Matthew’s Substack
A weekly journal from the classroom and beyond. Exploring how AI, data, and systems thinking can help educators lead with clarity, equity, and purpose. We build better systems by starting with ourselves.
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Busy for Busy's Sake (opens the original)
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What Would Your Students Protect? (opens the original)
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This summer, 98 high school students from all 50 states sat in a replica of the Senate chamber in Boston and passed a policy for AI in schools. They called it the Students First Act. They debated AI literacy, graded assessments, writing, citations, due process, and equitable access, and they took the work seriously. walks through it in a recent episode of Designing Schools. It runs 24 minutes and is worth the time.There was a comment from Dr. Quidwai about the Students First Act work that was un
August Build: The Random Name Caller (opens the original)
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It’s been a moment since I last wrote on Substack about AI and its application in education. I took a few weeks away while on holiday to think about where I wanted to go with this space and my practice this year. The time away where I wasn’t coding, where I wasn’t writing, and I was just with family and friends gave me time to take a break from the pace I was working at.I am inspired by consultants, educational leaders, and of course you, the teacher. The voice of the active teacher provides the
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