The same consultants selling us AI tutors that will "revolutionize learning" are the ones who promised interactive whiteboards would do the same thing fifteen years ago. Different decade, same breathless pitch deck.
A man in a black out and hat on a cliff overlooking a body of water.
How are we supposed to foster the deep thinking needed within our schools if we are just as distracted as our students?
mugmarks.study/p/schools-as...
#education #deepthinking #technology #edusky #schools #culture #edtech
Are you attending ISTE26? Join us for the #ISTELive Board Game Meetup!
š² FREE registration - bit.ly/iste26bgm
š June 28th - 6-11pm
š Hyatt Regency Orlando - Regency Ballroom PQ
š² 300+ board & card games to play & bring your own!
š Food & drinks
#EduSky #EdTech
New article on eLearning Industry about a pattern worth considering when building AI-powered learning tools: the AI should be the finishing layer, not the foundation.
elearningindustry.com/cut-the-cable
What a Homelab YouTuber Can Teach Us About EdTechĀ Dependency
A video about replacing streaming subscriptions with a home server recently crossed my feed, and I have not been able to stop thinking about how cleanly its argument maps onto educational technology. The creator, Jeff from the channelā¦
The fanciest LMS features gather dust while teachers still email PDFs to parents. Simple tools that solve actual problems beat elegant solutions to problems nobody has. Keep it simple, but first figure out what simple actually means to the person using it.
Been thinking about the teachers who quietly redesign their lessons every summer versus those who attend three conferences a year but change nothing. The quiet ones never call it professional development. They just call it teaching.
Maybe the real professional development happens in the margins between the planned sessions.
Staff Rounding Dashboard
"Rounding" is a practice borrowed from healthcare leadership where administrators make regular, structured check-ins with their staff. Rather than waiting for annual surveys or hoping problems surface on their own, rounding gives school leaders a way to hear directly fromā¦
EdTech companies must assess their effectiveness for students with disabilities.
The 2026 EdTech Evidence Report offers a framework for evaluating accessibility.
Read the report: www.innovateedunyc.org/evidence-rep...
#EdTech #K12
What Does Breakfast of Champions Have to Say About InstructionalĀ Design?
Early in my career as an instructional designer, I took on a project that should have felt like meaningful work. We were building a train-the-trainer program for people who would be supporting at-risk students. The missionā¦
I built a free #Chrome extension that gives #teachers professional course page components for #Canvas, Schoology, and Moodle without needing to code or pay for a plugin. 37 components based on atomic design, grounded in learning research. No account, no tracking. CC BY 4.0. #EdTech #OnlineLearning
#academicsky How a Civics School With a Conservative Bent Divided Its Supporters www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/u...
Designing Smarter EdTech That Uses LessĀ AI
When I started building AI-powered tools for education, my instinct was the same one most people have: send the user's question to Claude, get a response, display it. The AI was the tool. Everything ran through it. And it worked, until it did not. An APIā¦
A small district showed me their PD budget breakdown: 80% on one-time workshops, 20% on follow-up support. Then they showed me their implementation rates. The math was backwards. We keep buying the event instead of investing in the practice, then wonder why nothing sticks.
Designing for Human Judgement in AI-PoweredĀ EdTech
The first version of my course builder had a problem, and the problem was me. I had been building a personal tool to accelerate the most repetitive parts of course development in Canvas LMS. The idea was straightforward: use AI to draftā¦
Alexandra Cornejo Named 2026 School Librarian of the Year
www.slj.com/story/Alexan...
#Skybrarians #EduSky
The "geography bound" insight resonates. Distance and affordability shape so many educational decisions in places like South Dakota. Those constraints often reveal student determination more than they limit potential.
UDL principles work well in chemistry because the subject already demands multiple representations of the same concepts. Molecular models, equations, graphs, and lab work all show different facets of chemical phenomena.
... I realized I don't have another place to post this at the moment, at least not until I get a Bluesky account for the blog, so I'll share this here instead: I'm playing board games again, and apparently writing blog posts about it too.
thecraftynerd.com/2026/02/08/f...
Backward design is such a clarifying force when you're juggling multiple projects. Starting with what learners actually need to be able to do cuts through so much complexity.
Personalized videos in large enrollment courses is such smart design. The challenge is always maintaining human connection at scale while keeping faculty workload sustainable. How did you balance those competing needs?
We tell contractors to survey the foundation before building, but buy ed tech like we're shopping for shoes.
Most failures aren't about the platform. They're about assuming the ground was ready when nobody checked if it was even there.
The topic? "Designing for connectivity challenges in rural learning." The irony was not lost on me as I sat next to the jerky display explaining why we need to build offline-first learning experiences. Sometimes the universe has a sense of humor about our work.
#LXD #EdTech #EduSky
How to Grow and Thrive as Women in Education ā Bonus Episode with Community EDU/Leadhership Network for Women #EdTech
#edusky #TLSky #teachers #education #educators
Daughter is a walking biohazard today - snot, red eyes, the works. But working at BHSSC means I can handle sick kid duty while still getting to meetings and using naptime as deep work time. Project-based work actually works with life's curveballs.
bhssc.org #LoveWhereYouWork #WorkLifeBalance
Homegrown Learning pre-release is here! A field guide for trainers who believe learning should grow like a gardenānot a factory. Want to peek inside? link below. Feedback = gold.
bradylicht.com/homegrown/
#LearningDesign #EdTech #EduSky #Education #L&D #Training #Biomimicry #Co-Design
Saw an educator's post about their lesson crashing when three apps failed to connect.
This is why I'm skeptical of app smashing. Every tool = another failure point. Sometimes simple is more innovative.
New post: bradylicht.com/2025/07/09/k...
#EdTech #LearningDesign #EduSky #Teaching #ISTE
āDonāt let co-design and student voice be just buzzwords. Make them practice.ā
At todayās Solutions Summit, @kaepernick7.bsky.social āŖchallenged us to flip the script by giving students space to lead, share, and shape the future of learning. #ISTELive #ASCDAnnual
