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"Every warning we need about AI was written four hundred years ago. What witches, a forged letter, and a haunted prince can teach you about talking to a machine."
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Microsoft has published a draft code of conduct that lays out how its homegrown AI models should behave, with human control taking priority over model capability, autonomy, and even task completion.
"Microsoft's Humanist AI Code prioritizes human control, safety and oversight over autonomy."
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Today, 1:42 PM
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The question shouldn't be how much screen time should students have, but what they are doing, what are they learning, and is technology helping?
"That's the conversation schools should be having about technology more broadly. Don't start with the tool or the number of minutes. Start with the learning and decide what tools are best to achieve the desired outcomes."
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October 5, 1:36 PM
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People remember the moment they had to decide. Four rules for building scenarios that teach — and a 30-second mini scenario you can try inside the post.
"That is why scenarios work: instead of telling learners what to do, you put them inside a situation and let them choose. Done well, a scenario turns dry content into something people feel — and what people feel, they keep."
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October 5, 1:30 PM
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As AI features flood K-12 curricula, educators are left to filter proven quality from marketing hype.
"The blurred lines between AI-enabled course materials and materials without AI can affect classrooms...The worst-case scenario...is that quality assurance at adoption no longer guarantees quality at instruction.”
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October 5, 1:23 PM
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"In this episode of This Week with EdSurge, two former educators join to discuss EdReport's recent brief and explain why it is so important to verify the efficacy of digital instructional tools."
"EdReports, an independent nonprofit that reviews K-12 curriculum, recently went looking for the evidence behind those claims. What it found raises hard questions for any district leader weighing an edtech purchase this fall."
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October 2, 1:21 PM
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There is growing concern that AI can blunt memory and reasoning. But science shows ways to keep the brain sharp.
"Some studies suggest that AI tools can help people to learn if, rather than supplying ready-baked answers, they give feedback or tasks that encourages students to think and problem-solve. 'It’s about how we structure the task'”
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October 2, 1:14 PM
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"Faced with quadratic equations, Richard Scott couldn’t resist the temptation.
The Pennsylvania eighth-grader knew that the Google search box on his school laptop was essentially an AI chatbot that would helpfully spit out answers. He started popping algebra questions into the search bar to quickly finish off his daily schoolwork.
By the end of the school year, Scott’s grades were tanking."
"The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash"
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October 1, 9:18 AM
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"For the first time, the company that owns Canvas analyzed which external learning tools higher education users integrated into the LMS most often. The most popular AI tool didn’t even crack the top 100."
"Despite widespread hype about integrating artificial intelligence tools into college classrooms, faculty aren’t using them as much as other types of education-technology tools."
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October 1, 9:15 AM
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Artificial intelligence chatbots can feel like a safe outlet for students. Here’s how schools can make sure they’re not going too far.
"Potentially more consequential for student safety is the use of chatbots for general advice, emotional support or relationship guidance. Some students confide in AI chatbots and share information they would not disclose to another person."
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October 1, 9:08 AM
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"A particular kind of confidence comes from knowing how to use a tool without yet knowing what it's for. Ask young people whether they use artificial intelligence (AI) and many will say yes. But ask whether that skill has changed their economic prospects and the answer gets much murkier."
"Young people are rapidly adopting artificial intelligence (AI) but knowing how to use AI does not automatically translate into jobs or income."
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September 30, 1:24 PM
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Learn the critical role of human skills in building AI value and why they cannot be overlooked in the age of AI dependency.
"AI adoption is a people-first transformation rather than a technology race. Although AI can generate substantial economic value, lasting results depend on strengthening human judgment, creativity, problem-solving, and behavior change alongside the tools."
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September 30, 1:19 PM
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I am an advocate for AI and the vast possibilities for advancement it can bring across the world. Yet, these advancements must not be rushed lest we risk unintended consequences. In the high-tech, high-competition AI field, we are seeing new versions of models rolled out by the frontier companies (OpenAI, Google and Anthropic) every month and a half. I included a Release Cadence Breakdown report by Google Gemini in the “Online: Trending Now” column just a few weeks ago.
"[W]ithout rules that are impossible for the models to break, we risk having an incredibly powerful machine that has gone rogue, wreaking havoc on society at large."
