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After years of neglect, writing skills are getting more attention in school
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August 14, 11:50 AM
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Three-quarters of U.S. adults support in-class school cellphone bans, and for the first time, more now support than oppose all-day bans for middle and high schoolers.
"About half of U.S. adults (48%) back “bell-to-bell” school cellphone bans for middle and high school students, up from 36% in 2024."
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August 14, 11:46 AM
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In many math classrooms, mistakes in math classrooms have been seen as something to avoid, hide, or quickly fix.
"What if mistakes became one of the most valuable tools for learning mathematics? Shifting the narrative around errors—from something to fear to something to explore—can transform not only how students approach math, but how they see themselves as learners."
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August 14, 11:39 AM
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Successful AI adoption requires the extraction of tacit knowledge from your best workers in order to feed it to the model.
"Many companies already have everything they need for successful AI adoption—except knowledge of how their best people actually work."
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August 14, 11:32 AM
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"The saga imagined thinking machines as immortal individuals in metal bodies. Real AI showed up as copyable software, and every difference is worth understanding."
"Star Wars puts nearly all of its AI inside bodies that walk, roll, gesture, and emote. Reality delivered the opposite order. Capable AI arrived first as disembodied software, as text and code and conversation, because the body turned out to be the hard part rather than the easy one."
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August 13, 11:04 AM
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AI clones are becoming more common, but the early-stage technology is not without risks. From rogue clones to workplace doppelgangers, here's what you need to know.
"Meta has been building an AI Twin of Mark Zuckerberg that will supposedly help employees feel more connected to their boss"
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August 13, 10:59 AM
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I left my school to ask tech executives how to prepare students for the future.
"[T]he challenges facing today’s students are too complex for any single sector to solve independently. This reality is especially true for students from historically under-resourced communities."
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August 13, 10:51 AM
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AI agents in corporate learning are redefining the Learning and Development function. Here's why they represent the next evolution.
"The future of learning isn't about generating more content; rather, it is about generating relevant learning, contextualised and integrated seamlessly into the workflow of the organization."
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August 13, 10:48 AM
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Assessment after AI is not about fear, but rather about intentional and purposeful design
"Rather than focusing only on how to stop students from using AI, we need to design tasks that make students' thinking more visible. When an assignment asks students to explain their decisions, reflect on the process, make connections, analyze feedback, defend their thinking, and revise their work, learning becomes harder to outsource."
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Students are concerned about their job prospects as rumors mount that AI will greatly alter the workforce.
"[C]ollege students are searching for degrees that will offer protection from the potential effects on the workforce of artificial intelligence"
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August 11, 10:41 AM
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A teacher created an app to fight cheating — and discovered a bigger takeaway.
"Designing uncheatable assessments requires more than adjustments to a single assignment — it requires us to expand our definition of success and to rethink what counts as achievement and how we measure it."
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August 11, 10:36 AM
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Future teachers, nurses, engineers, lawyers and business leaders need more than rules and policies about when to use AI. Inexperienced students benefit from courses that help them practise responsible judgement alongside foundational learning
"If a course claims to value critical thinking, professional judgement or ethical practice, AI guidance should not sit separately from those commitments. Judgement cannot be bolted on. Students need to practise it in context, with support, feedback and clear expectations."
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August 11, 10:19 AM
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"When I began my administrative career as principal of New Milford High School, I was far from a tech evangelist. Early on, I was the principal confiscating cell phones in hallways and viewing digital devices primarily as classroom distractions. My journey into digital leadership did not begin with a love for technology, but rather with a stark realization: enforcing compliance and banning devices created an environment completely disconnected from the real world. Shifting my mindset required moving past a fear of screens and recognizing that leadership in the modern era is about leveraging resources to transform instruction, create transparency, and empower learners. Today, as a growing wave of pushback builds against educational technology, that lesson is more critical than ever."
"Digital Leadership is a strategic mindset and set of behaviors that leverage resources to create a meaningful, transparent, and engaging school culture. It’s about doing what we already do, better. It’s about working smarter, not harder, by enhancing our professional practice through the intentional, strategic use of technology."
