This is Jennifer Gonzales welcoming you to episode 219 of the cult of pedagogy podcast.

In this episode we will look at eight Ed Tech tools you should check out in 2024. Well it's January, and that means it's the time when I put out a new edition of my

Teacher's Guide to Tech.

This is now the 10th edition of the guide.

And as always because it keeps improving,

I'm going to say this is the best edition yet.

The word for this year's guide is artificial intelligence.

Yes, we added 85 new tools to the guide

and we did the incredibly hard work of pulling out

everything that has aged poorly over the last year.

Dead Links, old videos, entire platforms that have called it quits, so it's all

fresh and up to date. But probably the most noticeable difference is that there is a running

theme of AI throughout the guide.

First, there is a nine page spread devoted entirely to artificial intelligence.

Digging into how it works, what teachers are concerned about, some really

good places to go learn more, and 12 tools whose primary function is leveraging the power of

AI. In addition to that, we went through the rest of the guide and put a

little AI icon on every single tool that uses AI in some way. So you can see

whether the tools you already know and love have started to

take advantage of what artificial intelligence has to offer. And when I say we, I'm talking

about me and my incredible team of tech specialists who help me with the guide every year.

Marnie Diem, Brandy Wright, Lucia Hassel, and Kim Darche, all of whom work full time in schools and have tech in their hands every day.

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