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TomoClub: Teaching Life Skills, AI Literacy, and AI Professional Development for Educators
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Train the teachers first (opens the original)
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In August 2025, before we ran a single training session in Amity, Oregon, we sent the district’s teachers a survey. One question asked what worried them most about AI in their classrooms.The answer, over and over, was cheating.Not all of it was about homework. A high school math teacher wrote something we have thought about ever since: “What does pervasive AI use say about the culture we have created in our schools?” A middle school ELA teacher pointed out that many students already struggle wit
What happens when AI can make music that sounds like yours? (opens the original)
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We started with a simple question:Can a machine be creative?Then we gave the kids a chance to make some music of their own.🎵 Watch thisSession facilitated by Varchas Koushik, TomoClub.The students used Google’s Chrome Music Lab to experiment with melodies, patterns, instruments and rhythm.Nothing had to sound perfect.The goal was simply to make something that felt like theirs.And th
AI Professional Development Should Change What Happens in the Classroom (opens the original)
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“I started the class thinking that I knew a lot more than I actually knew.”That line from an educator who went through TomoClub’s AI Professional Development stayed with us.Because that’s not really a story about learning another AI tool.It’s a story about changing how you work.One educator on what changed for her after going through TomoClub’s AI Professional Development.During the course, she started using AI to rethink her presentations, make her work more efficient, and explore ideas she mig
What If Learning Worked Like a Game? (opens the original)
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We started this publication in 2023.We had a few things to say.Thanks for reading The Learning Shift Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.And then… w
Why we need to rethink school - ft. Garrett from Sora Schools (opens the original)
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What should school look like in an AI-driven world?In this episode of The Learning Shift Podcast, Avinash Bansal, Co-founder of TomoClub, sits down with Garrett Smiley, Founder & CEO of Sora Schools, to explore one of the biggest questions facing education today: What should schools actually optimize for when knowledge and information are no longer scarce?Garrett shares how Sora is rethinking the traditional school model around student agency, project-based learning, real-world challenges, perso
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