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Efficiency vs. Elimination: Rethinking AI Automation
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming our world, promising a future of streamlined workflows and maximized productivity. But in our rush to leverage AI’s power, are we focusing on the right outcomes? Is AI truly making us more efficient, or are we simply automating tasks that perhaps shouldn’t exist in the first place? Efficiency vs.
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Balancing Act: Fun Words from Around the World Celebrating Work-Life Harmony
Explore unique words from around the world that celebrate the importance of maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Learn how cultures embrace this concept and find inspiration to achieve greater harmony in your life. Dive in now!
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WHY WHY WHY… Keep asking WHY.
In a former life I was an Ed Tech Director. One day, my boss asked me to form a committee to develop a plan for a refresh of our classroom technology. He wanted to know what new classroom technology to buy, at what cost, and and on what timeline. I responded. “Sure, but before I
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A Friendly Reminder For You
Many of us are heading back to work today – whether that’s in an office, a classroom, a laptop screen in the kitchen, or a fabrication building, I have one friendly reminder for you: Hey, I said it was friendly, not easy. Truth is, we are our own hardest critic. And now, with all the
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Yes, the Kids ARE Falling Behind
I keep seeing this making the rounds and figured I’d break my self-imposed blog break by going on the record as dissenting to this claim. This type of statement screams privilege. There are millions of marginalized students NOT learning these so-called life skills right now. Millions! And not only are they not learning life skills.
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A Phone, a Pizza, and a Connection
My ex-husband lives a few hours away. He rents a small room behind a house in a not great part of town. When COVID hit, he got sick and lost his job. His car broke down around the same time. Because California’s unemployment system is so archaic, it took about six months for him to
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Still Don’t Know Anything…
Still ruminating on my May post, entitled “I Don’t Know What I’m Doing“ Remember when we were teenagers and knew everything? My youngest daughter is there now. She’s 18, about to start college in a month, and knows it all. Until she doesn’t. And then she seeks me out, with her hands full of anxiety
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The Why is the Key to the What and the How
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche I have been thinking about teachers a lot lately. Many of you are working on revising, rewriting, or simply writing curriculum and lesson plans that ares responsive to the different teaching you’ll be doing as a response to COVID. I
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I Am Not Everything to Students
I saw this tweet the other day, and on the surface, it sounds like an amazing acknowledgement of the work of teachers: But listen… Teachers are not EVERYTHING to students. Nor should they be. When we see ourselves as EVERYTHING, as touchers of souls and builders of community, we see ourselves as saviors. We are
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Where are the Robot Teachers?
Last night I was invited to speak to a class of preservice teachers about the role of IT in education. It’s a hard topic to address since it’s so vast and all-encompassing. Do I talk about servers and switches or how to placate grumpy IT Techs (haha) or share the nuances of configuring an MDM?
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You’re Not Communicating Enough
With COVID-19, and schools going online, offline, partly online, maybe closed, maybe open, maybe only partly open (whew!), people are getting bombarded with messages and emails and notifications flying at them from all angles. And yet, no one feels informed… why is that? I thought I’d share some food for thought that I learned years
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I Don’t Know What I’m Doing
Radiohead drummer Philip Selway, when asked about how he gained more confidence as a singer, said: My starting point for most things, no matter what, playing or anything, is that I don’t know what I’m doing. That’s a healthy place to be. Rolling Stone Article It’s a healthy place to be for all of us.
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Laura K Spencer, Ed.D. 