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Fabulous EdTech Blogs to Follow
Your posts on Threads can be up to 500 characters
long and include links, photos, and videos up to 5 minutes in length.
You can also share a Threads bulk sms master post to your Instagram story, or share your post as a link on any other platform you choose.Since Threads is brand new there are quite a few features that are still missing from the app. Some of these current limitations include:
The feed has suggested people mixed in.
It will be interesting to see
How this tool continues to develop.
To help educators connect on Threads, use the Connect with Educators on the New Threads App Form linked below to share your Threads contact information. This will make it easy for people to connect with you and you to connect with others.
Share your Threads contact info – Google Form link
You can see all of the submissions in the Google Sheet here: Google Sheets link
I am looking forward to connecting and learning with you!
This post is part of my “12 Days of Tech-Mas” series for 2017.
About a year ago I put up a post about
50 Fabulous EdTech Blogs to Follow” where I shared a list of many of my favorite blogs to get educational technology ideas, tools, and inspiration. At that time, I mentioned that the list was certainly far from complete.
Since that time I have continued to add many more sites to my list. To be able to stay on top of so data on many blogs, I use Feely to pull all of the posts together so I can visit one single location to see everything that is new. For more details on how to use Feebly, see my earlier post on the topic.
So I thought it was time to update the list with 12 more excellent EdTech blogs, which you will find listed and linked in the post below.
Connect with Educators on the New Threads App
Social media is a constantly changing landscape
I still miss the days of Google+ where educators had thriving communities to connect and exchange ideas.
In place of that, people can connect with me on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Mastodon, and Bluesy.
I was excited to learn about a new social media platform called Threads, which was created by the team at Instagram!
One of the biggest challenges to any new sharing tool is being able to get enough people to join. The power is in the people! Because Threads is from Instagram it is super easy for people to join and it looks like that is exactly what is happening in the millions.
See below for a quick overview of sms promotional campaign Threads, as well as a shared Google Form and Sheet to add your accounts to connect with others. And of course please feel free to connect with me at
What is it?
Threads is a new app, built by the Instagram team, for sharing updates and joining public conversations.
From the app description – “Threads is where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics you care about today to what’ll be trending tomorrow.Whatever it is you’re interested in, you can follow and connect directly with your favorite adjust assignments and assessments creators and others who love the same things – or build a loyal following of your own to share your ideas, opinions and creativity with the world.”
You can get the app for Android and for iOS
Your account
To log into Threads you will need to use your Instagram account.
Your Instagram username and verification will carry over, with the option to customize your profile specifically for Threads.Your account can be public data on or private. If you have a private profile, you will have to approve people who want to connect with you. Everyone who is under 16 will be defaulted into a private profile when they join Threads.
You can choose to follow the same accounts you do on Instagram, and find more people who care about the same things you do.
Adjust Assignments and Assessments
Generative AI is a powerful
Tool that can be used to support teachers and students. Most of the time when I am sharing about AI or doing AI trainings, I often focus on the positives aspects of this technology and how it can be used to benefit education.
Unfortunately, just as AI can be used to generate lesson plans, provide helpful feedback, and serve as a personalized tutor, it can also be used to write a paper, provide answers, and do students’ work.
In short, AI can be used to cheat. Depending on the study you look at, research shows that between 60% and 70% of students admit to using AI to cheat.
It is critical for schools to sms service explore and address this concern so that students can benefit from the support of AI, but not abuse this tool and ultimately hurt their own learning.
But how can we manage this?
Recently I recorded a 50-minute video where I do a deep dive into addressing AI cheating. To be clear however, there are no easy answers.
We are all learning this together and my presentation simply shares hopefully helpful ideas. I welcome your suggestions, thoughts, questions, comments, and opinions!
See below to watch the recorded fabulous edtech blogs to follow video and access all of the support materials. Session Slideshow – View slides – Copy slides Define Cheating
The first step to help manage cheating with AI is simply to define what it means to cheat with AI.
There are many ways that
AI can be used during a data on school project, with some uses being beneficial and some being cheating.
This is something that each teacher needs to explore and decide what is appropriate in their class, and perhaps per assignment.
As one example, in your own opinion consider which cases below are acceptable uses of AI when writing a paper: