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15 Self-Guided Reading Responses For Non-Fiction Texts
What is the author’s position on a debatable topic from the text? How do you know? What evidence from the text can you cite?
7 Lessons to Teach Students and Families About Everyday Germs and Infections
Show students which items can be shared safely, and which should not.
Microsoft Joins Other Companies in Trying to Fill AI Training Gap in Schools
Providing teachers with professional development on AI has been a big challenge for schools.
Quizlet Adds AI-Powered Tools for Active Practice, Note-taking
Learning platform Quizlet recently announced new AI-powered features designed to provide a more streamlined user experience.
Can AI Help Students Navigate the Career Chaos It’s Creating?
After a career counselor visited one of her classes earlier this year, Lily Hatch found herself asking a chatbot for guidance about college. A junior at Wake Forest High School in North Carolina, Hatch had taken an in-class career quiz that recommend...[Read More]
Borrowing from the Past: Productive Friction in the Age of AI
By: Andy Szeto Borrowing from the Past: Productive Friction in the Age of AI Earlier this year, one of my graduate classes gave me a card. Inside, a student wrote: “Thank you for your human intelligence in the age of artificial intelligence.” I kept ...[Read More]
I’m Not Worried AI Helps My Students Cheat. I’m Worried How It Makes Them Feel (Opinion)
AI is undermining students’ trust in a shared reality. Here’s how schools can step up.
12 Ways to Dive into AI in Education at SXSW EDU
This March 9-12, the SXSW EDU Conference & Festival returns to Austin, TX, to celebrate innovation, experimentation, and learning across every stage of education.
What’s Worse for Students: A Boring Worksheet or Ineffective Ed Tech?
Some parents and policymakers are growing skeptical of the value of education technology.
When Machines Think, Human Thinking Must Go Higher
Not long ago, I participated in an exercise that asked educators to define thinking and learning. It was a familiar prompt, one we have returned to countless times over the past decade. This time felt different. The task was to triangulate, even pinp...[Read More]
What George Washington Can Teach Us About Grace in the Wake of Violence
This year, Americans are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. That statement of foundational political principles and national identity in the summer of 1776 capped off a year of armed conflict marked by the first sho...[Read More]
Blueprints Are Not Enough: Building Balanced Assessment Systems for Science of Reading 2.0
Ms. Rivera has done everything right: she attended the state-mandated Science of Reading (SoR) training and internalized the new, evidence-based curriculum. She is teaching phonics and phonemic awareness. Yet, as October settles in, she feels a fami...[Read More]