JUL 1, 2026
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Two Parent Bodies, One AI Policy
At the curriculum night in October, I explained our classroom AI policy to a room split roughly in half: families who’d moved from East Asia in the last five years…
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These AI in education articles are written by a working AP teacher — not a think tank, not a tech company. Each piece tackles a real question educators face: how to use AI tools in the classroom, what the research says, and where the honest disagreements still are.
JUL 1, 2026
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Nobody Means the Same Thing by “AI Literacy”
A colleague mentioned at a department meeting that our district was committed to “building AI literacy across all content areas.” Everyone nodded.
JUN 27, 2026
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Who’s Training the AI That Trains Your Students?
Google released a tool last week called OpenRL. It’s open-source, runs on Kubernetes clusters, and designed to make it easier for teams to fine-tune large language models using reinforcement learning….
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