It’s a ⭐️! “The captivating stories in this book are told with intelligence and humor, and they will attract readers who want to read it cover to cover.” SLJ Coming 7/21 Atheneum/S&S, with art by Violeta Encarnacion. #kidlit #booksky #edusky #schoollibrarians Available for Pre-Order now! 🦖🐲💃🏻🎉

We called it Al Basic Training. A school librarian in Army camo + a middle school coach = a 4-station Al ethics lesson that actually worked. What we taught, what flopped, and what we're bringing back in the fall bit.ly/4dGlgVq #TLSkyChat #TLSky #SchoolLibrarian #EduSky

MyNotes: Texas Parks and Wildlife Data Breach TPWD says a vendor breach exposed data for about three million Texans, including people with state-issued hunting and fishing licenses. Stolen information may include driver’s license and passport numbers, along with names, emails, phone numbers, and…

Winnie the Pooh BBC Collection Available It's worth sharing this bit: Watch Winnie the Pooh BBC Collection Alan Bennett reads A.A. Milne's much-loved stories about a small bear and his friends - from Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner and A Party for Pooh. 'If you were looking for the…

Partnership is Key Larry Cuban shares this perspective... In short, I learned that any successful district reform was as much building political coalitions within the system while mobilizing public support as it was having the necessary resources to do the job. (source) This is such an obvious…

Prompt for Brand Page I ran across some version of this and decided to see what CHATGPT could do to improve it...take a logo, then give it to ChatGPT with the prompt below .. Sample Logo Prompt Using the uploaded logo as the source brand mark, create a high-end, agency-grade brand identity system…

Learning Forward Texas Resources: AI, UDL, Coaching, and Dashboards #LFTX26 @LearnTexas Access Learning Forward Texas 2026#LFTX26session resources on UDL, instructional coaching, Gen AI lesson design, dashboards, newsletters, and educator tools.

The Arrival Nobody Voted For #AI #AiLiteracy #education #texas #EduSky The Texas Advanced Computing Center at UT Austin has launched ALIGN, an AI literacy initiative designed to help educators, districts, and communities move from AI conversations to practical, ethical implementation.

The Arrival Nobody Voted For #AI #AiLiteracy #education #texas #EduSky The Texas Advanced Computing Center at UT Austin has launched ALIGN, an AI literacy initiative designed to help educators, districts, and communities move from AI conversations to practical, ethical implementation.

Heather Lageman shares, "We’re Not More Divided; We’re Fighting Ghosts" in the summer 2026 issue of Legacy: Transformation in Action, making the case that we've been arguing with the villains we've created instead of the people in front of us! bit.ly/LegacyHeather #EduSky @eduskyteam.bsky.social

MyNotes: Bertrand Russell on Opinions One philosopher that I immediately ignored early on? Bertrand Russell. I read he was an atheist, and thought, "Why would anyone read an atheist's thoughts on anything?" I doubt my thinking was even that coherent. I simply blocked him out. Out of sight, no harm…

MyNotes: Gemini Price Drop Will you be upgrading to Google Gemini? The Register reports that Google just dropped their price to $4.99 from $7.99. Here's a snippet: Google just made its budget AI subscription plan a lot more budget-friendly... that it is cutting the monthly price of Google AI Plus…

Join me at #ISTELive in Orlando! 🗣️ 12 sessions - bit.ly/curts-iste26 🎲 Board Game Night - bit.ly/iste26bgm 📝 Sharing Doc - bit.ly/iste26-share #EduSky #EdTech #GoogleEDU

StickyBoard Use: PEZ Central #EduSky #education I love what my colleague, Peggy R. did with her PEZ Dispenser blog entry. It dropped a few minutes ago and you have to check it out! Go Read the Blog Entry Now#EduSky#educationne of the reasons I'm jazzed about it, aside from the fact that I appear as a PEZ…

Interactive BINGO Game Maker with WebDeck Looking for an interactive BINGO Game Maker that you can share links to BINGO cards online with others? Well, i was NOT either until Patrick Hausammann unveiled one for AI Literacy: Terminology in a TCEA 2026 AI Conference session. His BINGO card inspired…

WebDeck Builder: HTML Web Slides It's not an original idea. And, it's not the ending point. But it's part of something that will be the beginning. Wish you had an "easy" way to convert a slide deck from PDF and/or SVG images into an HTML slide deck? I do. I'm researching how to do this for…

