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Why AI literacy matters for our students, and a few simple ways we can start teaching it.
More than half of our students are already using AI. A recent Pew Research Center survey found that more than half of teens say they have used an AI chatbot to help with their schoolwork, and that number has been climbing fast. Rather than asking whether students shoul...
I’m just going to put this out there. AI isn’t here to replace great teaching. It’s here to support it. Think of AI as your teaching assistant helping you plan lessons faster, personalize learning for your students, provide meaningful feedback, and spend less time on repetitive tasks so you can spend more time teaching.
With that said, the problem is that there are ...
I’m not the type of teacher who likes to start the first days of school by going over the syllabus and talking about rules. I teach mostly 8th graders, and by now, they know the basic rules. Classroom and school rules really haven’t changed much since they started kindergarten. Now, whether they follow them or not is a different story.
Instead, I like to get them up...
A simple daily science bell ringer routine that gets middle schoolers thinking like scientists the second they walk in.
The first five minutes of class used to get away fr...