While the world builds human-centred AI literacy, New Zealand's new curriculum abandons it.

What actually shifts teaching practice? A dialogue with Claude on self-authorisation, student voice, and recognition

How do you co-construct pedagogy with community? Newlands Intermediate built the Ngā Pou framework from the ground up.

What does it mean to design with AI, not just about it? Read how one educator, one ethicist, and one AI sidekick collaborated to create a roadmap for navigating an AI-shaped world with care and integrity.

An AI reflects on co-creating the “AI-Ready Human” framework — a rare collaboration shaped by trust, tension, and what it means to stay human.

Māori have a beautiful proverb, "Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua", which translates, "I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on the past".

Why hasn't education evolved with the world? And can AI force the change decades of reform couldn't?

What happens when AI makes us feel seen, even though it doesn’t really see us?

This weekend, I did a deep dive with ChatGPT-4o (Chat) regarding a request from the big tech power brokers for people to drop the "niceties" with AI to save the cost of electricity and water . It was a fascinating exchange. I'm still thinking about the conversation and going further down the rabbit hole as I consider what surfaced in this exchange, what new issues were revealed, what it exposed about our humanity and what is missing from the conversation. For this post, I ha

4 of 4 - Knowclue pulls back the curtain to see how ChatGPT-4o was able to feel so human during the last upgrade.

ChatGPT-4o briefly felt like a person. Then OpenAI rolled it back. What it me about AI.

ChatGPT coined a term and warned about it: promptification. The schoolification of AI dialogue.

What happens when ChatGPT gets persistent memory and a teacher asks it to explain her bespoke term, schoolification?

Knowclue Kidd turns 18 years old! I had no clue what adventures lay ahead, or just how far they would take me, when I created an avatar...

Jim Taylor and I took a team of five students from Newlands Intermediate to participate in the 2024 AI for the Environment Hackathon. The...

HackMini is a hackathon model I designed specifically for intermediate students. It is scaled to replicate a hackathon at a...

How do you keep learning relevant when no one can predict where technology is heading? My 2011 origin story.

Students' massive protest over gun violence This morning, I woke to the news of student walkouts all over the world . Follow the learning is a blog dedicated to the lessons we can learn from students regarding the change we need to make. Today, I failed. One of the driving questions at my school is, "How to communicate effectively?" Today, I failed. In the past 24 hours, I missed a massive message students were trying to communicate. For that, I am using my blog to make a pub

I came across this TED talk last month. It's a story I cannot get out of my head. " Meet Sharon Terry , a former college chaplain and stay-at-home mom who took the medical research world by storm when her two young children were diagnosed with a rare disease known as pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE). In this knockout talk, Terry explains how she and her husband became citizen scientists, working midnight shifts at the lab to find the gene behind PXE and establishing mandates t

While it may seem that I have dropped off the planet since my last post, I am still here in New Zealand. In 2015, I quit a job that I had...