This weekend, I took time to peruse exhibits at the Getty Art Museum in Los Angeles. My day at the museum featured beautiful views of the city, a tranquil garden walk accompanied by the sound of water features, and the chance to visit the store to add more books to my reading collection. What I […]
As I have spent a bit of time scrolling social media platforms the past few weeks, I have seen an increasing amount of realistic AI generated images of moments from history, some of which were never actually captured on film, and in some cases, moments that never even happened. I have also seen hyper-realistic, fabricated […]
A Book Launch Reflection from ISTELive25 Years ago as a classroom teacher, I often felt like there just wasn’t enough time to cover all the subjects and topics I wanted to introduce to students. This was particularly true because of my role as a teacher in a self-contained elementary classroom in which I was responsible […]
AI is not merely transforming the tools students use, it is transforming how they interpret the concept of truth itself. And in order to teach students to seek out truth rather than blindly accepting what comes across their feed, we must encourage them to question thoughtfully. Across the globe, students scroll through TikTok, YouTube Shorts, […]
In an age of AI, where information is released constantly and often contains mistruths or exaggerations, we need to encourage our students to pause, consider, and discuss with each other. Students in the 21st century need to learn how to analyze, reflect, and speak with care.
We are living in an age where deepfakes attempt to rewrite history, search engines tailor what we see, and students scroll past more misinformation in a day than I encountered in a semester in the 1900s. In this moment, teaching history isn’t optional. It is urgent. You might be wondering, “Where do I find the […]
Legitimate concerns arise when we consider potential negative impacts of artificial intelligence on student writing. After all, generative AI platforms can create an essay in a matter of seconds while it may take students multiple drafts to get a similar result. But rather than seeing AI as an enemy of critical thinking and creativity, what […]
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