Assessment validity has always been one of the most important ideas in education, but it has become even more urgent today. With the rise of generative AI, the relationship between student work, ...

The more AI settles into classrooms, the more it strains the categories we built before it arrived. Plagiarism is the clearest example. For decades, that word carried a stable meaning: take someone ...

After over a decade of writing about edtech on this blog, I’ve started organizing all my AI-in-writing thinking around one question: how do we let students benefit from AI feedback without letting AI ...

I’ve been writing about edtech here on Educators Technology since 2011, and once in a while a paper comes across my desk that genuinely shifts the way I think about a familiar idea. Mishra, Warr, and ...

Most conversations about AI in education start with the tool. Which platform should we adopt? Should we allow ChatGPT? Those questions have a place, but they come too late in the planning process. The ...

If you’ve been reading Educators Technology for a while, you know I’ve been writing about AI in the classroom for a few years now, both here and on my academic blog at medkharbach.com. I get a lot of ...

Most teachers I talk to aren’t resistant to AI. They’re overwhelmed by it. New tools launch every week, every conference session mentions it, and the advice ranges from “ban it completely” to “use it ...

Most classrooms that use AI in 2026 are teaching students how to use it. Fewer are teaching students how to question it. There’s a significant gap between a student who can write a good prompt and a ...

I’ve spent the past few months pulling together something I wish I’d had years ago when I first started experimenting with AI in my own teaching. The AI Activities Guide for Teachers is a free, ...

I’ve spent the last few months doing something I probably should’ve done sooner: testing ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude side by side for actual classroom tasks. Not running benchmarks or comparing model ...

I’ve been tracking AI tools on Educators Technology since 2011, and nothing I’ve covered in that time has moved as fast as what’s happening with agentic AI right now. A few months ago, most teachers ...

If you teach English learners, you already know the daily puzzle: a classroom full of students at five or six different proficiency levels, all needing different kinds of support at the same time. You ...