Here’s a great article for anyone that believes that all new problems are just old problems hidden in different clothing. If you believe this, you are going to love the solution John Bowe offers for the polarization and disconnectedness that …
Before you start having anxiety attacks about keeping up with advancements in AI, Take comfort in the fact that 75% of educators believe that technology cannot replace the empathy and social skills needed for learning. This statistic is a wake-up …
It might be a good idea to go back to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to explain the predicament we find ourselves in after COVID-19. We all know the bottom line: Without a foundation of trust and safety, our efforts to …
Looks like someday soon, we might have robots for friends with whom to speak and even share our greatest fears with. Count me in as someone who loves technology but isn’t thrilled about this idea. Don’t we already have enough …
💡 Great Article about some of the less obvious (until you think about it) reasons for teacher burnout. Key takeaways: 📊 The Heart of the Issue From the trenches of the classroom, teachers are crying out for relevance over redundancy, …
In the landscape of modern education, we stand at a crossroads shaped by artificial intelligence. A shocking 47% of learning management systems are predicted to be AI-driven by 2024, yet the most profound impact of AI isn’t in algorithms or …
Are we speaking effectively to our students? A shocking statistic suggests we might not be: Studies in neuroscience indicate that the average student’s attention span during a lecture is just 10-15 minutes, yet our classroom lectures often exceed this. Ask …
Okay, so It’s becoming obvious that AI technologies can craft essays eerily similar to human-written ones. This article touts a recent survey by intelligent.com that found that 66% of high school teachers and college instructors are reconsidering their assignments due …
Remember Plato’s allegory of the cave? How the chained prisoners saw only shadows and believed them to be the whole reality? Since No Child Left Behind, politicians and policy makers have placed pressure on schools to quantify their “output” and …
This a great article with some inspiration for schools – one of the few places in society where human beings are constantly exposed to different opinions and perspectives in a relatively safe environment. But safety and understanding aren’t always what …
Who’s Afraid of Big Bad AI? It’s scary to think that students are now able to turn in essays and term papers that a machine wrote for them. And that’s just the beginning of a new world where the written …
We all know what it feels like to be afraid of making mistakes. We hesitate, delay and ultimately choose to do nothing and then devise elaborate justifications for our inaction. Fear overcomes our courage. Yet we also know the feeling of making quick decisions that lead to embarrassing mistakes. In those cases, a little fear would have encouraged us to slow down and make better choices, and maybe even saved someone else from the mistake that we made. Fear, then, can have a negative or positive impact on our decision-making, depending on the situation.
