Generative AI
The use of artificial intelligence systems that can generate new content, ideas, or solutions, often applied in educational contexts for personalized learning or content creation.
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Leaving the Back Open
Part 10 of an ongoing series on vibe coding in EdTech. When Spearfish School District started using the Danielson walkthrough tool I’d built, the first thing they did was ask for changes.…
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Simple Tools That Run Offline, and When to Build Them
Part 9 of an ongoing series on vibe coding in EdTech. A course module arrives as a Word document. A subject matter expert wrote it, and it’s good: objectives at the top,…
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Using Less AI in DIY EdTech
Part 8 of an ongoing series on vibe coding in EdTech. When I started building AI-powered tools for education, my instinct was the same one most people have: send the user’s question…
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Trying a Post-Digital Lens
Most of the language we use to talk about technology in education assumes a line between the digital and everything else. We talk about technology integration, as if the technology arrives from…
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Teaching Realism
I’ve been noticing something in the way AI tools market themselves to educators. The pitch varies in specifics, but the underlying structure is almost always the same: teachers are overwhelmed, teachers are…
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Who Pays for the Free Tool?
Part 6 of an ongoing series on vibe coding in EdTech. In a recent article, I wrote about the ethics of building automation tools for educators, using Mary Doria Russell’s concept of…
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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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Staff Rounding Dashboard
“Rounding” is a practice borrowed from healthcare leadership where administrators make regular, structured check-ins with their staff. Rather than waiting for annual surveys or hoping problems surface on their own, rounding gives…
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Designing for Human Judgement in AI-Powered EdTech
Part 4 of an ongoing series on vibe coding in EdTech. The first version of my course builder had a problem, and the problem was me. I’d been building a personal tool…
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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…
