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Emma Gray

@em-gray.bsky.social
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Metacognition & info literacy 💻 Product Manager on Mike’s team at Microsoft EDU, here to learn from #EDUSky and #TLSky to build things that matter. Based in Vancouver, BC. If not working, painting.🎨⛰️

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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Today's great watch -- you won't regret spending 20 minutes on this.
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Mike Tholfsen @mtholfsen.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
It’s back-to-school time, and OneNote EDU is rolling out fresh updates to make life easier for educators and students alike! In this blog, we’ll cover the latest OneNote features and updates for education 💜 Blog: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/educati... #edusky
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What's new in OneNote for EDU - Back to School 2025 | Microsoft Community Hub
It’s back-to-school time, and OneNote EDU is rolling out fresh updates to make life easier for educators and students alike! In this article, we’ll cover the...
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Endlessly cool and inspiring to see @jay.bsky.team and @katie-drummond.bsky.social on the @websummit.bsky.social stage in Vancouver. 🦋
Jay is on stage with Katie at WebSummit!
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Come check out preview teacher features for Reading Coach! 🌞
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
And if you haven't seen it yet, check out the newest Microsoft Unlocked story on Reading Coach, featuring the people whose opinions matter most (learners and teachers!): unlocked.microsoft.com/reading-coach/
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Reading’s next chapter
Discover how readers around the world are using AI reading software that builds literacy and is the catalyst for a love of learning.
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
aka.ms/IFoundPreview-ReadingCoach
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Folks have been asking us for teacher features in Reading Coach, like sharing custom passages with learners, setting time goals, and monitoring practice data for a while. Now, it looks like something strange has started to happen when you right-click Sunny from a teacher account...🤔 #IFoundPreview
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Mike Tholfsen @mtholfsen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Join us for a session about AI Agents in Microsoft Copilot, tailored for educators. We'll delve into what Agents are, using them and even creating them. Register: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/educati... #edusky
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Copilot Agents in Education - join us for a webinar to learn more about AI agents | Microsoft Community Hub
Join us for an session about AI Agents in Microsoft Copilot, tailored for educators.  We'll delve into what Agents are, using them and even creating...
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Mike Tholfsen @mtholfsen.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Now students can choose a custom Avatar for Reading Coach (or turn off avatars completely) The example video below shows how. This has been globally rolled out to the AI-powered Reading Coach as well as the Reading Coach built into Microsoft Teams for Education 🚀 #edusky
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
That top quote though!! 🔥
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Mike Tholfsen @mtholfsen.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Math Progress, our newest Learning Accelerator, is now globally rolling out and at general availability! FREE and built into Microsoft Teams for EDU 🚀 Blog: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/educati... #mathchat #MIEExpert #edusky
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Math Progress in Microsoft Teams for Education - globally rolling out and generally available | Microsoft Community Hub
Today, we’re pleased to announce Math Progress, a new Learning Accelerator, is now generally available in Microsoft Teams for Education for all supported...
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Mike Tholfsen @mtholfsen.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
📖 Empower learners of all ages with AI-powered Reading Coach! Personalize reading practice, build fluency, and track progress with ease. Now available in 81 languages with zero-touch deployment. Get started here msft.it/6015oM9X3 #edusky
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Reading Coach enhancements to improve learner literacy skills
Microsoft’s free AI-powered tool designed to provide personalized and engaging reading practice is now available in 81 languages through zero-touch deployment.
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
2 minutes of warm fuzzies for your day: youtu.be/fYcDQAbhwlw?... Reading Coach is available for FREE, can be used with Microsoft school OR personal accounts (you read that right, Google teachers!), and has the potential to create moments like this. #EduSky #TLSky #EduSkyAI #EDUSkyPrimary
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Discover AI-powered reading practice with Reading Coach
YouTube video by Microsoft Education
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
It happened!! Check out this delightful new reading tool (some of our preview students called it a "reading game") in its shiniest-yet iteration 🚀 More exciting things to come.
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Thank YOU for all you do!
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
And yes, I did spell "favourite" the American way to hit character count. @support.bsky.team -- thoughts on giving some of us an extra character in the limit to support our spelling preferences? ;)
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
We've seen what can happen when people over-rely on AI. @mihaelav.bsky.social, one of my favorite work people, offers a clear-eyed discussion of how we might foster *appropriate* reliance instead. Not EDU-specific but might be interesting to my #EDUSky / #EDUSkyAI friends! youtu.be/na4AAsKblsA?...
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Fostering appropriate reliance on AI
YouTube video by Microsoft Research
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
This put a big smile on my face! @laylahb.bsky.social check it out!!
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Welcome to Vancouver!! 🌲🏔️🍁
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Ooh! I don’t disagree with him about the enemies, but I don’t see AI as necessarily worsening this. In many cases, it can raise the cognitive bar – time I’d spend making an output “good enough” on my own is now spent tearing “good enough” outputs apart, challenging my own assumptions, and iterating.
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Search Progress and Coach are connected experiences, too! 🔎✨
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Thanks, Meg. 💙 It’s brutal news.
