Today's great watch -- you won't regret spending 20 minutes on this.

It’s back-to-school time, and OneNote EDU is rolling out fresh updates to make life easier for educators and students alike! In this blog, we’ll cover the latest OneNote features and updates for education 💜 Blog: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/educati... #edusky

Endlessly cool and inspiring to see @jay.bsky.team and @katie-drummond.bsky.social on the @websummit.bsky.social stage in Vancouver. 🦋

Come check out preview teacher features for Reading Coach! 🌞

Folks have been asking us for teacher features in Reading Coach, like sharing custom passages with learners, setting time goals, and monitoring practice data for a while. Now, it looks like something strange has started to happen when you right-click Sunny from a teacher account...🤔 #IFoundPreview

Join us for a session about AI Agents in Microsoft Copilot, tailored for educators. We'll delve into what Agents are, using them and even creating them. Register: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/educati... #edusky

Now students can choose a custom Avatar for Reading Coach (or turn off avatars completely) The example video below shows how. This has been globally rolled out to the AI-powered Reading Coach as well as the Reading Coach built into Microsoft Teams for Education 🚀 #edusky

Math Progress, our newest Learning Accelerator, is now globally rolling out and at general availability! FREE and built into Microsoft Teams for EDU 🚀 Blog: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/educati... #mathchat #MIEExpert #edusky

📖 Empower learners of all ages with AI-powered Reading Coach! Personalize reading practice, build fluency, and track progress with ease. Now available in 81 languages with zero-touch deployment. Get started here msft.it/6015oM9X3 #edusky

2 minutes of warm fuzzies for your day: youtu.be/fYcDQAbhwlw?... Reading Coach is available for FREE, can be used with Microsoft school OR personal accounts (you read that right, Google teachers!), and has the potential to create moments like this. #EduSky #TLSky #EduSkyAI #EDUSkyPrimary

It happened!! Check out this delightful new reading tool (some of our preview students called it a "reading game") in its shiniest-yet iteration 🚀 More exciting things to come.

We've seen what can happen when people over-rely on AI. @mihaelav.bsky.social, one of my favorite work people, offers a clear-eyed discussion of how we might foster *appropriate* reliance instead. Not EDU-specific but might be interesting to my #EDUSky / #EDUSkyAI friends! youtu.be/na4AAsKblsA?...

NEW! Gather and create notes with Copilot in your personal OneNote notebooks directly on the page - now available for Microsoft 365 Insiders 💜 Blog: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microso... #EduSky

Media Literacy is a huge part of learning about AI. Filters on TikTok, deepfake videos, photos that are automatically altered and stitched together in your phone camera. Our students need to be able to understand how to identify what is real. #tlsky #FAME24

Have you checked out the #microsoftedu Learning Accelerators yet? Amazing tools for student engagement, differentiation & personalization powered with AI. All for free, built into Teams. www.microsoft.com/en-us/educat... #edtech #mieexpert #edtechcoach #edusky #educoach #microsoftteams

New large-scale study shows improved reading scores by using Reading Progress in Microsoft Teams. ESSA Tier 2 study. Reading Progress is a FREE AI-enhanced tool that helps improve reading fluency 📖 Available globally 🌍🌎🌏 Details: www.microsoft.com/en-us/educat... #edusky

POSTED! "What's New in #MicrosoftEDU" webinar recording for November 2024 🚀 PPT deck link in video description. ✈️ Copilot 📖 Reading Coach 🚀 Speaker and Math Progress ✨ AI in Teams for EDU 💜 OneNote ➕ More YouTube 📺 youtu.be/0qltr3LEOfE #EduSky

You know it’s good when my childhood hero @levarburton.bsky.social makes the switch! 🌈

The Microsoft #EduSky starter pack is up and running! Get a direct line to the product teams, accessibility innovators and cutting-edge Responsible AI researchers all in one place. Updated often. We're so happy to be here! 🦋 go.bsky.app/9c9TA8Q

More from one of my favourite groups at Microsoft on our work to support a healthier information ecosystem: aka.ms/InformationEcosystem #InformationLiteracy #EduSky

#EduSky it's SO lovely to be here! As a means of introduction, here's a project I codesigned with educators to encourage metacognition and build information literacy into any research assignment. Search Progress: aka.ms/SearchProgressGuide Experts webinar + AI literacy: aka.ms/InfoLiteracyWebinar

NEW! 3 nice improvements for #OneNote Desktop 💜 🎨 Pick any ink color with the new Eyedropper tool 🖼️ Ink annotations on PDF printouts and images ✍️ Enhance your inking with handwriting straightening Blog: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/educati... #edusky