Control Alt Achieve: EdTech Links

Each week I keep an eye out for the latest edtech resources through blogs, social media, podcasts, videos, user groups, and more. I then try to reshare these resources in many ways.

One way I share these is here on the blog in these "EdTech Links of the Week" posts. See below to explore the latest batch of resources, and be sure to share with others who may benefit.

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This week I have 4 resources from around the Internet and 3 resources from my blog.

💎 New EduGems

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Each week I try to add new Gems to my EduGems website. Since last newsletter, the following Gems have been added to the site:

📣 Professional Learning Coach - Get personalized, bite-sized professional development to deepen your expertise and apply evidence-based practices in your school role
💯 Grading Partner - Grade student work & get personalized feedback for students based on your assignment & rubric details
🗺️ Educational Map Maker - Create a data-rich interactive educational map for any topic with a custom-generated CSV file for Google My Maps
⭐ Student Assignment Feedback - Provide students with immediate, detailed, and constructive feedback on their work based on assignment details and grading criteria
🤖 AI Use Reflection - Guide students in reflecting on their AI use including their brain work, the AI's contribution, and their evaluation of the output
🖐️ 5E Lesson Plan - Generate a detailed, standards-aligned lesson plan based on the inquiry-based 5E Instructional Model based on topic, grade and objectives
🧘 Mindfulness Break - Quickly manage stress, anxiety, and fatigue with immediate, evidence-based "micro-doses" of mindfulness

Click on any of the links above to access, use, and copy the Gems.

📢 My 2026 MACE Sessions

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I am excited and honored to be presenting at the 2026 MACE Conference in Manhattan, Kansas on March 5th and 6th.

You can access more MACE information and register for the conference at: mace-ks.org
And you can get the details and resources for all of my sessions at bit.ly/curts-mace26
🚀 Keynote - Level Up Every Learning with AI
🎲 AI Games, Interviews and Activities for Student Learning
💎 Your AI Treasure Chest: Creating & Sharing Gemini Gems

Hope to see you there!

📢 My 2026 MACUL Sessions

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I am excited and honored to be presenting at the 2026 MACUL Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan on March 18th through 20th.

You can access more MACUL information and register for the conference at: maculconference.org
And you can get the details and resources for all of my sessions at bit.ly/curts-macul26

Hope to see you there!

🔠 Brisk now exports to Kahoot

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Anyone who knows me, knows that Brisk is one of my favorite AI tools for schools as I have shared many ways (see my Brisk deep dive and my Brisk Boost demo). Well now Brisk is even better with a new integration with Kahoot, allowing you to generate a ready-to-play quiz from any resource in seconds.

Simply open your desired web resource, click on the Brisk extension, and select "Create" followed by "Quiz." The big difference is you need to select "Kahoot" instead of "Google Form" in the output drop-down menu. You can still attach specific learning standards and adjust the number of questions to fit your lesson needs.

Once you click "Brisk it," the AI generates the questions directly inside your logged-in Kahoot account. There is no need to copy and paste. You can review and edit the questions, click "Save," and immediately select "Host Live" to engage your students with a quick, gamified formative assessment.

🕹️ 8-Bit Academy

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If you miss the days of blowing into game cartridges (my first game console was an Atari 2600), 8-Bit Academy is for you, and more importantly your students. This site has games for K-6 students covering math, reading, social studies, science, typing, and more.

There are no logins, subscriptions, or setups. Students just click and play. Whether they are navigating dungeons to learn coordinates or playing arcade-style math games, the "fun" factor is front and center. It’s a perfect, low-friction option for early finishers or centers that provides a little fun while reinforcing skills.

📑 Text Readability Analyzer

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Chris Spackman provides many ESOL resources through his website at chrisspackman.com. One of his resources I came across recently is his Text Readability Analyzer. Although it has some features specifically for supporting English Language Learners, this tool can be valuable for all students.

Basically you paste in your text or import it as a PDF. You can also select a language if you want to identify cognates between English and that language from the text. The site then analyzes your text and provides a wide range of detailed results including:

Multi-Dimensional Readability Scores
Proficiency-Based Scaffolding Strategies
Linguistic Complexity Identifiers
Cognates (words that look and sound similar across languages and share the same meaning)
And more

🐙 Kira

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Teachers are juggling more tools than ever... Planning in one tool... Assessments in another... Grading somewhere else... Student data… scattered.

Kira connects all of it.

On March 3, Kira 2.0 goes live. Tune in for a full walkthrough of how lessons, assessments, grading, and student mastery work together to support personalized instruction.