
Extrinsic Education Was Always the Problem
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi described it in 1990. AI has made it impossible to ignore.
Weekly field reports from a veteran teacher trying to navigate AI in education - the hype, the panic, and everything in between. For educators, parents, and anyone trying to make sense of how AI is reshaping schools.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi described it in 1990. AI has made it impossible to ignore.

The Skills We Already Teach are the ones AI requires

We obsess over what AI does to student writing. The bigger threat is to reading.

Four years of conflict have exhausted both teachers and students. Is it a stalemate, or a detente?

What UChicago Gets Right About AI Decision Making

I lost the plot more than once this year, but a few things held

But what stuck with me was the Universal Shopping Cart

What I've Learned During the 2025 - 2026 School Year

Let's Think Carefully Before Pulling the Plug

The reckoning for those of us in the humanities was inevitable