Assessment validity has always been one of the most important ideas in education, but it has become even more urgent today. With the rise of generative AI, the relationship between student work, ...

The more AI settles into classrooms, the more it strains the categories we built before it arrived. Plagiarism is the clearest example. For decades, that word carried a stable meaning: take someone ...

My reading this weekend kept circling one theme: inclusive assessment. Yesterday I wrote about Tai et al.’s (2023) work, and one of their central ideas has shaped how I’m reading everything else.

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 ...

Most classrooms that use AI in 2026 are teaching students how to use it. Fewer are teaching students how to question it. There’s a significant gap between a student who can write a good prompt and a ...

Every time I published a new AI resource, someone would ask: what about younger kids? What about elementary? What’s safe for a 7-year-old? And every time, I’d share a tool or a framework and promise ...

The research keeps piling up, and the direction is consistent. Students who lean on generative AI for cognitive tasks show reduced critical thinking, weaker metacognitive monitoring, and a tendency to ...

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 ...

Art and music classrooms are built on something AI will never fully replicate: the deeply personal act of creating something from nothing. A student mixing paint on a palette, a teenager finding their ...

History and social studies classrooms run on stories, primary sources, and the ability to think critically about both. AI tools are starting to change how teachers bring all three into their lessons, ...

English Language Arts occupies a complicated place when it comes to AI. The subject is built on reading, writing, and discussion, and AI happens to be very good at processing language and generating ...

Math has a unique relationship with AI. Unlike subjects where answers live in shades of gray, math problems demand precision. A solution is either correct or it isn’t. That makes accuracy the ...