Report Identifies Malicious Use of AI in Cloud-Based Cyber Threats
A recent report from OpenAI identifies the misuse of artificial intelligence in cybercrime, social engineering, and influence operations, particularly those targeting or operating through cloud infrastructure. In “Disrupting Malicious Uses of AI: June 2025,” the company outlines how threat actors are weaponizing large language models for malicious ends — and how OpenAI is pushing back.
HMH Forms Educator Council to Inform AI Tool Development
Adaptive learning company HMH has established an AI Educator Council that brings together teachers, instructional coaches and leaders from school district across the country to help shape its AI solutions.
Beyond the Grade: How One Stone’s Growth Framework Empowers Learners for Life
By: Celeste Bolin, Susan Haws, Sophie Gunther, Lauren Mansfield, Raya Naymik As microschools around the world take up the challenge of designing and delivering educational experiences that meet the needs of 21st-century learners, they are inevitably considering not only what they teach, but also why and how. While each microschool is unique, common themes emerge. Generally, the what refers to a mo...[Read More]
Nonprofit LawZero to Work Toward Safer, Truthful AI
Turing Award-winning AI researcher Yoshua Bengio has launched LawZero, a nonprofit aimed at developing AI systems that prioritize safety and truthfulness over autonomy.
Schools Can’t Find Teachers. Do States Need More Credential Rules or Fewer?
For Aspire Public Schools in Los Angeles, the turnaround took a couple of years. Coming back from the pandemic, the 11 charter schools serving about 4,400 students saw a steep drop in credentialed teachers sticking with their roles. So relying on a program at Alder Graduate School of Education that pays graduate students to work as teachers-in-training, Aspire built an internal pipeline of new edu...[Read More]
I’ve Taught Gen Z for Almost a Decade. I’m Split on the So-Called Gen Z ‘Split’
No generation is a monolith. That should go without saying. But over the past year, there’s been a growing narrative in business and media circles that Gen Z, a cohort born between 1997 and 2012, is starting to split in two. One half is described as entrepreneurial, image-conscious and highly motivated. The other is labeled cautious, emotionally overwhelmed or disengaged from traditional career am...[Read More]
AI Is Still an Unknown Country — and Teens Are Its Pioneers
When artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT were first introduced for public use in 2022, Gillian Hayes, vice provost for academic personnel at the University of California, Irvine, remembers how people were setting up rules around AI without a good understanding of what it truly was or how it would be used. The moment felt akin to the industrial or agricultural revolutions, Hayes says. “Peopl...[Read More]
How Do You Build a Learner-Centered Ecosystem?
By: Bobbi Macdonald and Alin Bennett All photos in this post were taken by Joanna Zhang. What new shapes might education need to assume if we wish to properly equip young people for their future — as opposed to our past? In what new ways will adults and children need to lead to ensure that each child’s educational journey is truly learner-centered and community-embedded? And how can we center our...[Read More]
Dual Enrollment Unpacked [Podcast]
With declining college enrollment, institutions are rethinking the traditional four-year model. Dual enrollment has emerged as a significant growth area, with high schools increasingly prioritizing these programs and colleges finding that dual enrollment students now comprise a significant portion of their student body. This trend has developed alongside the shift toward virtual and asynchronous c...[Read More]
Network to Code Intros AI Assistant for Enterprise Network Teams
Network automation firm Network to Code has introduced NautobotGPT, an AI-powered assistant aimed at helping enterprise network engineers create, test, and troubleshoot automation tasks more efficiently.
To Ban or Not to Ban? Two Experts Sound Off on School Cellphone Restrictions
States and school districts are rushing to restrict student smartphone use. But is it the right move?
Coding, Creativity and the New Digital Fluency
Students light up when they create something meaningful, and every educator has seen that spark. Self-expression fuels learning, and creativity lies at the heart of the human experience. As AI rapidly reshapes software development, computer science (CS) education must move beyond syntax drills and algorithmic repetition. Coding alone isn’t enough; students must also learn to think systemically, de...[Read More]