AI Artwork, Social Media Chaos, and AI Privateness

Season 2, Episode 3 of Cool Cat Trainer Discuss tackles some huge challenges we educators face in 2025: discovering trusted information amidst social media chaos, navigating AI privateness issues, and instructing college students with cutting-edge instruments like AI artwork era. Be part of Vicki Davis (that is me 😊) as we discover the rise of platforms like Blue Sky and Flipboard within the Fediverse and share how educators can curate dependable content material whereas staying forward of the curve with digital literacy.

Uncover sensible instruments like Feedly, Flipboard, Blue Sky, Canva, Adobe Categorical, and Mastodon to remain knowledgeable and train responsibly in an AI-driven world. Particular company embrace William ‘Coach’ Jeffrey, host of the Flipboard Edu Podcast, discussing the fediverse and new alternatives for educators, and Laurel Aguilar-Kirchhoff, an knowledgeable on pupil information privateness and digital citizenship, providing crucial insights into AI ethics and privateness. All assets and hyperlinks are on the weblog submit for this present at https://www.coolcatteacher.com/talknews2025.

This present will debut on YouTube on Thursday, January 30, 2025

What You will Get from This Episode

• Insights into navigating social media chaos, together with TikTok bans and the decline of Twitter (now X).
• Sensible instruments like Feedly, Flipboard, and Mastodon for curating trusted information sources.
• Steerage on instructing AI artwork era utilizing Adobe Categorical and Canva.
• Methods for safeguarding pupil information and making certain moral AI use in colleges.
• Ideas for organizing your digital life with the “Second Mind” methodology utilizing Evernote.
• Recommendation on creating a private studying and innovation plan for educators.
• An understanding of federated platforms like Blue Sky and Mastodon, and their impression on educators.
• Skilled interviews with William ‘Coach’ Jeffrey on Flipboard and the fediverse, and Laurel Aguilar-Kirchhoff on AI privateness and digital citizenship.
• Why newsletters and native newspapers stay very important in 2025.
• Instruments to leverage AI responsibly, together with Google AI Studio and Gemini

Assets Talked about in This Episode

1. Blue Sky
2. Mastodon Profile
3. Information Aggregation Instruments
4. Fediverse Platforms
5. Digital Group Instruments
6. AI Artwork Era Instruments
   • Adobe Categorical – Create and discover AI-generated artwork.
   • Canva – Design and experiment with AI instruments.
7. AI and Privateness Assets
8. Publication Subscription
9. Present Notes and Earlier Episodes