An insider's perspective on closing the gap between education technology and school realities After 11 years managing IT infrastructure at an international school, I've sat through countless vendor pitches, evaluations, and implementations. I've seen solutions that...
There's a well-documented phenomenon in education: when stakes attach to test scores, curriculum narrows. Schools teach to the test. Subject areas not on the test—arts, social studies, sciences beyond what's assessed—lose instructional time. Teachers focus on...
Your institution just wrapped a $400,000 LMS migration. The vendor promised integration. The implementation partner promised change management. The steering committee promised adoption. Six months in, teachers are uploading PDFs to a digital filing cabinet and...
The Scene It's 7 a.m. on a Tuesday. A high school English teacher sits in an empty classroom with her laptop open. She has 90 minutes before students arrive. This time used to be for lesson planning, creating handouts, or just breathing. Now it's for data work. She's...
The Paradox Teachers have more data about their students than ever before. Student information systems track attendance, grades, and behavioral incidents. Learning management platforms log assignment submissions, discussion forum activity, and time-on-task metrics....
WHO TRAINS THE AI GRADER? AUDITING THE HIDDEN RUBRICS INSIDE AUTOMATED ASSESSMENT TOOLS Automated grading tools are marketed on consistency and speed, and on both counts they often deliver. What they rarely deliver is transparency about what they're actually...
Memory Augmentation as a Learning Tool Futures of Learning · Issue 04 Memory Augmentation as a Learning Tool Spatial computing, AR overlays, and ambient AI are beginning to blur the line between remembering and looking up. What does this do to how we define —...
Synthetic Teachers Not AI as classroom assistant. Not AI as tutoring supplement. AI as the primary instructor — holding authority, building rapport, and teaching a generation of students who may never know the difference. The question has been asked quietly, in...
The Emotional Surveillance Problem EdTech Ethics · Surveillance June 2026 The Emotional Surveillance Problem AI tools that read student affect in real time are being marketed to educators as engagement solutions. The pedagogy case is weak. The privacy case is...