Send us Fan Mail Highlights - Today we are exploring a sentiment that echoes through so much of the current educational discourse: "Artificial intelligence in education is transforming classrooms." This phrase, this idea, you hear it everywhere, in articles, in webinars, in conversations in the staffroom. - The real value, the real transformation, comes when we are intentional about *how* we integrate it, and always, always, start with purpose over technology. - Marking formative assessments...
Jun 12
8 min
Send us Fan Mail Find out more Highlights - Today we are exploring a really striking piece of reporting from NPR, by Lee V. - What we’re seeing, and what teachers are intuiting, is that AI fundamentally alters how we process information, how we create, how we learn, and how we assess. - Before, they'd spend hours sifting through websites, trying to summarise and synthesise information. - Teachers often get labelled as resistant to change, but more often than not, they just need time and spac...
Jun 10
7 min
Send us Fan Mail Find out more Highlights - Today we are exploring a headline from the Financial Times that really caught my eye. - It’s because they’re struggling to use AI as a tool to *augment* their own capabilities, to make their human work better, faster, and more insightful. - So, what does this look like in a concrete educational setting? - Maybe it’s using AI to differentiate learning materials more quickly for a diverse class, or to generate varied practice questions for a specific...
Jun 10
8 min
Send us Fan Mail Highlights - Today we are exploring an article I wrote for Forbes this week, simply titled "Prompt Engineering Isn't Dead, But The Caricature Is." It's a piece where I tried to cut through some of the noise about a topic that's often talked about, but rarely deeply understood. - Early systems, when they first came out, rewarded a kind of incantation. - We're not teaching students to outsmart machines with clever tricks; we're teaching them to outthink them by designing bette...
Jun 9
11 min
Send us Fan Mail Find out more Highlights * Instead of banning AI, leverage it by redesigning assignments, such as coding an adventure game and then using AI to expand its narrative, focusing on student interaction with the tool. * Shift from simply using AI to critically evaluating its outputs; focus professional development on understanding AI's limitations, biases, and ethical implications within specific subject areas. * Prioritize "Purpose Over Technology" by defining *why* a subj...
Jun 8
9 min
Send us Fan Mail Highlights * Over-reliance on AI can subtly erode an educator's judgment and authenticity, leading to moments of self-doubt even for seasoned professionals who *know* their material is good. * Generative AI's confident fluency can lead students (and educators) to project human intent and authority onto it, making them susceptible to "persuasion-bombing" and outsourcing their own critical judgment. * Humans possess three irreplaceable qualities that AI cannot replicate:...
Jun 5
15 min
Send us Fan Mail Flat-rate AI plans are ending, forcing educators to rethink usage as AI companies become profitable. This shift in EdTech pricing will significantly impact school budgets and classroom practice. Highlights - Today we are exploring a fascinating analysis of the sheer pace of AI acceleration we’ve seen in just one week, drawing from a recent expert commentary that really captures the feeling that the individual stories are adding up to something much more than the sum of their...
Jun 4
17 min
Send us Fan Mail Find out more Highlights - Today we are exploring a really fascinating piece from Vatican News, an article by Isabella Piro, reporting on Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, a document called ‘Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence’. - It’s not just about integrating a new tool; it's about fundamentally rethinking how we prepare students to navigate this pivotal choice. - It's about ensuring students don't develop what I cal...
Jun 3
9 min
Send us Fan Mail Highlights - Today we are exploring a really impactful piece from Natasha Singer in The New York Times, published just recently on May 27th, 2026. - Now, as I read this, my mind immediately jumps to a few places. - If AI allows students to simply bypass the thinking, the productive struggle that leads to real learning, then we have a problem. - For those grades, screens might genuinely be a distraction from the fundamental work of building motor skills, social emotional conn...
Jun 2
8 min
Send us Fan Mail Find out more Highlights * Resist AI's convenience to preserve the productive struggle essential for building intelligence and character, as argued by Wendy Liu. * Embrace the painstaking process of learning crafts like coding or writing, recognizing that the journey itself, not just the output, transforms understanding. * Be wary of AI "deskilling" complex creative and cognitive processes, reducing them to automated tasks that may diminish learning richness. * Uphol...
Jun 1
7 min
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