🤖 Online AI presentations worth watching over break

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The calendar year is winding down, so my email to you will be brief this week!

AI for Admins will be on hiatus until early January 2026.

But until then …

The Ditch Summit — my free online conference for educators — is in full swing!

• Going on now (until Jan. 11, 2026)

• 100+ on-demand video presentations

• Engaging speakers (with an easy Q&A format)

• Practical ideas and insights to use right away

• Free certificates of completion for PD credit

Below, I share several sessions of interest for AI for Admins subscribers like you … but first …

Share Ditch Summit with your educator colleagues

If you’d like to pass along this opportunity to others in your school or district — or even share about it on your social networks, I’m going to make it easy …

• Here’s a DOCUMENT with text you can copy/paste into an email

• Here’s a LINKEDIN POST you can repost (with your thoughts)

• Here’s a PRE-WRITTEN TWEET you can share on Twitter/X

• … or just forward them this email!

Sessions of interest: AI for Admins subscribers

📺 Session: Stronger AI Literacy, Teaching AND Learning in Any Class

🎙️ Speaker: Matt Miller, author AI Literacy in Any Class (coming soon)

📆 Available: NOW

In this session, I share highlights straight out of my upcoming book, AI Literacy in Any Class. You’ll see practical ways that teachers can start equipping students with important AI literacy knowledge and skills in any class — in ways that can actually strengthen teaching and learning of core content.

📺 Session: What Teachers Need to Know about AI in 2026 (and Beyond)

🎙️ Speaker: Ken Shelton, Holly Clark, and Matt Miller (The AI Fluency Lab)

📆 Available: Monday, Dec. 22, 2025

In this session, I’m joined by my fellow founding faculty from The AI Fluency Lab to identify the core concepts that teachers need to prepare themselves for 2026 and beyond. We share practical ideas as well as visionary thinking to help you (and the educators you serve) to be ready for 2026.

📺 Session: Google's Free AI-Powered Tools for the Classroom

🎙️ Speaker: Clay Smith, Google for Education

📆 Available: NOW

In this session, Google’s Clay Smith joins me to talk about the impact that AI tools like Google Gemini can have for teachers AND students. Then, he demonstrates how easy it is for students to get personalized AI support — even if their prompting skills are, well, non-existent.

📺 NEW Category Collection: AI, Media, and the Future of Learning

📆 Available: NOW

This year, we’re collecting video presentations into Category Collections, where you can find lots of sessions that are alike. This Category Collection includes the following presentations:

• AI in the Classroom: Today, Tomorrow and Beyond with Matt Miller

• Cautious Steps Toward AI Implementation in Education with Dee Lanier and Ken Shelton

• Demystifying AI with Fely Garcia Lopez

• How Students Are Changing the World with Technology with Ken Shelton

• How to ACE Student AI Literacy in Schools with Holly Clark

• How Will You Spend the Time That AI Saves You? with Ed Campos Jr.

• Media Literacy in an Ever-Changing AI Landscape with Julie Smith

• The AI Generation: Student perspectives on AI with Students for Innovation

• The Intersection of TikTok, Social Media, and the Classroom with Merve Lapus

Happy holidays — and a happy new year!

I wish you the very best during this holiday season — including lots of time for resting and recharging. We have important work to do, and it’s important to take time for ourselves to we’re ready to do our very best.

Enjoy this time (and enjoy the Ditch Summit)! I’ll see you with another newsletter in 2026.

Matt Miller
Creator, AI for Admins and Ditch That Textbook