Justin Lai

Educational technologist on Oahu.
Helping you see, build, and tinker.

KS Ed Tech links handout link board for the 2026 KS Ed Tech gathering

Conference app to take notes on talks & ppl session notes and who you met — same gathering, different tool

Featured

read

Why you don't have to learn every new AI tool, and what to do instead.

2025-08-15 · shipped

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Exploring the behaviors of ellipses and other mathematical shapes.

2026-05-31 · shipped

hear

Radio interview sharing practical tips for parents and teachers to understand kids' AI habits.

2026-01-21 · shipped

tinker

A conversational scaffold that asks better questions than it answers.

2025-03-01 · shipped

Careful Curation — What it means to share resources with a reason attached, instead of dumping a pile of links.
Analog Oasis — Less about carving out a space, more about being intentional with your attention — which comes back to agency.
Those Words Are Not Enough — Why a chat box is a cramped place to do real creative work.
Murals from Your Mind — On finally being able to get the picture in your head out where someone else can see it.
Building Apps with AI: A Journey — An honest account of building real software with AI — what worked and what broke.
The Choice to Act — On steering AI to help you think, instead of just letting it generate something polished for you.
You Don't Need to Catch Up — Why you don't have to learn every new AI tool, and what to do instead.
Your Fresh Eyes Are the Feature — What you can see precisely because you're new to something.
Featured: Vibe Coding Examples — Featured in Zapier: real things people built by vibe coding, a few of them mine.
Featured: How to Vibe Code — Featured in Zapier: how I direct AI to build software, and what that looks like in a classroom.
Whose Bread Is It Anyways? — On provenance and authorship when students write alongside an LLM.

Play 4

Conic Sections — Exploring the behaviors of ellipses and other mathematical shapes.
Google AI Mode — Launch Google AI mode with your subject of interest and some common add-ons.
Plywood Visualizer — See how many pieces of a certain size you can get cut out of a larger piece.
Build Portfolio — A running catalog of classroom tools, experiments, and small builds.

Hear 5

Understanding the AI Literacy Our Students Bring — A panel on secondary AI integration and the literacy bridging high school to higher ed.
Understanding Children's Use of AI — Radio interview sharing practical tips for parents and teachers to understand kids' AI habits.
Legislative Briefing: Conversational AI Chatbots and Child Safety — An overview of how conversational AI chatbots affect children and what measures protect users.
HAIS Educational Technology Showcase — A video showcase by the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools documenting our classroom tech work.
AI Integration in Hawaii Classrooms — Local news and press coverage documenting our classroom-level approaches to generative AI.

Tinker 1

Thinking Partner — A conversational scaffold that asks better questions than it answers.

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