Dana Whitfield

Dana Whitfield is the education-technology editor of The Homework Site. She has spent more than a decade around school technology — the era of interactive whiteboards, then one-to-one laptop programs, then learning-management systems, and now generative AI. The pattern repeats: a tool arrives, the marketing promises transformation, and teachers are left to work out what it actually changes on a Tuesday afternoon. This site is her attempt to do that work in public.

What she covers

• AI homework help and study tools — hands-on reviews of the assistants, solvers, tutors, and flashcard tools students actually use.
• Classroom AI policy and assignment design — practical templates and approaches for teachers, not abstractions.
• AI detection and academic integrity — including the uncomfortable evidence about how often detectors are wrong.
• Citation and research practice — how to credit AI properly, and why invented sources are the biggest trap.

How she reviews

Every review on this site starts with the primary sources: what a tool’s makers document and charge, and what independent, published research has found about how it actually performs. Dana’s job is to weigh the marketing against the evidence and report where they diverge — with every number named and linked so a reader can check it. Where a claim hasn’t been independently verified, the review says so rather than implying a test that didn’t happen.

The standard is simple: would this hold up if a teacher checked the sources tomorrow?

Editorial independence

Dana writes for readers, not vendors. Some links on this site may be affiliate links, but they never influence a verdict, and comparisons include tools that pay us nothing. Read the full editorial policy.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, it gets fixed in place with a note — not quietly deleted. Corrections and tips are welcome via the contact details on the about page.