Published in 2025 by Meaghan Crowley Sullivan of LMU's iDEAL Institute , The Catholic Companion Framework For Technology and Innovation: Faithful Guidance for Catholic Educators Navigating Technology, Artificial Intelligence,& Innovation seeks to be "an invitation to reflect, to engage, and to act" in our Catholic community (4). It is certainly a solid initial first step in how our schools and educators can engage with the problems and solutions AI presents. Before diving i

Some quick thoughts on two deeper reads related to AI. If you want to know what's going on... The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019-2025 by Dwarkesh Patel. Patel is one of the best podcasters on AI and the current tech era. His interview style blends the best of popular podcaster like Joe Rogan - engaging and following along with the conversation - and Tyler Cowen - deeply knowledgeable, focused, and ensuring each minute of time is worth a listen. His book captures a

From Google : Google for Education is launching a landmark initiative with ISTE+ASCD to provide free, comprehensive Gemini training to all 6 million K-12 and higher education faculty in the U.S. These lessons will be divided into modules and promise to include :real-world examples." Teachers that complete these modules will receive a micro-credential (presumably similar to Google's certification program. Most interestingly is Google's connection with ISTE+ASCD: Materials wi

MagicSchoolAI shared on their social media , a great idea that gets to the benefit of having nonjudgemental AI at hand: You may not have slides, but even laying out a "here's what I need to cover...should this be an email?" followed up by assistance in drafting an engaging email or drawing up a working agenda can be a great way to check your self with faculty planning. Too bad AI can't make people read emails.

After spending some time with Bethesda Christian School of Fort Worth, I have to highlight a great idea that Mr. Michael Klefeker suggested in our session in January. Mr. Klefeker pointed to the difficulty many schools have with theater backgrounds and design. Well with AI image creation and projectors/screens; this can be solved! He plans to use image generation to create a series of images for the various scenes in a production of Willy Wonka, then setting up the images as

Eric Curts published an awesome post on creating Graphic Novels with Gemini and Notebook LM. Highlights : As easy as graphic novels are to consume, creating them is a much more challenging task. Certainly the best graphic novels are going to be created by skilled and hard-working authors and illustrators, and I strongly encourage everyone to support them in this work. However with new AI tools, educators and students now have free options to enter into this world and create b

These are in no specific order and I'll try to include a note on accountability - but based on my reading and research, here's where I think we will go in 2026. The fundamental hallucination error of LLMs won’t be fixed but will be worked on I increasingly agree with those on the outside that big data and training cannot fix the hallucination problem - a crucial deficit for broader AI adoption and deployment - especially in sensitive industries. In 2026, this will continue to

Anthropic joined Google and OpenAI in announcing its newest model in the last two weeks - but unlike the other two companies - it is gate-kept for paying customers. (The other two will throttle access for free users). Some are claiming Claude Opus 4.5 is the best - not something I'm prepared to evaluate or argue; however - Anthropic did announce some other news : Claude for Nonprofits includes three things: discounted access of up to 75% to Claude, connectors to new nonprofi

Jumping off from The Rundown : The Rundown: In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ChatGPT Projects to build a private, shareable workspace with uploaded SOPs, custom instructions, and project-specific memory for onboarding new hires smoothly. Step-by-step: Open ChatGPT , enable the sidebar, select "Projects," then "New project," and name it (e.g., "Onboarding") Upload your SOP files to the Project, balancing context carefully to avoid overloading the AI's memory Share

ChatGPT is certainly the brand-name of AI but Google's education-focused approach has long-made it my go-to recommendation for educators in the classroom. On Wednesday, OpenAI made a new announcement aimed at closing that gap: A secure ChatGPT workspace that supports teachers in their everyday work so they can focus on what matters most—plus admin controls for school and district leaders. Free for verified U.S. K–12 educators through June 2027. Is this one more way to keep th

Brandon Schneider from School Marketing Insider (a must read for anyone involved in school marketing) offers a jumping off prompt for competitive research: "I'm analyzing competitor messaging for [your school type]. Please review these websites: [list 3-5 URLs] For each school, identify: 1. Their main value proposition 2. The 3-5 key programs they emphasize 3. The emotional tone of their messaging 4. Any unique positioning Then summarize: What patterns exist? What gaps

A review of the magazine issue from the Bishop Barron-led Word on Fire Institute. A beautifully-produced magazine that serves as just the...

Drawing on an idea from Teaching with AI : "AI can analyze the reviews, judgments, or social media posts of groups large and small"(location 1091). Often times, those of us marketing or promoting schools, struggle to articulate a compelling message. AI can be a great support here - serving as a test marketing system. Made with Sora. First, compile some basic demographic data - ages of parents and target groups, socio-economic status, background, location, et al. - these can b

This week's review is on Teaching with AI - A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning by Jos é Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson. A book which states its aim clearly - focusing on the how, not necessarily the why or why not of using AI in teaching. Bowen and Watson present a brief overview on what AI is, before proceeding to Teaching (which includes a discussion of cheating, policies, and quality) and Learning (feedback, assessments, writing). The first section is l

Although it pains me to recognize any good coming from Stanford (or Google for that matter), this is good and something I called for...

Meta continues to work hard to be the worst social media and AI company : Meta announced on Wednesday that data collected from user...

From Google : A few months ago, we expanded Gemini in Classroom to help educators use AI for their common teaching tasks. Today, we’re...

From Google : we’ll be introducing agentic capabilities to Gemini in Chrome. These will let Gemini in Chrome handle those tedious tasks...

Following up on my July 1 first post: " Gemini Summer? " and from July 18 " Gemini's Assent and A Modest Proposal , " we continue to see...

Harvard Business Review published a guide to using AI in team meetings: " 3 Ways AI Can Improve Team Meetings ." Elisa Farri and Gabriele...