Howard Dvorsky

School shouldn’t just be a place to learn academic skills, but a place for students to practice making meaningful decisions about their learning and lives. I personally never faced a weighty decision about my learning until I had to declare a college major. In grade school, I was a confident student who knew how to ace tests and please my teachers. Once I got to college, however, my A-student reco...[Read More]

The announcement comes as a rising number of school districts are providing AI training to teachers and administrators.

While social media, bullying and loneliness have long been flagged as top concerns among educators for their students, a new report shows the biggest concern for kids is balancing it all. The kicker: Students didn’t share these concerns with adults in their lives. Instead, they expressed these worries to an AI chat system, which schools and health care institutions are increasingly turning t...[Read More]

A new report from Backslash Security has identified significant security vulnerabilities in the Model Context Protocol (MCP), technology introduced by Anthropic in November 2024 to facilitate communication between AI agents and external tools.

Today’s most forward-thinking schools are using gaming as a platform to train students for real-world roles in fields like aviation, robotics, remote operations, and data center management.

When my wife and I watch The Masked Singer we sit on the couch, a large glass of water at the ready so we can take big gulps every time one of the judges says either “legendary” or “iconic” to describe a performance. We are well hydrated by hour’s end. I propose a similar drinking game, but this one keyed to your participation in a webinar or workshop focused on AI use in the classroom. Every time...[Read More]

Tech Tactics in Education will return on Sept. 25 with the conference theme “Overcoming Roadblocks to Innovation.” Registration for the fully virtual event is now open.

Artificial Intelligence is more than a classroom buzzword or a futuristic dream—it’s rapidly becoming the foundation for innovation, especially among young entrepreneurs. Across the globe, high-school students are seizing the opportunity to create meaningful, tech-powered solutions to problems that affect them and their communities. Two such examples are StudySnap and Infinilearn, student-created ...[Read More]

Google DeepMind has officially launched Gemma 3n, the latest version of its lightweight generative AI model designed specifically for mobile and edge devices — a move that reinforces the company’s focus on on-device computing.

Young adults are finding it harder to borrow books reflective of their lived experiences in their schools and public libraries. It isn’t because these stories don’t exist — they do — but because they’ve been challenged and removed, restricted, or were never purchased at all. This is especially true in parts of the country where state legislatures have enacted laws criminalizing what educators can ...[Read More]

A Supreme Court ruling at the end of June handed a major victory to parents who want to opt their children out of lessons that run counter to their religious beliefs, part of a push for parental rights over the finer details of what goes on in classrooms that has gained strength in recent years. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Parents of students in a Maryland school district bro...[Read More]

Denver Public Schools has saved about $1 million from culling digital tools.