What kind of mindscape can you build with just one word? Gemini 2.5 Pro and I explore how “knowledge” and “learning” in AIs are socially constructed on-the-fly. There are echoes here of social constructivism, of Socratic questioning, of distributed cognition.
Ed Tech
The "Ed Tech" category includes posts about educational technology products themselves, including LMSs and other learning platforms, adaptive learning and other digital curricular materials products, learning analytics, and educational apps of all types. It also includes technical aspects of ed tech products, especially interoperability.
Standards as Strategy: How 1EdTech Shapes the Future of Educational Technology
In this conversation with Claude, I explore 1EdTech’s journey from its origins as IMS Global to its current role shaping educational technology standards. We discuss how the organization’s collaborative approach has evolved, particularly through innovations like LTI that transformed the EdTech marketplace. The conversation concludes with reflections on emerging challenges—especially AI—and how standards work must adapt to support holistic learning experiences in an increasingly complex technology landscape.
AI, Competencies, and Self-Discovery
Can AI help us capture non-obvious emergent competencies by observing the ones we display while doing our work?
Cognitive Empathy: A Dialogue with ChatGPT
A rethinking of thinking about thinking.
Lessons Learned from the AI Learning Designer Project
A seven-month adventure co-designing an aI application with educators. Prelude to a promising future?
1EdTech and Me
New gig, new colleagues, new responsibilities, same mission.
Announcing the e-Literate AI Design/Build Cohort
e-Literate is excited to unveil the AI Learning Design Assistant (ALDA) Design/Build Workshop series, a pioneering initiative that brings together a diverse group of colleges and universities to collaboratively tackle the pressing challenges of learning design. This initiative extends beyond standard prompt engineering techniques, inviting participants to participate in co-designing a functioning AI application that we will build and refine throughout the series. It offers participants a unique opportunity to directly influence the development of solutions that will reshape the landscape of educational technology.