Tech-Neill-ogy #115 - 2 November 2025

Your Weekly Guide to Leveraging Technology in College Counseling

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Jeffrey Neill
November 03, 2025

Welcome to Tech-Neill-ogy #115!

Sucktober is over. Travel season is here. Last week was India for the College Board India Forum, a great event. This coming week is the College Board Forum in New York City. (Looking forward to some Bleeker Street Pizza!) And the week after is the CIS Forum in Seville, Spain. Hope to see many of you there.

That said, we are still accepting applications for the third college counselor position here in my office. Drop me a note with any questions!

Graded College Counselor Job Posting

Join Graded – The American School of São Paulo – as a College Counselor and help guide diverse, international students toward their best-fit futures at universities around the world.

resources.finalsite.net/images/v1760118349/saopaulo/jychnazip2y1bmttevrs/CollegeCounselor_JobDescription.pdf

Enjoy the rest of the newsletter!

Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students

Artificial intelligence threatens students’ most basic skills. If they lose their ability to understand what they read, will they lose their ability to think?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/opinion/ai-students-thinking-school-reading.html

How to use AI to support learning differences

For starters, i's a good idea to utilize AI platforms that existed before the AI surge in 2022, says on expert.

districtadministration.com/article/how-to-use-ai-to-support-learning-differences

Free Guide to Using ChatGPT at Work [Download Now]

Discover the key to unlocking unparalleled productivity with this ultimate guide to revolutionizing your workflow.

offers.hubspot.com/using-chatgpt-at-work

Nearly everything you've heard about AI and job cuts is wrong - here's why

Looking for a few good AI leaders - are you ready?

www.zdnet.com/article/nearly-everything-youve-heard-about-ai-and-job-cuts-is-wrong-heres-why

Providing AI To Teachers On A Budget

How to create a highly customized and cost-effective solution for providing AI to a district.

www.techlearning.com/news/providing-ai-to-teachers-on-a-budget

Cluely - Live AI Meeting Assistant | Real-Time Meeting Notes and AI Insights

AI meeting assistant that provides live meeting notes, instant answers, and real-time insights during calls. Unlike Otter or Granola, helps you during meetings, not just after.

cluely.com

Free AI Writing, PDF, Image, and other Online Tools - TinyWow

Free AI Writing, PDF, Image, and other Online Tools - TinyWow

tinywow.com

Leading AI video localization & dubbing tool

Say goodbye to expensive translators. Our goal is to provide a dubbing and translation experience with AI that is as good as a human

www.rask.ai

Make | AI Workflow Automation Software & Tools

Automate your work. Make allows you to visually build, scale and automate AI and agentic workflows. User friendly no-code integration tool. Try it now for free!

www.make.com/en

https://www.edficacy.co/ - Tell them Jeff sent you!

I am trying something new this year in providing a November 1 update to our administration. Here’s the prompt I’m using with the uploaded input being a data set from our college counseling software, Maia: 

Act as a data analyst and high school college counseling expert. Identify the top five trends in this dataset and explain their impact in 200 words each.

Please, if you have any great prompts or ideas, please share! Send me a note at [email protected].

Webinars & Live Events Page

Look here for upcoming webinars and other events (and recorded ones) by the College Essay Guy! New events are happening all the time…

www.collegeessayguy.com/webinars-live-events

That is it for this week. First, though, enjoy this NYTimes piece on college student worries:

What College Students Are Worried About Right Now

As political battles upend college campuses, we asked dozens of students what is on their minds as they plan for the future. Politics was only part of it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/us/college-students-perspectives-politics-tuition-jobs.html

And think about applying for the job here at Graded!

Anyway, best wishes for a great week! Happy counseling!

Jeff