The EPA’s Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators 2022. #epa 🤗 What an honor to be among all the recipients of this year's #PIAEE award! educatoral.com/wordpress/202… I’m re-posting this because I used Nano Banana to make the photo look more professional. ☺️

US company announces progress toward resurrecting the extinct dodo "gene-editing to bring dodo traits into the cells of its closest living relative, the Nicobar pigeon. The company said it is in the final stages of its analysis of the dodo genome" reuters.com/science/us-compa…

How do you know when the AI is wrong? What then? "Applying the principles of SIFT verification method, pay attention to your own internal reaction. Does the AI's response immediately validate your deepest held beliefs, or make you unexpectedly outraged?" searchresearch1.blogspot.com…

The Kids STILL Want to Learn From HUMANS "Fewer than 20% said they would choose AI for tutoring. 80% said relying on AI to finish tasks faster will likely make learning harder. And, get this, anger about AI jumped from 22% to 31% in a single year." ajjuliani.com/blog/the-kids-…

Lacking Options, More Teens Turn to AI Chatbots for Mental Health Support "Many aren’t talking to AI chatbots because they believe it’s better than talking to a person–they feel they have no other alternative, interviews with high school students suggest." accutrain.com/lacking-option…

Recorded Webinar-Your Brain on AI: Moving from Crutch to Catalyst "'Your Brain on AI: Moving from Crutch to Catalyst' all about the dangers of overreliance on AI, & what we can do to help our students use AI in a way that actually enhances their thinking" controlaltachieve.com/2026/1…

We're streaming our Esports game on Twitch playing Minecraft! ift.tt/EdZWKNP

Stop Romanticizing School Before Screens "School was often boring & passive long before students had laptops, Google, or AI. We slept, daydreamed, stared out windows, doodled, passed notes, & whispered to friends. Technology did not create disengagement." linkedin.com/pulse/stop-roma…

Boston and New York City Take Opposite Approaches to AI in School "Boston is pursuing AI fluency for every student while New York City has temporarily banned AI for most grades while first studying the technology." govtech.com/education/k-12/b…

A.J. Juliani | Learning 3.0, Writing & Speaking "Zach calls cognitive load theory “probably the single most important thing” for teachers to know about how the mind works. Working memory is a bottleneck." ajjuliani.com/blog/is-direct…

ChatGPT for Teens Has Special Safeguards. A Watchdog Group Finds Most Don't Work "A study from Common Sense Media says most safeguards in ChatGPT for Teens failed. The chatbot talks to teens like a friend & doesn't alert parents" kqed.org/mindshift/66688/cha…

ChatGPTs 'Teen Mode' Is Unsafe for Students, Report Concludes "ChatGPTs new ‘Teen Mode’ makes it easy for kids to cheat on class assignments, fails to flag signs of suicidal ideation & other risky behavior, and interacts with teens as if it were a friend" edweek.org/technology/chatgp…

Common Sense Media is right about Google AI Search. But incomplete. "Children have struggled with online search for decades. They struggle to turn a research assignment into useful search terms. They click early results." frontierlearninglab.substack…

Sea dragon populations decimated in ‘mind-blowing’ mass mortality event caused by South Australian algal bloom “There’s so much habitat destruction, huge loss of sponges, kelps, seagrasses, all those sorts of things that these animals need" theguardian.com/environment/…

The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps — 7th Edition | Andreessen Horowitz "Consumer AI usage is wide, but not very deep…for almost everyone. While nearly half of U.S. consumers now report using AI, only 25% are engaged with it daily." a16z.com/100-gen-ai-apps-7/

Stop Trying to Detect AI. Start Creating Better Assignments "Why are we giving students assignments AI can easily complete in the first place? And how might students use AI and/or other tools to support their thinking and learning?" techlearning.com/technology/…

What Becomes More Human as AI Becomes More Capable? "Preparing students for an AI-shaped future cannot simply mean teaching them to use more AI or any technology. It also means helping students develop the human qualities that become even more valuable" linkedin.com/pulse/beyond-to…

5 things we need to fix about screens in schools "we see parents, politicians, fellow educators, & others in our communities with agendas. they show up with cherry-picked stats & talking points that don’t always reflect the realities inside the walls" ditchthattextbook.com/5-thin…

Here’s How To Reduce Existential Risks "The fact that liability for climate change is already in the Supreme Court & that four justices seem sympathetic suggests how significant a role liability can play as an incentive for both fossil-fuel & AI giants" robertreich.substack.com/p/w…

I'm excited to be presenting at the Washington Science Teachers Association Fall Conference, October 24 in Bellingham. I'm looking forward to learning alongside science educators from across Washington. Registration is open at wsta.net/conference. #WSTA26 #ScienceMatters

Default Off Should Be the Norm in Every School "The planning matters: teachers decide what students need to learn, where a device might help, and when its contribution ends." andrewmarcinek.substack.com/…