• Nobody plagiarizes in their diary.”
• Research has shown that engaging in metacognition, reflecting on one’s own thinking process, is one of the most effective ways in enhancing learning
• mportant skills and dispositions such as higher-order thinking, leadership, creativity, resilience, and open-mindedness cannot be taught explicitly
• When we try to teach them, we often reduce them to a recipe and procedure that do not reflect the complexity of the real-world (Dede, 2022). A Chinese idiom says “Words transmit, actions teach (言传身教),” acknowledging the importance of both explicit teaching through words and implicit teaching through modeling and action.
• It is important to note that the process of doing activities is, in itself, not sufficient – it is critical to have a space to unpack the thinking and experiences during the activities to consolidate understanding
• or any learning to take place, learners have to be at the edge of their competency
• Motivation is not something we either have or do not have; it is a complex, multifaceted, and dynamic process.
• However, AI cannot easily replicate human judgment, which is a deliberative thought process that is flexible and contextual based on experiential knowledge, ethics, values, relationships, and culture

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• And it will be no small challenge for teachers to figure out how to use the technology to develop students' critical thinking skills without sacrificing the meaningful connections that can be the product of human-to-human teaching
• “I've been to former students’ weddings and baby showers and funerals of their parents,” says Millard, the high school English teacher in Michigan. “I've hugged my students. I've high-fived my students. I've cried with my students. A computer will never do that. Ever, ever.

• Several teachers who have considered quitting say it’s not because they don’t still love teaching—it’s because of all the pressure and lack of suppor
• “Self-care is really important, but that kind of injunction just puts more labor on teachers if it’s not actually integrated into structural functions of school.”