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Yay, Holly!! Welcome! In case it’s helpful as you rebuild your network, I’m working on a Microsoft EDU team starter pack: go.bsky.app/9c9TA8Q
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Woohoo! I’m all booked too. Can’t wait! ✨
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I woke up this morning in -10C in snowy Calgary, Alberta! ❄️ Now back in Vancouver, with a balmy +10! ☔️
A snowy park with the beginnings of a community ice rink (made by flooding with a rented firehose)
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Mike Tholfsen @mtholfsen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
NEW! Gather and create notes with Copilot in your personal OneNote notebooks directly on the page - now available for Microsoft 365 Insiders 💜 Blog: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microso... #EduSky
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Gather and create notes with Copilot in your personal OneNote notebooks directly on the page
The new Take notes with Copilot feature for personal notebooks in OneNote on Windows helps you gather and create notes directly on the page using natural...
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
The Ozdust ballroom scene had me in tears! What a special film.
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Yes!! Can’t wait!!!
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Diana L. Rendina @dianalrendina.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Media Literacy is a huge part of learning about AI. Filters on TikTok, deepfake videos, photos that are automatically altered and stitched together in your phone camera. Our students need to be able to understand how to identify what is real. #tlsky #FAME24
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hi!! The #TLSky feed is getting pretty active. That could be a good place to start!
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
“AI is here to stay, but the skills students need are still, in many ways, the same.” Yes!! This!!! 🙌
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Okay, just when I thought this community couldn’t get any cooler…
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Would love to hear how it goes if you try it out!! There are some awesome new AI resources too (aka.ms/MinecraftAI - cutest 3 minute intro videos you’ve ever seen), but I’ll always believe that information literacy is a *crucial* first step when we talk about helping students navigate using AI.
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Aaaah I love this! Have you checked out The Investigators world yet? @laylahb.bsky.social and the Digital Inquiry Group did such an amazing job ✨ education.minecraft.net/en-us/lesson...
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Yes!! Welcome!! ✨🦋
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Dianne Krause @diannekrause.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Have you checked out the #microsoftedu Learning Accelerators yet? Amazing tools for student engagement, differentiation & personalization powered with AI. All for free, built into Teams. www.microsoft.com/en-us/educat... #edtech #mieexpert #edtechcoach #edusky #educoach #microsoftteams
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Learning Accelerators | Microsoft Education
Help your students succeed with Learning Accelerators from Microsoft Education. Our inclusive learning tools such as Microsoft Reflect and Reading Coach are designed to help your students get ahead.
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Mike Tholfsen @mtholfsen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
New large-scale study shows improved reading scores by using Reading Progress in Microsoft Teams. ESSA Tier 2 study. Reading Progress is a FREE AI-enhanced tool that helps improve reading fluency 📖 Available globally 🌍🌎🌏 Details: www.microsoft.com/en-us/educat... #edusky
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New study shows improved reading scores by using Reading Progress | Microsoft Education Blog
Learn how one school district improved reading scores by using Microsoft Education learning tools. Get started with Reading Progress.
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Woohoo!! Happy to see you here, Dan! I’ll add you right now.
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Such a crucial priority in today’s information ecosystem. Thank you for your focus on this!!
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Mike Tholfsen @mtholfsen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
POSTED! "What's New in #MicrosoftEDU" webinar recording for November 2024 🚀 PPT deck link in video description. ✈️ Copilot 📖 Reading Coach 🚀 Speaker and Math Progress ✨ AI in Teams for EDU 💜 OneNote ➕ More YouTube 📺 youtu.be/0qltr3LEOfE #EduSky
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What’s New in Microsoft EDU – November 2024
YouTube video by Microsoft Education
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Yesss! On it!
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
You know it’s good when my childhood hero @levarburton.bsky.social makes the switch! 🌈
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
cc @mtholfsen.bsky.social @alicekeeler.com @maxafritz.bsky.social @secondleif.bsky.social @laylahb.bsky.social @inclusivejoeb.bsky.social @brycej.bsky.social @mihaelav.bsky.social
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The Microsoft #EduSky starter pack is up and running! Get a direct line to the product teams, accessibility innovators and cutting-edge Responsible AI researchers all in one place. Updated often. We're so happy to be here! 🦋 go.bsky.app/9c9TA8Q
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
media.tenor.com
a robot is jumping over a box in a room with a lot of windows
ALT: a robot is jumping over a box in a room with a lot of windows
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
If you're a Google educator, the webinar with Stanford professor emeritus Sam Wineburg and Dr. Joel Breakstone is still jam-packed with info you might find useful! If you're a Microsoft educator, you can learn about using Search Progress in your classroom here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini...
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Develop search strategies with Search Coach and Search Progress - Training
Educators empower learners to build information literacy skills that transfer to all search engines with Search Coach in Microsoft Teams.
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I've been calling it an X-odus 😁
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Woohoo!! Thanks, Alice. Am so grateful to be here vs that other place 🦋
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Figjam has been a long-time favourite, but Microsoft Whiteboard surprised me recently with all the new features!
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Emma Gray @em-gray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
More from one of my favourite groups at Microsoft on our work to support a healthier information ecosystem: aka.ms/InformationEcosystem #InformationLiteracy #EduSky
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Democracy Forward - Protecting Democracy | Microsoft CSR
Microsoft is working to stem threats to democracy by helping to secure elections, protect voting rights, and support journalists through our Democracy Forward program.
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