AJ Juliani

Dad to 5. Teacher, Author, Speaker.⚡️AI Fluency 📚 Writing the book on Learning 3.0

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3A State Champs!

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People ask what comes after Learning 3.0. I don't know. What I do know is that each era didn't replace the last.

Oral traditions survived writing. Schools survived the internet. Teachers will survive AI. But the choices we make now shape what comes next.

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One of the most powerful things I ever did: made student work public. Not hallway displays. Published on blogs. Shared with real audiences. Everything changed.

Quality, effort, care. When the only reader is the grader, the motivation is compliance. Audience changes everything.

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The tension at the center of every school is should we cover more or go deeper? Research consistently supports depth over breadth.

But coverage feels safer. You can defend it. You can point to the pacing guide. Every school says they value deeper learning...but do we?

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Ebbinghaus discovered the forgetting curve in the 1880s. We lose 70% of new information within 24 hours. The solution has been known for over a century: spaced retrieval. We don't lack the science. We lack the will to redesign the schedule around it.

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Most curriculum design starts with content. What do students need to know? What if we started with the learner? What do they care about? What can they almost do? Same rigor, same standards. But the starting point is the human in the chair. AI makes this possible at scale.

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I run an AI Ready School Leadership Cohort. The most common pattern I see is leaders come in wanting a policy. They leave realizing they need a culture. A policy creates compliance. A culture of psychological safety isn't just a student need. It's a staff need.

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@jasonfried It’s all about Wilt haha

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Before any PD session, staff meeting, or lesson, ask one question: "Would I want to sit through this?"

If the answer is no, redesign it. If you wouldn't learn from it, they won't either. Empathy is the cheapest instructional design tool available.

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Engagement got a bad reputation because we cheapened it with pizza parties, Kahoot games, and meme filled slides (yes, I'm the problem here).

Real engagement is cognitive investment. Relevance and meaning was the 7x multiplier in Cooper's research, not fun.

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Students can pass the test but can't use what they learned.

Transfer, applying knowledge in new contexts, is the whole point of education.

And the thing we're worst at producing. If we teach in silos, then nowledge never leaves the classroom.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Learning doesn't happen when information goes into your brain. It happens when you force it back out.

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We are living through a hinge of history.

Can the people inside education lead the change, or will we have the markets and technology deciding our fate?

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@Spike_Mordant Yes we sure can

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The loudest debate in education is about AI and cheating, but the better convo is about AI and assessment.

We need oral defenses. Live problem solving. Portfolio presentations. None can be outsourced.

All of them produce richer evidence than a take home essay ever did.

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@SahilBloom Keep this going until those kids get old enough to go out. Then you’ll have to flip that time you go to sleep and wake up ha!

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@MilliganSusan Of course! And that should lead to an experience where they demonstrate their understanding and skill.