How Safety Laws Became Liability Protection for Big Tech We fine pubs for selling alcohol to children. We fine casinos for letting them gamble. But when platforms serve addictive content? We fine the parents.

How Child Safety Legislation Became Liability Protection for Big Tech

Not "age-restricted access regulation"—the language we use for alcohol & tobacco. Not "harm prevention legislation"—the frame that applies to driving & dangerous substances.

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How Safety Laws Became Liability Protection for Big Tech We fine pubs for selling alcohol to children. We fine casinos for letting them gamble. But when platforms serve addictive content? We fine the parents.

We fine pubs for selling alcohol to children. We fine shops for selling tobacco to children. Casinos verify age at entry.
But when platforms serve addictive content to children? We fine the parents.
How did child safety law become the only one that works backwards?
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What AI research tells us about strategic frameworks in education The same logic, different domain

Dr Will Van Reyk's LinkedIn post on AI and creativity sparked something.
HBR argues AI works best as "Socratic interviewer"—breaking mental ruts, not replacing thinking.
Same logic applies to strategic frameworks in schools.
New piece:

Between revolution and business-as-usual: AI in schools Moving from AI in education to AI for education. Schools don't need to pick revolution or business-as-usual. They need help navigating the messy middle ground where real work happens.

Stefan Bauschard says schools are making a category error with AI. He's right about the diagnosis. Now what?
Schools don't need to pick revolution or business-as-usual. They need support with the messy middle-ground.
New piece

Why ALIGN Is a Cognition Frame, Not a Compliance Checklist The EdTech mistake schools keep making is the same one we make with GenAI. Follow steps too carefully, you stop thinking. ALIGN is designed to change that.

Why strategic frameworks keep disappointing schools
The moment a framework becomes a compliance checklist, it stops building capacity. The framework does the thinking; leadership ticks the boxes.
What would the alternative look like?

ALIGN: A Diagnostic Frame for Educational Technology Strategy ALIGN: A Diagnostic Frame for Educational Technology Strategy Replacing Institutional Inertia with Intentional Infrastructure

Institutional inertia as implicit strategy—that's what happens when explicit strategy fails to translate.
New long-form: Why edtech keeps failing + a frame explicitly designed to replace inertia with infrastructure.
Built on decades of research.
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#EdTech

ALIGN: A Diagnostic Frame for Educational Technology Strategy ALIGN: A Diagnostic Frame for Educational Technology Strategy Replacing Institutional Inertia with Intentional Infrastructure

"We must adopt AI!" = new "We must have iPads!"
Full examination of systematic edtech failures + diagnostic frame (ALIGN) designed to address them.
~5k words.
Not quick read. Worth it if you're tired of compliance-driven frameworks.
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#EdTech

The execution gap: strategic intentions never reach operational reality.
Not through defiance but infrastructure failure.
New article on replacing institutional inertia with systematic architecture that connects strategy to practice.
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#EdTech #TeacherAutonomy

ALIGN: A Diagnostic Frame for Educational Technology Strategy ALIGN: A Diagnostic Frame for Educational Technology Strategy Replacing Institutional Inertia with Intentional Infrastructure

50+ years. Every wave of edtech adoption. Same strategic mistakes.
Interactive whiteboards → iPads → AI.
I wrote 5,000 words on why execution gaps persist and what diagnostic architecture might address them.
For those who want depth, not simplification.

AI Integration Strategy for Schools | Why Education Leaders Need Strategic Patience Over Hype The Wild Horse Problem

Tech giants: "Here's £31 billion for UK AI! Impact in 5... or 10 years? We're not sure."
Schools: "Does the WiFi work?"
Strategic patience > panic adoption.
Why jumping on wild horses rarely ends well fixedtechstrategy.substack.com/p/ai-integra...
#AIEducation #EdTech #StrategicPatience

📘 Final Part 1 Episode: Understanding Systemic Causes of Strategic Failure

Episode 6 offers the starting point for a fix: dynamic strategy, cross-domain leadership, and alignment from classroom to policy.

