I'm actually a terrible video editor. But I get asked how I make my videos look so polished. The key isn't skill; it's using a system. Mine is so simple that anyone can use it: drop/create all assets in Canva Whiteboard->Drop them into Descript->Record w/ teleprompter->Underlord Agent rough edit

I got the ultimate vibe code compliment on my app "I would have never known it was vibe coded" @lovable shipped is such a fun experience!

The rate limits on Claude are currently it's most limiting feature (small context windows are a close second) Are these 5 hr --> weekly rate limits going to be better or worse for you @anthropic subscribers?