Learn how backward design helps teachers integrate AI with purpose. Start with learning goals, not tools. A practical ...

Most of what we call AI literacy lives on the skills side: prompting, evaluating outputs, knowing which tool fits which task. I’ve taught all of it, and it counts. But there’s a deeper layer ...

Few concepts have shaped the AI-in-education conversation as quickly as cognitive offloading. I’ve referenced Gerlich (2025) countless times, and it gets cited across the literature for a simple ...

I’m revisiting Chiu’s (2025) paper on AI literacy and competency, a piece I covered before in a previous post. This time I put together a sketchnote with help from Claude, ChatGPT, and Canva to make ...

I’ve been writing about edtech here on Educators Technology since 2011, and once in a while a paper comes across my desk that genuinely shifts the way I think about a familiar idea. Mishra, Warr, and ...

Higher education has two layers of AI policy. Institutional policy lives in the academic integrity code, set by provosts and academic senates. Course-level policy lives in the syllabus, set by ...

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 ...

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, ...

ChatGPT’s new image generator is truly a game changer. I’ve been experimenting with it over the past few days, and I have to say, I’m thoroughly impressed. From where I stand, we’re right at the edge ...

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 ...