Colleague AI Newsletter, November 25th

Warm Wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving 🍂✨

New podcast recording: Turning Misconceptions into Learning Opportunities. Hear how educators use AI to uncover student thinking and transform misunderstandings into learning moments.

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Podcast Recording: Turning Misconceptions into Learning Opportunities with AI 🎙️

Hayley Spohn Ryan Fries

In this episode, two innovative Washington educators share how they use AI to uncover student misconceptions, interpret classroom dialogue, and design targeted instructional moves that help students move from confusion to clarity. Through real classroom stories and practical examples, they illustrate how AI can surface patterns in student thinking, highlight points of misunderstanding, and support responsive instruction.

Whether you’re preparing lessons, facilitating discussions, or planning assessments, this conversation offers concrete strategies for using AI to strengthen learning, deepen discourse, and create more intentional support for every student.

December Live Podcast

Designing for Every Learner: AI, UDL, and Personalized Support

December 11th | 3:30-4:30 PM PT

Discover how AI can help you bring Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles into everyday practice. This episode breaks down concrete, classroom-ready ways to design flexible, inclusive, and personalized learning experiences for all students.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to:

  • Use UDL-aligned prompt strategies. Create AI prompts that build scaffolds, differentiate learning pathways, and support a wide range of student strengths, needs, and preferences.
  • Develop UDL-informed learning materials. Transform lesson plans, podcasts, and interactive assessments with multiple means of engagement, representation, and expression built in from the start.
  • Personalize assessment and feedback. Apply AI-assisted grading and rubric design to emphasize higher-order thinking, deliver individualized feedback, and guide each student along their learning journey.

Tune in for practical strategies you can put to work immediately in any classroom setting.

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