AI for Students

Let’s be honest. The term “AI in education” has been talked about for years, often bringing to mind images of robotic tutors or a future where teachers are replaced. Having spent the last decade designing and teaching online courses, I’ve seen this hype cycle over and over. For a long time, AI in education seemed […]

As someone who’s spent over a decade in education, first as a struggling college student cramming for finals, then as a tutor, and now as an educational technology consultant, I’ve watched exam preparation evolve from highlighters and sticky notes to something almost unrecognizable. By 2026, the landscape isn’t about replacing human effort with robots; it’s […]

Let’s be honest, studying hasn’t changed much in the past few decades. You still crack open a textbook, highlight until your hand cramps, scribble messy notes in the margins, and hope it sticks by exam time. But over the last few years, something’s shifted. Not because textbooks got smarter, but because we got better tools. As someone […]

If you’d told me a decade ago that I’d be collaborating with an algorithm to outline a research paper, I’d have laughed. Back then, my study assistant was a stack of highlighters, a pot of strong coffee, and the quiet desperation of a library at midnight. Today, the landscape has shifted so dramatically that it’s […]

When I was a sophomore juggling three majors, a part‑time job, and a side gig as a tutoring assistant, I quickly realized that the traditional study rhythm highlighting textbooks, re‑reading lecture slides, and cramming the night before exams was no longer cutting it. My schedule was packed, my attention span was thin, and the sheer […]

I’ve spent most of this academic year helping my younger cousins navigate their college coursework, and I have to say, the range of free AI tools available to students today is nothing short of remarkable. Back when I was grinding through university, our resources were mostly limited to Google searches and Wikipedia articles. Today’s students, […]

In the past decade, the landscape of education has undergone a quiet revolution. Walk into any college library or high school computer lab, and you’ll see students hunched over laptops, not just typing essays but using a suite of digital tools to refine their work. From grammar checkers that flag passive voice to citation generators […]

Last October, I spent three evenings a week manning the peer tutoring desk at my university’s science library. Most days, students trickled in with crumpled lab notebooks or dog-eared calculus textbooks, but that month, something shifted. More than half the students sat down, pulled out their phones, and didn’t ask me to solve a problem; […]

I’ve spent the better part of a decade working with students, from overwhelmed freshmen cramming for their first biology final to law students wrestling with mountains of case law. The story is often the same: a mountain of material, a ticking clock, and a growing sense of panic. The traditional toolkit, highlighters, flashcards, and study […]

Last fall, I sat in on a virtual office hour with Lila, a junior biochemistry student on the verge of dropping out. She’d missed three synchronous lectures because her evening clinic shift ran late, and the pre-recorded course videos didn’t answer the small, specific questions tripping her up. “I can’t ask the professor to re-explain […]