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March 13, 2026
What We Get Wrong About AI and Education
Most of us find ourselves genuinely conflicted about AI in education. AI appears both alarming and exciting in ways that seem difficult to reconcile. If students are using AI to…
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February 16, 2026
The Four-Hour School Day (And Why We'll Never Do It)
Here's a thought experiment. If you could design a school day from scratch, based on everything we know about how humans actually learn, about cognitive science, about motivation,…
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September 13, 2025
The Trust Crisis
In the 1980s, Karl Albrecht sounded the alarm about America's failing customer service in his groundbreaking book Trust: The Crisis Defining American Business Today In the…
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September 11, 2025
The Noble Lie
Introduction - The Uncomfortable Truth About School A quiet but persistent question can echo in the back of the minds of those who've attended traditional public schools: Was that…
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September 8, 2025
Modern Learning: Re-Discovering the Transformative Promise of Educational Technology [REPORT], October 2017
By Steve Hargadon ( @stevehargadon ) Version 1.2 (Text updated 10/2017, cover added 06/2018) Original PDF here . InternetArchive.org link:…
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August 10, 2025
Intentional Education with AI: The Amish Test and Generative Teaching
"What kind of person do you want your child to be at age 30?" This question, commonly asked in parenting classes in order to escape the understandable frame of immediate…
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July 4, 2024
Generative Education
THE PARADOX OF EDUCATION Let’s start with what we might call the basic Paradox of Education. One side we can call individual -centered education: the ultimate goal is for the…
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September 26, 2019
Levels of Learning
A few years ago I gave a talk on education at a conference being held at Google's main headquarters. I expressed my concern about the small number of students who when graduating…
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August 28, 2015
Conditions of Learning, 27 August 2015
The "conditions of learning" exercise can be done by any group, large or small, interested in building a framework together and at the local level for teaching and learning. It's…
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May 26, 2015
Education Reform
Have you ever had a thought come to you with such force or clarity that you realized your thinking, from this point forward, will never be the same? I'm sitting in a workshop at…
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May 11, 2013
Student Bill of Rights
This first pass at a "Student Bill of Rights" was inspired by: 1) " A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age " that Audrey Watters and I were able to discuss…
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