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Recently I received an invitation to speak at an upcoming global education summit in Beijing. The organizers asked me to give a presentation on the two topics that have dominated my work for the last 30 years: Project Based Learning and 21st Century ...[Read More]

I have had “write year-in-review” on my To Do list for about a month-and-a-half now. But every day I ignore the task, hoping that I’ll feel more like writing tomorrow. Tomorrow is the last day of this year, and I don’t anticip...[Read More]

I was a speaker today at the #AgainstSurveillance teach-in, a fundraiser for Ian Linkletter who is being sued by the online test-proctoring software company Proctorio. I am very pleased but also really outraged to be here today to help raise money fo...[Read More]

I was a guest today in Chris Hoadley’s NYU class on ed-tech and globalization. Here’s a bit of my rant… Thank you so much for inviting me to speak to you today. I have been really stumped as to what I should say. If you look at the ...[Read More]

Here are my remarks today from a Contact North webinar with Paul Prinsloo: “Why Technology is Not the Answer.” So I want to apologize at the outset for being a bit unprepared for today’s webinar. As you may well know, things have be...[Read More]

A couple of weeks ago, I received an email from my friend Eli Luberoff, the founder and CEO of Desmos. It was news I’d been anticipating — dreading, really — for some time: the startup had been acquired. Amplify was buying its curriculum divisi...[Read More]

This is the transcript of the keynote I gave today at Digifest. (Well, I recorded it a couple of weeks ago, but it was broadcast today, and I popped in for some “live” Q&A afterwards, where I was asked the obligatory “do you hat...[Read More]

I’d wager it’s the most frequently told story about ed-tech — one told with more gusto and more frequency even than “computers will revolutionize teaching” and “you can learn anything on YouTube.” Indeed, someone i...[Read More]

Hack Education, as perhaps you’ve noticed, has been on hiatus for a while. What with the pandemic, the death of my son, and the publication of Teaching Machines, I really couldn’t continue to pay attention to the day-to-day nonsense of ed...[Read More]

It’s here!

Teaching Machines is available for pre-order via the MIT Press website (and anywhere books are sold — consider supporting your local bookseller). I spent a few days trying to revamp the Teaching Machines website — before deciding that the template I ...[Read More]

Strategies for Teaching AI Concepts Without Technology by TeachThought Staff Preface: This post is primarily for general content-area K-12 teachers (likely 6-12). Teaching AI theory, for example, is well beyond these ideas. You don’t need a wind tunn...[Read More]