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The latest research and ethical considerations for educators

OpenAI's recent partnership with Instructure's Canvas Learning Management System furthers its aggressive entry into education. While claiming to support students and teachers, I'm worried about the effectiveness of its tools like study mode and Agents, which fail to remotely address pedagogical needs. OpenAI has come for education, and I think we should be concerned.

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Google will give teachers the ability to create interactive study guides using the AI research tool Notebook LM, along with their classroom materials.

The National Academy for AI Instruction aims to train over 400,000 teachers on artificial intelligence fluency skills by 2030.

Recent reports from The Walton Foundation and Microsoft claim teachers using AI can save up to "six weeks" of time over a school year, or between 6-9.5 hours per week. But what does "time saved" actually mean in education? And should we be basing conversations about technology on this obscure, often misleading metric?

Which AI apps are people actively using? What’s actually making money, beyond being popular? We analyzed the data.

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Students have been trained to avoid the risk of failure at all costs

Trust between teacher and student was tricky way before A.I. hit us.

The number of districts that provided AI training to teachers has doubled year over year.

Weiner & Lake: Not one superintendent we spoke with considered higher education a resource for artificial intelligence-related professional learning.

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These efforts, including new responsible AI curriculum and a $1 million grant to MIT RAISE, all aim to help students and educators use AI safely and effectively.

What happens to human learning when superhuman intelligence is as accessible as a Google search?

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An illustrated guide to a smattering of online AI courses for educators

As AI serves up certainty like fast food, we're becoming intellectually obese—too full of answers to hunger for deep understanding.

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When it comes to student IEPs, it’s crucial to balance AI's innovations with strong data privacy measures to protect student information.

Google’s NotebookLM has been out for a while, but some recent improvements have made it a much more interesting and potentially useful tool. In this post, I’ll be running through how th…

Just over a month ago I launched a free 4-week email course on Practical AI Strategies for educators. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, with over 700 participants completing the first …

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