A Practical Guide on How to Build AI Agents by OpenAI
OpenAI quietly released a comprehensive, practical guide on how to build AI agents with a clear blueprint for the future of business automation.
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An Open Letter to My Students about AI
AI for students: Learn to thrive! Understand AI's impact, use it wisely, boost your critical thinking, and succeed in the AI era.
What Happened the Year I Banned AI
My students will develop essential skills more effectively without artificial intelligence, so I'll keep banning AI tools in my class.
Grading student writing with AI: What we lose when AI replaces teachers
Our students don’t write to impress a rubric--they write to be heard, and using AI to grade student writing misses the mark.
AI in Education Podcast
Dan Bowen and Ray Fleming are experienced education renegades who have worked in many various educational institutions and educational companies across the world. They talk about Artificial Intelligence in Education - what it is, how it works, and the different ways it is being used. It's not too serious, or too technical, and is intended to be a good conversation.
Please note the views on the podcast are our own or those of our guests, and not of our respective employers (unless we say otherwise at the time!)
Learning Now That We Have AI
I have been exploring and writing about AI now since the release of ChatGPT. I think about AI both as a user and as an educator and believe I have enough experience and a perspective from which to …
ChatGPT chats are now appearing in Google search – here’s how to stop Google from spying on your conversations
You don’t need prying eyes looking into your AI chats
In Praise of Memory
Offloading must follow internalization
So far, only one-third of Americans have ever used AI for work
AP survey shows most Americans treat AI chatbots like a search engine replacement.
The Associated Press released results from a new AP-NORC poll showing that 60 percent of US adults have used AI to search for information, while only 37 percent of all Americans have used AI for work tasks. Meanwhile, younger Americans are adopting AI tools at much higher rates across multiple categories, including brainstorming, work tasks, and companionship.
The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...
I would like to address the recent slander circulating on social media, in editorial Slack channels, and in the margins of otherwise decent Substack newsletters. Specifically, the baseless, libelous accusation that my usage is a telltale sign of artificial intelligence.
Alpha School’s Other Story Wasn’t in the Times
Her children struggled. She asked for help. Alpha School said the model didn’t bend. They used her kids in their marketing anyway.
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“MOVE FAST AND BREAK THINGS”
5 ways educators can lead better in the age of AI - SmartBrief
Teaching AI in classrooms should help students prepare for the future, writes Yong Zhao.
AI Ethics in the Content Areas
A collection of resources shared with conference attendees during the 24-25 school year.
Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet (2).pdf
ChatGPT at Work | OpenAI Academy
Unlock the new opportunities of the AI era by equipping yourself with the knowledge and skills to harness artificial intelligence effectively.
A Step-by-Step Guide on How to Use the New ChatGPT Agent
A step-by-step guide on how to use the new ChatGPT Agent, a newly launched AI agent by OpenAI that combines ChatGPT, deep research, and Operator.
Our contribution to a global environmental standard for AI | Mistral AI
I Embraced AI in My Community College English Class — and My Students Loved It - EdSurge News
“If we don’t meet this moment with intention, we will leave our most vulnerable students behind,” writes community college English professor Susan E. ...
log each prompt, how AI responded, what surprised them and where they struggled, creating a record of process, experimentation and growth.
In recent layoffs, AI's role may be bigger than companies are letting on
As companies use terms like reorganization, restructuring, and optimization in job cuts, AI may be at work more than they want employees to know.
Deciding vs. Choosing: AI and Learning
I’m reading The AI Con right now, and it reminded me of a story I’d heard a long time ago about how Joseph Weizenbaum – inventor of Eliza which was one of the first chatbots ̵…
Ep. 7 – AI, Cheating, and Trusting Students to be Human
Tricia Bertram Gallant, coauthor of The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI, joins us to discuss questions about academic dish...
AI Awareness Starts with Time
Time is one of the luxuries every teacher searches for within their classrooms.
AI and a Return to Rhetoric - ReadBeanIceCream
Bonus Edition: What’s the Deal with ChatGPT Agents?
A First Look at the Tool Everyone Will Be Talking About
COMMENTARY by Adrian Lenardic and Johnny Seales, "Why Write?" - Future U
Writing to a rubric involves thinking, but it’s an artificial form of thinking. The messier human mode is bypassed in favor of following a formula to gain a reward – a move to perverse incentives.
Once something can follow the formula faster, why not use it – a move with no incentive. This follows a broader path that moved higher education from a place of learning to a place of training. Students became trained to write before AI was given training data to help it ‘learn’ how to write essays for students.
You’re Not Imagining It: AI Is Already Taking Tech Jobs
“We’re going from mass hiring to precision hiring,” said Chen, adding that companies are starting to focus more on employing experts in their fields. “The superstar workers are in a better position.”
7 AI, Cybersecurity, and the Future of Teaching Trends: ISTE 2025
Seven trends are discussed today from AI lesson planning, how to use AI to promote creativity and Auburn University's SOC center.
Asking a More Productive Question about AI and Assessment
'Given that AI exists in the world, and that students are likely to use it (whether accidentally or on purpose), what evidence of learning would I now find persuasive?'
AI Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied
Earlier this summer, I recorded an episode of the Scaling Laws podcast with MacKenzie Price, founder of Alpha Schools—schools “where kids crush academics in two hours, build life skills through workshops, and thrive beyond the classroom.” The secret is AI, but likely not the sort of AI that comes to...