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Podcast
Resolutions of an AI Task Force, 2026
featuring Mark GrannisResolutions of an AI Task Force, 2026
Two upper school faculty share takeaways after months of research and group discussion around AI and education.
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Article
Computers and Technology in Education at The Heights School, 2021
by Michael MoynihanComputers and Technology in Education at The Heights School, 2021
The Promise It is not uncommon today to read about the positive aspects of incorporating the use of computers and the Internet in education. Several examples come to mind: the push to bring classrooms online, software designed to teach, and the general trend towards providing each student with a computer with Internet access. Although it is probably apocryphal, the most moving anecdote I heard involves an Internet-ready computer someone set up in a slum in India that illiterate children used to not only learn how to read but to actually...
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Podcast
Is The Heights a Classical School?
featuring Michael MoynihanIs The Heights a Classical School?
Michael Moynihan unpacks his article about whether or not The Heights is a classical school. Like a tree, whose roots are firmly planted in the ground and whose branches reach toward the sky above, education at The Heights is at once traditional and forward looking. While drawing liberally from the western canon and “the best that has been thought and said,” to borrow Matthew Arnold’s phrase, a Heights education is nevertheless at home in the modern world. Neither the buried archives of special collections, nor the high-rising offices of enterprising...
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Podcast
The Walled Garden: Critical Considerations for Classroom Tech
featuring Andrew CantaruttiThe Walled Garden: Critical Considerations for Classroom Tech
AI tech has come knocking at the classroom door. How do we best educate citizens—rather than simply users?
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Podcast
Struggling in Math: Where Digital Tools Can Assist in Academic Virtue
featuring Dave MaxhamStruggling in Math: Where Digital Tools Can Assist in Academic Virtue
An extremely practical guide to the best digital resources out there and how to use them effectively.
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Article
Claude Has Called Our Bluff
by Joseph BissexClaude Has Called Our Bluff
Too many students think school is just about getting those ink blots on that piece of paper. If AI does it for them more efficiently, have they not achieved success?
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Podcast
Classroom Habits of Attention in the Age of AI
featuring Andrew CantaruttiClassroom Habits of Attention in the Age of AI
Today, we have an increasing store of research to evaluate the claims of AI and educational tech. Can it be used constructively?
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Article
ChatGPT Holds These Truths to be Self-Evident: Tweaking Assignments in Light of AI
by Mark GrannisChatGPT Holds These Truths to be Self-Evident: Tweaking Assignments in Light of AI
Logic and history teacher Mark Grannis challenges ChatGPT alongside his students to explain what it means to be an American. Is it right?
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Podcast
AI and the Take-Home Essay
featuring Matt MehanAI and the Take-Home Essay
According to Aristotle (and Aquinas and others), the human person is essentially rational and social; man thinks, and he thinks best in the context of friendship. As such, at the very heart of man’s education ought to be learning to write effectively, for good writing is thought clarified and beautified which can be shared with others. Recent developments in Artificial Intelligence, however, seem to pose a formidable challenge to teachers who wish to help their students grow in this most human of crafts. To help us think through how we...
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Article
Teaching Scientific Modeling
by Pete BancroftTeaching Scientific Modeling
The power of models Although each science in the curriculum has its own lens through which it looks at nature or society, they are united by a common approach. Modern science can be described as an ongoing process of developing and deploying models—not model airplanes or runway models, of course, but simplified representations of complicated objects or systems. Models help us understand things by focusing on their essential features and leaving out the incidental or less important details. Developing a model involves applying inductive reasoning to things or phenomena to...
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Article
Why My Computer Science Students Should Master the Guitar
by George MartinWhy My Computer Science Students Should Master the Guitar
When I was in middle school, it felt like every kid and his mother owned a guitar. I’ll confess, about less than a third of them could really play (sorry guys, but only knowing “Wonderwall” and/or the first part of “Stairway to Heaven” doesn’t count), but it seemed that everyone was inspired to attempt the journey of acquiring this new ability. Of course, it’s not uncommon for boys to begin some hobby and then drop it right when things get difficult or less exciting; but think about how much they’d...