AIwithAileen
Long-time teacher exploring AI’s role in engagement and attainment. Curious, cautious, and always happy to share what works (and what doesn’t!).
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- Day 16 of the #EduGuardians Advent Calendar: Kalo Haslem created a flexible #Canva template 🎄 Festive now, adaptable later. Click today's bauble. view.genially.com/692c9207d61e... #EduSky #EduSkyAI
- Day 15 of the #Eduguardians advent calendar see @kindermitch.bsky.social bring us a snowflake creation activity using @bookcreator.com ❄️ Perfect for restless end-of-term days. view.genially.com/692c9207d61e... #EduSky #EduSkyAI
- Day 14 of the #EduGuardians Advent Calendar: Ana Smith's global holiday traditions activity using #TeachShare 🌍 Students explore celebrations worldwide and earn badges. Click today's bauble. view.genially.com/692c9207d61e... #EduSky #EduSkyAI
- My first-timer's guide to Bett is live on Bett Fringe 🎉 Take a read if 2026 will be your first time there. Thanks to @theaieducator.io for creating this platform. 🔗https://bettfringe.com/ #BETTUK2026 #BettFringe #EdTech #BettNewbie #EduSky #EduSkyAI
- Day 13: @browniesedbites.bsky.social give you a Santa adventure for the #eduguardians advent calendar Students guide Santa around the world, earning holiday titles. Perfect for December energy. Works with SchoolAI or MagicSchool. view.genially.com/692c9207d61e... #EduSky #EduSkyAI
- Day 12 of the #EduGuardians Advent Calendar: Kat Crawford's festive #FigJam template for those final days before holidays 🎄 Keep students engaged when they're already mentally on the sofa. Click today's bauble. view.genially.com/692c9207d61e... #EduGuardians #EdTech #EduSky #EduSkyAI
- Day 11 of the #EduGuardians Advent Calendar: @heathertechedu.bsky.social brings some #Curipod activities for December learning 🎄 Click today's bauble to see how Curipod can bring some sparkly to your lessons lnkd.in/eidhy_4g #edusky #eduskyai
- Day 10 of the #EduGuardians Advent Calendar: Sophie Young's #Snorkl activity 🎁 Less grading for you, more creative joy for students. Click today's bauble. view.genially.com/692c9207d61e... #EduSky #EduSkyAI
- Day 9 of the #EduGuardians Advent Calendar: @teachwiseai.bsky.social brings us a festive forensic mystery - which reindeer did it? 🦌🔍 A holiday whodunit for critical thinking. Click today's bauble. view.genially.com/692c9207d61e... #EduSky #EduSkyAI
- Day 8 of the #EduGuardians Advent Calendar: @1techgirl.bsky.social brings a pin prick art activity using #AdobeExpress. Low cost, high focus, zero glitter - a Christmas miracle 🎨 view.genially.com/692c9207d61e... #EduSky #EduSkyAI
- Day 7 of the #EduGuardians Advent Calendar: Patrick Vernon's meme generator students will love 😄 Credit to Matt Miller. Click today's bauble. view.genially.com/692c9207d61e... #EduGuardians #EdTech #EduSky
- Part 2 of my AI educator roadmap is live. Featuring Matthew Wemyss, Kat Cauchi, Emma Darcy, and Al Kingsley. Four grounded voices worth following if you're new to AI or ed tech. bit.ly/44fQvnr #EduSky #EduSkyAI #AIwithAileen
- Day 6 of the #EduGuardians Advent Calendar: @farmerfaubs.bsky.social festive @bookcreator.com resources Creative activities for students. Click today's bauble to see. view.genially.com/692c9207d61e... #EduSky
- Day 5 of the #EduGuardians Advent Calendar. @manningtechtalk.bsky.social suggests winter riddle rooms 🎄 Gamified fun that sparks engagement. Click today's bauble to see how. view.genially.com/692c9207d61e... #EduSky
- Day 3 of the #EduGuardians Advent Calendar: Laurie Guyon's December #HourofCode activity 🎄 Daily coding activities to keep students engaged. Click today's bauble to find out more. view.genially.com/692c9207d61e... #adventcalendar #EduSky #EduSkyAI
- The #EduGuardian Advent Calendar is live! 🎄 For #TechTshirtTuesday I am behind door 2 with #çuripod. 24 days of tips from educators worldwide. Click each bauble for daily inspiration - lesson ideas, tech tools, and festive activities. 🔗 bit.ly/4pdQUiD #EduSky #Adventcalendar #teachertips
