Copilot for Beginners: Turn a Spreadsheet into a Report
If you work in communications, you’ve probably had this thought: “I have the data… but how in the heck am I going to turn this into a report?” That’s one of my favorite uses of Copilot for beginners. In this 60-second demo, I show how to use an Excel spreadsheet as source material and have […]
AI Training for Beginners: How to Make It Stick
I’m standing in an airport bookstore, holding a 𝘏𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 magazine, grinning like a kid. I remember circling hidden objects and working my way through the puzzles in 𝘏𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴. It never felt like learning. It felt like play. Our teachers gave us the magazine in school, and looking back, I think they understood something important about how […]
Why AI Adoption Needs Great Teaching, Not Just Great Technology
I once sat across from a brilliant engineer and asked him to walk me through his daily role. What followed was 45 minutes of acronyms, assumed context, and a whiteboard that looked like a circuit diagram drew another circuit diagram. I wasn’t there to judge him. I was building a Business Continuity Plan for a […]
How to Use Copilot Analyst to See the Big Picture
I was curious about a dataset on smartphone addiction—not just how much people use their phones, but how that use shows up in daily life. The dataset is called “Smartphone Usage and Addiction Analysis.” It contains usage and addiction indicators from 7,500 individuals. (I have no way to verify how it was collected but for our […]
Draft Your Book with the 10-Role AI Editorial Team
Stop me if this sounds familiar: You’re a brilliant expert, but when you open the blank document for your book, the writing muscle just fails. You’re stuck. What should you do? “Hire” an AI writing team. I broke down the 10 specific AI roles to help you draft your book. So… which AI role do […]
Teachers: Don’t Quit. Pivot.
This is a shout-out to all classroom teachers: In the age of AI, your skills—the ones for which you aren’t compensated nearly enough—have never been more in-demand. So have you considered becoming an AI trainer? Have you thought about teaching people outside of the K-12 classroom how to step confidently into the future? This is […]
Case Study: AI in Healthcare at UT Medical
With all the scary changes in the world, I’m committed to sharing some of the great news about AI. I recently wrote about advances in educational technology: Today, let’s look at an exciting use of AI in healthcare. The Challenge The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) is a perfect example of what’s possible when […]
Not the Future—The Present: 5 Ways AI Is Helping Students Right Now
When I taught middle school, I spent hours every day trying to differentiate the same lesson for a wide variety of learners. Some students needed extra scaffolding, others needed enrichment, and many fell somewhere in between. This was all before AI. Today, some of the most exciting innovations are happening in edtech, and they’re already […]
TOP 10 THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT AI & THE FUTURE OF WRITING
Over the past 4 months, I ghostwrote two nonfiction books with AI riding shotgun. Some of what I discovered was game-changing, and not gonna lie…some of it was unsettling. Here are the 10 lessons that surprised me most: After 4 months of testing, one thing is clear: AI can speed up parts of the […]
4 in 10 Say Violence Is Justified. What If They Read More?
When I read that 4 in 10 young adults think violence is necessary for change, I stopped cold. It made me wonder what happened to empathy? And what role does reading play in bringing it back? Recently, 33,000 respondents across 28 countries took the survey known as the “Edelman Trust Barometer.” The results not only […]