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Dear colleague, The exciting news is below this post. If you’ve never seen DALL-E 2, you ought to take 15 minutes and head down its wormhole. I’ve done a few things in the past ten years that have felt a bit like peaking at the future — trying on my brother’s VR headset thing; test-driving […]

Dear colleague, Recently a bunch of you have been asking, “So, Dave, what’re your thoughts on ChatGPT? Is this the end of English? The end of teaching? The end of thought!?!?!?!?” And while I’m already exhausted by all the hot takes on this in the education world, I am willing to give some lukewarm takes […]

 Engagement isn’t something you can infer from smiling faces or a classroom arrangement. Engagement is what the brain attends to. Source: Teacher-blogger Blake Harvard Should students sit in rows? In my view, there are only two silly answers to this question: The answer, as all sensible folks know, is more nuanced: it depends. In my […]

Dear colleague, Here’s a 2:24 video about what I’ve got coming; please watch it. Here are the details: (That last part is super cool because the book covers not just Credibility but also the other four Key Beliefs beneath student motivation. There’s so much in the book that I haven’t shared yet here on […]

“Young people should not be overdemanded. However, we have also to consider the fact that at least today, in the age of an affluent society, most people are underdemanded rather than overdemanded.”– Viktor Frankl, emphasis mine (1966) In the excerpt above, Frankl touches on a timeless educator challenge: for the folks we teach to optimally […]