Jon Weldon

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🎥 Just shared on YouTube 👉 Is AI making teachers lazy or liberating them to be more creative? 🤖✨ In this special ISTE/ASCD recap episode, discover why the "AI will replace teachers" narrative is dead wrong – and what's actually working in classrooms right now. You will get 7 hot topics from AI for creativity, lesson plans, and even how AI is helping students at Auburn University combat cybercriminals. Note: I lost my voice after ISTE, so my son John Davis joins me for parts of this episode – proving that sometimes our best teaching moments come from unexpected challenges! 🎯 What You'll Learn: Ai Updates: The Good, the Challenging, and the Practical AI as a Creativity Amplifier with Dr. Sarah Thomas Do AI Lesson Planners Measure Up? with Dr. Catlin Tucker Cybersecurity Education Through Real-World Experience with Jay James from Auburn University The Human Element - Why AI Can't Replace Teaching Relationships My 6 Key Tools Highlighted from ISTE 2025 Instagram's School Safety Partnership - A Game Changer for Digital Wellbeing 💡 Key Takeaways from Our Expert Guests: Dr. Sarah Thomas (Prince George's County Public Schools): "AI, if you use it for productivity, actually frees up your time so you're able to shine and devote your creativity to your zone of genius." Dr. Caitlin Tucker (Author, UDL Expert): "Teachers are architects of learning experiences... if we think our value is being the expert at the front of the room, then it makes sense why people think AI could take over our jobs." Jay James (Auburn University Cybersecurity): "Education systems are like cities... perfect testing grounds for attackers, which is exactly why we need defenders who understand the environment." 📱 Breaking EdTech News from ISTE: Microsoft Copilot now available for ages 13+ (with critical safety features) Google Gemini launches for ALL ages (but there's a monitoring problem) Apple's mysterious AI delay until 2026 Instagram's new anti-bullying program for schools ⏰ Timestamps: 00:00 Recap of ISTE and AI Tools 00:30 Microsoft Copilot for Schools Age 13 and Up 00:53 Google Gemini App for Students of All Ages and Gemini in Google Classroom 01:30 Microsoft PC's: NPU's and the Rise of the SLM 01:54 Microsoft's New Teach Module for Copilot Plus PC's 02:14 Remember: Evaluate the Best Uses of AI Tools 03:16 Innovative Tools and Technologies 03:51 Dr. Sarah Thomas: Interview on AI and Education 14:22 Dr. Katlyn Tucker: UDL, AI, and AI for Lesson Planning 32:30 Student Operations Centers (SOC)s at Auburn University with Jay James 47:03 ISTE Hallway Talk with Vicki Davis 47:31 Monitoring Concerns about Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini in Schools 48:18 Some AI Features Aren't Great for Teaching (Like the Worksheet Feature) 49:08 Apple OS 26 49:36 The AI "Hack" of Highlighting PDF's in Color 50:01 Perplexity Spaces as an AI Research Agent 50:43 Perplexity Launches Their AI-Powered Comet Browser 50:57 Apple Delays Full AI Implementation to 2026 (we think) 51:26 How Schools Need to Test AI and How to Do It 52:33 Instagram and ISTE Partner to Make Safer Schools 53:15 Use the Edtech Index to Help You as You Select Edtech Tools 53:24 New Instructional Supervision and AI Certifications 54:31 Innovative Tools from ISTE 2025 54:54 ISTE Top Tool #1: Brisk 55:12 ISTE Top Tool #2: Snorkl 55:47 ISTE Top Tool #3: Suno 56:03 ISTE Top Tool #4: Veo 3 56:14 ISTE Top Tool #5: Google Notebook LM 56:31 ISTE Top Tool #6: One Note Gets Study Upgrades 🚀 Resources Mentioned: Everything is on the show notes at coolcatteacher.com/ai-cybersecuri… 💭 Let's Discuss: What's your biggest AI fear in the classroom? Have you caught students misusing AI yet? What actually worked for you this year? Drop your thoughts below – I personally read and respond to comments! 🎙️ About Cool Cat Teacher Talk: Join award-winning educator Vicki Davis for weekly discussions about what really matters in the classroom. With 900+ episodes of her weekly podcast (the 10 Minute Teacher) and 7M+ downloads, we're building a community of educators who believe in the nobility of teaching. 📧 Weekly Newsletter: [coolcatteacher.com/newsletter?utm…] 🎧 Podcast: [coolcatteacher.com/podcast?utm_ca…] 📱 Social: @coolcatteacher everywhere #AIinEducation #ISTE2025 #EdTech #TeacherPD #CoolCatTeacher #EducationPodcast #EdChat #Cybersecurity #UDL #GoogleEdu #MicrosoftEdu #TeacherLife #ProfessionalDevelopment #EducationTechnology #TeachingStrategies youtube.com/watch?v=hoZL-e…

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The cognitive dissonance here is stunning

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⚡️🇮🇱JUST IN: An Israeli soldier named Daniel filmed himself firing a projectile at civilian homes in Gaza today, solely to upload it to his social media.

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@POTUS @VickerySec Failure to support Palestine at this critical moment will never be forgotten.

Failure to support Ukraine at this critical moment will never be forgotten.

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“Nothing. You began as nothing and you will end as nothing. And in between—everything, and nothing. In between—joy and sorrow, beauty and decay. Everything yours to partake of yours to bear. Yours to see, to know, to give birth to—and to let go. None of it yours to have. Not even you are yours to have. You belong to a wholeness so great you cannot even conceive of it. No, it is not a belonging; nothing owns you. You are simply part of it. You came out of it, and you will return to it. You do not ever leave it; you are part of it forever. And this is your moment to be alive.” This poem—by Marcia Falk—found me in the Synagogue today and gripped me. If only we could tune into that unperceived, larger-than-life wholeness and find peace in the part that’s our to play, somewhere between Galaxy Cluster SMACS 0723 and David Geffen Hall.

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Amid confident predictions that kids will use AI (specifically, ChatGPT) to cheat on writing assignments, I thought I'd repost my review of research on what really makes cheating more likely - and why it matters how "cheating" is defined in the 1st place: is.gd/dGz2a3.

@Justin_D_Martin @HebzDONTlie @nytimes I think it’s not an abnormal practice. The Senegalese drumming section, for example, is supported by the Senegal government

@_S7l8 @Justin_D_Martin I have to agree. I appreciate what you do but you know you were asking for trouble

@piersmorgan Finally! Piers Morgan saying something useful 👏👏👏

Yes, and we tortured innocent Iraqi civilians when we illegally invaded that country. Britain’s in no position to play the moral superiority card vs Qatar.

@AlansariSalman @vikingtemedor @Justin_D_Martin @marcowenjones The other thing to keep in mind is that Qatar is simply playing the market of globalized capitalism. They pay slightly more that each expat’s home country. I get paid a bit more than if i was in the US. A Bengali manual laborer gets paid more than he would in Bangladesh…

@vikingtemedor @Justin_D_Martin @jbweldon @marcowenjones some are valid concerns,especially the human rights. you need to take into account that laws have changed dramatically from 2013, and the government is trying really hard to hold corps responsible. throwing numbers like 6500 deaths is misleading and only hinder the hrd wrk done

.@Justin_D_Martin @marcowenjones my brother just got turned back at JFK because his 8 month old didn’t have a hayya card. Had been planning this trip for almost a year