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My favorite part of teaching middle school was the freedom to experiment with instructional design.
I scrapped the standard book report and replaced it with a graphic organizer that required students to present the key ideas in a multi-modal response using no more than 100 words. The related oral reports were governed by a two-minute time limit. A student earned bon...
By: Michael Ham & Beth Holland
Recently, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has not been the only major school district to dominate education headlines by announcing a decision to significantly restrict students’ use of laptops and tablets during the school day. Across states and districts, new policies include grade-level limits on screen time...
“Learning AI is like learning to ride a bike. How do you teach somebody to balance?” asked Alex Kotran at the 2026 NewSchools Summit.
His answer: “You kind of have to feel it.” And we felt it.
This gem came from a vibecoding pre-workshop led by aiEDU. While many of the attendees were familiar with using AI for typical workplace tasks like synthesis and w...
By: Shereen El Mallah, Jenny Poon, and youth authors Alex Matthew, and Adora Olise
This year, Ms. Chen started using AI to provide feedback on student writing. It saved her two hours a week and ensured that the last essay in the stack received the same quality of feedback as the first. She vetted every word, but she never told her students. There was no sch...
Your feed is loaded with glowing reviews of the latest AI-powered teaching tools. They promise to save you time by assessing student work, creating customized curriculum, or writing multilingual parent newsletters.
Your students have access to personalized AI tutors, automated writing and editing tools, podcast generators, research assistants, virtual labs and field...