CEO & Teacher
My name is Adam Sparks. I grew up on a farm outside of the small town of Louisville, NE. I graduated from Creighton University in 2014 with a degree in history and secondary education. Since then, I've taught in the most varied contexts imaginable: Rural Nebraska for 3 years, urban China for 1, and the west side of Chicago for 2. During the pandemic, I worked in a district technology office helping out with their 1-1 chromebook rollout in response to COVID. For the last year, I was a full-time graduate student in Stanford's Learning Design and Technology program where my work focused on using peer feedback to improve formative assessment pedagogy. For my masters capstone project, we built a web app called Short Answer. I now work full time on Short Answer with my wife Alexa. At Short Answer, we help teachers build better K12 writers though engaging peer feedback activites for any subject.
Episode 279: Navigating the Ethics and Challenges of AI in K-12 Education Panel
