Differentiation Done Right: How Scaffolding Leveled Content Can Increase Background Knowledge

| By Amy Deslattes | During one of my most challenging years as a high school ELA educator, I struggled to prepare lessons that met the needs of 100+ students across three grade levels. While differentiation was a commonly touted instructional strategy, I lacked the resources to implement it effectively. Considering the large percentage of … Read more

AI Hallucinations and Other Erratic Behaviors

| By K. Lee Lerner | Despite the fact that there has been a revolutionary integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into apps and other programming, many of the generative AI programs recently released are still considered experimental programs. An understanding of the limitations of generative AI programs is, increasingly, an urgent concern. Users, especially teachers … Read more

Artificial Intelligence: What You Need to Know

| By K. Lee Lerner, M.Ed. | Educators and librarians are now on the front lines of the generative artificial intelligence (AI) revolution. Advances in AI were patchy since the concept was first advanced in 1956 by research scientists who organized what was termed the Dartmouth Conference to discuss the creation of machines that could … Read more