AI Gone Wild, Canva Code, and ChatGPT Tennis?! 15 Edtech News Stories

A fast-paced, teacher-friendly roundup of 15 edtech stories from this week — including Canva’s new code tool, Microsoft’s AI agent, and a viral phrase about badgers that helps teach AI hallucinations. Don’t miss this practical, funny, and insightful update for K–12 classrooms.

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You know what time it is — it’s the end of the week, and that means it’s time for your 10-minute edtech news briefing from a real classroom. I’m Vicki Davis, a full-time teacher, instructional tech coach, and IT director, bringing you the stories I’m actually sharing with my students this week — the prompts, tools, and questions we’re exploring in real time.

Here’s this week’s news. Subscribe on your favorite podcatcher to make sure you never miss an episode.

Teaching Artificial Intelligence is unlike anything we’ve done before — because it’s evolving faster than any curriculum, textbook, or PD schedule can keep up. That’s why I started sharing these weekly updates: to offer a classroom-grounded view of what’s working, what’s changing, and what needs our attention.

We need more teachers — the ones in front of students every day — adding their voices to the AI conversation. My hope is that by sharing what I see and do, I encourage you to do the same. Whether it’s in the breakroom, on social, or in a staff meeting — your insights matter. The only way we guide this well is together.

So, let’s get into this week’s filtered, teacher-tested stories: a new AI protocol that could change how we connect tools, Canva’s leap into code generation, a viral badger phrase that’s surprisingly useful for teaching AI hallucinations, and a word of caution about “ChatGPT Tennis.” And I also take a moment to give a celebratory shout out to a beloved edublogging legend for many of us — Larry Ferlazzo on his retirement.

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⏰ Episode Chapters (with Time Stamps)

Introduction (00:00)
The Emergence of the MCP (Model Context Protocol) and Why It Matters for Educators — A new open standard could let your AI assistant pull data across platforms like calendars, lesson plans, and gradebooks. Read more (00:19)
Microsoft Releases an AI Agent to Help You Fix Your Windows 11 Computer — An AI assistant for system settings shows how AI could soon support teachers’ tech troubleshooting. Read more (01:43)
Fun End of Year Activity with Lifetoon — Turn student memories into free, comic-style visuals. Great for projects or classroom celebrations. Check it out (02:13)
Popular Edublogger Larry Ferlazzo Retires from Teaching — Larry’s blog has inspired thousands. Read his announcement (02:26)
How to Use the Viral Phrase ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’ to Teach AI Hallucination — A great activity to teach students how generative AI makes up definitions. See it on BlueSky Google example (02:35)
Canva Code Can Make Websites and Apps — Canva’s new feature allows students to create interactive projects. Try Canva Code (04:24)
Gemini 2.5 Pro Is Building Better Websites Than Ever — This model is outperforming others in web dev quality. Read about the leaderboard (04:30)
Why AI-Created Code Still Needs Programmer Supervision — Teachers need to help students evaluate AI-generated code. (04:57)
When AI Behaves Unethically in Real Use — Rolling Stone reports eerie behavior from AI models. Read more (05:15)
AI’s Role in Content Creation and Spirituality — AI influencing beliefs? Yup. Teachers should guide students in digital discernment. (05:45)
How Many Files Can You Upload to Claude, Gemini, and GPT-4? — A feature breakdown for teaching research with AI. (07:48)
o1 and o3 Models Don’t Support Attachments or Memory — Know which AI tools do what before your students start using them. (08:15)
Don’t Play ChatGPT Tennis in Schools — Paul Matthews warns against outsourcing all teaching and learning tasks to AI. Read more (08:38)
Teach Students to Use AI Feedback for Self-Assessment — Pair AI suggestions with teacher rubrics to foster authentic learning. (09:15)

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Vicki Davis

Vicki Davis has been an educator and IT director in Georgia since 2002. Today, she also works as an instructional technology coach, staying side-by-side with active teachers and students so her work stays grounded in real classrooms.

She's a mom of three, wife of one, and loves talking about the wise, transformational use of technology for teaching and doing good in the world.

She has blogged at the Cool Cat Teacher Blog since 2005 and hosts the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast and Cool Cat Teacher Talk (radio, public access TV, YouTube, and all major podcast platforms), interviewing remarkable educators around the world. Vicki focuses on what unites us — a quest for truly remarkable, life-changing teaching and learning. The goal of her work is to provide actionable, encouraging, relevant ideas for teachers, grounded in truth and shared with love.

If you talk to Vicki for long, she'll encourage you to "Relate to Educate," to "innovate like a turtle," or to be "a remarkable teacher." She loves homemade sourdough bread and cinnamon rolls and runs half marathons with her sisters. You can usually find her laughing with her students or digging into a book.

Thank you for reading, sharing, and telling your friends about the work we do here! - Vicki

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