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

I’ve been writing about edtech here on Educators Technology since 2011, and once in a while a paper comes across my desk that genuinely shifts the way I think about a familiar idea. Mishra, Warr, and ...

I’m revisiting Chiu’s (2025) paper on AI literacy and competency, a piece I covered before in a previous post. This time I put together a sketchnote with help from Claude, ChatGPT, and Canva to make ...

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 ...

Not every teacher teaches just one grade band. School administrators, instructional coaches, professional development facilitators, parents thinking about their child’s AI use across years: they all ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

History and social studies classrooms run on stories, primary sources, and the ability to think critically about both. AI tools are starting to change how teachers bring all three into their lessons, ...

If you are to ask me about the instructional aspect that AI has significantly revolutionized, I would say lesson planning. I spent almost 15 years in classroom teaching, and although I quit teaching ...