MESD+CESD Digital Learning News

Welcome to the MESD+CESD Digital Learning Newsletter! This monthly newsletter includes resources and information to support digital learning in the classroom to empower students to become active critical thinkers, creators and responsible digital citizens.

This month's newsletter includes:

• OPB Story: How AI Is Changing Education in Oregon
• The Librarians Documentary
• Boys in the Digital Wild
• Articles for Thought
• Monthly UDL Resources
• AI Resources
• Monthly Tech Highlight: Google Read Along

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Don't have time to read and explore all the resources in this newsletter? Listen to an Audio Podcast of the information created by Google NotebookLM. Click here to listen to 6 minute overview.

The Librarians documentary is being shown at Tomorrow Theater in SE Portland on Thursday, December 18th at 7 PM. Click below for more info and to purchase tickets.

Check out this resource from Novak Education on 6 ways to scaffold narrative writing. Using AI to help create some of these supports such as sentence starters, checklists and exemplars are great ways that AI can help support your students be successful.

Welcome to EduGems! This is a growing collection of pre-made prompts ("Gems") for educators to use with Google Gemini.

• 💎 Click on any item below to get details on that Gem, with options to use or copy the Gem.

• 💎 When you click to use a Gem, it will open in Gemini.

• 💎 Before you begin interacting with the Gem you may want to change the Gemini model from "2.5 Flash" to "2.5 Pro" as the 2.5 Pro model will produce higher quality responses for these tasks.

• 💎 You may need to type "Hi" into Gemini to get the Gem started. The Gem will then assist you with the task or activity.

Katy Tibbs

Digital Learning & AI Integration Specialist, Multnomah ESD

MESD Digital Learning Site

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Cat Nostrand

AI & Digital Integration Specialist, Clackamas ESD

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