Latest / Integrate This! Ed Tech Podcast / Back-to-School Boost: Practical & Fun Ideas for Teachers
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- 0:00Welcome to Integrate This, your go -to EdTech
- 0:03podcast where curiosity meets classroom innovation.
- 0:07Join your hosts, David Berner and Jeremy Mikla,
- 0:09as we explore the rapidly evolving world of educational
- 0:12technology. From game -changing tools to insightful
- 0:15conversations with today's top EdTech voices,
- 0:18we're here to help educators stay informed, inspired,
- 0:21and ready to innovate. So tune in, level up,
- 0:25and let's integrate this. Hello and welcome back
- 0:40to another school year. It is the 2025 school
- 0:45year here in the United States and for me, this
- 0:48is actually marking the beginning of my 26th
- 0:51year in education. That's kind of crazy how fast
- 0:55all of that has gone by. Of course, I've done
- 0:5822 years in the high school social studies realm.
- 1:03In the last four, working as an instructional
- 1:06technology specialist and getting to, you know,
- 1:11correspond and getting to interact and create
- 1:14with like this person next to me here, my great
- 1:18colleague, David Berner. We welcome you. I'm
- 1:22excited to have you back for another year of
- 1:25great content, great interviews, tutorials and
- 1:29everything that we put together here into our
- 1:32integrate this podcast. You know, David, I don't
- 1:36know any any welcome messages from you that you
- 1:38would like to share and and get out there. Yeah,
- 1:42it's an exciting time for teachers. I think,
- 1:44you know, it's always like a hopeful time. You're
- 1:48just starting. I know some schools, especially
- 1:51in our area, have been in school for a couple
- 1:53weeks, but the vast majority of schools are just
- 1:57starting this week or maybe started last week.
- 2:01So it's a great time. I know you and I have talked
- 2:06about this. If you followed our channel or our
- 2:09podcast for a while now, you've probably picked
- 2:11up on the fact that Jeremy and I were both social
- 2:13studies teachers. He taught social studies for
- 2:16a bit longer than me. But yeah, I'm going into
- 2:20my seventh year in the ed tech space. And even
- 2:25that has gone very quick. So yeah, it's a good
- 2:29time. And I hope that we can maybe provide some
- 2:33fun and practical things for teachers to take
- 2:36away as they listen to this podcast especially
- 2:38if you're a new teacher if this is your first
- 2:41year, maybe some new ideas and even though You
- 2:46know, we even if you're in your second or third
- 2:48week of school, I think you can still apply some
- 2:50of these things So, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
- 2:53And you know, we welcome everyone here So, you
- 2:57know like you and I were chatting like we thought
- 2:59we would start off kind of with some maybe some
- 3:03practical tips that teachers can implement to
- 3:07kind of get things started on the right foot,
- 3:09even in the first couple of weeks of the school
- 3:11year. You know, when you're trying to establish
- 3:13some of those routines, it's nice to have some
- 3:16practical strategies that you can fall back on,
- 3:19especially when it comes to the role of technology
- 3:22and what that will look like and how you integrate
- 3:25that into your practice and with your students.
- 3:28And then we'll kind of maybe throw out a few
- 3:31other kind of maybe off the wall some fun, you
- 3:35know, some of them might be an icebreaker activity
- 3:38or get to know you activity or other ones could
- 3:41just be like, hey, let's take this opportunity
- 3:44to learn more about each other because we know
- 3:47that that will also help to to facilitate those
- 3:50great learning moments that we know are going
- 3:51to happen during the school year. You know, so
- 3:54David, what do you what do you think is one of
- 3:56the things that you know, whether you're a first
- 3:58-year teacher, you know, the rookie that's a
- 4:01little green in the classroom, or whether you're
- 4:03a 30 -year vet, you know, what are some of those
- 4:06things that you think that should be the focus
- 4:08early on? Well, so much of our content is, you
- 4:14know, we talk a lot about the EdTech space and
- 4:17AI a lot lately and things like that, but getting
- 4:21back to kind of the heart of why you're there.
