Liz Shulman: Why are we still pretending Big Tech cares about our classrooms?
All kids deserve protection in school. Instead, AI companies are equipping classrooms with surveillance tech to gather data on K-12 students.
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Liz Shulman: This is the first Father’s Day without him, a man who heralded the arrival of lilacs
Since November, I’ve dreaded the coming of spring, then summer and now Father’s Day.
Liz Shulman and William Liang: Why aren’t we talking about the harm AI is doing to students?
Despite the evidence showing AI is killing students’ critical thinking skills, schools have signed contracts with Big Tech companies.
Liz Shulman: Will Big Tech transform school into an AI video game?
AI has infiltrated schools and dominated the discourse in education at a dizzying pace, leaving the classroom full of contradictions.
Liz Shulman: What a schoolyard rooster taught me about my social media-numbed students
From August to November, I taught high school English alongside a few roosters who lived in a coop in the courtyard outside my first-floor classroom. Hatched in an incubator in...
Liz Shulman: The way phones affect my students in the classroom has me worried about their futures
"We know TikTok is bad for us, but it's better than the real world." These were the words of one of my ninth grade students, a tall, skinny teenager with...
Op-ed: A terrible day at Evanston Township High School. But we teachers remember how lucky we are.
"Maybe teachers should purchase Depends underwear," a colleague said at our high school English department meeting on Dec. 17. We were gathered on Zoom, the day after Evanston Township High...