Mark Cuban Foundation AI Bootcamp: Inspiring the Next Generation of Innovators For the past three months, I’ve been working with the Mark Cuban Foundation AI Bootcamp, a nationwide program that gives high school students free, hands-on experience with artificial intelligence. It has been incredibly rewarding to be part of this initiative, and I’m excited to ... Read more
I m excited to announce that the Mark Cuban Foundation AI Bootcamps has decided to open up registration for the 2025-2026 Teacher Bootcamp to all high school educators located in the United States. This program is absolutely FREE, and it s an incredible opportunity for teachers of any high school subject to enhance your AI Literacy and ... Read more
I’m thrilled to share some exciting news: I’ve accepted a position as an Instructional Designer with the Mark Cuban Foundation, working on their national AI Bootcamp program for underserved high school students. Initially, I will be helping to launch the inaugural Teacher Fellowship program and the Teacher Bootcamps, along with my supervisor, Charlotte Dungan. For ... Read more
So, I decided to check out what Canva's AI knows about Hexagonal Thinking and Tuck by giving it the challenge of creating an interactive drag and drop activity for students that would allow them to move the hexagons around and connect them.
Could we make Mystery Action Figure packages of notable people from history?
Anyone who has designed PBL units will recognize how valuable this AI/Teacher collaboration is.
My first FREE AI Webinar is coming up on April 23, 2025. It's called, "ChatGPT for Real Life Simple, Practical Ways to Use AI (Even if You’re Not Techy)."
Raise your hand if you’ve heard about ChatGPT but still aren’t quite sure what it actually does. Or maybe you signed up once, typed in “Help me plan a vacation,” and then closed the tab faster than a pop quiz you weren t ready for when you got a bunch of gibberish in return. I get ... Read more
If you want to hit nearly all of the icons of depth and complexity in one giant unit for upper elementary, the one I did for years with my 4th graders on the Faberge Eggs will help you to achieve that goal. This was one of the rare lessons that I repeated because it just ... Read more
GenChess: Design Your Own Virtual Pieces My latest curated list of chess resources was in 2020 and, predictably, some of the links no longer work. I updated that post accordingly, and now I have something else to add! GenChess is a fun Google Labs Experiment that uses the power of AI to allow the user ... Read more