Tag: ai

No Screens, No Fizzle: How Frizzle Brings the Sizzle Back to Student Thinking

The AI Tool That Lets Students Put the Screen Down Without Turning the Data Off Perhaps one of the strangest plot twists that I’ve seen in the evolution of educational technology is that artificial intelligence may ultimately drive many classrooms back to pencil and paper. After years of pushing and integrating devices, digital assignments, online … Continue reading No Screens, No Fizzle: How Frizzle Brings the Sizzle Back to Student Thinking →

Protect the Thinking: Introducing the TRACE™ Framework

TRACE™: A Human-Centered Framework for AI-Supported Thinking and Learning AI Supports. Humans Lead. There is a familiar and recurring educational optical illusion appearing in classrooms everywhere. A student submits an assignment that looks terrific. The grammar is polished, the vocabulary is elevated, the organization is nearly flawless, and the presentation appears ready for a conference … Continue reading Protect the Thinking: Introducing the TRACE™ Framework →

Preventing Jonathan Haidt from Writing “The Artificial Generation.”

Five years from now, the morning bell still rings in American schools, but it no longer means what it once did. It does not summon students into learning so much as into access, where students login, sync, prompt, generate, revise and submit. The rituals of school remain cosmetically intact. Backpacks still thud against desks. Teachers … Continue reading Preventing Jonathan Haidt from Writing “The Artificial Generation.” →

The Digital DMV for the Information Highway

A serious national plan and blueprint for age certification, developmental guardrails, and AI that strengthens (not short-circuits) learning In my last article, The United States of Algorithmia - A Sovereign Nation, with an Unsecured Network, I raised the alarm! We’re a nation obsessed with physical borders while leaving the digital ones wide open, and our … Continue reading The Digital DMV for the Information Highway →

Portrait of a Graduate, Portrait of a Crisis: What Education Must Fix Before the Future Arrives

College and or Career Readiness in the Age of AI in 2025 - The Coming Workforce Winter and What Education Must Do Before the Job Market Freezes by Mark Erlenwein, Principal - Staten Island Technical High School I’ve been in public education long enough to have seen pendulum swings, policy cycles, silver bullets, and reforms … Continue reading Portrait of a Graduate, Portrait of a Crisis: What Education Must Fix Before the Future Arrives →