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AI, Jobs, and the Future Students Are Preparing For

Artificial intelligence is becoming more common in school, work, and everyday life, but people are not necessarily becoming more comfortable with it. After reading Pew Research Center’s article “Young adults in the U.S. are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs,” I was especially interested in how much younger adults’ attitudes toward AI have changed. According to Pew, 55% of adults ages 18 to 29 said they were more concerned than excited about AI in 2026 , compared with 39% in 2024. Across all U.S. adults, 52% now say they are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life. This surprised me because younger people are often assumed to be the generation most comfortable with new technology. Many young adults use AI tools for school, work, searching for information, and creativity. However, knowing how to use AI does not necessarily mean trusting what it will do to society. The biggest concern appears to be employment. Pew found that 71% of U.S. ...
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AI Is Already in the Classroom—So What Should We Teach Students About It?

Artificial intelligence is no longer something students might use in the future. It is already part of their everyday lives. After reading Pew Research Center’s report “How Teens Use and View AI,” what stood out to me most was not simply how many teenagers use AI, but how quickly it has become part of the way students learn, search for information, and complete schoolwork. Pew found that 54% of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 have used AI chatbots for help with schoolwork , while 57% have used them to search for information. Teens also use chatbots for entertainment, summarizing materials, creating images and even getting news. These numbers make me think that the question for teachers can no longer be, “Should students use AI?” Students are already using it. A more important question is: How should we teach students to use it responsibly and thoughtfully? One finding that especially interested me was that one in ten teens said they use chatbots to help with all or most of their schoolwork ....
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Blog Post #2 - Justin F

 In the Moschkovich reading they talk about some methods that can be applied to EL students in the math class. This includes using more graphs, gestures, and other visuals, as well as focusing on a students mathematical understanding as opposed to their accuracy with the language, and focus on mathematical explanation rather than the use of mathematical language. I think that all of the ideas are great and should definitely be thought of when teaching EL students, but I also think they would be very useful when teaching all children regardless of their comprehension of the English language. Obviously it is important for students to be able to use and understand the vocabulary of mathematics, but its most important for them to actually understand the processes and have a great understanding of the mathematics they're learning in general. Sometimes if we harp too much on some of these aspects we're limiting students from learning and could be discouraging them even if they alread...
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Literacy in the Disciplines

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Blog Post #3

Both James Baldwin’s “A Talk to Teachers” and Clint Smith’s “James Baldwin’s Lesson for Teachers in a Time of Turmoil” emphasizes how education should more so be not just memorization, but preparing their students for standardized tests. Baldwin argues that the purpose of education is to teach students to think independently, question society, as well as being able to recognize injustices within the school system as well as outside. Smith further builds on this idea as teachers can connect classroom lessons to real-world issues that will affect their students in the present and the future. One idea that had stood out to me was Baldwin’s argument also challenges the idea that teachers should be encouraging their students to question what they are taught instead of simply accepting everything at face-value or as the truth. I think this is important in the area of teaching history as textbooks do not always include every perspective to fully explain the experiences of differen...
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Blog post 3 Critical Thinking

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My thoughts on "A Talk to Teachers" by James Baldwin Reading James Baldwin’s “A Talk to Teachers” made me think about how education is more than just teaching students information and preparing them for tests. As teachers, we tend to focus on the things students need to learn, and there is always more they can learn. However, in doing so, we sometimes forget to teach them to think independently. Baldwin talks about how education should help students question things and challenge ideas rather than simply accept what society tells them. We need to help students think critically. Critical thinking can sometimes seem negative, but in every class, there are ways to teach students to think outside the box and question reasoning. I think this is especially true in a math class. As students progress through their math classes, they naturally begin to have more questions. I would not expect my students to simply follow everything they are taught. In my opinion, it is crucial for them ...
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The Architecture of Liberation: Literacy, Education, and Critical Consciousnes

In 1963, James Baldwin warned that the fundamental paradox of education is that while society expects schools to enforce compliance, true education creates conscious citizens who critically examine and challenge their world. Today, education remains a fiercely contested battleground between systemic social control and human liberation. Knowledge as "Lethal" Resistance Systems of control have long recognized the revolutionary power of literacy. As Toni Morrison noted, oppressive institutions view true knowledge as "lethal." When Texas prison authorities banned Morrison’s novel Paradise fearing inmate disruption, and state authorities barred incarcerated activist Angela Davis from sharing books, they reflected an institutional terror of critical consciousness. As Victor Hugo famously wrote, "To open a school is to close a prison." Culturally Grounded Pedagogy To transform literacy into a liberatory tool, educators must reject rigid, apolitical curricula...
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