Toby Fischer
Father, Husband, Learner, Educator, Designer, Builder, Innovator, Disney Addict, Softball Dad
28 year veteran teacher/coach/administrator/professor
Passionate about helping all learners find their path
creatinglearners.com
theinning.com
- Looking forward to this webinar tomorrow. As AI becomes more of a force in our world, what are districts' new priorities? www.learning-genie.com/new-webinar/ #edusky
- If you haven't played with Learning Genie, it's a must-try. The best #AI planning tool I've seen so far. Here is a great post from @ditchthattextbook.com explaining how to use it. ditchthattextbook.com/learning-gen... #edusky
- This great read gets us thinking and talking about how #AI impacts topics such as #literacy, #assessment, and student products. I love his comment that today, process matters more than the product when AI can create any product. What do you think? Agree? Disagree? alicekeeler.com/2023/06/01/t...
- The more I use www.learning-genie.com, the more I like it. It is the best #AI lesson/unit planning tool I have found. The fact that it builds in SEL and Portrait of a Graduate skills into lessons is amazing. Anyone else using it? What do you think? #edusky
- Creating Learners March #AI activity cards are out. 1.Co-Building a Unit with Your Students 2. Interactive History Timelines 3. Language Translation Practice Check out these and the other 17cards for ideas how to use AI to #personalizelearning. wakelet.com/wake/ShVIpZ8... #fetc #edusky
- Curious what leaders out there think of this idea, Dan Pink shared that 10% of people should hate you as a leader? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruTH... #edusky #leadership
- Great post by George Couros about the change AI is bringing. Must read for anyone who doesn't want to jump in yet. georgecouros.com/ai-disruption/ #edusky #AI
- Check out the first edition of our new Monthly Newsletter. Great resources for using AI to personalize learning for students. #Edusky #AI #personalizedlearning open.substack.com/pub/theinnin...
- At #FETC I introduced these #AI activity cards for teachers. They are a great way to get you thinking about how to use AI with students to personalize their learning. Each month new ones will be released. wakelet.com/wake/ShVIpZ8... Let us know what you think about them. #edusky
- I just put a research article into #NotebookLM and asked it to make a podcast. The result may have been the best education podcast I have ever. Next, I went into the interactive mode and 🤯. Live interaction mimicked a call in radio show. notebooklm.google.com/notebook/484... #edusky #GoogleEDU
- Playing around in Google Labs and found labs.google/fx/tools/whisk. I don't know what I would use this for yet, but it is fun. Is anyone using this with students? I made myself into a Plush. #googleedu #edusky
- One of my students wrote about this post from ditchthattextbook.com/protecting-k.... While I love #AI and how it can #personalizelearning for students, this makes me ask new questions. Do we need to be purposeful in teaching kids about AI? At what age do we start?
- NVIDIA's CEO keynote was talked about at #FETC multiple times. I just watched the 90-minute talk. I didn't understand some of the tech, but I did understand that the world is about to change much faster. What does this mean for how we educate kids? www.youtube.com/watch?v=k82R... #edusky #AI
- This is a must listen #fetc
- "Ex" #FETC #TechShareLive
- #FETC has given me the much-needed energy to do more. I am not sure what that means yet. But I am excited to find out and share with the world.
- #fetc Interesting thought.
- How awesome could it be for kids to have feedback when they prepare to present or interview. Can't wait to try this free tool. #fetc support.microsoft.com/en-us/office...
- I need this this song to share....Bye Bye Blue Bird. Awesome work @adambellow.bsky.social #fetc
- Love that Bluesky is now the social media tool for #FETC
- Had to leave Ohio and go to Florida to run into an old friend. #fetc Little more gray in our beards than last time we saw each other.
- Thank you to everyone who engaged in the #FETC conversation about how to #PersonalizeLearning using #AI. If you didn't make it, feel free to check out the Activity Cards. wakelet.com/wake/ShVIpZ8... They were a hit.
- Challenge all presenters at #FETC to have a better one liner than Guy Kawasaki's "The cybertruck is the ugliest vehicle. It makes a Gremlin look sexy”
- I think this is a great mindset for teachers. #fetc Thanks @ditchthattextbook.com for the sticker
- Interesting idea from @neilgupta.bsky.social put and empty chair at meetings to remind us that AI can be used in teams to help us design better. #fetc #bluesky
- Great quote that gets at the core of design thinking. #fetc
- When designing in schools, pause to make sure all voices are heard before pressing play. #fetc
- Counting down the hours till I ✈️out of snowy Columbus to much warmer #FETC. Excited to learn and do some sharing in my two presentations. Looking forward to meeting some new people and seeing old friends.
