STEM Educator | NBCT | ISTE Capstone | MAT | Gamer | Runner | he/him. Passionate about #edtech, #STEM, #gamification, #GBL, #esports, #AI, & #edreform

Joined June 2009
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The EPA’s Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators 2022. #epa 🤗 What an honor to be among all the recipients of this year's #PIAEE award! educatoral.com/wordpress/202… I’m re-posting this because I used Nano Banana to make the photo look more professional. ☺️
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Day 3 of 3 - Lake Crescent from top of Mt Storm King yesterday to on the water this morning from our canoe! And the best weather ever!
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Day 1 of our three-day, two-night outdoor education overnight trip with our 6th graders! At camp NatureBridge near Lake Crescent in the Olympic National Park!
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Is Everyone Using AI? How False Perceptions Can Become Self-fulfilling | KQED "In the survey, 60 percent of students said they personally use AI tools such as ChatGPT. But 90 percent said they believed the average student on campus uses AI." kqed.org/mindshift/66379/is-…
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AI in the Classroom: Why There Are No Best Practices Yet "25 years for solid research to tell us how to teach kids to sort fact from fiction online. Big science takes decades. Anyone selling you AI “best practices” today is ahead of the evidence" coolcatteacher.com/e939/
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We keep calling it inclusion. A lot of the time we mean simplification. "students who most need practice with complexity can end up getting systematically less of it. Less exposure to demanding text, less practice sitting with ambiguity" linkedin.com/pulse/we-keep-c…
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I’m going to be sharing a case study on The Educators’ AI Guide 2027! This book aims to be a practical, honest guide written by educators for educators. If you want to know when it launches, join the waitlist at theeducatorsaiguide.com. @browniesedbites @theaieducatorx
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The Marshmallow Test 2.0: Attention & Digital Self-Control "Every notification, recommendation, & personalized feed is a strategic move designed to capture & retain our focus. This isn’t just about distraction—it’s systematic reshaping of human attention" unconstrained.blog/2025/01/2…
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World Oceans Day has fallen around June 8 every year since 1992. It’s a day to honour our connection to Earth’s oceans – even if we don’t live near a beach – & to learn what we can do to protect ocean habitats. earthsky.org/earth/happy-wor… #WorldOceansDay #environment #STEM #SciChat
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What Makes School in Denmark Better (and What We Can Learn from Them) | Cult of Pedagogy "Comparing education in the U.S. to schools in other countries is not a new thing, and when we do it, the U.S. almost always looks worse by comparison." cultofpedagogy.com/danish-sc…
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Moviemaking in the Classroom: Where Every Student Has a Story "6th graders making four-line video poems, the I Am poem she digitizes, & the generative tools in Adobe Express she uses to build prompting fluency & AI citizenship from the start" coolcatteacher.com/e938/
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I'm a big fan of numberless word problems because they force students to think rather than mindlessly compute. Brian Bushart shares lots of free problems for elementary teachers here: numberlesswp.com/
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Screens are leaving schools fast, though some students with disabilities rely on them "Students with disabilities make up a quickly growing share of students in this country — there are more than 8 million of them. Many rely on assistive technology" npr.org/2026/06/04/nx-s1-581…
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What If the Best Preparation for AI Isn't More Technology? | LinkedIn "The arrival of AI has made this gap impossible to ignore because the machine now does, instantly and for free, the exact thing we spent twenty years optimizing students to do." linkedin.com/pulse/what-best…
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Children trust human eyes, but not a robot's gaze "theory of mind, the growing ability to grasp that other people have thoughts, feelings, and desires of their own. It’s why a four-year-old can tell that you want the cookie you’re staring at." earth.com/news/children-trus…
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Here's what the most AI-advanced districts have in common "District leaders typically align these efforts with ongoing reforms: mastery- or competency-based learning, project-based learning or academy models. This way, AI serves as an amplifier" districtadministration.com/a…
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Who's Most Responsible for the Monopolization of America? “corporate concentration also means less innovation, more wage suppression, predatory behavior, price-push inflation, and increased political power” open.substack.com/pub/robert…

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When AI builds itself "AI that can build itself would be a major development in the history of technology—one that could bring enormous good for the world in science, healthcare, & beyond. But full recursive self-improvement also might increase the risks" anthropic.com/institute/recu…
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Breaking Up with Google Search “we have to start asking ourselves at what point do we start pushing back against the monopolistic practices of big tech and should we really trust them with all the personal, medical, and financial data we do?” natebowling.com/a-teachers-e…
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