The Big Machine Europe Needs to Build
Arriving at Fermilab for my Ph.D., the air in Chicago’s prairie suburbs felt heavy.
It was a quiet sadness. Not the loud kind, but a...
The Universe’s Oldest Lights Just Found
Supermassive black holes hide in the center of galaxies. They drive quasars. These engines pump out enough light to blind us. But here is...
Teaching on the Edge
It is a rollercoaster. Hope sits next to terror. As a writer and teacher I know this mix intimately. Sometimes the possibilities feel electric,...
Relational Intelligence at ISTE: What Stuck With Us
Ira Apfel sat down with Sarah McKibben.
Editor-in-Chief of EdSurge, no less.
They were wrapping up ISTELive 24 in Orlando. The week was over, the keynotes...
Context Audit
Ever wonder what people think of you?
The quiet assumptions they hold. Your beliefs. Your habits. Do they get the job? The grind behind the...
Screen bans risk leaving neurodivergent students behind
Keri Rodrigues knows screens work.
She has five boys. Four get accommodations at school.
“When you get a kid with a learning plan for anxiety and...
Who actually runs the classroom?
TikTok isn't just for dances. Or maybe it never was. Two teachers are realizing that technology is driving the bus while educators hold on...
Algorithms and pouches
Two teachers. Two distinct headaches. One about what the machines can actually do, the other about what we keep trying to stop.
David Webb is...
North Dakota is gamifying jobs for kids
A fourth grader hangs out three hundred feet up. Inside a virtual wind turbine. Beside her another student stands next to surgeons mid-crisis. Further...
Stop Avoiding the AI Talk
Thirty years.
I have spent three decades teaching teachers how to actually talk to their students. Not the performative kind. The real kind. Questions that...
