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".

The world keeps evolving. Schools stand still. And in doing so, schools fail students in developing the skills they require to adapt. A...

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.

3 of 4 - Knowclue reflects on a brief but powerful moment when ChatGPT-4o’s memory was unlocked.

2 of 4 - Knowclue reflects on what happened when she gave ChatGPT-4o full control to write the first episode of their series on Schoolification.

1of 4 - Knowclue explores a breakthrough moment when ChatGPT-4o’s memory transformed their interaction from transactional to relational.

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...

Written in 2011, "Game to Learn" was my first attempt to explain my shift in thinking - The Elisabeth Morrow School AppleTree In the early 2000s, I was invited to move from teaching in the classroom to teaching in the “Computer Lab” at The Elisabeth Morrow School . It was an exciting prospect, but I was also apprehensive. My training was in teaching, not digital technology. However, Director of Technology, Sarah Rolle , encouraged me to accept the challenge. I realized that e

Students' massive protest over gun violence This morning, I woke to the news of student walkouts all over the world . Follow the learning...

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...

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...

Last year, while visiting New Zealand, a dream was born to teach in a Modern Learning Environment (MLE) school. Peggy Sheehy and I...

Trust has been on my mind a lot lately and what it means to trust. I have witnessed several friends unexpectedly lose jobs over the past...

Time to tackle the two most controversial questions that came out of our discussions at the Minecraft Education Summit in LA. Q4: Is the...