The Year in Education: Our Top 24 Stories About Schools, Students and Learning
Learning recovery. Christianity in public schools. The impact of AI. The 74 takes a look back at some of our biggest education stories of the year.
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GitHub launches a free version of its Copilot | TechCrunch
Microsoft-owned GitHub announced on Wednesday a free version of its popular Copilot code completion/AI pair programming tool, which will also now ship by
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YouTube says that soon, its tech will be able to find AI copies of celebs and creators
YouTube is giving celebrities more control over their likenesses.
Now, the company says it can give celebrities (and soon, creators) the ability to manage AI copies of their likeness, such as their face, “at scale.”
Report: Apple Stops Development of iPhone Hardware Subscription Program
Apple has reportedly stopped its development of an iPhone hardware subscription program. The company had planned to launch the program in 2022, delayed it
Using AI while shielding student privacy can be daunting. Here are 9 tips to stay safe.
Educators are figuring out helpful ways to use AI in classrooms. But doing so can put students’ personal data at risk, even through mundane tasks like help with grading.
Napkin.ai: The AI Design Tool That’s Killing PowerPoint
🚀 Turn Text into Stunning Visuals in 30 Seconds (No Design Skills Needed)
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The slow, steady, frustrating, relentless, remarkable rise of Reddit
After nearly two decades, Reddit is breaking out into the mainstream....
Meet SwagBot, the AI-powered robot cattle herder preventing soil degradation
With four wheels and a bright red paint job, SwagBot is not your average cow.
The battery-powered SwagBot can now determine the health, type and density of pasture and monitor the health of livestock.It then uses this information to autonomously herd cattle to the best pastures and move them before land is overgrazed and soil becomes degraded. It can also feed data back to farmers."Once the cattle are used to the robot, they will follow the robot around," said University of Sydney professor of robotics and intelligent systems, Salah Sukkarieh, whose team made SwagBot.
MathGPT | AI Math Solver & Homework Helper
MathGPT is an ai math solver and homework helper trusted by 2M+ students solving algebra, geometry, calculus, and statistics questions from just a photo!
An ESUCC (and Friends) Exploration of Writing & AI
How Are New AI Tools Changing ‘Learning Analytics’? - EdSurge News
The field of “learning analytics” has been working to learn from the data trails students leave in online systems. Generative AI brings new promises ...
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The Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) — Welcome to PIAAC Results
Survey: Growing number of U.S. adults lack literacy skills
The gap between the top-skilled and the lowest-skilled is growing, according to a survey of adult skills.
Video-making AI tools are headed into general use
As AI-made video goes mainstream, expect both wows and woes.
2 juveniles face hundreds of charges after creating, sharing AI nude photos of students
Two juveniles are facing nearly 500 charges combined in connection to AI-generated nude images of Lancaster Country Day school students.
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Microsoft’s Copilot can browse the web with you using AI “Vision”
Copilot Vision could be both cool and creepy.
Snorkl | Instant Feedback on Student Thinking
With Snorkl, students record and share their reasoning then receive instant AI-powered feedback to drive deep and meaningful learning.
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Teacher support is the key to unlocking AI's classroom potential
Federal and state investments in AI literacy and teacher support will increase teachers’ classroom AI knowledge, skills, and confidence.
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Digital Promise Unveils AI Tool for Personalized Lesson Plans
The nonprofit Digital Promise has merged its online Learner Variability Navigator with a new AI platform, creating a research-based tool for building lesson plans that support individual needs of struggling students.
'PDF to Brainrot' study tools are a strange iteration on a TikTok trend | TechCrunch
Several AI-based study tools are capitalizing on a "PDF to Brainrot" trend, which will read the text of a document you upload over "oddly satisfying"
hat’s why companies and web tools like Coconote, Study Fetch, StudyRot, Memenome, Shortspilot, Grademaxx, and more are spinning up “PDF to Brainrot” generators — if these videos are so popular on TikTok, maybe students will pay to make them as study tools.
Google Introduces “Learn About" AI Tool That Helps You Learn Just About Anything
“Learn About” feels like a hybrid between the Gemini chatbot and NotebookLM.
Design Refine Create: A Framework for GenAI Curriculum Design
For the past few weeks, I’ve been exploring ways that educators can take back control of generative artificial intelligence. As part of curriculum design, I started with reflections on how I …
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Australia Bans Social Media for Everyone Under 16
The law sets a minimum age for users of platforms like TikTok, Instagram and X. How the restriction will be enforced online remains an open question.
OpenAI is funding research into 'AI morality' | TechCrunch
OpenAI is funding academic research at Duke into algorithms that can predict humans' moral judgements.
Claude favors Kantianism (i.e. focusing on absolute moral rules), while ChatGPT leans every-so-slightly utilitarian (prioritizing the greatest good for the greatest number of people). Is one superior to the other? It depends on who you ask.
Kabata | The World's First AI-Powered Dumbbells
Kabata is making your sweat session smarter. Experience the future of strength training — let's push some weight.
The Intercept’s Lawsuit Against OpenAI Advances on Claim It Removed Reporters’ Bylines
The Intercept’s lawsuit argues that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act prevents OpenAI from stripping a story’s title or byline.
The Intercept offered a novel argument under a provision of the DMCA that forbids stripping out “copyright management information” such as a work’s title and author, which The Intercept alleges OpenAI did in building the training data for ChatGPT.