Summary:
Shawn and Troy talk about ISTE 2025. Dave deals with chemicals.
Jokes:
A yawn is a silent scream for COFFEE
Why are fish easy to weigh?
- Because they have their own scales.
What do you need in order to poop in the woods?
- Toilet-trees.
How do you spell candy with 2 letters?
- C and Y…
My son asked me what procrastinate means.
- I said: I’ll tell you later.
What kind of music do mummies like best?
- Wrap.
Why is 69 afraid of 70?
- Because they once had a fight and 71.
The impact of a dad joke can be measured on a sighsmograph
This is what a human hand looks like under a microscope.
Middle School Science Minute
by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com)
K12Science Podcast: Best Practices for Science Classroom Chemicals
I was recently reading the June 30, 2025 blog posting on the National Science Teachers Association website.
The blog was posted by Ken Roy and the title of his blog post was “Dealing with Chemical Waste in the Science Instructional Space.”
Unattended hazardous chemical waste can be unsafe, and at times, dangerous. In Ken’s blog posting, he shares 10 key factors to consider for an appropriate chemical disposal program in school.
https://k12science.net/best-practices-for-science-classroom-chemicals/
Reports from the Front Lines
- ISTE Keynotes
- ISTE 2013 Sunday Keynote: Jane McGonigal
- Transformational Learning Principals
- Profile of an AI-Ready Graduate by Richard Culatta
- Miral Kotb
- AI changes our digital landscape
- Pilot Pen Company – The Frixion Series of pens and highlighters.
- ISTE Swag
- Bags
- Pilot
The Social Web
Alex Spiers @alexspiers.bsky.social
Richard Oelmann @richardsedtech.bsky.social
Word of the day is ‘swullocking’, from 19th-century East Anglian dialect: sultry, sweltering, and sudiferous (sweat-inducing).
Want to explore AI in education? Apply to join ISTE+ASCD’s GenerationAI Communities of Practice! In-person & virtual sessions $1,000 stipend All travel covered Apply by July 20: https://hubs.li/Q03vRFty0 #GenerationAI #AIinEducation
Resources:
AXIS The Culture Translator
Huntrix In Your Area
What it is: An animated film called KPop Demon Hunters released on Netflix, and it’s been dominating both music and video streaming charts.
Why it’s perfect for social media: The movie has funny moments, relatable characters and themes, Easter eggs for rewatches, catchy music, and lots of stylish outfits. The plot pits Huntrix, the K-pop stars from the title, against the Saja Boys, a K-pop boy band made up of, you guessed it, demons. The two groups battle for the hearts, minds, and souls of their fans via stylish action scenes and K-pop, all while the two leaders of the warring bands are slowly falling in love. It all plays very well on TikTok, as fans obsess over the characters, the songs, and pretty much everything about it.
Project Guntenberg
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks
Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for you to enjoy.
ELT Buzz
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We save you time planning and finding quality lesson materials. That means more time for your actual teaching. Paid members – Contact us and we’ll direct you to the top resources for your needs! Or if we don’t have it, we’ll work with you to create it.
Portrait of a Successful Middle School Student
I checked out competencies that today’s graduates need and started picturing what a well-prepared middle school student – one ready for success in high school and beyond – might look like. Here’s what I came up with.
https://www.middleweb.com/52371/portrait-of-a-middle-school-stem-student/
Web Spotlight:
The Edtech Experiment: Disruptive, Toxic, and Costly Too by Carol Josel
“Storage is not understanding. Search is not synthesis. And AI summaries, while efficient, can make it worse… The tools we think are helping us remember are actually training us to forget. Everything becomes equally searchable, which means nothing feels worth knowing.” ~ Debbie Jenkins, founder of Postnoted: The Antidote to Digital Amnesia
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