Howard Dvorsky

Artificial intelligence may be spreading faster than previous waves of consumer tech, but a recent report from Microsoft’s AI Economy Institute suggests its benefits are concentrating in a relatively small set of countries, with infrastructure and language emerging as major dividing lines.

Debates over artificial intelligence are really about asking some big philosophical questions.

Discovery Education and IBM have partnered to provide free, credentialed professional development for high school educators, focused on AI, cybersecurity, and digital literacy.

In an ever-evolving world, the ability to imagine and build a shared future is more important than ever. Over the past few years, I’ve been captivated by the power of consensus-building and tools that prioritize unity over division. This curiosity led me to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where a groundbreaking initiative—Bowling Green 2050—is inspiring communities to reimagine their future. By leveragin...[Read More]

Today, district leaders are being asked to make irreversible budget decisions with fewer dollars and less margin for error than ever before. Yet many districts are making those decisions with limited evidence of what actually works in their classrooms — not because leaders lack interest in data, but because few systems are designed to support real-time learning at the district level. For school an...[Read More]

ECD, UDL, and The Cow Path Educational measurement is at a crossroads. Multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) finally opens a pathway to move beyond the industrial-era, one-size-fits-all summative test in favor of unobtrusive, agentic, and adaptive assessment. But directing raw computing power at children without guardrails is ill-advised. Using AI to churn out traditional items at scale risks “p...[Read More]

ETS, known for licensing tests, wants to gauge teacher readiness for new technology.

The University of Iowa’s Iowa Reading Research Center (IRRC) and the Wyoming Department of Education (WDE) have partnered with Foundations in Learning on literacy support for rural students in grades 3-5.

A high-stakes trial sparked by a California woman who first logged onto social media at age 10. Another lawsuit in Georgia filed by a school district despairing at distracted students. Dozens more legal actions brought by state attorneys general accusing digital platforms of playing mindgames with children. These are among thousands of lawsuits filed against social media companies with the claim t...[Read More]

Anthropic has unveiled Claude Opus 4.6, introducing a million-token context window and automated agent coordination features as the AI company seeks to expand beyond software development into broader enterprise applications.

Teachers can use popular conspiracies to help students scrutinize what they see online.

Instructure, maker of the Canvas learning platform, has announced a national expansion of its Mastery Predictive Assessments.