It's a bit later on Tuesday - but it's still Tuesday :) My first Tech Tuesday video is out. The idea is to share some of the tech that I have (or that is sent to me) and how it can be used with intention in learning, teaching, and becoming more productive. The Bigme B7 Color Tablet was sent to me and I was worried at first. It was a little challenging to get used to, was slightly slower than I thought it would be, and I was trying to figure out where it fit. Then - everything changed. I became familiar with it and it's starting to deliver more and more value - all in one reader.

Could AI be a major education disruptor? Too early to tell, but that allows me to speculate without the drag of data! Not simple disruptions like all tests have to be in school supervised so AI is not used, lectures given by AI, etc. Maybe the whole emphasis switches to how to develope students with curiosity. Mastering skills, material, is out. The one attribute we must grow is motivation to attack problems. Thinking out of the box. A whole new education system that no longer pushes mastery of French but bad ass curiosity. Of course one has to master matieral, learn what is in the box, before one can think outside of it. A najor change in emphsis. First we reward mastery, then, opps, sorry, now instead of understanding all that has gone before, we need you to think about why A is important, What if B were the true guiding principle. What would one put in this new cirricumum? Visual Illusions, you know those pictures that you look at, see two women, look longer, see a compote. One line looks longer, no, they are the same length. The mystery has one ending. No, here is another ending that fits the facts also. Luckily I only have to outline the ideas, not cmoe up with the out-of-the-box cirriculum. Thoughts?

I am always on the lookout for ways to use AI. This comes out of a general theme of mine: Local Knowledge. If you have local knowledge, apply AI to helping you work with that knowledge. I run Historical societies. I am in a book club. Those are places I use AI. Wife gave me a new one today. She is visiting end of Long Island in April, has a NYT article about what to do there and wants to know which of the locations are open. She was able to go to normal Google search, choose AI mode, type in the prompt of " Please read the following material about locations to visit around the Eastern end of Long Island and research which might be open in April 2026" Append a couple paragraphs from the article and it gave her exactly what she wanted. I urged her to not put in the entire 700+ word article but instead chunk it up and extract results. Frank's focus is often on learning. Transferring what is in a book to your brain. I think my interest is a little more focused on mastering techniques to extract relevant information and methodologies. Putting stuff in my brain seems a little more oriented to school and school seems a little more oriented to teaching one how to master material. I might argue that schools/learning are about to change. The main skill is not knowing the causes of the fall of Rome but how to find out what people think about the topic and how to integrate that with related topics.