In other words, the risk is not simply “screen time,” but unfiltered access to an environment designed to shape behaviour and thinking in ways even adults struggle to resist. Allowing this access before a child has built the inner defences of self‑regulation and critical

HB 4141 (cell phones in schools) was brought up for a vote. A series of amendments have been adopted. Then the bill failed 53-43 as the majority party didn’t have enough members in attendance to put up the 56 votes needed to pass the bill. #miched (1/2)

The likely next move on HB 4141 is that they will reconsider the vote, bring it back to third reading, then pass it temporarily or for the day and bring it back when the majority party has 56 members in attendance…at least, that should be the next move. We’ll see. #miched (2/2)

Once a month I give this anonymous Google Form survey to all my classes + then turn around and share the results with them the following week Adapted from Jim Mayers, having this monthly "pulse check" has been an absolute game-changer (Especially the debrief conversations!)

Writing = Thinking Don't outsource it to AI

The capacity of humans to adjust to technological change is under-rated. Someone born at the time of the Wright Brothers as 66 years old when Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon in 1969. It did not cause much insanity. (Though we shouldn't be too certain, the future can differ)

🪜 This one-pager explains why explicit guidance outperforms self-discovery models in learning. Based on the research of Kirschner, Clark, and Sweller, it summarises the benefits of feedback and support provided by guided instruction. 🔁 REPOST and get a free HQ copy here:

School groups held a press conference this morning to urge elected leaders to pass a School Aid budget that is both right and right now. Speaking on behalf of principals were MASSP Past President JoLynn Clark and MASSP Executive Director @WendyZdeb. #miched

Today, we’re introducing Video Overviews in NotebookLM — a visual alternative to Audio Overviews. Dive deeper with short, engaging slide summaries using images, diagrams, quotes and data from your sources, narrated by your AI host.

OpenAI Releases Study Mode - pretty slick having a 24/7 tutor openai.com/index/chatgpt-… #miched

Google just took a big step towards building ChatGPT for Earth. AlphaEarth Foundations does something clever -- instead of drowning in petabytes of Earth observation data, it creates compact summaries of every 10x10m square on Earth by fusing optical, radar, LiDAR, and climate

A big problem that everyone is insisting that we should hire people based on "AI literacy," teach "AI literacy," & develop skills for "AI literacy" yet not only is there no agreement on what AI literacy is, but also a lot of what people call AI literacy is already out-of-date.

Microsoft just dropped a study showing the 40 jobs most affected by Al and the 40 that Al can't touch (yet). Via Reddit h/t u/SchemeAgile2012

This is a lesson we need to remember: just because we feel “happy” doesn’t mean we are growing. Growth is often uncertain and uncomfortable. Let’s use this coming year to grow. From “Awaken Your Genius” by Oran Varol

"Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. " - Viktor Frankl

We have been systematically testing lots of received prompting wisdom & for recent AI models: 🚫Threats, saying please, being insulting, & promising tips do not change average performance on challenging tasks ⛓️Chain-of-thought no longer helps even non-reasoner performance much

AI is already transforming the work place in ways that will have significant impact in the coming years.

A good entry in the increasing number of articles that ask, given very good AI, what actually needs to happen for it to transform a complex field? Drug discovery is an area that is already seeing acceleration thanks to AI, but some bottlenecks are likely hard for AI to solve.