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In new work from Common Sense Media, many teens acknowledge AI is changing how they think, with schools providing few safeguards.
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September 7, 2:50 PM
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Academic leaders can strengthen workforce relevance by creating flexible curricula to respond to change while preserving academic quality and human skills.
"Some skills experiencing intense demand today may be obsolete within a few years. Building an entire degree around every emerging technology can leave institutions maintaining programs long after the market has moved on.
A more sustainable approach is to build flexibility into curriculum. Emerging skills can sometimes be introduced through modules, courses or credentials that can evolve without requiring a complete program redesign."
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September 7, 2:43 PM
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When it comes to career readiness, the best prep for an AI-shaped labor market is more practice making decisions when AI is in the room.
"The workplace advantage will increasingly belong to people who can decide when an AI output is useful, when it is incomplete and when it is wrong."
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September 7, 2:35 PM
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After asking four chatbots to rank the 10 jobs that are most at risk of being replaced by AI and taken away from human hands, there was one job they all chose.
"At the top of each chatbot’s ranked list, ChatGPT chose customer service representatives, Gemini selected data entry clerks & digitization specialists, Claude picked interpreters & translators and Perplexity settled on data-entry keyers & document-processing clerks."
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"Artificial intelligence chatbots have become the bane of teachers everywhere, but to prepare for the new school year, a group of educators in Charleston, South Carolina, packed into a high school auditorium and talked about inviting AI into the classroom."
"After initially trying to ban AI use, a growing number of U.S. public schools are trying a new strategy: encouraging classroom experimentation, partly so students can see its shortcomings, including generative AI’s notorious tendency to “hallucinate,” or fabricate information."
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September 4, 8:36 AM
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Across higher education, conversations among faculty, instructors, and other teaching and learning professionals about generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) often begin with practical questions. How should courses change? What belongs in assessment? How do we as educators discourage inappropriate AI use while preserving academic integrity?
"As generative artificial intelligence reshapes conversations about teaching, learning, and assessment, colleges and universities have an opportunity to look beyond what learners produce and better understand how human capability develops over time, strengthening teaching, feedback, and assessment through richer evidence of learning."
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September 3, 11:05 AM
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"Just as schools are preparing to open, New York City is putting new limits on technology use. As reported in The New York Times and Chalkbeat, there will be no individual screens before third grade and recommended caps on screen time for grades 3 - 8."
"[T]he problem with screen-time rules is that they measure the device rather than what students are doing with it. That's particularly problematic with young children because sometimes the screen is... an accessibility tool"
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September 3, 10:59 AM
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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.
"AI gains traction when embedded in familiar learning environments and supported by policy, trusted platforms, educator agency, peer examples, and practical training."
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A structured pilot program reduces risk before a districtwide rollout. Here’s how to build one that generates actionable data.
"A pilot program can mitigate the risks by first launching a small-scale, time-limited test of a technology tool with a defined group of users before committing to full schoolwide or districtwide adoption."
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Ghost students are viewed primarily as a financial aid problem. In reality, they are an institutional cybersecurity challenge.
"Ghost student fraud represents the next evolution in identity-based attacks. Instead of stealing student credentials, fraud rings create synthetic identities from stolen and fabricated personal information. Once those identities pass proofing, they receive accounts, privileges, and financial aid as legitimate students, and every subsequent transaction inherits that trust."
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The new offering is promising, but there are some real-world reservations.
"ChatGPT for Teens illustrates the promise and the limits of AI in education. Tools like Study Mode can fill a genuine gap for students who lack resources. But...the technology is not a substitute for teachers."
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Attendance, completion, and click-through data show presence, but they often miss the signals that determine whether learning sticks.
"Completion data tells you who stayed in the room. Processing shows who stayed mentally engaged. Application reveals whether the learning reached the workplace. Looking at all three together gives L&D teams a far clearer picture than attendance alone ever could."
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When tech and AI can increasingly handle routine tasks, students need opportunities to build skills that come from not simply following a set of instructions
"[T]here is a downside to making a rubric, exemplar, or step-by-step checklist the starting point for every assignment: students can become very good at following directions without becoming very good at figuring things out."
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September 7, 2:53 PM
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Anyone who has sat through a curriculum meeting knows that homework is a perpetual battleground.