🔗https://buff.ly/xw3fPc2
#EdTech #Leadership #SystemsThinking #EducationReform

Episode 5: Evaluating EdTech for landscape change.
No.5 exposes the "edtech jungle": biased tools, weak oversight, & poor procurement. Discover how frameworks like 5E Model of EdTech Impact set a higher standard for selection & design.
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#EdTech #Equity #EducationStrategy #Evaluation

📢 “Friction at the Frontline”
What happens when tech is imposed on schools without co-design?
Episode 4 digs into the real barriers, culture, power, & exclusion & how we move toward authentic integration.
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#EdTech #DigitalCulture #StudentVoice #TeacherInnovation #EdLeadership

📘 Episode 3 is out: “Bridging the Gap”
Schools don’t just need better tech they need better strategy.
This episode explores how narrow expertise, siloed systems, & short-term thinking stall real transformation.
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#Education #EdTech #SystemsThinking #Leadership #GeneralistStrategy

Why EdTech Strategy Keeps Failing Part 1 of a Series. A Six-Episode Exploration of Strategic Missteps in Education Technology

Not another “how to fix EdTech” thread.
This one’s a diagnostic: 6 parts, starting with what AI reveals about our own strategic mess.
System failure, not tech failure.
Episode 1. The Strategic Crisis in EdTech | How We Got Here and Why It Keeps Failing
Series Hub Page here:-

Why EdTech Strategy Keeps Failing Part 1 of a Series. A Six-Episode Exploration of Strategic Missteps in Education Technology

Everyone’s got ideas for fixing EdTech.
Fewer are willing to map what actually went wrong.
This is that map:
Six episodes tracing why strategy fails, again and again.
Link to the full diagnostic series hub

System Error or Bias by Design? What Happens When AI Reviews Strategy

System Error or Bias by Design?
I asked 3 big AIs to critique my article on EdTech strategy.
Then asked them to reflect on their own logic.
It revealed AI’s role in undermining the strategic depth education needs.
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#EdTech #AI #Strategy #SystemsThinking #EdAI #EdChat #AIinEducation

When AI Critiques Itself What Happens When the System Turns Inward

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Unless educators lead AI’s design, we’ll keep using tools that misunderstand how we learn.

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#AI #Education #CognitiveScience #LearningDesign #AIforEducation #EdTechReframed #EdTech

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Tech moves fast. Education requires depth.
These aren’t just speed mismatches, they’re cultural collisions.
And AI is the spotlight exposing the fractures.

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AI will shape education BUT only if the right people shape the AI.
Big Tech just launched a National AI Academy for teachers. But their systems? Already showing cracks.

I asked ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini to critique my article on EdTech strategy and then critique themselves.
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From Snapshot to Strategy: Rethinking EdTech Integration 5 Essays Reframing EdTech for a Smarter Digital Strategy

I wrote 5 short essays challenging EdTech norms.
Snapshots ≠ insight
Frameworks ≠ ladders
Strategy ≠ shopping list
Impact ≠ login data
Innovation needs infrastructure

Read the full series → buff.ly/04H4GWq

#EdTech #LearningDesign #EduTech #DigitalLearning #EducationStrategy #TeacherAgency

AI will shape education.
So, educators must shape the AI.
We need pedagogy-first, bias-aware models, not shortcuts from Big Tech.

Who would you trust to lead the design of EdGPT?

#EdTech #EdGPT #EduTech #AIandEducation #EdTechReframed

AI Is Not a Shortcut. It’s a Scaffolding Amplifier. I use AI almost every day; not as a shortcut, but as an amplifier. It helps me scale what I already know, polish what I’m already saying, and reframe ideas I’ve been sitting on for years.

AI Isn’t a Shortcut. It’s a Scaffolding Amplifier
It amplifies my ideas, speeds up execution, and supports my process.
This is augmentation, not automation.

How are you using AI to scale your thinking?

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#AItools #AugmentedThinking #EdTech #EduTech #AIandEducation

Innovation Needs Infrastructure; Lessons from History.
Tools don’t transform. Systems do.
On history, scaffolds, and the cultural roots of EdTech success.
Essay 5 of 5 in #EdTechReframed series buff.ly/sQcqCBZ
#EdTech #FixEdTechStrategy #SystemsThinking #ChangeLeadership

The Illusion of Impact: Outputs Are Not Outcomes
Essay 4 of 5 in the #EdTechReframed series
On data dreams, Goodhart’s Law, and the metrics we get wrong.

On Substack buff.ly/MnJ8OdN

#EdTech #FixEdTechStrategy #Assessment #DigitalLearning #LearningAnalytics

#EdTechReframed