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Sarah Rankin
@techrankin.bsky.social
New Brunswick Centre of Excellence for Digital Innovation |🇨🇦| #MIEEFellow | #micro:bit Champion | #AiEDU
#Canadian and international vendors, presenters and attendees: are you still planning to attend conferences like #ISTE? Warnings are being issued about travel to the states, with incidents of people being detained or denied entry. #EDUSky #Canada

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These countries have issued advisories about travelling to the U.S.
Several countries have added travel warnings for their citizens travelling to the United States in light of concerns they could face problems at the border because of the Trump administration’s polici...
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March 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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🦋 Please join me for our #EduSkyAI chat in 20 minutes at 5PT/8ET
Tonight we are talking about Student Voice & AI.
@thenerdyteacher.bsky.social @mikelawrence.me
March 7, 2025 at 12:41 AM
An interesting lens for thinking about AI integration. How do we support educators with crossing into “The Dual Expertise Challenge,” where deep domain knowledge and AI literacy combine to unlock truly innovative, ethical, and impactful uses of AI? #education #MIEE #EduAI #AIedu
March 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Happiness is brand new #micro:bit V2s to be delivered to #NewBrunswick teachers engaged in upskilling on digital + experiential learning, computational thinking, AI/machine learning, and career education! Looking forward to getting these into schools! @microbit.org #MIEE #AIedu #digitallearning
March 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Are you going to #ISTELive?

Were you too scared to submit a proposal but have something to share? Playgrounds are the perfect way to dip your toe into the ISTE community!

We made this list to help you find the perfect one !
Working on an ISTE Playground proposal spreadsheet! 📊 If you've submitted or have details on missing info, please share! Let's make this process smoother. #ISTE25 @thenerdyteacher @ISTEofficial @KatieF @MrsBongiornoEdu @gret @ISTEcommunity

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February 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
So many are still dragging their feet on updating academic integrity for #AIedu integration. Stop creating unclear and unrealistic blanket #academicintegrity statements that don’t address the nuances of AI use in education. www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/we-ha...
We have to rethink academic integrity in a ‘post-plagiarism era’
What is the future of plagiarism as a concept in the AI age and what are the implications for assessment? This resource seeks to answer these questions, among others
www.timeshighereducation.com
February 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I sadly can’t remember where I found this, but as someone currently organizing a #Canadian #edtech conference, I think I’ll slide this into the folders for our event support staff.
February 17, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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#PETEandC🌿 Join our session with Arin IU 28 on Tuesday 2:10-3 PM Starlight Room Hershey Hotel “Tech in the Wild: STEELS with micro:bit” We're exploring the #PASTEELS 🍃 with #microbit 🤖 as a tool to entry into #edtech + #Elit See you there! #peteandc25 #CodeJoy go.codejoy.org/petec25program
February 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Register and submit a session proposal today!
bit.ly/2025-Global-Impact

#GlobalImpact
February 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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We are back to the start on prompting. Reasoners break the value of chain-of-thought as a prompting technique and lower the value of giving AI a persona

No new approaches to prompting reasoners have been tested in any sort of rigorous way (though folks share their best practices, they may not work)
February 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
In light of today’s news that #tariffs on #Canadian and Mexican goods have come into effect, I’ve put together this @schoolai.com space for students to learn more about and investigate examples of trade wars. app.schoolai.com/share/space/...
SchoolAI
AI-Powered Tutors and Learning Activities
app.schoolai.com
February 1, 2025 at 8:17 PM
It’s that time of year again! Apply to become a @microbit.org Champion! Learn and share with the top #CompSci and innovative educators around the world! Apply at microbit.org/champions/?f...! #micro:bit #educhat #edusky #edtech #PLN
micro:bit Champions
Micro:bit Champion applications will be open from January 1 - January 29, 2024.
microbit.org
January 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Sinead Bovell bringing mic drop moments to the keynote this morning at Reimagine Education! #EduSkyAI
#EduSky #AIEdu

@sineadbovell.bsky.social it was great to hear you speak again.
December 5, 2024 at 5:52 PM
In a recent discussion with students, many raised concerns about teacher's use of #AiEDU detectors. One asked how detectors work. Using NapkinAI, I made this doc that dives into how they work, the challenges they present, and what else can be done. #EduSky app.napkin.ai/page/CgoiCHB...
App - Napkin AI
Join Napkin.ai and start creating visuals for your ideas today. Napkin turns text content into engaging visuals for presentations, social media, docs and more.
app.napkin.ai
December 5, 2024 at 10:26 PM
One of the many skills learners need now is how to engage in meaningful use of AI. To support this, I made this Prompt-a-thon space in @schoolai.com that guides learners through prompt engineering and how to use it for problem-based -learning #IuseSchoolAI app.schoolai.com/share/space/...
SchoolAI
AI-Powered Tutors and Learning Activities
app.schoolai.com
December 5, 2024 at 10:19 PM
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Space practicing reading strategies. Remix for your specific needs & change the menu. Students pick a skill & share a topic of interest. AI creates a passage & asks students questions based on the skill they chose. We've used it with success! #AI #AIedu #edtech app.schoolai.com/share/space/...
SchoolAI
AI-Powered Tutors and Learning Activities
app.schoolai.com
November 15, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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Here is microbit alien 👽sheep 🐏 abduction 🕹️ Control the farmer 👨‍🌾by tilting the microbit and gather the sheep in before the aliens beam them up! How many 🐑 can you save? Download the worksheet pdf here with links to example code 👉 drive.google.com/file/d/1pmEK...
December 4, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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Using @microbit.org , another 4/5 class started working on their Christmas songs. They had to identify the notes (name/duration) then headed over to #MicrosoftMakeCode to start bringing their songs to life!! #mvsd_mb #MIEExpert
December 4, 2024 at 11:36 PM
Why is it only now that I discovered @schoolai.com lets you add videos to your spaces prompt? Love that we can add multimedia to an AI space for students to consider during their interaction! #EduSky #AiEDU #UDL
a man with his hands folded and the words oh my god yes behind him
ALT: a man with his hands folded and the words oh my god yes behind him
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November 26, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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Funhouse mirror or echo chamber? Check out our latest preprint about the power of conceptual metaphors for Critical AI Literacy #artificialintelligence #aieducation #aiedu #aiined #aiinedu arxiv.org/abs/2411.14730
Funhouse Mirror or Echo Chamber? A Methodological Approach to Teaching Critical AI Literacy Through Metaphors
As educational institutions grapple with teaching students about increasingly complex Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, finding effective methods for explaining these technologies and their societ...
arxiv.org
November 25, 2024 at 5:24 AM
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New post: Addressing Gaps in Practice with Artificial Intelligence (AI) esheninger.blogspot.com/2024/11/addr... #EDUsky #education #aiedu #aieducation #artificialintelligence
November 24, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Good morning from #Miramichi #NewBrunswick 🇨🇦
November 22, 2024 at 12:41 PM
I like to test different AI humanizers and detectors to see how they work. Today, I got this email from one of them. Honestly, I think it is hitting on a good point. Are students cheating, or are teachers assigning meaningless work? #AiEDU #EduSky
November 22, 2024 at 12:50 AM
New to me? Here’s what I’ve been busy with this year:

🦋 Developed GenAI guidance for my province’s schools
🦋 Organized an AI Think Tank ft. Microsoft Edu, SchoolAI, + Dell
🦋 Led 3 cohorts + countless PLs for educators on tech integration + AI
🦋 Being a #MIEE and #micro:bitChampion

#EduSky #AiEDU
November 20, 2024 at 11:46 PM