AI in schools
I spent 17 years in classrooms, and AI showed up in mine in November 2022 when a student shoved a phone in my face. These are my notes for teachers and school leaders on helping students learn with AI without letting it replace their thinking.
Ignoring AI isn't an option, and neither is banning it. Students have it on their phones whether the school network blocks it or not. The hard part is deciding which friction still helps students learn and which friction just gets in the way.
Start with the student who told me he could finally read, then the mistakes I made first, then how to write a policy that holds up past week two.
Accessibility · March 27, 2026 · 10 min read
A student told me the tool let him read. The hard part was deciding which friction was still the work. From a Skilling Future Podcast conversation about AI inside a school.
Mistakes · February 2, 2025 · 15 min read
I made plenty of AI mistakes as a classroom teacher. These are the ones I would clean up first, especially for schools trying to move past panic and tool demos.
Policy · February 17, 2025 · 8 min read
A school AI policy has to answer normal classroom questions about what students can use and disclose, and where teacher judgment still sits.
Newest first.
Accessibility · March 27, 2026 · 10 min read
A student told me the tool let him read. The hard part was deciding which friction was still the work. From a Skilling Future Podcast conversation about AI inside a school.
Agentic AI · February 20, 2026 · 12 min read
Agentic browsers can move through web assignments in ways revision history may not catch. That changes what a teacher can verify after the work is done.
Tools · March 3, 2025 · 12 min read
Most teacher AI apps are wrappers around the same models. I would start with the frontier tools, then add classroom-specific apps only when they save real time.
Skills · February 22, 2025 · 10 min read
Before the app choice matters, students and teachers need a few repeatable habits: give the model context, push for a revision, then check the work before trusting it.
Policy · February 17, 2025 · 8 min read
A school AI policy has to answer normal classroom questions about what students can use and disclose, and where teacher judgment still sits.
Mistakes · February 2, 2025 · 15 min read
I made plenty of AI mistakes as a classroom teacher. These are the ones I would clean up first, especially for schools trying to move past panic and tool demos.
My letters to teachers and principals, and the scale Wyoming gives schools for student AI use.
My letter to my kids' teachers, with a free assignment-planning toolkit and classroom examples.
The same case for school leaders: guidance, assessment, access, and support for teachers.
The Wyoming Department of Education's Student AI Usage Continuum, from AI Free to AI Empowered.
No. Students have AI on their phones and personal devices, and a school filter can't reach those. A ban mostly catches the students who were never shown how to use it well, while the ones who know the workarounds get around the blocks.
Three habits: give the model context, push for a revision, then check the work before trusting it. The app list changes every week. Those habits don't.
In layers: state guidance, then district, school, and the classroom syllabus. Start with the questions teachers face every day: what students can use, what they disclose, and where the teacher still makes the call.
Agentic AI is the same AI with tools: a browser, access to a Google Doc, a schedule. It can work through a web assignment on its own, in ways revision history may not catch.
How I edit my videos with Claude, Codex, HyperFrames, and Tesseract: real prompts, caption rules, hardware notes, and what went wrong.
Every AI Rabbit Holes episode I've joined Ryan Doser on, written up in my own words: daily driver models, open source AI, video editing, and Grok Bot.
Everything I have written about Grok Bot: my review, setup, usage limits, email, and routines.
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I'm @theaaron on X, where I share what I'm testing with AI as I go.