Research & Field Notes

Thinking out loud, as we build.

Essays on how learning should change now that AI is a given — written from two rooms at once: the college classroom where I teach real students, and the workshop where the tools get built. New pieces as they're written; subscribers read them first.

essay 01 — the thesis
Essay 01 · In progress

Stop teaching kids to code. Teach them to build with AI.

Why prompt engineering, decomposition, and evaluation are the real literacies — and why "AI writes the code" isn't cheating when the goal changes. The most durable skill in an AI world isn't syntax; it's judgment: framing a problem, questioning an answer, knowing what to ask.

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Essay 02 · In progress

The hidden curriculum school forgot.

Cultural fluency, reading people, habits, money, how the world works — the literacies that decide a life, and that school never gets around to. What they are, why they're teachable, and how we teach them deliberately.

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Essay 03 · In progress

Assessment in the AI age: redesign, not detection.

Kids will always be ahead of the detectors. The answer is to redesign the work itself so AI is a companion, not a shortcut — from someone rebuilding her own assessments this semester.

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Essay 04 · In progress

De-anxietizing intro STEM.

What actually helps the nursing or bio student who's terrified of physics — recovery scaffolding, confidence loops, and the evidence behind them, from someone who teaches those exact students.

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