Harvard Closes Its Writing Center and the Wagons Circle
Do you really want to support critical thinking? Support debate.
Education Disrupted: Teaching and Learning in An AI World
How will AI change learning and instruction? How can we best prepare students for the AI World?
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And why I don’t care about watermarking.
The Screenish Inquisition: The Newest Excuse Not to Reform Education
Smartphones landed in the hands of American teenagers around 2012.
AGI: Education’s Blindspot
The labs have a plan for AGI... Education has a guidance document about cheating.
How to Teach Math With Debate and AI While Learning About All Three
A 28-page proof of concept, built in an afternoon, that needs a math teacher to improve it
My Opening Remarks at the WSDA China National Debate Tournament
Nearly 1,000 students from grade 1-12 speaking and debating
Zuckerberg's Letter Shows Most Schools Are Getting AI Exactly Backwards
The choice isn’t between distributing AI and not having it. AI is coming regardless of what anyone decides. So the real choice is between a broadly distributed capability and a concentrated one.
What Is Your School’s AGI Strategy?
Humanity is not an abstraction headquartered in Mountain View; it is enrolled at your school — the ninth grader in third period, the kindergartener in the class of 2039.
Additional Resources for Teaching Debate
Technology and Humanity (MS, HS, University); Cyborgs (Elementary); Public Forum (MS, HS)
100,000+ Students Are About to Spend the Year Arguing About AI (and on the weekend)
Let's 10X this and make it a million. I have the energy. Do you?
Putting the AI Cart Before the Instructional Redesign Horse -- Why "AI as Edtech" Fails
What I told Ray Kurzweil’s digital twin about why AI keeps failing in schools
July 31 AI Update: Our Intellectual Firepower is Being Directed in the Wrong Place
While education argues about screen time, AI spent a single week rewriting the world our students will graduate into.
Argumentation Belongs in Every Classroom: Two Complete Kits — Robots This Week, Any Topic You Want Next
Education Disrupted is built around one core argument: instructional redesign should come before AI integration. Schools keep acquiring the technology first and asking what to do with it second — I will have a lot more to say about that in an upcoming post.