- I’m heading to FETC next week. If you’re going, I’d love to connect. Stop by the @bookcreator.com booth, have a conversation and grab some swag.
- Maybe we need to throw together an impromptu FReD session with you, @ericcurts.bsky.social, Marcia, and me all being there. Hope to catch up next week. Been way too long.
- It's almost time for these to make an appearance...who else is ready for #FETC?
- I need to learn to print ears like this. My Disney adict family would love it.
- Just put 15 Personalized Learning with AI Activity Cards in #wakelet. These will be available to view and discuss as part of my #FETC poster session on Friday Morning. #personalizedlearning #edusky😀 wakelet.com/wake/ShVIpZ8...
- I made AI activity cards for my #FETC poster session: Darth Vader Explains Everything: Using AI to Personalize Learning for Each Student. Here is a sample. I would love to hear what you think. #personalizedlearning #AI #edusky www.canva.com/design/DAGbc...
- Having AI role play a historical figure is my least favorite idea. How do we know it is accurately portraying and representing that persons ideas, thoughts, perspectives, beliefs…
- That is what I like about the activity. It gets students to build questions. Any good teacher would set the stage. Students can dive into what they think the person would really say versus what the AI says. If scaffolded, the level of critical thinking is much deeper than what we see many days.
- Just put the finishing touches on my #fetc session materials for Code Island Challenge: Integrating Coding, Robots, and Content. Look forward to a great discussion. The slide deck is linked here. Feel free to use it. #edusky #coding #PBL #robots #transdisiplinary docs.google.com/presentation...
- Google new Learn About has a lot of potential. Has anyone played with this yet? If not I recommend checking it out. learning.google.com #edusky #ai #personalizedlearning
- Found these stats about college interesting. www.insidehighered.com/news/student... #edusky #career #college
- This holiday season I was wondering what the greatest gift we as educators can give our students? What would your answer be? (1/2)
- My answer would be hope. Hope empowers students to dream big and believe in their ability to achieve. It fuels motivation. It nurtures emotional well-being, helping them see challenges as opportunities, not setbacks. Most importantly, hope inspires action, showing they can shape their future. (2/2)
- Spent some time today polishing up my #fetc25 presentation, Darth Vader Explains Everything: Personalize Learning for Each student Using AI. Would love to hear how people are personalizing learning using AI? #edusky
- "Structure creates behavior" is a profound truth in education. Educators, let's design with intention. The structures we create today will guide the habits, mindsets, and successes of our students tomorrow. What structures do you need to re-design to get desired behavior? #edusky #innovation
- Highly recommend watching this session. Rethinking my first unit of 2025 after watching. #edusky #curiosity #inquiry
- Available NOW 📺 on #DitchSummit! Learning Students LOVE Through Curiosity and Questions w/ @trevormackenzie.bsky.social Unlock the power of curiosity in your classroom! Learn how to engage students with questions that spark their interest Get your free ticket🎟 at ditchsummit.com
- #DitchSummit day 1!! The amazing @trevormackenzie.bsky.social talks about learning students love through curiosity and inquiry! @ditchthattextbook.bsky.social @ditchthattextbook.com #sketchnoting #TodayISketchnotED
- Started reading @malcolmgladwell.bsky.social Revenge of the Tipping Point this week. If anyone else is reading it, I would love to chat. The opening section is giving me big thoughts about why education is so hard to change. #edusky
- I asked AI (ChatGPT) to create a banner image for my Blue Sky account. I pasted in my bio and this is what it gave me. Clearly an AI image, but I love how it represents much of who I am. Give it a try and reply with the results.
- Other try's, not as good
- Are you attending FETC on Jan 14-17? Add to the shared resource doc here: bit.ly/fetc25-share You can include information for: 🧑 Attendee Information 🗣️ Promote Your Sessions 🎉 Mixers 🍽️ Restaurants ✋ Questions 🧰 Learning Resources 💬 Other Comments #EduSky #EdTech #FETC
- Hope to run into you down there!
- Great post on grading. I have found my students don't care as much about points/grades when the assignment is worth doing and they get consistent feedback. How do we get all of the education world to see this? #edusky www.edutopia.org/article/why-...
- 🏂 Banning ChatGPT from the classroom, most used AI vocabulary, and more open.substack.com/pub/eduk8me/... Great stuff from @eduk8.me
