Three pages, exactly as they appear inside.
This is not a trailer. These are three working pages from Grade the Machine, the AI workbook for educators: interactives on, sources cited, nothing polished up for the tour.
Swipe or use the arrows. The full book is 70 pages like these, plus a test that scores your AI radar.
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The year AI moved into your building
Start with a guess, before I hand you the number.
Here is what did not double with it.
Seven in ten educators had received no AI training at all as of spring 2024. Eight in ten students say no educator ever taught them how to use it. Only about a third of educators report any policy on AI and academic integrity.
Read those numbers together and the story tells itself. The technology moved in. The manual never shipped. Everyone got handed the same silent expectation: figure it out, police it in your classroom, and don't get it wrong.
Every stat in the full book links to its source.
Shorter ladders, faster wins
ADHD brains do not need easier work. They need work with more rungs.
Chunk the long task into short numbered steps, each with a visible finish line. Build the movement in instead of fighting it.
Anchor examples in whatever the class is obsessed with this month: fractions survive contact with dinosaurs just fine. And always say what done looks like, out loud, in writing.
Describe the need, never the kid. No names, no diagnoses, nothing identifying goes in the box. Section 3 has the full line.
The never-list
Short enough to memorize. Strict enough to keep you safe.
Never paste into any AI tool: student names, photos, or voice recordings. Anything from an IEP or 504. Grades or discipline notes. Family, health, or home-life details. And any combination of details that could identify a kid even without the name: "my 3rd grader with the service dog" identifies her just fine.
Assume the tool can infer identity even when you strip the name. The safe test is simple: if a stranger should not read it, the chatbot should not either.
Notice what is NOT on the list: your lesson plans, your rubrics, your worksheets, a parent email with no names in it yet. Your teaching materials are yours to draft with. It is the students' information that stays out.
Four things an educator might paste into a chatbot. Three cross the line.
The rest is where it gets good.
The full book covers the fears out loud, FERPA and COPPA in plain English, the six failure modes with one check each, detector false flags, custom instructions that write themselves, and a catch-the-error test that scores your radar before and after.
Grade the Machine
The AI workbook for educators. One-time $47, opens in your browser, works on your phone. Your passcode appears on the receipt page.