"Homework is ultimately just a pedagogical tool. Its value isn’t found in the minutes ticking by on the clock, but in the intentionality of the educator assigning it."
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WGU Labs begins experiments in embedding human connection into AI-first systems, and high-tech systems should take note.
"[W]hile connection commands a greater value, it’s also getting displaced. Students are increasingly leaning directly on AI—rather than humans—for help, advice, and support. While that may have short-term upsides, it threatens to gradually weaken the very networks they’ll need to build and advance in their careers."
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September 7, 2:37 PM
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A white paper on why educational preparation is breaking down and what institutions must build beyond 2030.
"Education systems are headed toward the 2030s with an unraveling assumption: that schools, universities, training systems, ministries, employers, and international organizations can prepare people for futures that are still stable enough to understand and shape."
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September 4, 8:41 AM
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We need a plan to ensure that the good outweighs the bad. The transition to the AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history.
"AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice."
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A new, cautionary APA report wades into the growing debate around screens, classroom technology, and AI.
"[T]he APA urges educators to test how well students can apply learned skills in real-world contexts outside of the technology itself, whether it's an app, computer game, or chatbot. If students struggle, the report says, the tech has failed."
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How can education truly prepare students for the unpredictability of the working world? Find three ways to encourage students to develop the skills they’ll need
"Without deliberate guidance, AI risks becoming a tool for cognitive offloading rather than deeper learning. Updating traditional pedagogies requires three shifts in course design, with the educator moving from primary knowledge transmitter to coach."
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Colleges should stop treating AI literacy as the finish line and start building clear pathways from learning to workplace application. Every AI literacy program should be designed with employers, tested across institutions and evaluated by what students can actually do afterward.
"AI literacy is necessary. Still, just knowing how to use a tool does not mean a student knows how to apply it responsibly to an unfamiliar workplace problem."
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Schools are gathering tons of data. Here’s how they can use it to support classroom learning.
“AI-powered tools can help schools identify patterns, surface insights and analyze large data sets more effectively, but human expertise remains essential for interpreting results, asking the right questions and making informed decisions"
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Ai in schools must move beyond superficial bans and passive policies to everyday practice grounded in scrutiny, judgment, and equity.
"Transforming ethical guidelines into practice requires concrete strategies that equip educators with tools, training, and institutional support needed to govern AI responsibly"
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September 2, 4:38 PM
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One of the biggest questions surrounding generative AI in education is no longer simply whether students use it. AI can help someone brainstorm, receive feedback, organize ideas, revise writing, conduct research—or avoid doing the learning altogether.
So perhaps the better questions are:
This connects to the idea of cognitive offloading—using a tool to reduce the mental effort required to complete a task. We already do this with calculators, calendars, search engines, and navigation systems.
Generative AI greatly expands what we can hand over. The challenge is deciding what can be offloaded productively and what thinking remains necessary for developing understanding, judgment, creativity, and expertise.
These are among the issues explored in our award-winning book, Teaching and Learning in the Age of Generative AI.
We would love to hear your perspective:
When does AI become a useful learning support—and when does it begin replacing the learning?
People have always used tools to reduce mental effort. We use calculators, calendars, search engines, navigation systems, and countless other supports.
Generative AI dramatically expands what we can offload.
The challenge for educators is determining which work can be delegated productively and which thinking remains essential for developing understanding, judgment, creativity, and expertise.
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September 2, 12:17 PM
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A look at what happens when rules written far from a classroom land on a teacher’s desk.
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AI access is only the beginning--institutions need instructional designers to translate new capabilities into responsible teaching practice.
"Giving faculty access to AI is only the beginning--institutions also need people who can help translate new capabilities into responsible teaching practice"
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If ever there was a most important era in which we must emphasize discourse with our students, it is today. We are in the midst of major changes in our culture and society as a whole. I have had a long tenure of teaching in higher education, beginning in 1972 at the instructor level at the University of Illinois Urbana, continuing through spring semester 2022 as a full professor and associate vice chancellor at the University of Illinois Springfield. That is one half of a century in the faculty ranks.
“Today, AI fluency is rapidly becoming the common language of work and a prerequisite for the next chapter of competitiveness."
"70% now use AI for schoolwork, but that fewer than one in three say a teacher has ever talked with them about using it safely. And just one in four have discussed with a teacher how to tell whether AI-generated information is accurate."