Ghost Writer 👻 is here! If you stop typing, your words vanish! Read how teachers can use it for quick writes, brain dumps, and more in Issue 45. learninginhand.com/issue45

I worked with ChatGPT to code a math game. It's called... Six or Seven. 🤭 Decide if each expression equals 6 or 7 before it drops to the bottom of the screen. Would you (or your students) give it a try and share your feedback? tonyv.me/sixorseven/

Everything mentioned in Learning in Hand Issue 41 is free! 👉 learninginhand.com/issue41 👥 AI Summit 🛟 AI Unit Builder 🆕 Google Slides Update 📖 Guided Learning in Gemini 😎 Thinking "covertly" 💻 Digital Norms Notebook 💬 AI Lingo Explained 🚸 EdTech Tools Webinar

Tip Tuesday! Press the zero key on your keyboard to instantly restart a video on YouTube.

Google announced lots of new features at #ISTELive last week. This PDF describes the upcoming features, and when they will be available. I'm most excited for teachers to be able to share and assign Gems (custom chatbots) with students. #EdTech services.google.com/fh/files…

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Mike Rowe: “For every five tradespeople that retire this year, two replace them.” “It’s been that way for 12 years.” “I don’t need to be a mathematician, this is bad arithmetic.” “7.2 million able-bodied men today, in their prime working years, are not only unemployed … they’re not even looking.” “What are they doing?” “2,000 hours a year, on average, on screens.” “I got a call from a company called BlueForge Alliance … in charge of something called the maritime industrial base.” “The maritime industrial base consists of 15,000 individual companies, all of whom are tasked with delivering thermonuclear-powered submarines to the US Navy—three a year, two Virginia-class, one Columbia.” “BlueForge Alliance calls me and they say, we need to hire some tradespeople, and we were wondering if you and your foundation could help.” “I said, I’ll try, as you probably learned, it’s pretty skinny out there … how many do you need?” “They said 100,000.” “100,000 tradespeople for one industry that most people don’t even think about.” “They said, we’ve looked everywhere … do you know where they are?” “I said, yeah I do, they’re in the eighth grade.” “That’s 100,000 building submarines. There’s 80,000 in the automotive industry alone for technicians. Right now … 80,000 openings.” “You start to go down the list and you begin to realize our workforce is wildly out of balance.” @mikeroweworks @momsforamerica

My response to comments saying "Just teach the algorithm!"

Tip Tuesday! It happens. You close a browser tab and then, oops, you realize you actually wanted to keep that tab open. You have options for reopening the closed tab in Chrome. #MACUL25 ⌨️ Keyboard shortcut 🖱️ Right-click tab bar ⬇️ Search Tabs button ↖️ File menu

I "AIm" to please with Issue 31 of the Learning in Hand Newsletter! #MACUL25 #EdTech 🔮 Intelligent Insights from Interactions 🧑‍🎨 Prompting Pictures with Precision 🚫 AI Abstinence 👥 Grouping Gold ⏺️ Capturing Canva Commentary 🗺️ Resizing Reality learninginhand.com/issue31

This is cool! @googlearts has AI-generated audio tours of landmarks around the world. Open a tour in street view and take a snapshot of your view to generate audio explanations of what you see. Discover an AI audio-guided tour of cultural sites g.co/arts/vwWftkP1aPj1ufTs5?…

EdTech you’ll actually use! 🧑‍💻 Issue 28 of my newsletter is packed with quick wins—Google Forms as a buzzer, Canva’s Match & Move, tricky online brain break, custom Wordle puzzles, and more! #EduTwitter #TCEA2025 #TCEA learninginhand.com/issue28

Your math teacher was right all along. "Show your work" isn't just for algebra - it's the secret to getting amazing results from AI. Forget fancy prompts. Just ask ChatGPT to break down its thinking step by step. That's it. Simple beats clever every time.

I like these prompt ideas from @conorgrennan! I think these can be useful in getting users to think more deeply about AI's responses. Thank you @lgracey for sharing this in the @TCEA AI community!

Today's date is 5⁰/5¹/5² ! While we're here, why does it make sense that a nonzero raised to the 0 equals 1?

The multiplication trick that keeps going viral and why the trick works

This is a thoughtful read: A Critique of the Expertise Reversal Effect open.substack.com/pub/fivetw…

This looks like a good resource. docs.google.com/spreadsheets…

Dockworkers vote to strike on Tuesday! Buckle up. 🔥 The impact on everything you buy will go up!