Writing has undergone significant changes in the Age of AI. If you’re still asking students, “Did you use AI?”, you’re missing the bigger question: How did they use it? In the article The New Writing Process in the Age of AI (Tech & Learning), I explore how...
QR codes are everywhere, but that doesn’t mean they’re always the right tool. In my latest article for Tech & Learning, I break down when QR codes help—and when they just create friction. If you're using QR codes in slides, agendas, or PD sessions without thinking...
Books I finished reading (or rereading) in October 2025… Breakneck, Dan Wang (economics) The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune (fantasy) Somewhere Beyond the Sea, TJ Klune (fantasy) The Shattering Peace, John Scalzi (science fiction) Earth Afire, Orson Scott Card (science fiction) The Winner, David Baldacci (thriller) To Die For, David...
Seeing What We Miss Every DaySchool leaders and coaches spend their days immersed in communication, including emails, chats, meetings, notes, and documents. Buried in that digital stream is a story about how we coach, collaborate, and connect. Yet those insights vanish at day’s end.AI tools...
Books I finished reading (or rereading) in September 2025… The Work of the Future, David Autor et al. (economics) The Will of the Many, James Islington (fantasy) Uprooted, Naomi Novik (fantasy) The Shadow of the Torturer, Gene Wolfe (fantasy) The Claw of the Conciliator, Gene Wolfe (fantasy) The Notorious Virtues, Alwyn...
Google Veo has the potential to supercharge creativity in education. This text-to-video and photo-to-video tool turns your ideas into rich, cinematic video, and now with native sound. Think of it as a next-gen storytelling engine, one that can be a game-changer for classrooms, afterschool programs,...
As of fall 2025, forty US states and the District of Columbia have passed laws related to Science of Reading. Many, but not all, of these laws include requirements for evidence-based curriculum, professional development, and required interventions. For me, this has meant: My county adopted a new...
Innovative educators are always on the lookout for smart ways to spark curiosity, deepen engagement, and support every learner. Google’s NotebookLM just made that a little easier with its new Video Overview feature. This tool is a game-changer. It transforms your notes, student writing, or...
Want to be done with staring at empty slides, waiting for inspiration that never fully hits? In my latest piece for Tech & Learning (published September 2, 2025), I pit general AI engines: ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot—against tools built specifically for slide creation: SlidesAI, BeautifulAI, and...
