EdTech Alchemy · Practical ideas for using technology in schools
Use the technology you have to teach the lesson better.
Ideas for teachers working with tight schedules, uneven access, aging devices, and tools that do not always cooperate.
Free classroom resources
Start with an absent-student note, an activity for checking AI claims, or assignment directions you can adapt. Printable PDFs and copyable text are included. No signup required.
Before you add another app
Start with the lesson. Then ask whether technology helps.
01 · The students
What do students need?
Name what students should understand, practice, create, or explain.
02 · What you have
What can you already use?
Look at the tools students know, the routines that work, the time you have, and the support that is available.
03 · One class
What can you try with one class?
Make one manageable change. Look at the student work and adjust before you use it again.
On EdTech Alchemy
Ideas for classrooms and school leaders.
Classroom Ideas
Lesson routines teachers can adapt with tools their students already know.
AI in Schools
Careful uses of AI for planning and school work, with student privacy and teacher judgment kept in view.
Before You Add Another App
Questions about learning, access, cost, student data, teacher time, and what the new tool would replace.
For School Leaders
Notes on supporting teachers, planning professional learning, and choosing technology for schools.
About Paul
Ideas shaped by years of teaching, coaching, and leading schools.
I’m Paul, a middle school principal, educator, and longtime technology tinkerer. I have spent years working with teachers who made good learning happen despite aging devices, uneven access, limited budgets, and very little extra time. EdTech Alchemy is where I share ideas worth trying, along with the problems that come with them.
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Start with one useful change
The free Field Guide offers five practical ways to improve learning with familiar tools.
Field Notes
The Field Guide is here.
Download Volume 1, then join the Field Notes. I will share classroom ideas that may help with a lesson or problem you are working on. I will write when I have something worth sharing.
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