Learn how backward design helps teachers integrate AI with purpose. Start with learning goals, not tools. A practical ...

I’m revisiting Chiu’s (2025) paper on AI literacy and competency, a piece I covered before in a previous post. This time I put together a sketchnote with help from Claude, ChatGPT, and Canva to make ...

I’ve been writing about edtech here on Educators Technology since 2011, and once in a while a paper comes across my desk that genuinely shifts the way I think about a familiar idea. Mishra, Warr, and ...

Not every teacher teaches just one grade band. School administrators, instructional coaches, professional development facilitators, parents thinking about their child’s AI use across years: they all ...

AI in elementary classrooms looks nothing like AI in high school. Most K-5 students aren’t old enough to have their own ChatGPT or Claude accounts. Teachers are doing most of the AI work themselves, ...

Few concepts have shaped the AI-in-education conversation as quickly as cognitive offloading. I’ve referenced Gerlich (2025) countless times, and it gets cited across the literature for a simple ...

These two terms keep showing up in the same sentence, often swapped as if they mean the same thing. They don’t. And until we get clear on the difference, every conversation about AI in education will ...

Higher education has two layers of AI policy. Institutional policy lives in the academic integrity code, set by provosts and academic senates. Course-level policy lives in the syllabus, set by ...

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 ...

Lesson planning is one of those areas where you can truly make the best of AI. As someone who’s spent hours crafting detailed plans, adapting materials, and trying to meet every student’s need I know ...

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 ...