- 4:26The most crucial thing I think that you can do
- 4:28is spend some time getting to know students,
- 4:32and this tends to be a really universal thing
- 4:37that I've heard so many times, but never underestimate,
- 4:40I think, the power of standing outside your door,
- 4:44especially that first week and greeting students
- 4:46as they come in. Be visible, be out there talking
- 4:51to students, getting to know them. because it's
- 4:56all new to everybody, right? You have a new crop
- 4:58of students coming in and you have probably your
- 5:02own worries and concerns. But I think if you
- 5:04start with that and think about creating relationships,
- 5:08that will help further down the line. Yeah, and
- 5:12I think along with greeting them at the door,
- 5:14greeting them by name, which means you've got
- 5:17to get to know the names of your kids. very quickly,
- 5:20you know, and whether that's a seating chart
- 5:22that helps you do that, or if you have some other
- 5:25sort of mnemonic or trick up your sleeve, you
- 5:28know, whatever you can do, knowing who they are
- 5:32really, really matters to them and will lead
- 5:34to that respectful relationship that builds over
- 5:37time. Yeah, exactly. And, you know, I don't,
- 5:42we're there to educate, but I think that It's
- 5:47also a space that your students are going to
- 5:49be in day in and day out. And so taking the time
- 5:53to put content on the back burner for at least
- 5:57the first week and talk with your students, share
- 6:01things about yourself, just also being a human,
- 6:05not just an educator, but being a human and finding
- 6:10common ground in various things. I think all
- 6:14that's very important when it comes to that.
- 6:16that first week and then, you know, having opportunities
- 6:19or moments for that as the year goes on as well.
- 6:22What do you think about creating a safe, inviting
- 6:26atmosphere and climate? What does that kind of
- 6:29look like? Do you think as you start the school
- 6:30year off? I think that while you do your, you
- 6:36know, you're getting to know students and you're
- 6:38you are being present out there. You are gonna
- 6:43find that right away that first week you are
- 6:46gonna have to establish still some boundaries
- 6:49and what's gonna be acceptable in your classroom.
- 6:52And I think there's some really interesting ways
- 6:54to go about that. I think maybe a lot of times
- 6:58we fall into the trap of like, you have to communicate
- 7:03these things in a very dry way. One of the most
- 7:07impactful. things I know that I saw was a teacher
- 7:12that I had worked with did more of like a modeling
- 7:17type of for things like routines or behavior
- 7:22and you know this and this is getting more into
- 7:25like the middle school high school level but
- 7:28like you know like how do you enter you know
- 7:32and you can actually make those things very fun
- 7:34like if you as the teacher, you know, kind of
- 7:37gives the example of if you rush into the room
- 7:40and you throw the door open and run to your seat
- 7:43and stuff like that, right, and have a student
- 7:46be the teacher for that scenario, you know, and
- 7:49have them teaching and then kind of throw them
- 7:51off guard and come in, you know, very frantically
- 7:53and all that type of stuff. Kids will get a kick
- 7:56out of that. And it's it's a funny way to model
- 8:00what's not acceptable, right? You don't necessarily
- 8:03have to stand up there and say, now, don't come
- 8:05into the room like this. And you know, and it's
- 8:07very dry. There's some there's some interesting
- 8:10ways that you can approach that. And everybody
- 8:13is going to be different how they're going to
- 8:14approach it. But setting some some boundaries,
- 8:19making it an inviting classroom, but helping
- 8:23students understand, like, what are the expectations
- 8:25when you do come in? I know many teachers also
- 8:29will. Help have their students help create the
- 8:32classroom expectations on that first day or second
- 8:34day and so they're part of that process of determining
- 8:39what's acceptable and what's unacceptable in
- 8:42the classroom, so I think there's some some fun
- 8:45ways that you can go about that and Yeah Yeah,
- 8:49and I think what goes along with you know, you're
- 8:51you're establishing some procedure and routine
- 8:53in the classroom But yet you're showing students
- 8:56that you're not so rigid all of the time Especially
- 8:59if you throw in little moments of you know off
- 9:02the wall Like they expect you to kind of be this
- 9:05strict rigid character, right? and then you come
- 9:07in like you you talked about rushing into a room
- 9:09and throwing your stuff on the desk and sliding
- 9:11into a seat, you know, they're gonna get a different
- 9:14kind of perspective of you that you know, yes,
- 9:16you're serious, but you don't take yourself.
- 9:19overly serious at the same time, you know, but
- 9:22what about now? Do you want to create that space?
- 9:25That's going to be great for students in that
- 9:26physical environment, which you which you definitely
- 9:28talked about here, but equally, I think, especially
- 9:32in today's age and maybe even more so with some
- 9:35of your middle to high school age students is,
- 9:38you know, you want to make sure that you're creating
- 9:40that safe digital space as well for your class
- 9:45to be able to exist, whether that's with your
- 9:47LMS or whether that is within some sort of discussion
- 9:51space that you're going to provide for students
- 9:53to interact with each other while they're online.
