Time saving tips for teachers, plus a quick introduction to The Time-Saving Teacher: From Scattered to Strategic, a weekly podcast for K-12 classroom teachers.

I'm Alison Howd, a teacher in Georgia. This is my 26th year in education and my 6th year as the K-5 technology teacher at my school, where I teach over 800 students. Every Tuesday, I share one practical tip or system you can use right away: email, Google tools, AI, and classroom routines, in about 10 minutes.

You don't need to be tech savvy to use any of it.

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Time saving tips for teachers who want to use AI the right way, from my time at the Georgia Educators Tech Conference. Your free companion guide is linked right here: Episode 19 Companion Guide

In this episode:

• Why you should use your school's AI tool, if your school provides one, and never enter PII
• What surprised me about Gemini and NotebookLM
• Why learning is in the struggle
• How to help students tell what's real from what's made up

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Get the free companion guide with the step-by-step directions, starter prompts, and force copy link steps: Talk It Out Companion Guide

The simplest way to use AI is the one most people skip. You talk to it. Out loud, messy, and out of order, the way your thoughts actually come out. In this episode, Alison walks through how she talks her ideas into AI and lets it organize them, and how that helped her build lesson plans for her membership without typing them.

In this episode:

• Why talking works better than typing when your ideas are all in your head
• How to set up your lesson plan format and I can statements one time
• Alison's monthly routine: two windows, one microphone, and a finished Google Doc
• How to make a force copy link so teachers can edit their own copy
• Keeping student information safe: school accounts, FERPA, and talking to your tech team first

Links and resources:

• Free typing practice for students (the latest thing Alison built with AI): www.thattechsavvyteacher.com/free-typing-practice
• Free Claude for Teachers account: claude.com/solutions/teachers
• Free ChatGPT for Teachers account: chatgpt.com/k12-verification
• Ready to Click Tech Lab, for K-5 technology teachers: thattechsavvyteacher.com/ready-to-click-tech-lab-membership

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