The Progress Report w/ Caleb Hicks

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Sorting, math tutors, and more

The Progress Report Hi Reader, We’re heading out to Iowa next week to do a day-long session with principals there. It’ll be me, Jethro Jones of Transformative Principal, and Kevin from our team. What are the things that you’d be looking for in a session like this? Here are a few things worth your...

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3 months ago • 1 min read

New Beatles Song and Your Song

The Progress Report Hi Reader, We’re getting a lot of new signups at schoolai.com and we’re seeing some really cool things happening. If you’re not test driving our service, yet, please hit reply and let me know. Worth Reading Do you like the Beatles? Get ready for a new song created using AI,...

4 months ago • 1 min read

Minecraft controlled by AI

The Progress Report Hi Reader, Worth Reading These kind of Chatbots are becoming quite popular, and lots of people are making them in different forms. What I think is valuable here is that it is creating trusted content. Load up your school web site, curriculum guides, and other curriculum...

4 months ago • 1 min read

6 tools and travel update

The Progress Report Hi Reader, I mentioned last week that I’d let you know as some of these trips start coming up and my first trip is scheduled for Iowa at the end of June. So, if you are in Iowa, you will want to come to this event! A couple weeks ago, we had a great internal discussion about...

4 months ago • 2 min read

Bigger LLMs and Adobe's Generative Filler

The Progress Report Hi Reader, We may be coming to a state near you. After our presentation in San Diego, we are lining up a few things in the coming weeks and months. I’ll let you know where and when as things are solidified. Meanwhile work with our beta group is progressing nicely. We’ve got...

4 months ago • 1 min read

OpenAI Open Source

The Progress Report Hi Reader, We’re running! We’re excited to announce that we have some PD dates on the calendar for working with a local district. Excited about this opportunity and if you’d like to work with us in adopting SchoolAI for your teachers, hit reply and let me know. Worth...

5 months ago • 1 min read

You can make stuff

The Progress Report Hi Reader, Today, I'd like to encourage you to make something. There are examples below of people making things and you probably have enough skills to be successful at creating something, because the barrier to entry is quite low. Lots of what people are sharing is technical,...

5 months ago • 2 min read

AI teaching kids to read?

The Progress Report Hi Reader, We had a great time at ASU GSV last week and it was great to get to see so many cool people doing amazing things. This week, Jethro and I are presenting at the State Executive Directors' Professional Development Program put on by NASSP and NAESP about how membership...

5 months ago • 1 min read

So Nice We Did it Twice

The Progress Report Hi Reader, After hosting the Build AIxEDU design sprint in NYC last week, we got invited to run it back at ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego on Monday. Yusuf Ahmad, Ian Serlin, and Mike Yates were also there to jam on ideas, work on prompts, and help people ship their first...

5 months ago • 1 min read

Lots of updates from Khan Academy

The Progress Report Hi Reader, This week we are in New York at an EDUxAI hackathon and in Oregon at a CTE conference. We’re excited about all the great folks that are joining us and getting a demo of what we’re building. Here are a few things worth your time: Worth Reading The debate rages on...

6 months ago • 1 min read

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