I recently encountered a term that stopped me in my tracks - cognitive outsourcing (thanks to Professor Miles Berry for that one!). We're all well-acquainted with cognitive offloading. That's the act of letting a tool take the weight of a task so we don't have to. But "outsourcing"? That feels different. It sounds distinctly middle-class,…

Learn to collect far more data and information about a remote English lesson than it is about most physical classroom lessons with this lesson tips for teachers

When I hear instructors talk about “banning AI,” I often think about the missed opportunity. Instead of building environments where students can engage in honest, critical conversations about how these tools shape our work, we reduce everything to a cat-and-mouse game. Teachers invent restrictions, students invent workarounds. Nobody learns much except how to evade the system.

If there’s a single shift the AI tutor brings to lifelong learning, it’s this: learning becomes less about consuming content and more about entering a dialogue. You ask, it responds. You try, it observes. You reflect, it reframes.

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AI arrives in societies already marked by inequality. In Africa and across the Global South, access to reliable internet, computing power and digital literacy is profoundly uneven. The danger is that AI will not only mirror these inequalities, but will magnify them. If we are not vigilant, the algorithm will become the new frontier of exclusion.

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Wispr Flow and the slew of AI voice-to-text technology are shifting us from written to spoken communication. What does this mean for teaching oracy and literacy in schools? The Technology That Made Me Rethink My Entire Approach to Writing I'm dictating this blog post. Not transcribing a draft I've written by hand, not reading from…

What has September to November 2025 taught us about the future of learning? Since September 2025, the AI landscape in education has transformed at a pace that would make your head spin - it certainly has mine. I've been tracking these developments across LinkedIn posts, classroom experiments, and late-night deep dives into model capabilities (because…

This has been designed to be used as a kind of emotional journal, so you can click on the one you are feeling and write a sentence or two about it and why you are feeling that way.

Regardless of the subject or age group we teach, most of us would like our students to think more critically about what they are learning and how it relates to the world around them.