AI and the Law: What Educators Need to Know About Responsible Use in a Rapidly Changing Landscape
"AI relies on data in order to function effectively. When it comes to schools, this means having access to student information."
4 key ideas to keep in mind when doing research with an AI
"success of your inquiry often hinges on how you scope the problem. We hear a lot about the mechanics of "prompt engineering," but a far more vital skill is 'abstraction engineering'"
Same Team, Different Rooms
"Parents want their kids engaged, learning, & not glued to a screen that’s doing more harm than good. Teachers want the same thing. Principals want the same thing. The disconnect isn’t about values. It’s about the absence of a shared framework."
Ellis: Your On-Demand Classroom Companion
"when you have a specific student situation and need help figuring out your next move. You describe what’s happening, using your own words, and Ellis responds with a small set of strategies you can try right away."
Dear Student: What School Can't Tell You About AI
"Knowing the game is a game doesn't mean opting out of it. That's a romantically tempting conclusion & maybe a bad one for most people. The credentials are real. The doors they open are real."
Case Study – When Grasshoppers Become Locusts
“The lesson opens with a vivid, story-driven scenario of a locust swarm descending on farmland, instantly pulling students into the phenomenon.”
8 Ways to Squeeze Writing Instruction Into a Few Minutes | Cult of Pedagogy
“designed to help students automatize the foundational skills that, when underdeveloped, eat up the cognitive energy they need for the real work of writing”
Wait, does this mean that we have to be polite and respectful to Claude and other AI models again??
Anthropic Says That Claude Contains Its Own Kind of Emotions
How to Design AI-Resistant Writing Before, During, & After the Writing Process
“If we are taking more of a “demonstrate what you are learning in writing” rather than “learn through writing” approach, the handwritten process can be laborious & time-consuming.”
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How Google Gemini Changed My Approach to Student Surveys
“Google Forms has evolved from a basic survey tool into an AI-powered data collection and analysis platform.”
SCIENCE OF READING, MEET THE SCIENCE OF LEARNING | ET-Mag
“These mental processes are what enable our brains to take in, give meaning to, organize, store and retrieve information. These mental processes are called cognitive skills.”
Podcast: How to Teach Students to Spot What’s Real, Fake—or Deepfake
"In this super-engaging lesson students become digital detectives, analyzing a set of videos & websites to determine what’s real, what’s been altered, & what’s just pure misinformation."
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The best way to watch the Artemis II launch is on C-SPAN
"CSPAN is airing daily coverage of all things Artemis II. Over 10 days, the Artemis II crew will complete the first human flyby loop around the moon since the Apollo 8 mission in 1972."
Building AI for kids: A developer’s guide to age-appropriate safety architecture
"Building AI products for children isn’t harder than building them for adults. It’s differently hard. The technical constraints are manageable. The design empathy required is substantial."
A Taxonomy of Agentic AI
"The language of AI agents has been, since around 2024, the language of marketing. The problem is that “AI agent” means different things depending on who you ask."
Five Friends Make School Matter to Kids
"This is the challenge—making difficult cognitive work matter to kids. Teachers have lots of responses to that challenge, but most of them scale the time cost linearly with the number of students."
Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions & promotes dependence
"undermine users’ capacity for self-correction & responsible decision-making. Yet because it is preferred by users & drives engagement, there has been little incentive for sycophancy to diminish."
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Breaking the AI Echo Chamber - UnconstrainED
"A recent Education Week article pulled together research pointing to a challenge worth paying attention to: AI chatbots often default toward agreeableness."
The AFT Thought It Had the Tiger on a Leash
"Families with money tend to prefer actual people for their own children. Cash-strapped districts, meanwhile, are forever being told that austerity is innovation with better graphic design."
Resistance as a Framework for Combating Cognitive Offload
"I’m far from convinced that using AI inevitably or unanimously leads to cognitive decline. We’ve had these conversations in education and technology before. From screen time to video content"
Sunday thought: Turning Yesterday's Solidarity into Political Power
“working with activists we already know, added to those we met yesterday, & the activism of our local Indivisible chapter & other groups we participate in”
Toward a Pro-Democracy Movement | Robert Reich
“If “capitalist democracy” is becoming an oxymoron, it’s not because of public assistance or because women got the right to vote.”
Stanford Researchers Find Thin Evidence Behind AI Classroom Tools
"While AI tools can momentarily improve student performance, Stanford University researchers caution that those gains may not persist once the technology is removed"
When a Child Says There Are No Good Books: A Tool for Conferring – Pernille Ripp
“we break it by handing the ownership back. Slowly. With small moves that ask something of the child rather than offering something to them”
How To Handle Lazy Indifference Smart Classroom Management
“Lazy indifference isn’t a sign you’re asking too much. It’s a sign you’re asking too little. You see, student motivation feeds on challenge.”
More Students Use AI for Homework and Believe It Harms Critical Thinking
"students in middle school grades and up who reported using AI for help with their homework increased from 48 percent in May 2025 to 62 percent in December 2025"
