K12
Related to primary and secondary education, encompassing kindergarten through 12th grade.
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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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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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The “Other” Training and Delivery Modalities
When it’s time to teach something or share information, most people default to building a presentation. It’s familiar, it’s comfortable, and it works often enough that the habit sticks. But comfortable isn’t…
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Student Roster Generator
Version 2.0.0 A Note on Student Data This tool runs entirely within your Google Sheet. No student information leaves your Google Drive, gets sent to an external server, or is accessible to…
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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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“Collective Growth” Workbook
This is an older resource of mine, written in 2023 when TIE (now Compass Partners in Learning) published it, about moving past individual professional development toward approaches that strengthen a whole educational…
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Let “EdTech” Training Die
The shift in educational technology culture became clear to me through our annual edtech conference here in South Dakota. To my eye, attendance has thinned over the past few years, and the…
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Secondary Cell Phone Management Canvas Modules
Back when I was a classroom teacher, I built a free, three-module Canvas course to help with the technology management problems that kept coming up with students. It’s self-paced and works both…
