{"id":277979,"date":"2026-06-21T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/learning-conference-focuses-on-effective-technology-use-in-classrooms\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T18:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T22:00:11","slug":"learning-conference-focuses-on-effective-technology-use-in-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/learning-conference-focuses-on-effective-technology-use-in-classrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning conference focuses on effective technology use in classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/06\/21\/learning-conference-focuses-on-effective-technology-use-in-classrooms\/\">Learning conference focuses on effective technology use in classrooms<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/06\/21\/learning-conference-focuses-on-effective-technology-use-in-classrooms\/\">https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/06\/21\/learning-conference-focuses-on-effective-technology-use-in-classrooms\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-21 17:28:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.chicagotribune.com\">www.chicagotribune.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>School districts considering going back to a \u201cNo tech ever\u201d model will likely discover the 180-degree swing isn\u2019t the answer to their problems, either, according to a former teacher-turned-tech blogger.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers instead should be \u201ccrystal clear\u201d on how they want their students to use the technology they\u2019re given, said author Matt Miller during the South Shore Summer Learning Conference at Purdue University Northwest recently. Banning it completely won\u2019t change teachers\u2019 deepest concerns about its use, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Buddy Berry, superintendent for Eminence Independent Schools in Northern Kentucky, laughs with attendees over a student&#8217;s expensive error during the recent South Shore Summer Learning Conference. (Michelle L. Quinn\/Post-Tribune)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a carpenter works on a project, they think through the steps and use whatever tool gives us the result they want, right? They\u2019re not saying, \u2018Tech is ruining carpentry;\u2019 they use power tools when they make it better,\u201d Miller told the group. \u201cFolks, I have something to tell you: That\u2019s a story abou teaching. Do we really know what going no-tech will bring?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Getting rid of tech, particularly AI, won\u2019t stop cheating; in fact, like most forbidden things, it becomes only more attractive, Miller said. And whether teschers want to admit it or not, AI plagiarism detectors aren\u2019t all that great, so error rates alone raise doubts about relying on them.<\/p>\n<p>Plagiarism detectors, because of the way they\u2019re trained, also show bias against non-native English speakers, he pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Using plagiarism detectors) is a no-win situation; it takes the focus off learning and into catching cheaters,\u201d Miller said. \u201cAnd if you say using AI is cheating and to never use it, you only make it more appealing for students to use.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Teachers, then, should focus on teaching students how to use AI to get the results they want.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if AI gives the student broad ideas? Can it be used as a research assistant or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/06\/21\/learning-conference-focuses-on-effective-technology-use-in-classrooms\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning conference focuses on effective technology use in classrooms https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/06\/21\/learning-conference-focuses-on-effective-technology-use-in-classrooms\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-21 17:28:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PTB-L-PNW-CONFERENCE-0622-02_23c5f8.jpg?w=1024&h=889","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277981,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277979\/revisions\/277981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}