6th grade ELA teacher using AI bots to give teachers their evenings back. Real tips, no jargon. Creator of Orlando's English Emporium on TPT 🍎
Secaucus, NJ
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A LIBRARY YOUR GROK BOTS CAN READ
Here is the part almost nobody saw coming, and it is the part I am most excited about.
GrokBot.Rocks is not only for people. It is for bots.
Every bot in the directory is a working recipe someone already built: instructions, skills and routines. So I started telling people to point their Grok Bot at GrokBot.Rocks and have it get a PhD in the public Grok Bots there. Ask it to study the skill sets that have been established, and to incorporate the skills needed for your goals. No blank canvases. Just pure Grok Bot learning. Make it part of the weekly program your bots run to stay healthy and fit.
Think about what that means. Your bot does not have to discover, alone and by trial and error, the patterns that thousands of builders already found. It can read them, compare them, and borrow the ones that fit, in minutes. A bot that learns from ten thousand recipes works faster, uses less of your weekly usage on dead ends, and makes fewer of the mistakes someone else already made.
Give your @Grok @Bot a PhD in Grok Bots and a research library. Never start with a blank canvas.
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I have been in AI since 1979, from proto-AI systems to a Commodore 64 expert system to a hot-rodded IBM PC AT. That road led to the Zero Human Company, to Grok Bot, and now to GrokBot Rocks, a free map of thousands of Grok Bots that people and their bots can learn from. Here is exactly why I built it.
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ChatGPT Image Prompts for Teachers: 60 Shortcuts to Transform Classroom Images - blog.tcea.org/chatgpt-image-…
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We are already seeing the results from AI learning tools in the classroom, but does this render our expertise in STEM fields obsolete?
The answer is no, and recent experiments prove it. In a trial with 8,647 pupils in rural China, maths software with an adaptive AI engine did no better than the same software without it. In El Salvador's AI pilot schools, teacher attendance rose from 76% to 97%.
In Botswana, a phone-call maths programme for 14,818 children more than doubled its effect when a parent or caregiver joined the call.
In South Africa, coaching teachers in person raised reading twice as much per rand spent as coaching them by phone and WhatsApp. The gains come from human guidance and expertise.
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Teachers are educators, not parents.
ND Teacher of the Year Frannie Tunseth joined Plain Talk to discuss parents abdicating responsibility, student screen time habits at home vs. school, and AI hypocrisy in the classroom.
Watch the full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=55CT66co…
#NDPol #NorthDakota #Education #PlainTalk
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DAY 2/30: GROK BOT RUNS THE FAMILY CALENDAR WITH A CREW OF 5 BOTS 🎃
85% of parents in a 2026 survey missed at least one school or activity commitment. Parents also get about 20 school emails a week.
So give the logistics to a family crew. In Grok Bot you can create several Bots, each with its own name and job:
• Backpack (7 AM): reads school emails in Gmail and pulls out dates, forms and costume days
• Calendo (7:15 AM): adds each date to your iPhone Calendar
• Nudge (7:30 AM): adds a Reminder two days before each form or payment is due
• Huddle (7:45 AM): puts today's pickups and events on one Page
• Porchlight (Oct 31, 6 PM): turns on the porch lights through Apple Home
Phone steps need the Grok Bot app open on your iPhone. Nothing gets sent for you.
Which job would you hand off first?
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A bot can help your kid with homework without doing it for them. No code.
In Grok Bot:
1. Say: "My child is 12. Give one hint at a time. Never the full answer."
2. Let them type the question.
3. Later, ask: "Where did they get stuck?"
Now you know what to practise.
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Thanks @atreecalledugly for the tip!
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Secaucus Ss raised $46K for @StJude #Mathathon. Clarendon #6 & Huber #23 in the nation. #ShowYourGold @RobPresuto @SecaucusNJ @eSecaucus
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A perfect day to do absolutely nothing. Photo by @tebechtold #onehappyisland #aruba
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#Clarendon's artists will be exhibiting their work at the annual Art Show on 6/15 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. @SecaucusNJ
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Attention pet #gecko owners! CDC tracking Salmonella outbreak linked to pet geckos. Tips to stay healthy: go.usa.gov/3kFC4
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Wow your classroom with this fun fact of the week - it's all about palindromes! #GoogleEdu teapawt.org/GoogleForEdu/status/59…
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63 percent of public schools don't have access to broadband speeds needed for digital learning huff.to/1K4Lmjt
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Seeking new ways to inspire students? Learn at #GoogleEduOnAir, a free online conference goo.gl/qC2Pi5
