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Seven Questions Your Nonprofit Should Be Afraid to Ask This Summer, Part 7
7. What Will You Stop Doing? “We can change hearts and minds to change schools.” — Paul Fleming, Learning Forward New initiatives often pile onto existing work because ending a program, publication, meeting, or tradition
WebDeck Maker Instructions: Make Your Own Slide Deck with AI
In a Facebook group, someone asked, \" What's the best free AI tool to use to create PowerPoints for Secondary Science? Of course, they were really asking for a tool like Gamma, which makes designing slide decks child's
Seven Questions Your Nonprofit Should Be Afraid to Ask This Summer, Part 6
6. Is Your Change Process Protecting the Status Quo? “Be willing to try, learn from failure, and fail forward.” — Steven Priest, education innovation leader Committees, listening sessions, pilots, and phased rollouts can
Seven Questions Your Nonprofit Should Be Afraid to Ask This Summer, Part 5
5. Is One Big Event Carrying Too Much Weight? “A catalyst for the transformation our sector is ready to create.” — Umer Rupani, Independent Sector A major event can create community, visibility, sponsorship revenue, and
Five New Digital Math Tools for PreKinder and Kinder
In today’s classroom, digital math tools can make first contact with mathematical concepts a supported first step for learners. In this blog, I share some math resources for PreKinder and Kinder that you may not be familiar with.
The Prompt Library
This blog post shares Miguel's The Prompt Library, a collection of (at last count) 305 prompts across a variety of areas. It specifically highlights the Data Display Patterns, which allow easy graph and chart creation.
Seven Questions Your Nonprofit Should Be Afraid to Ask This Summer, Part 4
4. Have You Mistaken Gen AI for an Email Assistant? “Association executives must move beyond efficiency plays.” — Tori Miller Liu and Tommy Goodwin, association leaders Using Gen AI to draft messages and summarize meetin
A Question of Judgment
Explore the gap between AI use guided by judgment or not.
AI: A Mixed Blessing
Every time I turn around, I read an article on cognitive offloading , or how Gen AI is wiping out swaths of entry level and other jobs. I oppose blanket bans on Gen AI in K 16, but I do think students need some time to w
KPFT Radio Guest: AI, Critical Thinking, and More
This morning, I'll be spending some time chatting with the hosts of Children at Risk KPFT radio program about some important questions. They were kind enough to share some of the questions ahead of time. Listen in.
From Dream to Nightmare for Texas Students
Miguel responds as an educator to the loss of Texas Dream Act protections and argues that higher education access strengthens Texas and its students.
Seven Questions Your Nonprofit Should Be Afraid to Ask This Summer, Part 3
3. Are You Paying Premium Prices for Ordinary Technology? “Always focus on the educational purpose, not on the technology.” — Keith Krueger, Consortium for School Networking Nonprofits may debate one staff position for m
MyNotes: Cognitive Surrender
Reading this KQED post on "'Cognitive Surrender': Faster Solutions, Lower Test Scores Show How AI is Eroding Math Skills,") , I was not surprised to see this assertion: Many students appear to be completing assignments f
Seven Questions Your Nonprofit Should Be Afraid to Ask This Summer, Part 2
2. Is “Free” Undermining the Mission? “Without alignment to business goals, it’s impossible to justify investment.” — John Nawn, association community strategist Free articles, webinars, templates, and tools can help peo
Wrappers for Agentic AI Use: Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex
Listening to the Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput podcast, The Artificial Intelligence Show, from three weeks back (it's been a busy few weeks), on the ride to work this morning, I realized that Mike's comment about how regul
Seven Questions Your Nonprofit Should Be Afraid to Ask This Summer, Part 1
Summer brings a rare drop in organizational noise. The major event is over, webinar attendance slows, and staff members rotate through vacation schedules. Instead of filling that space with another round of planning meet
Seven Questions Your Nonprofit Should Be Afraid to Ask This Summer, Part 4
4. Have You Mistaken Gen AI for an Email Assistant? “Association executives must move beyond efficiency plays.” — Tori Miller Liu and Tommy Goodwin, association leaders Using Gen AI to draft messages and summarize meetin
Eliminating E-rate: Slide Back to the Stone Age
What a shocker to imagine Internet access in schools without E rate to offset the costs. I still remember days before E rate, and after. It has been one of those blessings schools couldn't do without. Tearing It Down It
Remembering Thingamablog and a New Start for ATC
It's like an eternity ago that I first started blogging. I remember starting with a simple website, HTML based, not a real blog with a database behind. I relied on Thingamablog for 7,000 blog entries before switching to
Age Verification Has Arrived in Texas
Miguel describes a first hand age verification experience in Texas and raises privacy concerns about collecting sensitive identity data for online access.
LACDH 2026: Instructional Rasquachismo: Building AI-Powered Teaching Tools
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Instructional rasquachismo builds dignified, practical teaching tools from limited resources, while nepantla is the transformative in between space those tools bridge between enterprise technology and under resourced classrooms.
Read a Book and Save the Date: Librarian Conference EduSky LibSky Education read
Here I am pictured in front of one of my old haunts, Brook Hollow Public Library in San Antonio, Texas. In the original version of this picture, which my wife snapped Saturday, I appear bald head, bald knees, in shorts.