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We Need “AGI” More than Apple Intelligence!
I’m a forty-year Apple customer, stockholder, and influencer with the receipts for a few hundred million dollars in Apple sales to schools. On more than …
High-Quality Tech Options for Children & Families
Not all screens are created equally! There is a profound difference between how parents use an iPad to quiet a toddler at a pancake house …
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Profiles in Educational Leadership Episode #1492
An Idaho school district banned ten books, including a graphic novel edition of Margaret Atwood’s book, A Handmaid’s Tale, because book banning is all the …
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Summer Reading Recommendations for Educators (updated 2024)
I once heard former President Clinton say, “every problem in education has been solved somewhere.” Educators stand on the shoulders of giants and should be …
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Lots! Global Diary #4
Curation is a form of good teaching. Great teachers provide just the right number of deliberate materials to ensure that the student has ample supply …
Open Education Bibliography
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Paired Texts – Google vs. History re: AI
Code.Org exec, Pat Yongpradit, shared a paper written by Google sharing their LearnLM efforts. LearnLM purports to be Google’s “family of models fine-tuned for learning, …
Paired Reading – AI & Reading
I just came across an article, No One is Talking About AI’s Impact on Reading, by Marc Watkins. I thought it would be useful to …
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Schools are My Happy Place – Global Diary #3
I spent the past two glorious weeks in-residence at Westbourne Grammar School, outside of Melbourne, Australia. It was a pure joy having such a spectacular …
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Who Does That? Global Diary #2
“I’m tired, but it’s a good kind of tired.” – David letterman <- Read previous entry 24 hours after arriving in Australia from India, the …