I’ve been writing about AI literacy for a while now, and one thing keeps bothering me about how the conversation unfolds in ...

Most classrooms that use AI in 2026 are teaching students how to use it. Fewer are teaching students how to question it.

Because good teaching starts with great stories. Teachers have always known that stories stay with students long after the lesson ends. Documentaries offer that same power, real-world storytelling ...

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 ...

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 ...

I just wrapped up a chapter on AI in data analysis for my upcoming book, AI in Academic Research, which is set to be published in the next few weeks. Since this is such a crucial topic for researchers ...

I’ve been tracking AI tools on Educators Technology since 2011, and nothing I’ve covered in that time has moved as fast as what’s happening with agentic AI right now. A few months ago, most teachers ...

One of the potent ways to tap into the educational potential of generative AI is to use it to enrich and enhance students learning. There are tons of AI powered EdTech tools students can use to ...

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 ...

When was the last time you heard someone talk seriously about digital literacy? I’d guess it’s been a while. And honestly, I think I know why. As Lankshear and Knobel (2011) pointed out over a decade ...

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 ...