The “Great Bifurcation” of education is here.
As teachers, we’re all seeing the “AI Glaze”—those perfectly polished lab reports and essays that lack a student’s unique voice or evidence of a real struggle. If we keep grading the output, we’re just grading a machine’s ability to mimic a student.
I’m excited to share that Tech & Learning just published a feature on my new framework, The Mastery Flip, designed to help us reclaim the heart of teaching.
In the feature, Erik Ofgang and I discuss:
The Individual Space: Using AI (the “Easy Button”) to handle rote tasks and “clone” our instruction so students can get help exactly when they need it.
The Group Space: Reclaiming the classroom for what AI cannot replicate—the Human Element. This is where we do the deep work: 5-foot trebuchet field tests, the “Sunday Struggle,” and high-stakes Socratic conversations.
Mastery for All: Why this isn’t just an elite strategy for honors kids. It’s a way to ensure every student—regardless of their level—can look us in the eye and prove they actually understand the logic.
Read the full Tech & Learning feature here
Coming Monday: Theory Meets the Field
The article covers the theory, but Monday’s podcast (dropping at 4:30 AM Central) provides the living proof. I’m taking you out to the field to hear my physics students navigate the “Friction of Reality” with their 5-foot siege engines.
You’ll hear the leadership, the grit, and the un-fakeable evidence of learning that happens when we move the technology out of the way and put the human connection back in the center.
See you in the field.
— Jon Bergmann