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.

🍩 What's New in Google for May 2026

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You got to get up early to make the donuts ... and to stay up to date on everything new in technology. Donut worry though, we have a hole lot of sweet Google updates to share from our May 2026 GEG-Ohio meeting! These updates are sprinkled with fun and functionality, and hopefully exactly what you knead to improve teaching and learning.

🎧 Podcast Spotlight - SupportED Learning

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I recently had the pleasure to be a guest on the "SupportEd Learning Podcast" hosted by Dr. Joseph Sebestyen. I had a wonderful time chatting all about a wide range of topics including:

What Schools Get Right and Wrong About AI
EduGems: The Free AI Prompt Library
The Top 3 AI Tools Every Student Needs
Guided Grading: AI-Powered Feedback
The Biggest Mistake Schools Make With AI
The Wrestle, Wrap, Reflect Framework
The MIT Study That Changes Everything

Click the link above to listen to the episode, access the resources that I shared in the episode, and explore more about the podcast.

💎 New EduGems

Each week I try to add new Gems to my EduGems website. Since last newsletter the site has now reached 145 Gems! Below are the newest ones added to the site:

🎧 Podcast Matchmaker - Discover new podcasts based on your tastes, interests, and listening purposes.
📖 LETRS Lesson Plan - Build a comprehensive, 4-day ELA lesson plan for any book rooted in the science of reading and the LETRS framework.
🖼️ Google Classroom Header - Generate a custom image for a Google Classroom header based on your style, content, and class
🖼️ Google Forms Header - Generate a custom image for a Google Form header based on the Form purpose and your preferred style.
🎯 Single Point Success Criteria - Create a single anchor of success paired with tailored scaffolds and extensions for any grade level and content area.
🧮 CRA Math Activity - Design Concrete-Representational-Abstract (CRA) math activities aligned to grade level and learning targets.
🔀 Sorting Activity - Create classroom-ready sorting activities for knowledge building, critical thinking, and application for any grade and topic.
🎨 Career Caricature - Create a colorful caricature of a student as their future adult self in their dream career based on the details they share.

🫟 DrawSplat

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I am constantly blown away by the quality of free resources being created with vibe coding. Recently my friend Miguel Guhlin shared with me his latest creation … DrawSplat. He wanted to create an interactive tool for student creativity, drawing some inspiration from programs such as Jamboard, KidPix, and others.

His creation, DrawSplat, is a completely free interactive whiteboard tool for K-16 educators and students. It runs in your browser and includes a dizzying array of features including pens, paint, shapes, lines, text, notes, images, diagrams, backgrounds, stickers, graphs, widgets, and so much more. And Miguel seems to add new features everytime I check the site.

Head on over to https://drawsplat.org/ to learn more and try it yourself.

🎞️ OK Go Sandbox

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I have long been a fan of the band OK Go with their amazing music videos such as "Needing/Getting" (where they play a song with their car hitting things), "Upside Down & Inside Out" (filmed in a Zero-G plane descent), and "This Too Shall Pass" (with an amazing Rube Goldberg machine).

I have also loved their Google-sponsored website "OK Go Sandbox" which is a lesson plan collection for educators that uses OK Go’s music videos as starting points for integrated guided inquiry challenges allowing students to explore various STEAM concepts.

Recently another friend of mine, Tim Needles, had the amazing opportunity to collaborate with the band in the development of three new lessons for the site. These new lessons are based on OK Go's new music video for "A Stone Only Rolls Downhill", which synchronizes 64 individual mobile phone videos into one final piece. Students will learn:

Creative Problem Solving: Turning massive, complex ideas into reality.
Creative Collaboration & Planning: Working together like a real production crew.
Hands-on Activities: Engaging, adaptable projects ready for the classroom.

You can check out all the new and previous lesson plans at https://okgosandbox.org/

📄 15 Worksheets

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Finding highly useful free printable worksheets with answer keys has always been a daunting task. Often educators find themselves signing up and paying for work that might not be exactly what they need. Back in 2021, a group of 15 retired teachers got together and began to tackle this task. Since there were 15 of them, they would pick a topic, and each create a single worksheet for that topic. This resulted in the name of the website as "15 Worksheets".

Today the site is full of over 28,000 worksheets that are free to use for students, teachers, homeschoolers, and tutors. You will find at least 15 printable worksheets for each topic over major categories including Math, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Writing, Skills, Holidays, Science, Social Studies, and more.

🛟 TeachAid

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