Caitlin Cloyd: Professional & Digital Learning for Educators

08/14/2026

This is exciting! Google Meet's Take Notes for me for in-person meetings is now available!

Start Taking Notes: Launch a session directly from the Google Meet home screen on web or mobile by selecting the "Take notes" button. Once recording begins, Gemini actively captures notes for your in person meetings.

Review the Artifacts: When your meeting finishes, press the button to conclude audio capture. Gemini automatically compiles a structured notes summary, action items, and complete transcript into a Google Doc, saved directly to Google Drive, and emails the link to you.

05/04/2026

Most schools have arrived at some version of the stoplight. Red means no AI. Yellow means AI with conditions. Green means AI use is permitted. Getting there — reaching a yes, a no, or a qualified maybe — has consumed years of committee meetings, professional development sessions, and policy drafts. For many schools, getting the light to turn is still the project.

But a growing number of educators have cleared that hurdle and are standing in the room that comes after. The light is yellow or green. A teacher has decided that AI use is going to happen in their classroom, under some set of conditions, for some defined purpose. And now they are looking at a blank page where the guidance should be.

The instinct in that room is to write an ethics policy.

It is the wrong instinct, and understanding why is the difference between a policy that does something and one that produces a document.

A Replacement Framework for the Ethical AI Use Debate

05/04/2026

Students Are Using AI, Even If We’re Not

Teaching students about prompt writing and how to dialogue with AI is important, especially since students are already using these tools, even if their teachers are not. In the largest study of student perspectives to date (Goldberg et al., 2024), nearly 8,000 college students reported feeling both confusion about when AI use was permitted and anxiety about potential accusations of academic dishonesty.

Preparing students for an AI-driven future starts with guiding them toward responsible and ethical AI use in the classroom.

04/14/2026

Launching on May 13, the Google AI Educator Series provides free, standards-aligned AI literacy training for every educator across K-12 and higher education. Learn from Google, in partnership with ISTE+ASCD, through bite-sized sessions designed to meet your schedule.

Google and ISTE+ASCD make AI training available to all 6 million US educators

04/14/2026

Parents of high-school kids: Full-Length Practice SATs in Gemini

In case you missed it, Gemini now has full-length practice SATs for free, built in partnership with The Princeton Review.

04/14/2026

This is such a great update to Student Quizzes from MagicSchool.ai!!

02/08/2026

I’ve been watching all the recent news and debates about AI in schools, and honestly, it keeps reminding me why I wrote my book in the first place.

When conversations swing between banning everything and letting everything go, it’s usually a sign that people are trying to make sense of something that isn’t going away. I wrote the book because I kept hearing the same questions over and over from teachers and leaders who just wanted a thoughtful, grounded way to think about student use, boundaries, and what school needs to look like moving forward.

Sharing it again here in case it’s helpful as these conversations keep popping up.

Link to the book in the comments.

02/01/2026

So excited to be headed to TCEA in San Antonio! 🙌
Catch me at the MagicSchool.ai booth thoughout the day and presenting Sunday at 3:00 and Monday at 9:30.

Huge thank you to MagicSchool for making this trip possible! 💜

01/28/2026

Join us for a live conversation about where AI in schools is headed and how we’re building an AI Operating System for Schools that districts can trust and teachers will love.

What we’ll cover:
- A look at what’s coming next, including sneak peeks at new features
- How MagicSchool brings AI tools together in one workflow
- How trust, safety, and student learning guide every product decision
- Live Q&A with our product team

If you have an hour and a little curiosity, we’d love to have you join us!

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SUNBfpDQR0uqn42jHrOsMA #/registration

01/27/2026

I'm excited to share that my article on the ADAPT Framework was just published in TCEA Tech Notes blog!

The framework helps in how to use AI in ways that go beyond worksheet generation and actually transform learning.

ADAPT isn't a ladder to climb—it's a puzzle where the pieces connect:

✔️ Amplify what already works

✔️ Deepen student thinking

✔️ Analyze patterns faster

✔️ Personalize without drowning in prep

✔️ Transform what's possible

The article includes "try this tomorrow" examples and ideas for using teacher-customized MagicSchool.ai chatbots as thinking partners for students.

Read it here: https://blog.tcea.org/adapt-a-practical-framework-for-ai-integration-that-actually-works/

Which element of ADAPT are you already doing without realizing it? What would you add to this framework based on your experience?

Explore the ADAPT framework for AI integration in education, which stands for amplify, deepen, analyze, personalize, and transform. Explore this and more at TCEA TechNotes Blog, your go-to source for educational technology and teaching innovation.