AI in Education
Easy Is Hard and Hard Is Easy Now
Violet built a horse-valuation app in an afternoon and assumed that was the impossible part. Then the AI couldn't change the color of a heading.
AI in Education
All Three of My Kids Told Me They Don't Need to Write
I asked each of my three teenagers on tape whether they'll need to write well long-term. Three no's. They're half right, and the wrong half is on us.
AI in Education
The Open Secret
Every school has an AI policy. Every kid has an AI workflow. I asked my three what the rule is, then what the actual rule is. Two different answers.
AI in Education
My Daughter Had to Prove She Wrote Her Own Homework
My seventh grader got a zero for using AI on a lab report. She hadn't. What saved her was a week of version history and an uncle who knew to ask.
AI in Education
Artificial Summer School
I turned my three teenagers into a poorly controlled AI experiment one summer. No control group, and the subjects were related to the researcher.