Howard Dvorsky

The key lessons educators should know to help students get the most out of this AI experience.

I spend nearly six hours each day consuming and creating social media content, including posts like this one. Each afternoon, I devote at least an hour to an augmented reality game that blends the virtual and physical worlds during my daily power walk. If you checked my bank statements, you’d see weekly expenditures of $10-$20 on digital items that outfit and enhance my avatars.. Although I willin...[Read More]

Ignoring AI, even if it intimidates you, isn’t the path to take for you or your students. Instead, consider this advice.

During a panel discussion at the June 26 panel discussion at the International Society for Technology in Education conference. Leah Austin, president and CEO of the National Black Child Development Institute, urged educators and tech leaders to strike a balance between ensuring everyone has access to emerging technologies and protecting them from the dangers of tools that were not designed with th...[Read More]

School counselors Stephanie Nelson and Richard Tench, while hundreds of miles apart, give their rising seniors the same assignment when asked for a letter of recommendation: Take a “brag” sheet, fill it out with challenges they’ve overcome or accomplishments they’re particularly proud of, and give it back to the counselors to help guide their writing. It’s a common counseling technique. And what i...[Read More]

The Education Department is proposing to make advancing AI in education one of its grantmaking priorities.

The Darlington district in South Carolina shares how it’s rolling out generative AI.

This story was published by a Voices of Change fellow. Learn more about the fellowship here. At Guilford Preparatory Academy, a K-8, Title 1 public charter school in Greensboro, North Carolina, our students and families bring a rich mix of resilience, culture and commitment. Being a Title 1 school means some of our families face barriers in technology access, time and academic resources for studen...[Read More]

Though a significant challenge in many settings, educators must actively question the data’s source, collection, and any algorithms’ outputs. Source

Even before Donald Trump moved into his second term as president, experts and advocates predicted a drop in school attendance by students from immigrant families, arguing that a “climate of fear” would prevent students from showing up in their classrooms. Now, emergent research suggests just how quickly that happened, and how staggering some of the attendance drops were. Immigration raids “coincid...[Read More]

Physical education plays a big role in keeping kids active in an era dominated by screens. But as technology is increasingly incorporated into schools and classrooms, can it also be leveraged to get them moving?

A new report from global cybersecurity company Thales reveals that while enterprises are pouring resources into AI-specific protections, only 8% are encrypting the majority of their sensitive cloud data — leaving critical assets exposed even as AI-driven threats escalate and traditional security budgets shrink.