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

This week's review is on Leadership & Sustainability: System Thinkers in Action by Michael Fullan. Fullan is back and better than ever... If it can feel that Fullan's books are the latest cinematic universe - sharing many of the same elements while moving forward at a regular pace - I can't argue with you. Made with Sora. This would have been an amazing cover. In this case, Fullan looks at systemness and sustainability approaching how schools, districts, and systems can crea

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 Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust by Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis . In the nearly six years since its publication, Gary Marcus has remained a staunch contrarian even as Generative AI has exploded in financing, development, and implementation across the tech, business, and education worlds. Rebooting AI marks his first real entry into a critique of where the field was heading and the limitations imposed by those choices. Thi

From Pluribus News: TECHNOLOGY: California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has signed legislation requiring app store operators to ascertain a user’s age when they first set up accounts on personal devices like iPhones and Androids. The first-of-its-kind measure is meant to allow easier age-gating for app developers, to provide minors with an age-appropriate experience. ( Pluribus News ) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Newsom vetoed legislation that would have banned minors from accessing com

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

Sam Altman dropped a news bomb on X yesterday, from the BBC : OpenAI plans to allow a wider range of content, including erotica, on its popular chatbot ChatGPT as part of its push to "treat adult users like adults", says its boss Sam Altman. In a post on X on Tuesday, Mr Altman said upcoming versions of the popular chatbot would enable it to behave in a more human-like way - "but only if you want it, not because we are usage maxxing". Made by Sora. As Edward L Hamilton commen

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...

The Better Pastor: A Fable  by Patrick Lencioni Clocking it at 101 pages, The Better Pastor aims to provide - in story form - simple...

This week's review is on Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell . A book written by an expert on AI -...

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

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church 1879-1884: The human person needs to live in society. Society is not for him an extraneous...

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...

Ravi Yer and Jon Haidt's After Babel substack highlighted the Australian government's new social media age limi t: The law places the...

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

Courtesy of the Neuron : behold, the ability t o branch a new chat in ChatGPT! So like, why would you want to do this? As Micah, the...