If your technology folks are getting *and following* direction from those who interct with users more than tech, then you are wasting you money on the technology.

One thing I learned during 35 years in education: Some educators went into the business for the wrong reasons.

Schools are perpetually beginning new practices, and none is ever allowed to have deep influences on pedagogy and student experiences.

Hey leaders... we see through your spin... and you loose credibility the more you do it.

If it wasn't for illogical arguments, some folks would have none at all.

The irony: faculty can't stop students from using AI (for various good and bad reasons), and we (educational developers) can't stop faculty from using AI detectors (though we know they're bad)

Fascinating how AI feedback can be so precise and accurate, OR completely baseless.
First ChatGPT4 told me accurately how I had misspelled a word.
Then it told me to remove a comma that wasn't there.
We need to train ourselves to expect this kind of inconsistency.

The first step used to be understand the other, now it is create a straw man.

Government agencies, politicians, and philanthropists are all much more influential in determining educational policy and practice than they were in previous generations.

AI makes up some pretty trite saying, but some are actaully spot-on: “Critical thinking is the compass of intellect; without it, we are merely wanderers in the land of opinions.”

Variation is far more interesting than standardization.

'You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.' --Alvin Toffler

Here is a reminder to state the opinions upon which you base your facts.

“The central purpose of technologies has not been to provide necessities, such as food and shelter, for humans had achieved these goals very early in their existence.' David Nye

Creativity is a reorganization of what exists in the environments to create something new (and often initially incongruous) that happens within a learner and that is then reflected back into the environments. AI is proving useful in helping this as well.

Humans introduce purpose, intentionality, motivation, and meaning to the interactions that produce new knowledge.

It is reasonable that students who gain experience learning with independence are better prepared for rapidly changing and unpredictable knowledge and situations that characterize our current economy and culture.

What can I learn from this? The craft of teaching requires one to continually improve what they do. Those who develop the capacity to step back and look objectively (and judgmentally) on practice will become the designers of the best lessons.

Episode 8 of the Appropriate Proper Reasonable podcast dropped.
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'What do you need from me?' tells me that you are distancing yourself from the project and are not even willing to understand what your might be.