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Sept 14, 2026 In my last post, I argued that the students who will eventually use AI best may be the ones who spend their earliest years doing many things that don't involve AI at all. Reading real books. Writing with pencils. Talking with other people. Noticing things. Wondering. Struggling a little before someone, or something, supplies the answer. But that raises an obvious question: If AI is going to be part of our students' world, when and how do we begin teaching them t

September 1, 2026 Artificial intelligence has quickly become the newest source of anxiety in education. At the same time, books like Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation have sparked a national conversation about technology, social media, and children's mental health. States are adopting phone bans. Districts are limiting device use. Parents are rethinking screen time at home. These are important steps. I've seen firsthand how removing phones from classrooms changes the cu