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August 4, 5:27 AM
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“Many decades ago, humans developed a process by which they could go into a store, pick an item off the shelf, and pay for it at the checkout counter. A few years ago, we lost it. Now you ring a buzzer, wait for an overworked employee to unlock an item
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July 25, 7:57 AM
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Who is ed-tech for?
The marketing copy -- whether on websites or in PowerPoint or in TED Talks and the like -- will all insist that ed-tech is, at the end of the day, for "the students." Even the products that are pitched to make teachers' and principals' and professors'
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July 19, 7:02 AM
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Few things in our culture are more wounding than the concept of healing — as if the pains and losses that we suffer are an illness, a malfunction of the psyche to be cut out like a tumor, rat…
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July 18, 1:43 PM
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“The future is here. It’s just not very evenly distributed.” This quotation, attributed to science fiction author William Gibson, is often used to imply that some lucky few, particularly those surrounded by silicon gadgetry, live in some glorious high-tech promised land; while the rest of us, without access
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July 12, 9:20 AM
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The Atlantic has pronounced that “The End of Reading is Here,” the latest in a long series of stories, there and elsewhere, that lament that no one -- but specifically no student -- reads anymore. They don’t read; they can’t read.
When I say “long series,” I really do mean
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July 4, 6:21 AM
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Many years ago, in an earlier era of silliness about a looming ed-tech revolution, a startup founder sent me an email, asking that I please hold off from writing anything about the company. They'd experienced a huge surge in demand for their app – it was fall, students were
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June 26, 9:03 AM
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What critical media literacy taught me about control, agency, and the students we can't force to think.
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May 22, 8:26 AM
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“People ask: ‘Would you or would you not like to be young again?’ Of course, it is really one of those foolish questions that never should be asked, because they are impossible…
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May 2, 12:51 PM
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I often feel like I’m repeating myself here, because in fact I am. I am, in part, because ed-tech entrepreneurs and evangelists keep repackaging the same ideas, desperate to sound innovative instead of stuck in some Cold War science fiction fantasy. “Intelligent tutoring systems” become “adaptive learning” then “personalized
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February 9, 9:15 AM
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How AI and big data will badly influence our capacity to learn and affect our skills.
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February 8, 2:26 PM
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From chatbots to climbing beans, new research challenges our deepest assumptions about intelligence and consciousness.
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January 15, 7:18 AM
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A stage-by-stage breakdown of outlining, drafting, revising, and editing with AI
In what stages of writing is AI really helpful for students?
AI in the #Writing Process: What Stages Actually Benefit Students?
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August 5, 8:21 AM
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“Beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.”
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July 26, 6:29 AM
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Like consciousness, like music, like love, life itself didn’t have to exist — nothing in the fundamental laws demands it. The universe could have gone on lapping at itself as a horizonl…
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July 22, 8:10 AM
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“While wandering down the path of wonder, I briefly escape the world of separation and enter the world of unity.”
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July 19, 7:01 AM
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Few things in life are more exasperating than seeing the potential in someone you love and seeing them continually fall short of it, stumbling again and again over the same self-erected roadblocks …
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July 15, 10:31 AM
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“I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars,” Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska wrote in her lovely poem “Possibilities.” Our preferences, of course, hardly matter to…
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July 12, 9:19 AM
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“Life will break you,” Louise Erdrich wrote in her exquisite insistence that “you are here to risk your heart.” The price we pay for the risk is the great equalizer of human…
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June 28, 6:21 AM
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Whenever there is a will, there are two things: a way and an obstacle in the way — that place midway between desire and destination where one’s will collides with the will of the world,…
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May 30, 9:36 AM
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For YEARS now, I’ve been getting frustrated with people referring to AI as a “just a tool” and trying to explain why, no, Generative AI is really not “just a tool” in …
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May 7, 10:40 AM
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Why your AI tools aren't delivering the ROI you were promised — and what to do about it
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February 11, 8:31 AM
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Six evidence-based use cases to try in Google's latest image-generating AI tool
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February 9, 9:09 AM
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"The Educationalist", by Alexandra Mihai
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February 5, 9:21 AM
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If it is difficult to transfer tacit knowledge through language, then how can it be passed on? Here are six proven strategies for inferring and acquiring tacit knowledge.
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Here are ten elearning interactions that go beyond simple recall and ask learners to analyze, evaluate, judge, and make decisions.
Virginia Woolf summed it up beautifully:
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
Today I would say that to write, a woman must have a space of her own and wifi.
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