Long before AI, it was my teaching philosophy that a teacher’s goal is not only to implant knowledge into learners’ brains, but to help them develop their own second brain – AKA a digital database of their learning journey that they can take with them beyond the walls of my classroom and the limit...
I have an 8 year old who’s a good reader but would rather spend his time doing anything else — especially pursuing his interests in karate, friends, and video games. His homework from school is to read 25 minutes per day and it’s a challenge to find high‐interest reading materials for him at his gra...
Whenever we build a one‐size‐fits‐all learning experience for all students to move through independently, we should think about how the learner will get personalized feedback when they get a wrong answer. We want to present them with authentic challenges that will reveal whether they have mastered t...
A friend emailed me asking about the latest AI‐powered tools that we instructional designers might use in our work. 2022 witnessed an explosion in the quantity and quality of AI‐powered media creation tools, and I wanted to summarize some of the main types and leading products in this space that we...