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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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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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…
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Paywalls, Lock-Ins, and Bugs in Educational Technology
Revised September 2026. The original version of this piece made a number of claims without sources, borrowed a passage from Martin Weller without crediting him, and described a lawsuit that had already…
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A Review of AI Literacy Books For Kids & Families
Educators and parents looking for AI literacy books for kids will find everything from carefully researched materials to hastily produced content, and a fair amount of the latter was written by AI…
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AI Literacy Modules Grades 6-12
Students today don’t just use technology. Rather, they live in an AI-powered ecosystem that shapes what they see, how they learn, and the opportunities available to them. Yet most interact with these…
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Generative AI and the Plastic Waste Problem
When I talk with districts about generative AI, the pace of adoption reminds me of another material that arrived as a miracle: plastic. Plastics were invented early in the twentieth century and…
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Keynote at the Black Hills Library Mini-Conference
A keynote at the Black Hills Library Mini-Conference that introduced rural and small-town librarians to generative AI through a four-part structure built around a “human in the loop” ethical framework, interactive demonstrations,…
