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Security Researchers: Passkey Phishing Attacks Are Leading to Cloud Account Takeovers
In an active social engineering campaign, cyber attackers are impersonating IT help desks and using fake passkey setup requests to compromise employee identities and gain access to enterprise cloud data.
Head Start Needs to Catch Up with What We Now Know About Early Learning
Our nation’s largest early childhood program has not fully caught up with what science now tells us about how children learn.
SMART Technologies Launches Audio Accessibility Solution for SMART Boards
SMART Technologies has introduced SoundFlow, a plug-and-play broadcasting system that allows classroom audio content to flow directly from a SMART Board display to students’ compatible hearing aids, earbuds, headphones, personal listening devic...[Read More]
The Missing Middle: Why Kids Still Struggle to Read After Third Grade
This week, two guests look at the same problem from opposite ends. One has the data on how far struggling middle school readers have fallen. The other has watched it happen in real time, in a classroom, one comprehension question at a time. Reading r...[Read More]
Inside Alabama’s Next-Generation Cybersecurity Classroom
In Huntsville, Alabama, home to one of the nation’s largest cybersecurity hubs, educators and industry professionals are rethinking what cybersecurity education can look like. Rather than separating classroom instruction from workplace experie...[Read More]
What Yellowstone, Rwanda and AI Taught Me About Change
Over the past two years, I’ve spent countless hours talking with teachers, parents, students and school leaders about artificial intelligence. The questions that arise are remarkably consistent: How should schools respond? When should students use AI...[Read More]
Microsoft Commits to AI Guardrails for Schools. Will Other Tech Giants Follow?
The tech company struck a deal with the AFT to adopt new AI guardrails and privacy standards.
Microsoft Drafts AI Code of Conduct, Emphasizes Human Control
Microsoft has published a draft code of conduct that lays out how its homegrown AI models should behave, with human control taking priority over model capability, autonomy, and even task completion.
5 Lessons Video Game Designers Can Teach Educators About Learning
Video game designers spend an enormous amount of time studying what keeps people engaged when something becomes difficult. They have become very good at helping people persist. Schools should pay attention.
The “October Blues” Are Coming. Here’s How Teachers Can Beat Them.
It’s not uncommon for teachers to experience what Ellen Moir, founder of the New Teacher Center, calls a “disillusionment phase” shortly after the start of the school year. Other educators call this phenomenon by a different name — the “October Blues...[Read More]
The Big Flaw With Ed-Tech Tutoring Isn’t Technological (Opinion)
Before focusing on the technology, we need to redesign the learning model, Michael Horn argues.
What Makes Dual Enrollment Actually Work: Building Pathways Students Can Actually Trust
This blog is the second in series called Beyond the Course Catalog: What Makes Dual Enrollment Actually Work, a four-part blog series from Getting Smart in partnership with Britebound focused on what separates a strong dual enrollment model from the ...[Read More]