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August 14, 11:57 AM
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Artificial intelligence tools offer a glimpse into students’ classroom experience. When paired with teachers’ knowledge and judgment, it can be a path to improvement.
"Schools must look beyond a vendor’s general privacy statement and determine what data enters the system, who has access, whether it is stored or shared, and what happens to it when the district stops using the product."
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"Anthropic said in a support document Tuesday that its future AI models will put an invisible watermark in all text, identifying it as AI-generated."
"The imperceptible marks will be invisible and will travel with the text"
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August 14, 11:44 AM
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A data analytics and marketing major at Bentley University and a distinguished lecturer at the university explore the future of "technology learning partners" — technologies that participate in the learning process by asking questions and giving feedback, not just information search results.
"Student experiences with AI and other technologies today will inform the next generation of human/machine learning partners."
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August 14, 11:36 AM
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"This scoping review examines the growing intersection between lifelong learning (LLL) and artificial intelligence (AI), focusing on whether the promises of assistance, personalization, and automation are aligned with the broader educational, social, and equity-oriented aims of LLL."
"The review identifies a misalignment between the theoretical and policy-oriented framing of LLL and the practical deployment of AI in educational contexts. This suggests the need to move beyond technology-centred approaches and to design AI-supported lifelong learning initiatives that are explicitly connected to regional needs, learner vulnerability, social justice, and human development."
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August 13, 11:10 AM
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A new framework for an industry that's stopped agreeing on what it sells
"A Restarting Point: After 25 years in the industry, what I like most about this is the fresh questions I suddenly find myself asking. I never felt like I could fit all the pieces of the EdTech puzzle together and now I can."
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August 13, 11:02 AM
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Agentic AI may help us reach answers faster. But the future will depend on whether we still know how to earn them.
"The greatest risk associated with agentic AI—artificial intelligence systems that are designed to autonomously make decisions and act with limited supervision—may not be the disappearance of any single entry-level or mid-management role. The far bigger risk may be the gradual erosion of human decision ownership itself—the decline of human agency."
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August 13, 10:56 AM
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Training for deepfake that lasts builds verification habits and a workplace culture where double-checking a request is normal.
"A deepfake literacy program should spend a small fraction of its time on how the technology works and most of it on what employees do when a request arrives by voice or video."
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August 13, 10:49 AM
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AI gains traction in higher education when it stops being a separate experiment and becomes an integrated into teaching and learning.
"For most colleges and universities, access to AI tools is no longer the barrier. The real work is building the clarity, confidence, and shared responsibility to use them well."
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Will the pushback against school devices last, and will we learn the right lessons from it?
"A big part of the problem is that in the U.S., we tend to swing wildly between extremes. One week, AI will reinvent schools; the next, it should be banned as a developmental hazard."
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After years of neglect, writing skills are getting more attention in school
"[T]eachers are under pressure to prepare students for standardized tests that emphasize reading and math, experts say, often to the detriment of other subjects."
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August 11, 10:38 AM
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Two L&D teams, same AI, same brief: one builds a course that informs, the other builds one that changes behavior. Let's see why.
"The difference between these two courses is not creativity, writing style, or the AI tool. The difference lies in how the problem was framed before AI generated a single word. One prompt asks AI to explain a policy. The other asks AI to help learners make better decisions."
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August 11, 10:22 AM
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Every generation produces its educational silver bullet. Progressive education promised child-centred discovery learning. Open classrooms were supposed to liberate learning. Computer-assisted instruction would individualize education. More recently, personalized digital learning was heralded as the solution to every problem facing schools. Today, artificial intelligence has become the latest educational miracle cure, and no school has attracted…
"Improving teaching is one thing, but replacing human teaching it is something completely different."
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Tech companies are not modelling their own claims of the technology giving people more free time.
"[W]orkers inside these same tech companies, who are not only developing but using the very AI tools that will purportedly perform at least some of people's work, say they are clocking in far more than the typical five-day, 40-hour work week."
"[T]eachers are under pressure to prepare students for standardized tests that emphasize reading and math, experts say, often to the detriment of other subjects."