Can AI Save Project-Based Learning? Plus, “Patriotic Education” Improvements

ICYMI – A school superintendent, education AI innovator, and heterodox thinker walk into a bar. Mike Goldstein, Kelly Coffin, and Bibi Groot joined me to talk AI and evidence on a LinkedIn Live from Eedi Labs and Bellwether. How do you balance the speed of AI product creation and adoption with a need to recall evidence? What’s the role of vendors, schools, and government? Is cognitive offloading inevitable or can it be mitigated, and how? Great crew to walk through those questions. Watch here. Jed Wallace and I sat down with Pat Brantley—leader of Friendship Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., and soon-to-be inductee into the Charter School Hall of Fame—for a live WonkyFolk at one of her schools in Northeast Washington. You can watch the live recording here, or listen below or wherever you get podcasts. Coming Attractions I’ll be speaking June 3rd at WelcomeFest on Wednesday in D.C. along with NPU’s Keri Rodrigues and Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet (D-MI) about why education isn’t…