- 9:55Do you have any kind of helpful tips or ideas
- 9:58when it comes to that? Yeah, I think it's the
- 10:03same. You know, just because it's online within
- 10:07the classroom, I mean, there's still social interactions
- 10:10that are going on. ways that you have expectations
- 10:14about, you know, like how are students turning
- 10:16things in? Because whether they're turning things
- 10:20in physically in the class or digitally in, you
- 10:23know, one of the learning management systems,
- 10:25Google Classroom, Schoology, et cetera, right?
- 10:28You should have a process in place of what that
- 10:31looks like for students. One benefit to those
- 10:34those systems is typically you'll have parameters
- 10:37you could set within there, but probably still
- 10:39good to communicate to the students like what
- 10:41are your expectations when operating within those
- 10:44spaces? Because the digital spaces now are so
- 10:48frequented and they're going to be interacting
- 10:51students. You brought up discussion boards, right?
- 10:54That's a huge that's huge. point to hit on is
- 10:59engaging in discussions with other classmates
- 11:02or maybe even You know across classes or something
- 11:06if you figure out if you've got that but that's
- 11:09that's the type of thing where you should definitely
- 11:11model what is What is expected with responses
- 11:16to either that the teacher or to other classmates?
- 11:23It's a good way to avoid I think this happens
- 11:26probably to a lot of people is you'll have a
- 11:28question on there and you're like Oh, this is
- 11:29the best question ever for this this objective,
- 11:32you know What if you're talking about World War
- 11:35one or something and you think it's the greatest
- 11:37question in the world and you get like five students
- 11:39that Just give you a one -word response, right?
- 11:42Because it's not the most important thing in
- 11:43the world to them. So Yeah, I think I think just
- 11:47modeling what? the expectation is for those.
- 11:50It's really no different than the physical space.
- 11:52You have to probably have an idea in your mind
- 11:56and structure in your mind for both of those
- 11:58spaces because they're distinct, but both need
- 12:02to be addressed. Yeah, I think you hit the nail
- 12:05on the head. There are a lot of similarities
- 12:07to how you would behave with an in -person discussion
- 12:10and an online one. You know, I think just reminding
- 12:14students that when you know, you're reading something
- 12:17on a discussion board. You're not hearing it
- 12:19being said in a person's natural voice. You're
- 12:21hearing it being said with that little person
- 12:23that's up inside of your head, right? So, you
- 12:26know, be careful not to leave any sort of moments
- 12:29where, you know, reading between the lines might
- 12:32lead down a path that you don't want to go down,
- 12:35right? So I think kind of reminding students
- 12:38of that, but then at the same time, reminding
- 12:40them that it can still happen. Maybe something
- 12:42that's written isn't being read in that person's
- 12:46head the same way as it was intended. So don't
- 12:49just jump to a conclusion and assume the worst
- 12:52is being said by that other person. And I think
- 12:55that's a good life lesson reminder, I think,
- 12:58for all of us, teachers included, along with
- 13:01that. Yeah, I think that's a really great point
- 13:03that we didn't touch on is the fact that when
- 13:07you're reading it, it's so much different if
- 13:09you're having one student respond with their
- 13:12thoughts to another. They may assume an intent
- 13:17that's not necessarily there, right? That's a
- 13:20great point. One of the things you touched on
- 13:23there, too, was communicating with students.
- 13:26But let's take that beyond that, right? What
- 13:28about communicating with families, especially
- 13:31at the beginning of the year? You know, I know
- 13:35one of the things that a lot of teachers do is
- 13:38they will have the syllabus for their class.
- 13:41And I guess I'm thinking more like high school
- 13:43and middle school levels again, maybe a little
- 13:45bit of the upper elementaries that they they
- 13:49expect the students then are are getting that
- 13:52content and they expect the students to bring
- 13:54it back to their parents and ask parents to sign
- 13:58off on that they've reviewed the syllabus and
- 14:02if they have any questions to contact you, that
- 14:04sort of thing. My experience with that was I
- 14:08never got any questions from parents when I had
- 14:12students sign off on them and then bring it back
- 14:15and I gave them points for it. So eventually
- 14:17I just even quit. assigning it as points and
- 14:21I don't know, I just made it an expectation to
- 14:23students and I'm not sure which is the best.