Anthropic Privacy Policy Update Anthropic updated its privacy policy today. They sent me an email about it: We're writing to inform you about some updates to our Privacy Policy. These changes only affect consumer accounts (Claude Free, Pro, and Max plans). If you use Claude Team, Claude…

12 – The Learning Loop: DrawSplat™ and the Return of Student-Centered Creation #EdTech #Privacy #Whiteboards #FREE #NoAI What happens when an educator gets tired of classroom tools that are expensive, overloaded, privacy-complicated, or stuffed with Gen AI features? In this special focus issue, we…

11 – The Learning Loop: AI Workflows Meet the AI Backlash In This Issue AI is shifting from a novelty we chat with into a set of structured workflows we build with: specs, skills, legal agents, personal wikis, and browser-based research tools. At the same time, those digital workflows are tied to…

The Liberal Decalogue I am posting these here. They remain quite relevant and appropriate today: Bertrand Russell’s “Liberal Decalogue” is his set of ten “commandments” for clear thinking, intellectual humility, and democratic argument. It appeared in his 1951 New York Times Magazine essay, “The…

10 – The Learning Loop: AI in the Classroom: Context, Costs & Consequences In This Issue AI is showing up everywhere—in our classrooms, workflows, policies, research summaries, and even commencement stages. This issue explores what happens when AI becomes less of a novelty and more of an invisible…

Did you know that #GenAI provides answers based on your location? What does that mean in your classroom? Let's look at an example. #EduSky #TLSky ticklingtech.com/2026/06/06/a...

AI-Native Version of What You Do In a LinkedIn post this morning, Paul Roetzer (SmarterX and Marketing AI Institute (LinkedIn) makes a point that resonates quite strongly: Organizations that use AI to accelerate growth will recruit and retain the best talent, and win across industries. AI-forward…

if you have typed `claude --dangerously-skip-permissions` more than once this week you are the demographic. there is no second demographic. #ClaudeCode https://dangerously.coffee

Paper Book vs Digital Manga reading on paper vs. digital devices: Prospective effects on core and supportive integration processes in the brainKeita Umejima, Yuki Sunada, Kuniyoshi L. Sakai This jives with my own experience... that's why I read nonfiction in my paperback/hardback rather than…

DrawSplat Game: Squirrel Run "Wouldn't it be cool to have a game where you try to move a squirrel across the road?" asked my wife. We were both thinking of old Frogger game. "Yeah," I agreed, immediately excited about the possibility. How hard would it be to make Squirrel Run? Play Squirrel Run…

DrawSplat Tools: Turn Paper Drawings into Virtual Rooms with SketchSpace VR #EduSky #education #panoform A student leans over a printed grid with colored pencils scattered everywhere. She is trying to decide where the water cycle should go. Evaporation on the left wall? Clouds on the ceiling?…

Create a stop-motion animation with Google Slides. Have students animate a short story or science cycle. 🎬 Learn> youtu.be/7GT1K7fyr-k?... #Edusky

Wikifying My Files with Gen AI #AI #wiki #EduSky #Codex#Code#Code I'm been having a lot of fun using Claude Code for work projects (I can't wait for those examples to come out on the work blog). More fun has been had with ChatGPT Codex for home projects. I want to share the latest iteration of…

MyNotes:Doubling Growth #ai This was an eye-opening assertion: Two studies independently concluded that the capabilities of the leading AI models have been doubling about every four months since 2024, and that rate is accelerating. Even if the current rate holds steady, by the 2028 election, the…

Students and academics are on different planets in terms of #AI use, creating a culture of distrust and secrecy. Dina Kamel offers three ways to close the gap: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/when-it-comes-ai-faculty-are-mars-and-students-are-venus#AI#HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky #GenAI

#TLSkyChat A5. If you like SF, Fantasy, and/or Horror, check out Gizmodo.com. Each month they put out a list of upcoming titles. Even when I'm picky, I never get through the whole thing w/out adding to my TBR! Here's June's: gizmodo.com/new-sci-fi-f... #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

I've created practical guides covering 12 key areas of headship. These bite-sized items help you navigate complex decisions, set boundaries, delegate effectively, and maintain wellbeing. Small changes creating big impacts. Sign up: https://www.rfr.bz/ba1ac13 #headteacherchat #edusky

