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Thank a teacher this week!

How best to appreciate a teacher during National Teacher Appreciation Week? Tell them! 🧑‍🏫 My Latin teacher[…]

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Given AI, do we know whether our children are learning? 👩‍🎓

That question was at the heart of the professional development session I ran last week for Horace[…]

A vintage-style image featuring a smaller, friendlier-looking robot teacher seated behind a desk at the front of a classroom

AI is the biggest EdTech disruption since the chalkboard. 🦾🎓

Yet 60% of teachers still don’t use it. 🤔Spoiler alert: it’s not their fault. Plenty of past[…]

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Teach what’s NEEDED, not what’s NEXT (3/3)

But… what if you can’t use AI? 😰 My last few posts used AI assists to illuminate[…]

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Teach what’s NEEDED, not what’s NEXT (2/3)

You’ll learn best if the learning is targeted to your personal needs. 😎 (This isn’t about learning[…]

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Teach what’s NEEDED, not what’s NEXT. (1/3)

But… how do you know what’s needed? 🧐 I had high school classes where the teacher said[…]

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Uh oh. Do you actually know what your learners don’t know? 🤔

Teaching is way more than telling. A great teacher unearths their learners’ misconceptions and misunderstandings, and then[…]