I’ve been reading a lot of assessment research over the past year, and one paper keeps pulling me back. It is not about AI. It was written before ChatGPT changed how every teacher thinks about exams ...

After over a decade of writing about edtech on this blog, I’ve started organizing all my AI-in-writing thinking around one question: how do we let students benefit from AI feedback without letting AI ...

Formative assessment isn’t a final judgment, it’s part of the learning itself. It happens during teaching, not after. As Bell and Cowie (2002) defines it, it’s “assessment which provides feedback to ...

History does not have to be dry facts and events. AI chatbots can turn units into conversations students want to have. History opens up when students can interview the past. A chatbot lets them ...

AI has quietly worked its way into almost every corner of teaching. Lesson planning, assessment design, rubric creation, grading, differentiation, you name it. And the numbers back this up. According ...

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 ...

When students sit down to research a topic, the process usually involves bouncing between Google, Wikipedia, a database like JSTOR, and whatever AI chatbot they have open on a second tab. Perplexity ...

If you teach English learners, you already know the daily puzzle: a classroom full of students at five or six different proficiency levels, all needing different kinds of support at the same time. You ...

In its recommendations on AI ethics, the U.S. Department of Education pointed to a February 2024 proposal from NIST researchers to build on the “long-standing concepts” set out in the 1979 Belmont ...

ChatGPT’s new image generator is truly a game changer. I’ve been experimenting with it over the past few days, and I have to say, I’m thoroughly impressed. From where I stand, we’re right at the edge ...

If there’s one concept educators can no longer afford to ignore, it’s systems thinking. It’s not new. But it’s newly urgent. With the rapid rise of AI, the growing complexity of classrooms, and the ...

Inquiry-based learning has been gaining more attention in classrooms across the world. Teachers often ask, What does it look like in practice? How does it differ from more traditional approaches? At ...