- 14:26method of that was to try to encourage more dialogue.
- 14:30But I think if I could go back, one of the things
- 14:33that I would change is, you know, I think maybe
- 14:36instead of like a big syllabus and just sending
- 14:38it all out at one time, I might do it in a little
- 14:41bit smaller batches over the course of the first
- 14:44week or two weeks and more just send it out as
- 14:48an email directly to parents because we have
- 14:50all of their email addresses in our SIS, our
- 14:54student information systems that we can that
- 14:56we can utilize and send out mass messages like
- 14:59that that would include different parts of it.
- 15:01And maybe it wouldn't be just so much for a parent
- 15:05to digest all at one time, especially when you're
- 15:08talking about if a high school student has six
- 15:10different teachers over the course of the day
- 15:12and they're coming home that first day or two
- 15:14of school with six different syllabi to look
- 15:16over and read and sign off on. Yeah, that's just
- 15:19gonna be too much and overwhelming. And I get
- 15:21the idea, you know, from you know, a liability
- 15:25standpoint, like are you making sure that parents
- 15:28are aware of this content engineer and procedures
- 15:31in your class and how to deal with issues and
- 15:34missing work and tardiness and absences and all
- 15:37of that sort of stuff. But I think that can be
- 15:39done perhaps in little doses over time. At least
- 15:43if I were to go back, I think that's how I would
- 15:45approach it. You know, from your perspective,
- 15:47David, what do you think about any helpful tips
- 15:50or strategies for helping to communicate with
- 15:52parents and families? Yeah, I think one thing
- 15:56that stood out to me when what you had mentioned
- 15:59like those automation systems are really great
- 16:02for being able to communicate in mass right out
- 16:06about important things and stuff like that. But
- 16:08I think that we shouldn't use that as a substitute
- 16:11for one to one communication. I think if you
- 16:16just rely on those, then the door is kind of
- 16:19closed. There's really no personalization that
- 16:21goes into it either so. I think a lot of teachers
- 16:26do a great job of sending welcome letters even
- 16:29before the first day begins and introducing themselves.
- 16:34Talking about like. You know their philosophy,
- 16:38maybe or especially contact contact information
- 16:41is hugely important. I think that educators can
- 16:45set up certain communication boundaries that
- 16:48what is their preferred method of communication
- 16:51and maybe even communicating like. you can expect
- 16:54a response to me within whatever, you know, whatever
- 16:57is comfortable for you. If it's in 24 hours,
- 17:00fine, you know, but then you at least are setting
- 17:03some parameters that help manage expectations
- 17:05and then help you help the teacher maintain a
- 17:09healthy work life balance because the reality
- 17:11is that you are going to leave school for the
- 17:17day and then get emails in the evening. So you
- 17:19have to set those things and know yourself the
- 17:23best so that you can determine like, okay, I'm
- 17:26going to respond tomorrow. This is my time set
- 17:30aside for responding to these things and that's
- 17:32how I'm going to manage my own time. But if you
- 17:36communicate that out to the parents or guardians,
- 17:39then they'll have an idea of, you know, this
- 17:42is what you can expect. And I think too that
- 17:48I've always been a big proponent and agree with
- 17:53the notion of like, it shouldn't be that the
- 17:58first time you talk to a parent, it's a negative
- 18:02call, right? It's about that we're having this
- 18:05behavior and there should be some correspondence
- 18:08that takes place prior to that that's positive,
- 18:11you know, good news calls, things like, oh, you
- 18:15know, this is really great. I saw your child
- 18:18working on this and It was a really awesome thing
- 18:22and you know set some of those things up early.
