Nutella in Area, Vibe Coding, and Why Information-Pushed Would not Imply Information-Solely

Hi there Reader,

April is right here and it’s thrilling! Artemis II launched on April 1st – the primary crewed mission past low Earth orbit since Apoolo 17 in 1972! 4 astronauts are circling the moon RIGHT NOW as I write this. It’s so thrilling!

In the course of the routine livestream, a jar of Nutella floated proper by way of the cabin on digital camera. NASA and Nutella stated it was only a pleased accident however for me — a real Nutella fan — it was hilarious and sumptuous

At Spring Break my household went to NASA’s Johnson Area Middle in Houston. I met Valerie Neal, a Smithsonian curator who wrote On a Mission — the story of all 61 U.S. girls astronauts throughout 45 years of spaceflight. She interviewed thirty of the thirty-two residing girls astronauts for the ebook. She had fascinating issues to say in regards to the impression (or not) of area on girls and I’m attempting to get her on my present!

OK, tons to share this week – vibe coding, inquiry based mostly studying, knowledge pushed faculties and a immediate you should utilize so as to add the analysis on enjoyable to enhance your lesson plans (Oh and the way I made the graphic above – let’s go!

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What I am Studying About AI Brokers (and Why It Issues for Academics)

Our newest Cool Cat Trainer Speak episode — S5E9: Vibe Coding, AI Brokers, and What Academics Have to Know — is a good one for getting updated on the place academics are going with AI.

Here is the quick model: vibe coding means describing what you need a pc program to do, and AI writes the code. I created an interactive recreation for my eighth graders the place they saved an eagle heat by answering questions accurately. College students scored 5 factors larger on common — with no retesting wanted. Academics have gotten “citizen programmers” and it is so useful.

However the half I am most enthusiastic about is what I shared about AI brokers — particularly how I am utilizing Claude Cowork. It is put in immediately on my laptop (not web-based), and I can set folder-by-folder permissions for what it might entry. Here is what I’ve constructed:

• Day by day e-mail triage — runs at 4:15 PM, classifies my emails by significance (1-10), drafts responses, and flags what wants consideration. I sometimes look, retype, and press ship. I do not let AI do any of that. I do let it write a filter for emails I must archive and I paste it in, scan the emails and do it myself.
• Voice memo transformer — turns my morning voice memos into a number of codecs robotically letting me dictate the whole lot from emails to weblog posts.
• Present manufacturing ability — saves me 5-10 hours per episode. I used to print a whole lot of pages of transcripts and manually lower segments. Now I add transcripts with a voice recording describing my imaginative and prescient, and the ability does the heavy lifting.

Donnie Piercey and Rachelle Dene Poth have some nice additions to this present.

👉 Watch or hearken to S5E9:​
​https://www.coolcatteacher.com/vibecoding/ ​

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🎙️ New on the ten Minute Trainer Podcast

​Episode 930: Inquiry-Based mostly Studying Made Easy for Ok-8 with Terra Tarango​

Terra is the Chief Training Officer at Van Andel Institute for Training, and he or she makes inquiry really feel doable.

• “Beat the Bot” exercise — college students determine what people can do this AI cannot. Sensible.
• A kindergarten bee mission that covers math, science, ELA, and SEL in 5 classes.
• Her mantra: begin small. You do not have to overtake the whole lot.

I am going to have a brand new episode with Karim Meghji of Code.org going up subsequent about learn how to train kids about AI.

🚀 Coming Quickly: Season 6 of Cool Cat Trainer Speak

Season 6 is beginning! The primary episode is about being fantastically human — what it means to remain human and related in an age of AI. I can not wait so that you can hear it.

And Season 6, Episode 2 is all about data-driven faculties. Here is a preview of what is coming:

• A.J. Juliani taught 150 educators to construct their very own AI-powered knowledge dashboards (they have been mind-blown)
• Victoria Setaro launched me to “heat knowledge” vs. “chilly knowledge” — the numbers solely inform half the story; the human tales behind them are the place actual motion lives
• Dr. Deborah Dennie (NASSP award-winner) confirmed how data-driven management begins with seeing individuals

As I wrote in my script: “Information-driven doesn’t suggest data-only. The perfect data-driven faculties are essentially the most human faculties.”

🔒 A associated word on knowledge and safety: You will have seen that Anthropic by chance leaked Claude Code’s supply code through npm on March thirty first. No buyer knowledge was uncovered — it was a packaging error — nevertheless it’s an excellent reminder that all of us want to grasp how our knowledge flows by way of AI instruments. If one of many largest Ai firms on this planet had an accident – it’s so straightforward to make errors with Information. Extra on this matter within the upcoming knowledge episode.

😊 A Notice of Pleasure

I obtained a beautiful e-mail from Gwendolyn Z. thanking me for the concepts about placing enjoyable analysis into prompts. She known as me a “joyologist.” I’ve by no means been known as that earlier than, however I am going to take it! Thanks, Gwendolyn. That made my entire week.

How you can Add enjoyable to your classes based mostly on analysis I made a decision to take my data on the analysis on enjoyable and turned it right into a immediate you should utilize in your AI to take the analysis on enjoyable and add it to a lesson plan.

👉 FREEBIE Here is the analysis and scroll to the underside for the immediate. (You will have to obtain it and open in your browser as it’s an html file.)

Talking of April — discuss to your college students about Artemis II. 4 people are orbiting the moon this week. Nutella is floating in zero gravity. And if you wish to dig deeper, Valerie Neal’s On a Mission is an ideal learn for anybody impressed by girls who made area for themselves — actually.

I am so glad to get to serve you. Thanks for studying my e-mail and for forwarding it to your mates!

Joyfully in your service,

Vicki Davis, The “Cool Cat Trainer”

PS In case you’re questioning how I made the graphic on the high, I took my standard e-newsletter and loaded it into Google Gemini and requested it to make the center a moon and to place Artemis II as a substitute of the airplane after which I requested it so as to add a jar of floating nutella and it labored! You are able to do this with any of your customary headers, even your header in Google classroom so as to add an area impressed component to your web site.

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