Join me Saturday, July 11 at 11:00 a.m. at @silverunicornbooks.bsky.social I'll be launching my new book. @randomhousekids.bsky.social @steamteambooks.bsky.social #TLchat #tlsky #skybrarians #SchoolLibraries #edusky #kidlit @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

DrawSplat Feature: SplatImage Studio #education #ImageEditor #free Looking for an easy to use image editor that allows for cropping images, masking images to common shapes, and has layers? Sure, there are tons of them out there that do that. The DrawSplat Tools SplatImage Studio tries to offer key…

Reflections: A Yearlong Gen #AI Webinar Series Ends Today, it was my last presentation for the National Scholarship Providers' Association. That is, it was my last two-hour webinar in THIS series. I'm looking forward to at least two more presentations, one at their San Antonio, Tx conference…

Improving on Work: Good Instructional Design I'd like to take a moment to thank Denis Wisner for his kind words in this LinkedIn post, but also for improving the visual for ACE, a framework I first shared on a KPFT radio station broadcast (catch me on there again on July 15, 2026). It was my way…

DrawSplat Feature: Rubric Builder #EduSky #education #free Making rubrics with Gen AI is easy. That said, I thought it might be worthwhile to mention that all of DrawSplat's tools do NOT use Gen AI to work. It is a little ironic but let's not go into that. The focus of this post is to introduce…

DrawSplat Feature: Big Link #EduSky #FREE #education Ever wanted a huge, gigantic link sprawled across a website when you're facilitating a class or workshop? I have. The problem is that these types of websites have disappeared. There are a few still out there, but I can never remember the URL. To…

DrawSplat Feature – #Quiz and #Flashcard Studio #free #EduSky #education "What kind of tool do you need as a college student?" I asked my niece attending college. She replied: "I've been trying to use Quizizz to study content for my class. It's not working as well as I want." That got me thinking.…

DrawSplat Feature: #EU #GDPR Support #EduSky #education You may have just missed my post on DrawSplat's Privacy and Compliance section a few minutes ago. That one covers the USA and Texas. This post is a quick update for GDPR, too, right after it (yes, I scheduled them to appear this way...I'm not…

DrawSplatTM: Privacy and Compliance Thanks to Stacy Pattenaude, who offered free, friendly feedback on an earlier version of DrawSplat, I became aware of many items relevant to Compliance that I had been unaware of before. It's incredible how much any software solution has to go through to be…

Stupidity – Sand in the Jar Ever do your best to inform/engage participants, only to find they walk away unconvinced of the need to take action? If you're a technology director, I bet that experience is not unfamiliar to you. In fact, the failure of people to act on the advice, or at the…

DrawSplat Feature: Chart Studio #EduSky #education #free Looking for a little bit more robust chart maker? Give DrawSplat Tools: Chart Studio a try: And, it comes with a preset color palettes:

Looking for a Jamboard-style alternative with classroom workflows in mind? DrawSplat™ supports drawing, images, shapes, sticky notes, panels, widgets, and optional Google Drive/Sheets storage. drawsplat.org #EduSky #AcademicSky #Free

🛗 Just like the ramps around us that help everyone, the more universal design for learning we put into place in our classrooms, the fewer special accommodations and modifications we need to add later. #LeadInclusion #UDL #InclusiveEd #EdLeaders #EduSky

💭 Many of the strategies in the #UDL framework may make you think, “that’s just good #teaching.” This is true! But UDL is more than strategies: it's THINKING like a designer, anticipating barriers and planning accordingly. #LeadInclusion #UDL #InclusiveEd #EdLeaders #EduSky

DrawSplat Feature: Animated GIF Maker #EduSky #free #GIF Wish you had a FREE, multilingual, amazing Animated GIF Maker tool? I know I wish I had a great Animated GIF creator tool. There have been several throughout the years, but they always end up disappearing. Now, there is one that works in…

Supporting Stephen’s Web If you've missed this fount of ideas and info, then you are missing out! Be sure to explores Stephen's Web, and drop a few dollars in the fountain of knowledge:

DrawSplat Feature: Animated GIF Maker #EduSky #free #GIF Wish you had a FREE, multilingual, amazing Animated GIF Maker tool? I know I wish I had a great Animated GIF creator tool. There have been several throughout the years, but they always end up disappearing. Now, there is one that works in…