Come Vibe With Me!

I owe you an apology and an explanation.

Back in February, I announced the launch of Vibe Coding for Educators, my 20-part YouTube series designed to take teachers from "I have never touched a line of code in my life" to "I just built my students a custom French Revolution simulator, and I cannot be stopped." I laid out the whole plan. Two tracks. Twenty episodes. Five minutes each. Pure pedagogy meets pure chaos.

And then... the new World of Warcraft expansion Midnight dropped.

For those of you not fluent in "grown adult who still plays World of Warcraft," just know that I briefly disappeared into an MMORPG for a hot second, and the algorithm was not kind to my video production schedule. I'm not proud of it. But I am back, I am caffeinated, and I have been vibe coding with the energy of someone who has a lot to make up for.

Here's where we are, here's what's coming, and, because I couldn't help myself, toward the bottom of the post is a brand-new tool I built for you to drop right into your classroom.

What is Vibe Coding, Again? (For the New Kids)

If you're new here (welcome, grab a snack), vibe coding is a movement that uses AI tools like Canva Code, Google Gemini Canvas, and Claude Code to build interactive classroom apps using nothing but natural language. You describe what you want. The AI builds it. You go from a blank page to a classroom-ready tool in the time it takes to drink your coffee.

No syntax. No brackets. No sweating through a computer science degree you never planned to get.

Just your pedagogical vision, a good prompt, and about four minutes.

The reason I'm genuinely obsessed with this, not in the way we say we're obsessed with things on the internet, is that it flips the entire ed-tech equation. Instead of spending three hours scrolling through the App Store looking for a tool that's almost right, you just... build the right one. I've built a reading comprehension tutor that speaks in my students' vocabulary. I've built a custom history simulation that lets students make decisions in the French Revolution and see how different choices lead to different outcomes. I've built SEL check-in tools, escape room gates, vocabulary games...all in an afternoon.

It is, genuinely, a superpower.

Where the Series Stands Right Now

Here's your official vibe coding update:

We are six episodes deep in each track, which means 12 total videos are live on the YouTube channel. Here's a quick reminder of what the two tracks cover:

Track 1: Canva Code — This is your entry point. If you're already living in Canva (and most teachers are), this track teaches you to build visually stunning, interactive tools right inside the platform you already know. We're talking mood meters, gamified quizzes, digital manipulatives, and choice maps.

Track 2: Google Gemini Canvas — This is where we go deeper. Gemini Canvas lets you build logic-heavy tools: AI tutors, physics simulators, writing coaches, and research apps. If Canva Code is a really good Swiss Army knife, Gemini Canvas is a custom tool bench.

And coming very soon, once both tracks wrap, a Claude Code module. Because I would be genuinely doing you a disservice if I didn't show you what happens when you hand the keys to Claude and ask it to build something extraordinary.

Watch the series here → https://www.youtube.com/@teachersplAIground/

I'm Speaking at Spring Tech Coach Camp (and I'm Nervous in the Best Way)

On April 30th, I'll be presenting at the Spring 2026 Tech Coach Camp (hosted by two groups that I absolutely love, Wayground and Forward Edge), and I need you to understand something about how this feels:

Tech coaching is my dream job. The idea of being in a room full of people whose entire purpose is to find amazing tools and get teachers excited about them, and getting to stand up and say, "okay, here's something genuinely wild," that's the stuff. I'm going to play out my dream job for a single day, and I am going to enjoy every minute of it.

I'll be talking vibe coding, obviously. If you're attending, come find me! The sign-up link and schedule is here, and I cannot recommend it enough.

I Built You Something

Okay. Here's the thing about vibe coding. The best way to understand it isn't to watch someone explain it. It's to use a prompt and see what comes out the other side.

So I built a Vibe Coding Prompt Generator, and I'm dropping it right here in this post (and adding it to the App Arcade on the site).

The idea is simple: you tell it what you want to build: the subject, the activity type, the vibe, and it generates a ready-to-paste prompt optimized for whichever tool you're using. Canva Code, Gemini Canvas, or Claude Code. You copy it, paste it into your tool of choice, and watch the magic happen.

Use it. Break it. Build something weird with your students and send it to me, because I want to see what you make.

The Promise I'm Making You

More episodes are dropping. The Claude Code module is coming. And I am not getting distracted by any more video game patches.

(I make no promises about the next expansion.)

If you're not subscribed to the YouTube channel yet, go fix that → https://www.youtube.com/@teachersplAIground/. If you want the full rundown of the series and the free templates I've built alongside it, they're all living on the site.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have videos to edit.

Are you vibe coding yet? What have you built? Drop it in the comments, genuinely, I am collecting these like Pokémon, and I want to see your classroom creations.