Learn how backward design helps teachers integrate AI with purpose. Start with learning goals, not tools. A practical ...

Few concepts have shaped the AI-in-education conversation as quickly as cognitive offloading. I’ve referenced Gerlich (2025) countless times, and it gets cited across the literature for a simple ...

Higher education has two layers of AI policy. Institutional policy lives in the academic integrity code, set by provosts and academic senates. Course-level policy lives in the syllabus, set by ...

AI in elementary classrooms looks nothing like AI in high school. Most K-5 students aren’t old enough to have their own ChatGPT or Claude accounts. Teachers are doing most of the AI work themselves, ...

These two terms keep showing up in the same sentence, often swapped as if they mean the same thing. They don’t. And until we get clear on the difference, every conversation about AI in education will ...

Most teachers I talk to aren’t resistant to AI. They’re overwhelmed by it. New tools launch every week, every conference session mentions it, and the advice ranges from “ban it completely” to “use it ...

If you teach English learners, you already know the daily puzzle: a classroom full of students at five or six different proficiency levels, all needing different kinds of support at the same time. You ...

I’ve spent the past few months pulling together something I wish I’d had years ago when I first started experimenting with AI in my own teaching. The AI Activities Guide for Teachers is a free, ...

Most classrooms that use AI in 2026 are teaching students how to use it. Fewer are teaching students how to question it. There’s a significant gap between a student who can write a good prompt and a ...

I’ve been writing about AI literacy for a while now, and one thing keeps bothering me about how the conversation unfolds in schools. Most of what teachers hear about AI literacy is functional: learn ...