Archive - Educating AI

Google's Gemini for Education: A Critical Analysis of Enterprise AI in K-12

Midsummer is becoming the time for big AI infrastructure updates!!! Check out what is in store for Google schools when teachers return in the fall.

20 hrs ago •

Nick Potkalitsky

Why Teachers Need to Begin Teaching Grammar Again and How to Think about It

Another round of insights from our work with an incredible class of 11th and 12th graders this past semester

Jul 7 •

Nick Potkalitsky

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Terry underwood

June 2025

The Art of Conversational Authoring: How AI Interaction Mirrors the Craft of Fiction Writing

A Guest Post by Mike Kentz of AI Literacy Partners

Jun 30 •

Nick Potkalitsky

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Beyond Tool Proficiency: Reflections on AI Implementation in Southeast Asia

A conference experience reveals stark contrasts between systematic and reactive approaches to educational AI integration

Jun 23 •

Nick Potkalitsky

Would You Give a Griefbot to a Child?: The Many Dangers of AI Companions

A call for greater awareness, safeguarding, and accountability as AI companions quietly enter children’s lives

Jun 16 •

Nick Potkalitsky

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AI Models Don't Reason. So What?

How students are developing the capacity to experience AI collaboration and pattern recognition simultaneously—and why most of us need to get a little…

Jun 12 •

Nick Potkalitsky

Three Key Takeaways for Teachers Reluctant to Discuss AI in High School Classes

Initial Findings from a Semester-Long Study of Student Integration of AI in a High School Writing Class

Jun 9 •

Nick Potkalitsky

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Terry underwood

We Know We’re Being Manipulated by AI—Now What?

Guest Post by Sydney Sullivan, Ph.D.

Jun 2 •

Nick Potkalitsky

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Sydney Sullivan, PhD

May 2025

Thinking With Tools: David Winter’s Typology of Assistive Tool Use (TATU)

How Our Conceptual Frameworks for AI Use Shape Our Actual Practice

May 29 •

Nick Potkalitsky

What If We Created a World Where Our Kids Need AI to Survive?

AI’s Origins in a Culture of Hypercompetition and Radical Individualism

May 27 •

Nick Potkalitsky

The Great Education Panic: Why AI Hysteria Is Hurting Our Students

What should good research on AI's impact on student learning look like?

May 22

Why Do People Hate AI?

Intelligence vs. Agency: The Category Error at the Heart of Our AI Anxiety

May 19 •

Nick Potkalitsky

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