Experiments & observations
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Field notes, practical tools, and resource snapshots from ongoing work in adult education.
Who Trains the Trainers? A Note on Adult Education's AI-Readiness Gap
Field Note | July 24, 2026
There are plenty of frameworks for what learners should know about AI, and next to nothing for assessing whether the people teaching adult learners are ready to teach it. A short, exploratory look at that gap in adult education—and a few places a fix could start.
Adult Ed x Community of Inquiry x System Dynamics
Field Note | July 1, 2026
Explores digital learning in adult education as a dynamic system, using the Community of Inquiry framework to examine how presence emerges, adapts, and sometimes breaks under real-world conditions.
AI as a Classroom Ally: Simulated Group Discussion
Resource | July 1, 2026
A structured AI-powered discussion activity that helps adult educators introduce interaction, perspective-taking, and reflection into individualized and distance learning environments.
Goals Before Tools: Reimagining and Rebuilding adultedtech.com
Field Note | June 19, 2026
A reflection on selecting tools for adultedtech.com by first clarifying what the site needed to do, and why that mirrors learner-centered design in adult education.