- The EduGuardian Advent Calendar is live! 🎄 24 days of tips from educators worldwide. Click each bauble for daily inspiration - lesson ideas, tech tools, and festive activities. view.genially.com/692c9207d61e... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #Eduguardians #adventcalendar
- #TechToyTuesday - no T-shirt this week but here is a #Google Rubik's cube 🧩 #NotebookLM's new infographics and slide decks are making it a teacher go-to. Perfect for helping students who struggle with literacy get started on lessons. #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TechTshirtTuesday #Eduguardians
- We all have slides or PDFs we use repeatedly. Curipod's new "Add Materials" feature turns your existing resources into interactive lessons. Less reinventing the wheel, more making what you've got even better. #Curipod #EduSky #EduSkyAI #CuripodAmbassador
- Create. Code. Change: global competition for students 11+ to design apps tackling UN SDGs using Canva Code. No coding experience needed. Deadline: 31 Jan 2026. Winners present at AIDUCATION'26. Worth a look. 🌍 Link: www.cambridgeschool.ro/create-code-... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #Canva #Vibecoding
- Led a #Curipod session for #ConnectedFalkirk this week. 90 teachers tried polls, drawing tasks, and AI feedback. Mix of newbies and experienced folks, all exploring what AI can do in classrooms. #TechTshirtTuesday #CuripodAmbassador #eduguardians @lexilobdell.bsky.social @curipolly.bsky.social
- Graeme High School is the 1st to pilot the @parliament.scot First Time Voters session! Along with the @electoralcommission.org.uk & @officialsyp.bsky.social students will explore how elections work, why voting matters, and how to spot fake info. This is part of our #UKPW events. #EduSky #voting
- Halloween's over but the scares keep coming - prelims are here! 👻 Set up a #SchoolAI Space for my exam course. The dashboard shows what students are asking, so I can target revision where they're actually struggling. Really helpful. #TechTshirtTuesday #SchoolAIAmbassador #EduSkyAI
- 🎃 No tricks! #Curipod has two spook-tacular ready-to-go lessons for Halloween 👻 These lessons are full of treats for all ages 🕸️ Candy Bowl - bit.ly/3Wv3RYD 🏚️ Haunted House - bit.ly/3WoSUb5 Or let the AI put a Halloween twist on your lesson 🪄 #EduSk #EduAI #EduSkyAI
- "You will have Smart boards in your classrooms" - that's what uni promised my year group two decades ago. Finally got one and I'm loving it! Students are queuing up to use it, engagement is brilliant, and I'm discovering features I didn't know existed. Worth the wait. #TechTshirtTuesday #EduSky
- 🚧 Taking Cone-trol of the Journey 🚧 A traffic cone might not be the first thing you’d expect to help a teacher find their way with AI… but it’s working for me. New blog now live bit.ly/4nWuPV0 #EduSky #EduSkyAI #AiEdu #AIwithAileen
- Excited to see 1 of my @schoolai.com Spaces featured. As part of our Global Citizenship unit, students designed Fairtrade chocolate bars, planned ethical sourcing, and pitched them Shark Tank style 🍫🦈👏 DM the OG post to get the Space 🔗 www.instagram.com/p/DPux5FwDW9... #AIinEducation #EduSky
- 🗞 @graemehighschool.bsky.social is celebrating 25 years at our current site and what better way to mark it than with the launch of a new school newspaper! 🎉 It’s packed with stories on sporting achievements, interactive quizzes, and spooky film recommendations 👻 🔗https://bit.ly/494Nolc #EduSky
- For the last #TechTShirtTuesday of the term, I’m changing it up to #TechToteTuesday 👜 #Canva is a platform both my students and I can enjoy. They just sign in with Glow and get creative! It’s also at the heart of #EduGuardians — our trading cards started here 😍 #StayCurious #EduSky
- 🤖 Curious about AI at @graemehighschool.bsky.social ? At our #AccessAllAreas you can: ✨ Try our Intro to AI quiz 🎓 Earn a Certificate of Awesomeness 🖥️ Test drive #Canva & #SchoolAI 🚦 Look for the traffic cones in the Social Space! #EduSkyAI #EduAI
- 👋 Excited for Access All Areas at Graeme High on 9 October! We’ll be sharing how AI is being used safely in school and what it means for learning. Parents + carers can even take our AI quiz — pass and earn a certificate 🎓🤖 #AIinEducation #GraemeHigh #EduSkyAI
