Category: Education Technology

  • Jonathan Haidt: The Anxious Generation

    This is an amazing interview by Kevin Roose (NYTimes) and Casey Newton (Platformer) for their shared podcast Hardfork. During the interview, they push Jonathan Haidt on his views of the trauma that our teenagers and youth are enduring as a result of Smart phones and Social Media. It deserves a listen for any parent wondering…

  • Creating Animated Backgrounds with Adobe Express

    The author transforms Zoom backgrounds using Adobe Express, creating personalized, AI-generated imagery and ambiance loop videos.

  • New Image Prompts for January

    I’ve been working with new ideas this month. Trying some mixed media ideas with quilted animal images, geometric stylings, old cartography art schemes, and distressed protraits. These are just a couple of ideas from the past few weeks. Mostly I’m running generative tests on Midjourney v6 to see what is different from past iterations.

  • Adobe Firefly Creativity Prompt: School Mascot Reimagined

    Take time this year to learn how to use Adobe Firefly. The best ethical image generation prompt available to educators. In addition to it being amazing and following copyright regulations for generative AI, it is part of the Adobe Express program and already works with your district Microsoft and Google SSO. Be sure to check…

  • How Great Leaders Communicate – Harvard Business Review

    How Great Leaders Communicate – Harvard Business Review https://hbr.org/2022/11/how-great-leaders-communicate As I have been working on monthly mindfulness post for 2024, I came cross this great read from HBR that really drills down into the modern tech environment and how communication trends have changed. Be sure to take a look.

  • How AI Has Changed My Classroom

    Discussing the deep integration of AI tools into my educational and blogging processes, detailing use of graphic design tool Midjourney and AI writing assistant ChatGPT4.