- 18:26Yeah, I think I've heard it talked about. I remember
- 18:29I don't remember who the the presenter was but
- 18:32in a keynote message like a welcome back to school
- 18:35kind of kick off the year message there was a
- 18:38presenter that I listened to one time that talked
- 18:40about that importance of you know being early
- 18:45and often with the positive messages that go
- 18:48home to parents. And I think they even talked
- 18:50about it being like a bank account, right? You
- 18:54can't withdraw money from a bank that there's
- 18:56no money in, right? And it's the same things
- 18:58with relationships and trying to get messages
- 19:02across about. you know, students and their work
- 19:05that they're doing, that you need to make deposits
- 19:08first before you can make withdrawals. So, you
- 19:11know, think about it, maybe even a ratio of you
- 19:13need to make three deposits or three positive
- 19:16things about a student before you withdraw something
- 19:19and send home that message like, hey, the student
- 19:22of yours needs to kick it in gear or needs, you
- 19:27know, we had this incident that occurred, you
- 19:29know, it's much easier, I think, for a parent
- 19:31to listen to it if they know you're coming from
- 19:33a place where you've already shown that you care
- 19:36about that student and that you do recognize
- 19:38the positive contributions that they're making
- 19:40at the same time. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And there's
- 19:45definitely opportunities that you can you can
- 19:49establish that early on. I know like one of the
- 19:51things that you're going to talk about is some
- 19:54fun things that you can have the students doing
- 19:55or different. projects or things with that first
- 19:59week, and that's going to provide you with some
- 20:01opportunities to not only get to know the students,
- 20:03but then to have materials switched to and interactions
- 20:07to communicate out after that first week. So
- 20:12do you want to talk a little bit about some of
- 20:14the things that you - Yeah, some of the other,
- 20:16some of the, a little bit more, you know, of
- 20:19the way since we are in educational technology.
- 20:22podcast, at least on some level, right? We want
- 20:26to kind of throw in and give you some ideas on
- 20:29maybe how you can integrate some technology even
- 20:32into some of these first couple of weeks of school
- 20:34that still kind of touch on those themes of creating
- 20:38those digital and physical environments that
- 20:41are going to be welcoming of students. So one
- 20:44of them, shout out to Eric Kurtz. Eric, we had
- 20:48on the podcast earlier this summer or late spring,
- 20:51And it was just such a great conversation that
- 20:53we had with him. I definitely refer you back
- 20:56to checking out that episode. But he came out
- 21:00in a blog post on his Control Alt Achieve site
- 21:03the last week or so that he called When I Grow
- 21:07Up. And it's actually an image generation using
- 21:15Gemini. We will be releasing an episode here
- 21:18soon about some of the Gemini updates that came
- 21:21out. And so you can definitely also check that
- 21:24out. I feel like I'm just plugging our show here
- 21:26in that. I'm not sharing anything yet. But within
- 21:29this, when I grow up, he's taking students and
- 21:33having them imagining a career that they may
- 21:36be interested in at this point and what it would
- 21:39look like to put themselves in that role of that
- 21:42person doing a job that they would maybe want
- 21:44to do. And so Eric has this great prompt template
- 21:48that he created. And it basically takes an image
- 21:52of the student kind of like their headshot and
- 21:56it basically puts them into that role and it
- 22:00generates the image of it so a student could
- 22:03actually see what it would look like for they
- 22:07themselves to be doing that job that they're
- 22:09maybe thinking would be kind of cool. I'm not
- 22:12going to read the prompt for you here, but we
- 22:14will link that prompt as well as a link to Eric's
- 22:17blog post in the description of the show notes.
- 22:20But I think that's great that students are starting
- 22:22to see themselves in roles beyond school. um
- 22:26you know and gives them some sort of sense of
- 22:29that what their future might entail yeah very
- 22:33cool man you can do some fun stuff with that
- 22:35uh we uh you and i are going to be amazon river
- 22:38explorers if you if you see our youtube uh our
- 22:41youtube video on gemini but yeah even even we
- 22:45don't stop dreaming and envisioning what what
- 22:48we could be doing differently yeah yeah Yeah
- 22:51and I think what a great way for teachers and
- 22:53classmates of that student to get to know what
- 22:57interests that student might have beyond you
- 23:00know their time in the walls of the school. So
- 23:03that's that's one idea here. A second one here
- 23:06is I think a pretty common one and I bet a lot
- 23:09of people do it as well. It's the two truths
- 23:12and a lie. You know where you put write down
- 23:14two things about yourself that is true and you
- 23:16write down one thing that's a lie and then people
- 23:18have to guess Which of the one is a lie? Well,
- 23:22you could take this and give it an AI twist and
- 23:24call it true two truths and an AI lie Students
- 23:28and teachers still create the two facts about
- 23:31themselves But then you you incorporate AI into
- 23:36the mix by giving AI the two truths and then
- 23:39asking it to make up a lie about you that might
- 23:42be kind of somewhat related of those things that
- 23:46you shared, but different enough that it might
- 23:49make it more challenging for students and teachers
- 23:52to identify which one of those things might be
- 23:55that lie. But again, I think another fascinating
- 23:59way that might shed some insight into like, oh,
- 24:03I didn't know this weird fact about this student,
- 24:05you know? And at the same time, I think it kind
- 24:10of like, is very low stakes and low stress, a
- 24:15way to get to know people, right? Yeah, and that's
- 24:20always a fun one. I think you can start that
- 24:22with yourself as the teacher, you know, have
- 24:25the students guess and then they can maybe pair
- 24:28up and do that as well. Right. The thing is too,
- 24:32you know, not maybe maybe not all the students
- 24:35know each other. So it provides opportunity for
- 24:38more interactions for them too. Exactly. And
- 24:41you know, sometimes you think all these students
- 24:43all know each other really, really well, because
- 24:45they've been together for five, 10 years, you
- 24:48know, but oftentimes they don't or things about
- 24:52each other change. And so I think it's okay to
- 24:55take a moment or two to recognize that. The third
- 24:58idea. that I came across here that I think is
- 25:01kind of fun too. Again, getting to know the interests
- 25:04of your students outside of the classroom is
- 25:07called Guess My Hobby. but it's done AI style.
- 25:11So you take in and you work with Gemini or ChatGPT
- 25:16or even with Adobe Express tools that you can
- 25:19get available in Magic School, right? So it's
- 25:23within that classroom space and teachers within
- 25:26Magic School and Magic Student can peer in and
- 25:29see how their students are interacting with AI
- 25:32and making sure that it's done in that safe,
- 25:35ethical and effective way. So you're building
- 25:38AI literacy at the same time. But what students
- 25:41do is then they prompt to create an image of
- 25:47something that is their hobby or an interest
- 25:50that they have. you know, students can then post
- 25:54those or share those one at a time. And then
- 25:57people try to guess what their hobby is that
- 26:00they're trying to create in their prompt that
- 26:03AI created with the image. So again, kind of
- 26:06like a fun way to share it and learn something
- 26:09new about your students and students can learn
- 26:12from each other about things that they're interested
- 26:15in. And who knows, maybe a teacher and a student
- 26:18share a similar hobby for soccer or for reading,
- 26:23you know, young adult novels or whatever it happens
- 26:26to be, you know. Yeah, definitely. All right.
- 26:31And then a final one here to share is called
- 26:34the Passion Project product. So with this one,
- 26:39a student might pick something that they they
- 26:41love doing or love interacting with. Maybe it
- 26:45is a certain style of music or a particular musician.
- 26:48I know who's David is because he wishes he was
- 26:53there when she was proposed to not too long ago.
- 26:57Not giving away Taylor Swift, but you know, I
- 27:00think that could be something that you might
- 27:02choose or it could be some sort of an animal
- 27:05or maybe it's a game that you particularly like
- 27:08or maybe it's a sport or activity. And then use
- 27:12AI to help brainstorm how they can take that
- 27:16passion of theirs and create some sort of real
- 27:20world product or project about it, right? And
- 27:24not just that they have to become an influencer
- 27:26about Taylor Swift or anything like that, but
- 27:30it kind of gives them into... a way that they
- 27:34can take their interests and things that they're
- 27:37really enthused about and find ways to, you know,
- 27:41not just share it with others, but maybe even
- 27:45kind of create a model that they could use to
- 27:48continue that interest and that exploration and
- 27:52take it to the next step. And who knows, maybe
- 27:54even a possible career or even a career that
- 27:56doesn't even exist yet, but it might be something
- 27:59that they could help pioneer. Yeah, it's kind
- 28:02of like a little mini genius hour type of yes.
- 28:05Yeah, but done in a short span, but it kind of
- 28:10leads to some of those same same conclusions
- 28:12so Yeah, very cool lots of lots of good ideas
- 28:16for teachers to get started with this this first
- 28:19week and and maybe even you know with some of
- 28:22that what's great too is if you're Wanting to
- 28:24just kind of dip your toe into the AI space a
- 28:27little bit just to start I think those are some
- 28:28really great examples of getting that Start yeah,
- 28:32it was the low entry kind of point to it, right?
- 28:34But yeah, definitely Definitely a good starting
- 28:37point Yeah good stuff Well, uh, hopefully everybody
- 28:43that is listening you can you can take away some
- 28:46practical things and some fun things to get your
- 28:48school year kicked off and moving in the right
- 28:51direction and we Hope you continue to listen
- 28:55and get some great ideas from us throughout the
- 28:57school year through the YouTube channel and the
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