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I am going to keep this one short because the thing itself was short. This tease turned Claudio from one of my favorite Adobe Evangelists into the DEVIL! At the end of an Adobe Education booth session at ISTE 2026, our presenter, Claudio Zavala, showed us a one-minute and fifteen-second video. It was a 3D-animated short, the kind of visually rich, layered, genuinely beautiful piece of content that you would normally assume required a professional animation studio, significan

There is a phrase that kept appearing across multiple sessions at ISTE 2026, in different contexts and from different presenters, so consistently that it started to feel less like a talking point and more like a genuine shift in how the education technology industry is thinking about AI. From shortcut to scaffold. Microsoft made it the title of their session. Anoo Padha from Microsoft and Becky Keene (of whom I'm a MASSIVE fan!!!!!!) from Phygital Labs, whose book The AI Opt

There is a specific kind of discovery that only happens at a conference. Not just the periphery finds I love: the small booth, the student founder, the tool you would never have stumbled across any other way. This is a different kind. The kind where you walk past a booth, catch something on a screen in your peripheral vision, stop, watch for thirty seconds, and think: where has this been my whole career? I had never heard of Classkick before ISTE 2026. That is on me. Classk