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Artificial intelligence is saving scientists significant amounts of time, but researchers are giving some of those gains back by checking the technology's work, according to a new study involving Google, Google DeepMind, and MIT.
"Scientists reported nearly seven weekly hours saved with AI, largely reinvested in research. Nearly half of time-saving scientists spent over 25% of those gains verifying AI outputs."
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As schools become more dependent on digital platforms for instruction, grading, student services, and family communication, resilience depends not only on preventing attacks, but on how quickly leaders can restore trusted data, recover essential services, and keep disruptions from cascading across the school community.
"Recovery plans must be simple, tested, and institution-wide: Schools should identify critical services in advance, practice recovery under realistic conditions, and treat cyber resilience as a leadership and governance responsibility, not just an IT issue."
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Gamified learning has become another target in the conversation about screens in schools. The concern is understandable.
"A 2023 meta-analysis of 41 studies, representing 49 samples and more than 5,000 participants, found a significant positive effect on learning outcomes. Results varied by the learners, subject, design, duration, and learning environment. That is not evidence that gamification fails. It shows that design and implementation matter."
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October 5, 1:34 PM
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Understand your audience’s behavior and create learning opportunities that improve performance. The data tells the story; the AI dashboard tells the saga.
"The data tells the story. The AI dashboard tells your organization's saga: where it comes from, what it is learning, and how far it can go."
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October 5, 1:26 PM
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Tired of compliance-driven workshops, one teacher took to TikTok to turn literacy research into actionable classroom strategies.
"Unlikely as it may seem, online platforms like Spotify, Substack and TikTok are becoming vibrant spaces for meaningful, bite-sized PD."
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October 2, 1:22 PM
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Discover how AI-powered, hands-on cybersecurity education uses AI tools, vulnerability scanning, and microlearning to build students’ critical thinking and practical skills.
"The question was not whether to allow AI, but how to design learning around it so that critical thinking remained non-negotiable.”
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October 2, 1:16 PM
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With school phone bans of various sorts now underway in 41 states and counting, debates on classroom screen time have shifted focus to the devices ostensibly being used for educational purposes: Chromebooks, iPads, and the like. In response to all the tech backlash, state policymakers are taking swift action, some of which is warranted, but much of which bears signs of legislative haste.
"[A]rbitrarily limiting the quantity of screen time does absolutely nothing for the quality of the screen time."
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October 1, 9:20 AM
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We need innovations to reinvent schooling around a positive mindset--and eliminate the breeding ground for cheating oneself out of learning.
"Cheating isn’t the problem holding schools back. It’s a solution students use to make progress in an education system built around a zero-sum mindset designed to sort students rather than develop every child’s full potential."
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October 1, 9:17 AM
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Advanced computing technology could give students with severe physical disabilities a faster, more intuitive way to engage in the classroom.
"Although implanted BCIs exist, they’re mostly for adult users, so Kinney-Lang sees the headset becoming more common in the classroom environment."
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October 1, 9:13 AM
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As AI features flood K-12 curricula, educators are left to filter proven quality from marketing hype.
“As edtech and AI integration accelerates, we need a more dynamic system of measuring quality and efficacy.”
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October 1, 9:06 AM
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Skills compound like interest: learn a little every week and your career takes off. How AI makes upskilling faster, simpler, and part of everyday work.
"Every new skill combines with everything you already know. That's why the person who learns a little every week ends up, a few years later, in a completely different place."
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September 30, 1:22 PM
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Explore alternative grading strategies that support student learning, reduce anxiety, foster growth, and better prepare students for life beyond school.
"[A]lternative grading strategies support growth, decrease anxiety, and support motivation, increasing retention and completion rates for all students because they treat students like human beings who exist in the real world"
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September 30, 1:16 PM
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"For decades, digital products competed for our attention. The web put information everywhere, social networks turned it into a constant stream, and smartphones made it always accessible, making attention the scarce resource. Entire industries were built around capturing it: feeds, notifications, recommendations, autoplay. The basic logic was simple. If information is everywhere but attention is scarce, the product that wins is the product that gets our attention."
"When an agent filters the world before it reaches us, it is not just retrieving information. It is allocating attention, deciding what to surface, what to summarize, what to ignore, and what can safely disappear."
"Shakespeare...wrote about AI constantly, but he just called it magic."