Howard Dvorsky

Let me try to communicate what it feels like to be an English teacher in 2025. Reading an AI-generated text is like eating a jelly bean when you’ve been told to expect a grape. Not bad, but not… real. The artificial taste is only part of the insult. There is also the gaslighting. Stanford professor Jane Riskin describes AI-generated essays as “flat, featureless… the literary equivalent of fluoresc...[Read More]

How students and teachers can learn to put a human touch on everything AI produces.

More 4-year-olds across California are entering transitional kindergarten (TK) this year — curious and eager to play and learn. But some aren’t fully potty-trained, posing an unexpected challenge for schools. “They are younger, and they’re going to have more accidents,” said Elyse Doerflinger, a TK teacher in the Woodlake Unified School District in Tulare County. “Then what?” It’s a question schoo...[Read More]

The challenge invites K-12 students and educators to solve real-world problems with the help of AI.

How would it change the learning process to start with a tone of humility? To clarify what can be known, and what cannot? Source

At the Sept. 4 meeting of the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education, Microsoft and Amazon announced new commitments to expanding AI education and skills training.

This rural Arkansas elementary and middle school teacher gives her students rich STEM experiences by using a creative mix of tools.

If my tombstone ever gets a subtitle, it will read: ‘Loving husband. Devoted father. PBL fanatic.’ It’s been the story of my 30+ years in education, which extends from 12 years as a classroom teacher to CEO of the Partnership for 21st Century Learning. I’ve focused on developing policy, research, and best practices for the implementation of project-based learning. My writing and consulting on educ...[Read More]

Brandon Gabel expected an ordinary day of remote work when he woke up at 5:45 on a January morning in 2024. By 8:30 a.m., he was racing to his office, simultaneously fielding calls from the FBI, Arizona homeland security and insurance providers. His school district had just become the latest casualty in a wave of cyberattacks sweeping across the nation. “They were in our network for a few hours be...[Read More]

Here are practical tips for districts after they experience a hack.

Google has unveiled Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, marking a significant advancement in artificial intelligence systems that can understand and manipulate visual content through natural language processing.

Amazon Web Services and DeepBrain AI have launched AI Detector, an enterprise-grade solution designed to identify and manage AI-generated content across multiple media types. The collaboration targets organizations in government, finance, media, law, and education sectors that need to validate content authenticity at scale.