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Cyber Sense: AI Ready Show Notes: “Don’t replace tasks that make you think or make your students think. Thinking is a good thing, and we don't want to replace that. Don’t replace the human connection. This is how God made us.” –Jenny Copeland  The thing about AI is that it may just highlight what we as human teachers CAN do. AI needs teachers. Only educators can bring certain elements to the table. We can use it to be transformational inside our classrooms. Jenny explores whe

Cyber Sense: Reimagining Assessments Show Notes: How do you assess when answers are readily available for students via AI? How can you detect whether a student has used AI on their assignments? Jenny challenges educators to stop chasing AI detection tools and instead redesign assessments that naturally resist misuse.   In this episode, Jenny reminds educators to remember the why behind assessments. Are we grading for growth or just filling gradebooks? AI forces us to examine

Cyber Sense: The Scoop of Students Use Show Notes: “In 2024, 66 percent of students reported using AI in some form for their studies. In 2025, 92 percent of students are reporting that they use AI in their studies. A 26 percent jump in usage in one year!” — Jenny Copeland Are students using AI? How are students using AI? What tools are most popular? Jenny answers these questions with some eye-opening statistics about student AI usage and reveals how educators can shift the co

Cyber Sense: Tools for Teachers Show Notes: “Think of these AI tools as super excited, exuberant, ready-to-help student teachers or...

Cyber Sense: Prompt Engineering Show Notes: “The prompt is the key. That’s how you get where you’re going. That’s how you get to the...

Cyber Sense: Benefits and Cautions Show Notes: “You are the moral checkpoint, and that’s where we cannot hand that off to AI.” – Jenny...

CyberSense: Myths, Misconceptions, and Mindsets Show Notes: “AI is an assistant. It’s not the final product. See AI as a partner, not a...

CyberSense: Generative AI 101 Show Notes: “Someone once said, ‘We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them…. People fear what...

Beyond the AI Panic: Thoughtful AI Integration for Christian Schools Show Notes: “Learning is a social experience and it always will be....

Teaching Reading in Every Classroom: Skills, Content, and Comprehension Show Notes: “We need to be teaching every subject in reading as...

Understanding Work Through a Biblical Worldview Show Notes: “We declare the glory of God by being made in His own image and by living out...

Present and Engaged: A School’s Journey to Phone-Free Learning Show Notes: “The best way to teach someone how to have helpful cell phone...

Partnering with Today’s Parents Show Notes: “How do we deal with parents that might have good intentions but they are overly interested...

If I Could Just Get a Little Info From You: Creative Ways to Motivate Student Participation and Assess Learning Show Notes: “I challenge...

People First, Tech Second: Building Strong IT in Christian Schools Show Notes: "People first. Machine second. Remember that people are...

School Choice: Perspectives from a National, State, and School Level Part 2 Show Notes: In Part Two of this conversation on school...

School Choice: Perspectives from a National, State, and School Level Part 1 Show Notes: School choice is transforming Christian education...

Called to Launch: Building a Christian School From Scratch Show Notes: “I remember saying several times as I walked around the public...

Gifted Unwrapped: Reaching Academically Gifted Students in Christian Schools Part 2 Show Notes: In Part Two, Jenny and Lauren tackle the...

Gifted Unwrapped: Reaching Academically Gifted Students in Christian Schools Part 1 Show Notes: “These are students who are not just good...