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“Instead of testing a new idea or tool, “paralysis by analysis” takes hold. We overanalyze new options, mull over all of the things we don’t know, think about how students will react, and then we don’t act!”
― Matt Miller, Ditch That Textbook: Free Your Teaching and Revolutionize Your Classroom

“Collaborative work is the future of career readiness.”
― Matt Miller, AI for Educators: Learning Strategies, Teacher Efficiencies, and a Vision for an Artificial Intelligence Future

“Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets,”
― Matt Miller, AI for Educators: Learning Strategies, Teacher Efficiencies, and a Vision for an Artificial Intelligence Future

“If you need a concept explained or defined, an AI assistant can provide that explanation—and do it in as detailed or simple a manner as you’d like. On episode 99 of the Partial Credit Podcast, Jesse Lubinsky shared that he asked for a definition of “faith” in terms a child would understand. That helped me realize that it can give definitions, descriptions, and explanations (which we expected) and level them up or down in complexity.”
― Matt Miller, AI for Educators: Learning Strategies, Teacher Efficiencies, and a Vision for an Artificial Intelligence Future

“Let’s provide creative, authentic ways for students to show what they know. Creativity in learning can help students with motivation. It can help them make use of their own unique talents and skills. It can help them feel seen and heard and noticed.”
― Matt Miller, AI for Educators: Learning Strategies, Teacher Efficiencies, and a Vision for an Artificial Intelligence Future

“Computers and technology do not reduce the importance of the teacher. In fact, the exact opposite is true!”
― Matt Miller, Ditch That Homework: Practical Strategies to Help Make Homework Obsolete

“What does it mean to be a person? What makes us special as human beings? What can we do that artificial intelligence can’t—or what are we better at? These are crucial questions that students will have to reckon with immediately and in the future. Even if we don’t have answers to those questions, we can participate in conversations about them.”
― Matt Miller, AI for Educators: Learning Strategies, Teacher Efficiencies, and a Vision for an Artificial Intelligence Future

“Not all assignments are created equal. Unfortunately,”
― Matt Miller, Ditch That Homework: Practical Strategies to Help Make Homework Obsolete

“Decide whether to pitch with facts or questions.”
― Matt Miller, Ditch That Textbook: Free Your Teaching and Revolutionize Your Classroom

“Ideas are nothing without vision and execution.”
― Matt Miller, AI for Educators: Learning Strategies, Teacher Efficiencies, and a Vision for an Artificial Intelligence Future

“All in all, time spent on improving relationships—with parents, with students and student-to-student—improves learning in the long run. Those solid relationships build the foundation that your educational house rests on—and wards off the cracks that cause things to crumble.”
― Matt Miller, Ditch That Homework: Practical Strategies to Help Make Homework Obsolete

“Different: Using teaching methods that differ from what students see day after day, class after class. Innovative: Inventing new ideas or modifying others’ ideas, then testing them in the classroom, even if their success isn’t guaranteed. Tech-laden: Incorporating digital sites, tools, and devices to learn more efficiently or in new and different ways. Creative: Tapping into students’ original ideas as well as creating and producing meaningful work. (After all, creative has the word create in it!) Hands-on: Letting students make and try things on their own. In”
― Matt Miller, Ditch That Textbook: Free Your Teaching and Revolutionize Your Classroom

“Knowing what makes your students tick can be invaluable to connect learning to their interests.”
― Matt Miller, Ditch That Homework: Practical Strategies to Help Make Homework Obsolete

“In the end, if using AI tools cuts your planning time from 30 minutes to 18 minutes—or your grading time from 40 minutes to 22—that extra time it creates is yours. Use it however you wish. Plan out that cool lesson you’ve always wanted to do. Or go home early. The choice is yours. I know this type of decision feels pretty foreign to us—deciding what to do with extra time. Whether we use it to do something amazing for our students or preserve our mental health, everyone wins.”
― Matt Miller, AI for Educators: Learning Strategies, Teacher Efficiencies, and a Vision for an Artificial Intelligence Future

“Yet another pondered: If a teacher generates lesson plans with an AI, who gets the credit? (I wondered what the importance of credit in lesson planning is in the first place, and if creators on Teachers Pay Teachers get credit if a teacher buys lesson plans there.)”
― Matt Miller, AI for Educators: Learning Strategies, Teacher Efficiencies, and a Vision for an Artificial Intelligence Future

“What if you considered that your students are your customers and periodically asked what they thought of their learning experience?”
― Matt Miller, Ditch That Homework: Practical Strategies to Help Make Homework Obsolete