EdTech
Educational Technology, referring to the use of both hardware and software designed to enhance teacher-led learning in classrooms and improve students’ education outcomes.
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The Security Case Against Vibe-Coded EdTech
Part 5 of an ongoing series on vibe coding in EdTech. Over the past several months, I’ve been building an argument across multiple articles. I’ve made the case that educators can and…
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What a Homelab YouTuber Can Teach Us About EdTech Dependency
A video about replacing streaming subscriptions with a home server recently crossed my feed, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about how cleanly its argument maps onto educational technology. The…
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What AI-Assisted Coding & GAS Can’t Do
Part 3 of an ongoing series on vibe coding in EdTech. I’ve spent the last year or so experimenting with, writing, and talking about why educators and districts should consider building their…
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Vultures, Vibe Coding, and Who Gets to Automate Whom
Part 1 of an ongoing series on vibe coding in EdTech. In Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow, published in 1996, one of the earliest plot points involves a professional role that Russell…
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DIY EdTech: The Basics of Building Custom Web Apps with AI
Part 2 of an ongoing series on vibe coding in EdTech. A few weeks ago, I wrote again about why teachers should learn to code, arguing that basic programming skills give educators…
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FAQ Chatbot: A Configurable Help Desk You Actually Control
Version: 1.0.0 What and Why If you’ve ever managed a program, a department, or really any group of people with questions, you know the pattern. The same questions come in over and…
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Reflections on “Why All Teachers Should Code”
A retrospective on a JavaScript tool I built as a remedial reading teacher to automate personalized practice plans, revisited in light of how AI-assisted coding has lowered the barrier for teachers to…
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Low-Bandwidth Course Design
When I work with rural districts across the Great Plains, the same frustration comes up in different words: the course is built, the content is good, and a good share of the…
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What a Fictional Physicist Taught Me About Ethics in Technology
There’s a character in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy I think about occasionally. His name is Sax Russell, a physicist and one of the first hundred scientists sent to colonize Mars, and…
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Canvas “Auto Pacer:” Custom Student Check-Ins for Self-Paced Courses
A Note on Student Data and AI Processing When the tool drafts check-in messages, it sends each student’s name, course name, and assignment progress to the Claude API hosted by Anthropic. This…
