All The Kids Are Using AI. And Maybe They Should Be?
“That students have been using AI heavily since last year is not really news. What my interviews revealed, however, was the extent to which college students have folded these tools into their daily lives. Of the students I spoke with, there was a wide range of attitudes on the proper use of AI in their […]
Intrinsic Motivation Makes All The Difference
“Human beings are naturally curious creatures – we want to learn new skills and new things all the time. Throughout the bulk of human history, the motivation was not external validation in the form of grades. It was something deeper, more primal, and fundamental, often life-saving. My teaching log for my graduate program in the […]
What’s The Middle Road On Tech In Schools?
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“The AI:Doc Should Be Required Viewing In Schools”
“This movie is not about AI and writing or cognitive offloading. The reason the film should be viewed is to provide common vocabulary for us to have conversations about a technology predicted to be the most transformative in history. More importantly, it serves as an excellent primer for viewers unfamiliar with the existential debates surrounding […]
“What Students Want Teachers to Know About AI”
“I think a lot of teachers see AI as a bad thing because they don’t really know how to use it themselves. They only think of students plugging in a prompt and it just spitting out an answer. But I think if teachers develop this AI literacy – I think AI might see a lot […]
History Teacher Makes Constitutional Convention With Claude Code
“When I first started using AI seriously, I was doing what most teachers do – asking questions, iterating on responses, but primarily generating text – converting ideas into polished plans and getting feedback and analysis on my own work. AI remains useful for all of those tasks. But agentic AI introduces something fundamentally different. I […]
Summary Response To The Lengthy Brookings Report On AI In Education
How To Rethink Presentations In A Time Of AI
“If a student uploads their notes to an AI platform – notes they took, from research they conducted, reflecting ideas they developed – and it produces professional looking slides, and then the student stands up and explains the material cogently, answers questions thoughtfully, demonstrates clear understanding through their delivery… What exactly has been offloaded? The […]