Exploring the intersection of the Christian faith, education, and technology. Including interests in new learning and baseball.
My main role at my current school is as the Director of Lights Academy, an honors, project-based, personalized learning experience. But to free up time in a student's schedule, we also embed Honors Government standards within the experience. As I work with students, I really want them to engage in debate effectively, given the contentious …
Continue reading Teaching Students to Debate: Principles for Respectful Political Engagement
The 2025-2026 school year is here! If you follow this blog you have already noticed my preparations for the year in regard to the use of artificial intelligence (AI). There are plenty of other curricular and practical preparations that have been made as well. As a teacher in a Lutheran school, our campus ministry leaders …
Continue reading Preparing Students for Eternity: A Lesson from Hebrews 12:1-2
Summer (at least for a teacher) is over. Students return to the building today with our New Student Orientation. Regular classes begin for me on Friday. That means that it time to transition from my summer study and reading to classroom application. I have a list of between 30 to 40 popular articles (I haven't …
It is time for me to ramp up for the 2025-2026 school year. I have invested a great deal of time this summer learning about artificial intelligence (AI) and analyzing its place in education. Through this process, there is one activity to which I have committed for the coming year as much as possible, and …
Continue reading Embracing AI in Education: A Teacher’s Journey for 2025-2026
When I taught Theology classes for high school freshman, one of the things I learned quickly is to use the personal pronoun “I” during class discussions. If I were to say “we believe” about something, inevitably this would be challenged by students. “I don’t know if I believe this,” they might exclaim. And they were …
Over the past month, I have come to rely on artificial intelligence (AI) for most of my queries and work, forgoing traditional search. As a result, I am getting better and quicker results for most of my needs (the service I am using most right now is the subscription version of ChatGPT). In particular, I …
As an educator, especially as one who works with high school juniors and seniors, I have carefully watched the trends of how artificial intelligence (AI) is being used in business and industry. My seniors, if they follow a traditional path, are less than five years away from entering the permanent workforce. Clearly, there have been …
Here are some articles and other resources that I am reading about artificial intelligence (AI) and education this month. I provide some commentary, but some of the themes I will be expanding upon in future posts: Coming Soon -- Ph.D.-level super-agents -- Is this the year that AI moves from providing information to efficiently performing …
If you are a regular reader of my posts, you know that I am attempting to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) tools and services for both personal learning and growth and to benefit my students' learning. Consequently, I was intrigued when I first discovered Suno, a service the creates songs in a variety of different genres …
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My wife and I are a part of a small group Bible study. Somehow the discussion moved from Acts 10 to my teaching experiences (I am not sure how that happened, but I went with the change!) I was asked about working with school parents today and whether they were challenging. Honestly and thankfully, at …
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