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7. What Will You Stop Doing? “We can change hearts and minds to change schools.” — Paul Fleming, Learning Forward New initiatives often pile onto existing work because ending a program, publication, meeting, or tradition
In a Facebook group, someone asked, \" What's the best free AI tool to use to create PowerPoints for Secondary Science? Of course, they were really asking for a tool like Gamma, which makes designing slide decks child's
6. Is Your Change Process Protecting the Status Quo? “Be willing to try, learn from failure, and fail forward.” — Steven Priest, education innovation leader Committees, listening sessions, pilots, and phased rollouts can
5. Is One Big Event Carrying Too Much Weight? “A catalyst for the transformation our sector is ready to create.” — Umer Rupani, Independent Sector A major event can create community, visibility, sponsorship revenue, and
In today’s classroom, digital math tools can make first contact with mathematical concepts a supported first step for learners. In this blog, I share some math resources for PreKinder and Kinder that you may not be familiar with.
The Prompt Library brings scattered education prompts into one collection. Start with a task you need to complete, adapt a relevant prompt, and review its output. Data Display Patterns provide examples for building charts and graphs.
4. Have You Mistaken Gen AI for an Email Assistant? “Association executives must move beyond efficiency plays.” — Tori Miller Liu and Tommy Goodwin, association leaders Using Gen AI to draft messages and summarize meetin
Explore the gap between AI use guided by judgment or not.
Every time I turn around, I read an article on cognitive offloading , or how Gen AI is wiping out swaths of entry level and other jobs. I oppose blanket bans on Gen AI in K 16, but I do think students need some time to w
This morning, I'll be spending some time chatting with the hosts of Children at Risk KPFT radio program about some important questions. They were kind enough to share some of the questions ahead of time. Listen in.
Miguel responds as an educator to the loss of Texas Dream Act protections and argues that higher education access strengthens Texas and its students.
3. Are You Paying Premium Prices for Ordinary Technology? “Always focus on the educational purpose, not on the technology.” — Keith Krueger, Consortium for School Networking Nonprofits may debate one staff position for m
Reading this KQED post on "'Cognitive Surrender': Faster Solutions, Lower Test Scores Show How AI is Eroding Math Skills,") , I was not surprised to see this assertion: Many students appear to be completing assignments f
2. Is “Free” Undermining the Mission? “Without alignment to business goals, it’s impossible to justify investment.” — John Nawn, association community strategist Free articles, webinars, templates, and tools can help peo
Listening to the Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput podcast, The Artificial Intelligence Show, from three weeks back (it's been a busy few weeks), on the ride to work this morning, I realized that Mike's comment about how regul
Summer brings a rare drop in organizational noise. The major event is over, webinar attendance slows, and staff members rotate through vacation schedules. Instead of filling that space with another round of planning meet
4. Have You Mistaken Gen AI for an Email Assistant? “Association executives must move beyond efficiency plays.” — Tori Miller Liu and Tommy Goodwin, association leaders Using Gen AI to draft messages and summarize meetin
What a shocker to imagine Internet access in schools without E rate to offset the costs. I still remember days before E rate, and after. It has been one of those blessings schools couldn't do without. Tearing It Down It
It's like an eternity ago that I first started blogging. I remember starting with a simple website, HTML based, not a real blog with a database behind. I relied on Thingamablog for 7,000 blog entries before switching to
Miguel describes a first hand age verification experience in Texas and raises privacy concerns about collecting sensitive identity data for online access.
Instructional rasquachismo builds dignified, practical teaching tools from limited resources, while nepantla is the transformative in between space those tools bridge between enterprise technology and under resourced classrooms.
Here I am pictured in front of one of my old haunts, Brook Hollow Public Library in San Antonio, Texas. In the original version of this picture, which my wife snapped Saturday, I appear bald head, bald knees, in shorts.
Make sure to read a book and save the date, says Diana Benner. TCEA’s Librarian Conference is taking place this week, and here
