Dan Anderson

I've used a custom timer for quizzes/tests mostly because I didn't like the timers showing the number of seconds counting down. My first version was hand coded and rudimentary. Then a CS student rewrote it for me and I used that version for several years.

Math is weird. This guy (and his student) derived the cubic and quartic formulas. Also had to "invent" complex numbers and spread the use of negative numbers in Europe. Described complex numbers as "as subtle as they are useless". Love it.

One small hack that might be useful. If you have access to magicschool (or some other student facing AI tool) and want to give them (fully optional) review bots for them to get review for tests etc, and you have claude pro (for educators it's free this year!).

Then you can have claude create the detailed tool info and descriptors. But to harden this and improve the tool you can have claude "act as a student" and live test the magicschool bot with questions and requests. Claude will test the bot and will improve it's tool info based on those tests.

Hey all, first new blog post in almost four years! blog.recursiveprocess.com/blog/beyond-...

Part 3 of this series: Automating the Tedious blog.recursiveprocess.com/blog/automat...

How are high school students using Generative AI? I analyzed anonymous feedback from my Precalculus and AP Computer Science classes this year. Here’s what I found about how students are integrating AI tools into their learning workflows:

"I used it to tell me where the error was and what caused it, then I would fix it myself—no copy & paste ever." Students stressed code ownership: "Using AI for debugging made sense because having it explain errors is easy and helps you learn."

How are high school students using Generative AI? I analyzed anonymous feedback from my Precalculus and AP Computer Science classes this year. Here’s what I found about how students are integrating AI tools into their learning workflows:

"AI can answer questions quickly and conveniently when doing homework at home and students aren't able to ask their teacher." But they warned about passive learning: "I can see AI being helpful, but it's too much of a temptation to just get the right answer."

How are high school students using Generative AI? I analyzed anonymous feedback from my Precalculus and AP Computer Science classes this year. Here’s what I found about how students are integrating AI tools into their learning workflows:

Hey all, first new blog post in almost four years! blog.recursiveprocess.com/blog/beyond-...

More and more I think we're at a crossroads with teaching CS and AI. Working with agentic AI lately, I’ve noticed I barely touch code anymore. But knowing the mechanics of how the program works in the background? Irreplaceable.

What info are apps taking in? How do we, as the humans behind the prompt, take responsibility for that data? The shift from "syntax writer" to "system overseer" is massive, and our educational frameworks aren't ready.

More and more I think we're at a crossroads with teaching CS and AI. Working with agentic AI lately, I’ve noticed I barely touch code anymore. But knowing the mechanics of how the program works in the background? Irreplaceable.