Turn passive video watching into an interactive assignment for students, right inside Google Classroom. In this 17-minute walkthrough, Dr. Saleem shows how to use Google Classroom’s free interactive-questions feature — the same idea behind tools like Edpuzzle, built right into the tool teachers already have — to turn any YouTube video into an active learning experience.

The video covers:

• Attaching a YouTube video to a Google Classroom assignment and placing questions at specific timestamps.
• Using Bloom’s Taxonomy to match question depth to grade level — recall and understanding for elementary students, application and analysis for middle grades, evaluation and creation for high school.
• Multiple-choice, checkbox, and open-ended question formats, with instant feedback for students as they answer.
• Previewing the assignment as a student before assigning it, then setting due dates, topics, categories, and total points.

“The students are not passively watching videos anymore. They’re engaging with them, they’re interacting with them, they’re constantly assessing their comprehension of what was in the video.”

Presented by Dr. H. M. Saleem, Founder, Keynote 180

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Issue No. 6 · October 5, 2026 — prepared by Keynote 180 for educators & education leaders.

Recap: Last week’s top story was San Francisco Unified pushing its AI technology vote out to March 2027 while researchers told NPR that classroom AI adoption is running well ahead of any real evidence it works — a “Wild West,” as one put it. This week, that same tension — enthusiasm outrunning oversight — resurfaced in Texas, where reporting revealed that Education Commissioner Mike Morath’s own agency helped broker public-school access to an unproven AI platform just months after the State Board of Education had rejected that same technology’s charter-school bid over the exact same concerns.

This Week’s Trending Tool: TimeBack — the AI-delivered instructional platform built by Alpha School and co-founder MacKenzie Price — is this week’s most contested EdTech product. The Texas Tribune and ProPublica (Oct. 1) and Houston Public Media (Oct. 2) reported that the Texas Education Agency organized campus visits and helped place TimeBack in pilots at Houston ISD, Fort Davis ISD (about 800 students), and Aldine ISD (roughly 300 students across four middle schools) — months after the State Board of Education voted 10-3 in June 2025 to reject an Alpha charter application over unverified “learn twice as fast” claims, and after a Texas Prep School campus using the same model posted just a 21% state-exam pass rate and an F rating.

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Issue No. 5 · September 28, 2026 — prepared by Keynote 180 for educators & education leaders.

Recap: Last week’s top story was Atlanta Public Schools drafting AI guardrails ahead of a November board vote. This week, the same tension — policy racing to catch up with practice — played out coast to coast. San Francisco Unified pushed its own AI technology vote out to March 2027, even as new reporting piled fresh complaints onto its year-old Amira reading-tutor contract. Then, on Friday, NPR put a name to what researchers say they’re seeing everywhere: a “Wild West” of districts adopting AI chatbots, and even humanoid robots, with almost no rigorous evidence that any of it works. Different cities, same throughline: adoption is outrunning proof.

This Week’s Trending Tool: Amira — the AI reading tutor San Francisco Unified licenses through a master agreement with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt — is this week’s most-covered, and most-contested, EdTech product. SFUSD pays nearly $400,000 a year for roughly 23,000 K-5 subscriptions, yet third-grade reading proficiency has barely moved (49% this year versus a 52% baseline in 2022), 18 New Mexico districts have already dropped the tool, and the district quietly removed language about how long it keeps children’s voice recordings.

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Issue No. 4 · September 21, 2026 — prepared by Keynote 180 for educators & education leaders.

Recap: Last week’s top story was infrastructure: Microsoft, the AFT, and New York’s UFT unveiled the first enforceable national AI safety and privacy standard for schools on September 9, landing the same week Florida’s State Board of Education chose opt-in parental consent over an outright ban. We checked for follow-up since then, and the pattern held: Atlanta Public Schools is now drafting its own AI guardrails ahead of a November board vote, becoming the latest major district to turn a summer of ad hoc restrictions into a written policy. Contracts, consent, and now city-by-city drafts — 2026 keeps converting AI oversight into paperwork instead of just talking points, and this week’s stories show that same shift playing out in classrooms, counselors’ offices, and career labs alike.

This Week’s Trending Tool: Alongside — the AI wellness platform behind its orange-yellow llama chatbot, Kiwi — is now live in more than 200 schools across 19 states, and it’s the source of the most-quoted line in K-12 media this month: a principal saying, simply, “we actually saved a kid.”

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Issue No. 3 · September 17, 2026 — prepared by Keynote 180 for educators & education leaders.

Recap: Last week’s top story: New York City and Los Angeles imposed sweeping generative-AI restrictions on younger students in the same week — the first coordinated policy pullback after roughly two years of adoption-first enthusiasm, with San Francisco Unified punting its own AI vote to March 2027. We checked for follow-up since then and found real movement: Florida’s State Board of Education approved its own AI rules on September 16, choosing a different lever — opt-in parental consent — over an outright ban, while a new EdWeek piece captured parent advocates warning that bans alone won’t satisfy the broader “techlash” building against ed-tech overreach. The restriction wave isn’t slowing down; it’s diversifying into new policy tools, and this week’s Watch item shows exactly where that’s heading next.

This Week’s Trending Tool: Amira Learning — its AI reading tutor already reaches 5 million students across all 50 states, and a new inclusive reading-coach partnership with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for neurodiverse learners is pulling it back into the spotlight just as the literacy-crisis conversation intensifies.