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What Teachers Have to Say | Jacob Carr

Exploring the work of teaching, the forces that shape it, and what it means to stay human inside the system.

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AI Has a Job to Do

A teenager in a freshman comp class gave the cleanest definition of artificial intelligence I've heard all year. It took him six words.
Jun 15•Jacob Carr

What Are We Actually Fixing When We Ban Devices?

Apr 9•Jacob Carr

When Students Stop Answering and Start Asking

Aug 17, 2025•Jacob Carr

What Do We Teach When Nobody Knows?

May 5•Jacob Carr

Curiosity Doesn't Die. It Gets Managed.

Apr 15•Jacob Carr

The US Government Just Defined AI Literacy. Most Teachers Don’t Know It Happened.

Mar 31•Jacob Carr

When a Burned-Out Teacher Started Designing EduProtocols [Guest Post]

Mar 18•Jacob Carr

Teachers are Enforcing a Taboo That Doesn’t Exist Yet

Mar 11•Jacob Carr

EduProtocols in the ELA Classroom

Mar 4•Jacob Carr


What Teachers Have to Say | Jacob Carr

Exploring the work of teaching, the forces that shape it, and what it means to stay human inside the system.