Emerging Tech · a weekly brief for educators
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One short email a week on AI, spatial AI, and the emerging tech reshaping education — what’s real, what’s hype, and what to do about it. Written by a practitioner who builds this stuff.
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Field notes · 01–05
The frontier, in five scenes.
What “emerging tech” actually means on the ground. Move your cursor through each scene — they notice.
The classroom grows a third dimension.
Headsets stopped being demos. The interesting question is which lesson deserves one — and immersion earns its seat when consequence, place, or practice is the point.
They learn by watching us.
Humanoids pick up tasks from demonstration now, and quadrupeds already walk inspection routes on real job sites. Teaching methods, it turns out, transfer.
Imagining what happens next.
The quiet engine behind the rest of this list: models that hold a small copy of the world and run it forward. Prediction is the product — everything else is interface.
Seeing through smoke.
Thermal vision finds a person in a black room, and the incident map updates mid-burn. Technology is at its best when seconds count — and it still follows the crew, not the other way around.
The grid meets the garage.
An EV is a battery that happens to drive — which makes every campus parking lot a storage question and every fleet a curriculum topic for the trades.
The Blog
Latest writing
Longer-form thinking on the things the weekly brief only has room to point at.
Why Immersive Learning Sticks
A practitioner’s case for XR in the classroom — what immersion actually buys you, and what it doesn’t.
XR & PedagogyAI in the Classroom: Start With the Assignment, Not the Tool
A ten-minute exercise that turns the campus AI argument into a design decision.
AI & TeachingEmerging-Tech Literacy for Faculty: The 90-Day On-Ramp
You cannot “keep up with technology.” You can build judgment. Here’s the schedule.
Faculty DevelopmentInside every issue
Three things, every week.
One topic, taken apart
An emerging-tech topic explained by a practitioner who builds this stuff — including the failure modes.
What’s actually worth your time
The events and news across California’s colleges that earned a mention, and nothing that didn’t.
Something to use Monday
A tool, a paper, or a question you can carry straight into class.
The Podcast
Spatial AI: Bridge the Gaps
Less hype. More insight. A little wonder. Long-form conversations with the people building immersive and AI systems — running since 2024, on Apple, Spotify, and iHeart.
Spatial AI: Bridge the Gaps is a production of XReality, Inc., Dominique Wu’s company — separate from her newsletter and from any public-sector role. Guest views are their own.
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Emerging Tech is a personal publication by Dominique Wu, offered in her individual capacity. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, any college or district, or the AI Fellows Program.