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 ...

Few concepts have shaped the AI-in-education conversation as quickly as cognitive offloading. I’ve referenced Gerlich (2025) countless times, and it gets cited across the literature for a simple ...

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 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 ...

The research keeps piling up, and the direction is consistent. Students who lean on generative AI for cognitive tasks show reduced critical thinking, weaker metacognitive monitoring, and a tendency to ...

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 ...

One of the questions I get asked most often is: “Where should I start learning about AI?” And honestly, the answer has changed a lot over the past year. The big tech companies have rolled out their ...

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 ...

Art and music classrooms are built on something AI will never fully replicate: the deeply personal act of creating something from nothing. A student mixing paint on a palette, a teenager finding their ...

History and social studies classrooms run on stories, primary sources, and the ability to think critically about both. AI tools are starting to change how teachers bring all three into their lessons, ...