It is almost 12 years to the day since I facilitated my first PBL workshop in China. The teachers in a gleaming Shanghai high school were smart and disciplined and eagerly asked questions. I loved the experience. Flash forward to 2024. Last week I visited Hangzhou for a PBL conference sponsored by the Zhejiang provincial […]
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Over the last nine months the blogs I’ve written for this space have focused on one topic: The need for teachers, administrators, parents, and students to become adept at using generative artificial intelligence to improve educational outcomes. We have explored the need to rewrite policy, revise curriculum standards, initiate professional development programs, amend definitions, adopt
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More than 30 years ago I entered the profession as a sixth-grade language arts and social studies teacher at a gritty middle school in Los Angeles. Since that time I have noticed a slow, relentless disempowering of teachers. Economics and technology as well as societal attitudes that have been in place for more than a
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For the last eight months I have been screeching, loudly, for the need to revise content standards, skills frameworks, and educational policy because of generative AI’s invasion of education. We in education must be prepared for the widespread use by students and teachers of generative AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Bard, Claude and newly launched
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The urgent need to overcome the hurdles faced by challenged learners has been a driving force in my 30-year career in education. There is a personal component to this calling. My grandfather never went to high school and my dad never graduated from high school. We were working class poor, with the emphasis on poor.
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