How We Frame Machines
Mike Kentz, Aimée SkidmoreAn educator and journalist examining how we frame our relationship with AI. I write about the mental models and metaphors that shape AI use in education, work, and creativity—because how we conceptualize these systems determines what we do with them.
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What "Just Say No" Got Wrong About AI
I wrote a piece for The Hechinger Report this week arguing something I’ve believed since ChatGPT first shipped but have been reluctant to say this plainly: AI is a drug. Not as a figure of speech for how it makes you feel — I mean it the wa...
AI and The Tower of Babel
I wrote this piece in May 2024.
This week, Pope Leo XIV released his first papal encyclical — a letter meant to define his entire papacy — and built it around the same question I was asking.
The Tower of Babel, if you don’t remember the s...
Separate AI Literacy and Assessment Integrity
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the conflation of two discussions that happen constantly in faculty meetings and AI working groups:
Discussion 1: Whether and when to use AI — an ethical question.
Discussion 2: How to teach students to use AI...
Claude and The Rule of Threes
The em-dash. The antithetical. Now, the rule of threes.
Each of these rhetorical staples has experienced a certain “AI death knell” over the last three years. We notice it first, then talk about it on a cultural level, then it gets discard...
Mature AI Use vs. Immature AI Use
Most schools have arrived at some version of the stoplight. Red means no AI. Yellow means AI with conditions. Green means AI use is permitted. Getting there — reaching a yes, a no, or a qualified maybe — has consumed years of committee meet...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
I'm an award-winning educator with 14 years' experience in teaching and journalism. Follow me as I infuse AI into the classroom experience and try to chart new pathways for teachers and students alike through this new frontier of AI in Education.
Aimée Skidmore is a teaching and learning coach, professional learning partner, and international educator. Her work focuses on student ownership, PLCs that lead to real classroom change, and GenAI projects that build thinking instead of shortcuts.
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