Ready to add a little tech to your classroom? IBM SkillsBuild Tech Teasers make it easy!
These quick, engaging 15–20 minute activities help students explore AI, cybersecurity, digital skills and other future-focused topics - perfect for a class opener, bell ringer or enrichment activity.
Check out these Tech Teasers below:
- DECA Teacher Learning Plan: Career, Business and Emerging Technology Foundations
- Creating an Elevator Pitch Using Gen AI
- Tech Touchdown: How AI Is Enhancing American Football’s Game Experience
- Boost the Performance of Your Fantasy Football Team with AI
- How is AI Enhancing Professional Basketball?
- How is Technology Used in Tennis?
- AI Innovations in Live Sports Coverage
🎁 And there’s a bonus! Advisors who use IBM SkillsBuild with their students during August and September are eligible for classroom grants.
Using Tech Teasers In the Classroom
1. Explore | 15–20 minutes
Have students complete an IBM SkillsBuild Tech Teaser individually or in small groups.
2. Connect + Reflect | 5–10 minutes
Possible discussion questions:
- How could the technology you explored change the way a business operates or serves customers?
- What career might use this technology?
- What potential challenges of ethical concerns should businesses consider?
- How could you use this technology to solve a real-world business problem?
3. Apply | 10–15 minutes
Challenge students to put the learning into action:
Choose a business or industry and identify one way the technology from the Tech Teaser could improve its products, services, marketing or operations. Have students share with the class.
Start the year with a Tech Teaser, and turn a few minutes of learning into an opportunity for your classroom!
