Satya Nadella’s Insights on the Future of Organic Intelligence (OI)
The Microsoft CEO offers a provocative alternative vision to the AGI story that assumes humans will be obsolete. But can he deliver? I argue he can—with the support of EdTech.
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Multi-Agentic EdTech: The Promise and the Costs
Multi-Agentic EdTech should not be a LinkedIn Drinking Game
Today’s AI is Economically Unsustainable for Education
It's the economics, stupid.
This is not about the Canvas Hack
One reason I haven’t commented on the Canvas hack yet is that I swore off writing about LMS news years ago. But this story isn’t really about Canvas or LMSs. It’s about the fact that education, through educational technology, is under attack by sophisticated cybercriminals. They started with hospitals some time ago. Now they’re coming [ ]
e-Literacy and Changing Times: Emerging Themes for Learning Impact
I wrote "Dammit, the LMS" in 2014. The diagnosis still holds. What's changed is that I now work at the place that's structurally positioned to do something about it — and AI is forcing the conversation EdTech has been postponing for two decades. Some thoughts ahead of 1EdTech's Learning Impact conference.
Claude Interviews Me About How AI Works
Claude Opus and I discuss the myths and possibilities about how AIs work, focusing on my paper, "Distinctions Worth Preserving".
The Missing Pieces of the Skills Economy are the Skills and the Economy
An economy is based on how we decide to value something. "Skills" as items of value in an economy do not have stable value or even a stable definition. We can have a skills economy. We just need to accept that the definition and value of a skill in an economy comes from agreement among market participants, not from an ontology.
An Explanation of AI that Could Be Wrong (Which is Good)
I haven't been writing much in the past two years because I've been going back to school, after a fashion. I've been trying to apply everything I've learned in the cognitive sciences to what I'm learning about AI. This post finally shares my passion project.
Literally Nobody Understands AI. That’s bad.
AIs have weird failure modes that we don't understand yet. That's likely because the industry has not been rigorously studying them yet. We need to recognize the reality of where we are so we can minimize risk of disasters.
Learning Context and AI: A 1EdTech Labs Live Webinar
I'm delighted to announce that I'll be running an interactive webinar on the nature of learning context and AI on Thursday, February 26th at 11:30 AM ET. "Learning context" is not just a play on words here. 1EdTech takes the position that context is fundamentally different from data and needs to be treated as such, both in how we think about it in our application design and in how we handle it…
AI in Standards: A Conversation with Google and Microsoft
I m incredibly excited to invite you to a Blursday-style conversation with Microsoft s Mike Mast and Google s Kris Snover about AI, EdTech interoperability standards, and the opportunities the two present together for creating learning impact. This conversation, now under the umbrella of 1EdTech Labs, represents everything I ve been striving for over the past 20 years, from [ ]
Digital Credentials, Workforce, and AI
One year into my job as Chief Strategy Officer at 1EdTech, what I'm learning about the state of digital credentials, with a special emphasis on workforce.
Blursday Socials Are Reborn! First One on Thursday, July 31st
EEP Blursdays are now 1EdTech Learning Impact Live. The first one is on Thursday, July 31st at 11:30 AM.
EEP at 1EdTech Learning Impact: Solving the Right Problems
I'm bringing my work and commitment to 1EdTech, starting at Learning Impact. Join me.
AI Mindscape Prompting
What kind of mindscape can you build with just one word? Gemini 2.5 Pro and I explore how “knowledge” and “learning” in AIs are socially constructed on-the-fly. There are echoes here of social constructivism, of Socratic questioning, of distributed cognition.