Learn and Teach in the Ocean of Technology I've been thinking a lot about how educators need to respond to some of our biggest issues in education: the rapid decline in student engagement, the steep decline in curricular relevancy, and the steady increase in teacher burnout. I don't have all the answers to these problems, but I do find myself circling around one particular response that I feel very passionate about: developing a new set of technology skills we should teach (and expect from) our current and future educators.

Standardized Testing and Holistic Consideration "I don't do well on standardized tests." I hear this often from my high schoolers. My response? "Me neither." I quickly follow up with the fact that standardized tests don't tell your whole story as a student--nor do they define your future. I tell them my story of taking the SATs three times without much improvement, but that what got me into college wasn't my SAT, it was my solid GPA (that I…

Claude's Ode to the Socratic Seminar Many of us can probably recall our first ah-ha moment with AI--when we realized we could no longer view this as some ruinous technology in our field of education. Instead, we realized, despite our concerns (which are real concerns), there are some powerful learning opportunities to be had with artificial intelligence. For me, that moment came when trying out Quizlet's Q-Chat.

Claude's Ode to the Socratic Seminar Many of us can probably recall our first ah-ha moment with AI--when we realized we could no longer view this as some ruinous technology in our field of education. Instead, we realized, despite our concerns (which are real concerns), there are some powerful learning opportunities to be had with artificial intelligence. For me, that moment came when trying out Quizlet's Q-Chat.

Using AI to Differentiate Reading (and Writing) Experiences As a high school English teacher, I'm always open to new and fresh ways to engage my students with reading material. While I'm well aware of the concerns surrounding how students use AI to essentially bypass all opportunities to hone their ELA skills, I do think there are ways to counter this by thinking differently about how we use AI in our curriculum. But it takes some experimenting on the teacher's part to figure out what this could and should look like.

Over the next few months, I’ll be updating my 2023 Teaching AI Ethics collection. In this post, I’ll explain why the updates are necessary and give a recap on the nine original areas from the series. ...

Sometimes, you read something that feels both nostalgic and painfully relevant. That’s exactly how I felt reading the reflection article by Thomas L. Good, one of the pioneers in research on teache…

The Mission of Braving Education I don't remember how old I was exactly when I got my first Walkman, but I remember my sudden amazement to the fact that I could slide a cassette tape into a device and play and replay (over and over again) that one hit song I first heard on the radio or saw on MTV. And I could use this technology wherever and whenever I wanted. It was fascinating.  But, eventually, most of us would grow tired of that one song, and the manual rewinding it demanded of us.