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Monday, November 9, 2026

From EduGems to EduPrompts

About one year ago I launched my EduGems website - https://www.edugems.ai/ - to share useful AI-prompts with schools.

These prompts were created as "Gems" which are Google's format for sharing a pre-made Gemini prompt.

Over the last year the site has grown significantly in both quantity of prompts and number of visitors. As of this writing the website has:

174 ready-to-use AI prompts for schools
Over 900,000 visits
Over 200,000 active users

Recently Google announced that they are transitioning from Gems to Skills. Skills are very similar to Gems, but are a little more flexible in their use. I have received a lot of questions from people about how this change will impact EduGems. Here is my plan for the site:

🔗 Site Rename - Since Gems are going away, I want a name that is more descriptive of the site, so the new name will be EduPrompts. The new web address - https://www.eduprompts.ai/ - is already active and goes to the existing site. The old address will continue to work, but will eventually just redirect to the new address.
💡 Gems to Skills - All of the current Gems will be converted into Skills. The Gem versions will still be available until Google officially discontinues Gems in the summer of 2027. If anyone would like to learn more about converting Gems to Skills, feel free to join me for my upcoming webinar on December 10th.
📓 Gems to Notebooks - In addition to making Skill versions of all the Gems, I will also be making Gemini Notebook versions of the Gems. This will provide another way for people to use the prompts, as well as assign them to students for their use.
📄 Gems as prompts - Also I will always have the option to simply copy any of the prompts to use in whatever AI tool you prefer.
➕ More prompts - And finally I will continue to add many more AI prompts to the site! Please continue to send me suggestions for prompts, as well as submit your own.

Be sure to check out the site at https://www.eduprompts.ai/ and share with others who would benefit.

14 New AI Prompts from October 2026

EduGems is my website where I share my favorite AI prompts for schools.

You can access, use, and copy any of the AI prompts at edugems.ai where I currently have 171 prompts!

Each month I add new AI prompts to the site. See below for links to the 14 new prompts I added during the month of October 2026, along with a short description for each.

Feel free to share with others and please consider submitting your own AI prompts to the site.

Upcoming Webinar - Gemini Gems to Skills

For the last year, I have been a major proponent of Gemini Gems, which are reusable, custom AI prompts that you can create, share, and use in Gemini.

I ended up creating my EduGems.ai website where I share over 170 Gems for schools, covering a wide range of uses for educators and students.

Well recently Google announced that they would be transitioning from Gemini Gems to Skills, and I have received loads of questions about what this means for schools.

To help provide guidance for this transition, I am excited and honored to be providing a free webinar as part of Google's Edu on Air series. Here are the details:

Mastering the Shift: Gemini Gems to Skills
December 10, 2026 - 1:00pm to 1:45pm Eastern Time
Register for free at https://bit.ly/gem2skill or Website link
Description: Get ready to level up your AI understanding as Google Gemini evolves from Gems to Skills! In this high impact 45 minute webinar, K12 educators, instructional coaches, and district leaders across the globe will get the essential need to know strategies to make this transition seamless and stress free. Discover exactly how this shift impacts your custom Gems and daily workflows, complete with school and district ready action steps to keep your staff ahead of the curve. Best of all, join renowned EdTech pioneer and Google Gems guru Eric Curts (creator of EduGems.ai) for an exclusive live demonstration showing practical classroom examples and hands on migration tips in real time. Walk away with everything required to prepare your classroom, school site, or entire district for the future of Gemini Skills.

Feel free to share with others, and I hope to get to learn with you!

EdTech Links - Week of 10-19-2026

Each week I keep an eye out for the latest edtech resources through blogs, social media, podcasts, videos, user groups, and more. I then try to reshare these resources in many ways.

One way I share these is here on the blog in these "EdTech Links of the Week" posts. See below to explore the latest batch of resources, and be sure to share with others who may benefit.

If you want to make sure you don't miss new resources, you can:

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And as always, please let me know of any resources that you recommend. I would love to learn from you!

AI Prompts for Support & Differentiation

Educational technology is constantly evolving, so my PD catalog has to change as well to keep up with everything new. During the course of the year I typically add several new sessions to my offerings.

At the moment my PD catalog has over 70 different sessions that I offer for schools, conferences, and organizations. You can see the full catalog here - https://bit.ly/curts-pd

Recently I added a new session that covers AI prompts for student support and differentiation.

See below for all the details and session resources. Feel free to use these resources any way you need, and if your school or conference is interested in this session or others, please reach out to me to discuss options for me to join you in person or virtually.

Supercharge your Classroom with Google Workspace for Education Plus

Although Google provides a free version of their Workspace suite for schools, they also have paid tiers available for schools that are looking for more features and capabilities.

I often get asked by schools to explain the differences between the free and paid versions of Google Workspace for Education, to help them weigh their options and decide which plan is best for them.

The current tiers include:

Education Fundamentals - A free foundational suite of secure and easy-to-use tools such as Google Docs, Classroom, Meet, Gmail, Forms, Chat and more.
Education Standard - A paid edition that builds on the Fundamentals tier with advanced security and analytics tools.
Education Plus - A paid edition that includes everything in Fundamentals and Standard, but with even more tools to empower users and enrich and personalize learning.

To help schools understand and evaluate the different tiers, I maintain a resource document that highlights many of the added features of the Plus tier. See below for access to that document, as well as a duplication of the information as this blog post for easy reference.

Although there are many security and analytics benefits of Plus, I tend to focus on the impact on teaching, learning, and the end user, so those are the features that I have pulled out for this resource.