- 👕 #TechTShirtTuesday Last week @kabercrombie.bsky.social led a great @digilearnfalk.bsky.social session on AI in education. @diffitapp.bsky.social stood out, so now I am off to Stenhousemuir PS to share some top tips for using Diffit Love seeing teachers curious about these tools. #EduSkyAI
- New episode alert! 🚨 The 4th #ListEdPodcast is now available. It is focused on 5 top tips to help students stay safe online. Grab some #CPD in less time than it takes to make a ☕ @netsupport.bsky.social 🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uEaTf0XLKo
- 👕 #TechTShirtTuesday - this time it’s the shirt, not the company. Trust me. But… trust me how? Believe me? Trust the AI because I’m the one using it? Or trust that it’s a good thing? 🤔 Curious what others see in it. #EduGuardians #StayCurious
- After a positive meeting with our Head last week, my fellow digital lead teacher and I are feeling very much like the “first cone out”, as described in the #Conefessions series by David Curran over on LinkedIn. 🚦 If you haven’t read them yet: 🔗 bit.ly/4pvS3CQ #TechTshirtTuesday #eduguardians
- They say 3 is a magic number and with the #ListEd podcast from the lovely Kat Cauchi and Mark Anderson it really is. Here is the 3rd epidose from #ListEd featuring Ivan Langton. Well worth a listen when you get five precious minutes to yourself youtu.be/MRYTJokKsKg?... #netsupport #EduPodcast
- It's more #TechtextbookTuesday than #TechTshirtTuesday but lifelong learning is at the heart of being an #Eduguardian so I reckon I'm okay with a cheeky inclusion of the latest book from @theaieducator.io Something in here for everyone. 🔗https://bit.ly/4pdHqnJ
- Getting every student involved, from shoulder-dislocators in the front row to hiders in the back corner? #Curipod helps, with safe & moderated responses. Featured in The AI Educator’s Guide 2026 from @theaieducator.io 🔗 curipod.com 🔗 bit.ly/3I2z55F #TechTShirtTuesday #EduGuardians #EduSky
- He’s done it again! 🎉 Another great resource from @alkingsley.bsky.social a directory of educators who are online and happy to help. I’m excited to be included, but even more excited to see so many brilliant voices in one place. 🔗 edudirectory.school #EduSky
- The 2nd @netsupport.bsky.social ListEd podcast is out! Not the first thing you think of, but tech sustainability matters. ❤️ Emma Darcy’s tip on reusing prompts & AI resources like you’d reuse a bottle. 🔗https://youtu.be/vA3B1AdOgpA?si=5xy6ce0lJzMW61PQ #ListEdPodcast #EduSky #EduSkyAI #AIEdu
- New school year = new tools. Been trying out MyLens AI. It turns text, PDFs & links into timelines, mind maps & diagrams. Clean, simple & adaptable. Wrote up my first impressions here 🔗 ai-aileen.com/f/seeing-thi... Thanks to @teachwiseai.bsky.social for showing me it. #EduSky #EduSkyAI #EduAI
- Quizzes aren’t just fun, they’re retrieval practice in disguise. A quick Teams challenge gives students the recall reps they need and the buzz of competition. That’s why I make space for @wayground.bsky.social quiz and give them a #TechTshirtTuesday shout out 👕 #EduSky #EduSkyAI #eduguardians
- It’s #TechTshirtTuesday 👕 and #BriskTeaching 2.0 has to be the pick of the week Brisk Next is helping to help teachers spark lesson ideas. I like how you can bundle resources into scaffolded lessons while staying in control. 🔗 www.briskteaching.com/brisk-next #EduSky #EduSkyAI #Eduguardians #AiEdu
- Honoured to be the 1st guest on a new edu podcast from @netsupport.bsky.social 🎧 Getting Started with AI When You Don’t Know Your LLMs from Your M&Ms I share 5 practical tips for teachers who are curious about AI but unsure where to start. 🔗 buff.ly/I20230n #EduSky #AIEdu #EduSkyAI #edupodcast
- The excellent team at @netsupport.bsky.social have launched a new podcast for teachers. Short, sharp, and to the point—no waffle or no wasted time. Perfect for the commute or pretending to do paperwork. 🎧 #EduSky #EduSkyAI #EduAI #teacherpodcast
- Chuffed to bits to be featured alongside so many powerful voices in this new CPD resource from @netsupport.bsky.social Everything from EdTech to wellbeing and lots in between. Well worth a look 👀 🔗http://bit.ly/3J226yv #EduSky #EduSkyAI #AIEdu #BTS #CPD
