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An AI Wish List From Teachers: What They Actually Want It to Do
When generative AI entered classrooms, it promised a revolution. For many teachers, it delivered an avalanche of tools instead. While edtech vendors race to integrate AI into every aspect of teaching and learning, educators are drawing clearer bounda...[Read More]
From Theory to Practice: How AI Is Quietly Reshaping College Admissions
By: Ashish Fernando Higher education is experiencing a paradigm shift. Institutions are now looking at AI-powered solutions as a viable property to streamline operations, engage students better, and boost enrollments. The change in attitude is a visi...[Read More]
Why Districts Are Turning to Esports to Reach More Learners
The energy was electric: Three teams of students from three neighboring school systems faced off in a high-stakes competition, their colorful jerseys and team pride on full display. But this wasn’t your typical sporting event; students were navigatin...[Read More]
AI Can Save Teachers Time and Stress. Here’s How (Opinion)
What once took teachers hours to prepare now takes minutes, creating new opportunities for instruction.
Tech Glitch Could Have Exposed Thousands of School Districts’ Confidential Files
The incident shows the challenges school districts and education companies face in protecting sensitive data.
How AI Helps Our Students Deepen Their Writing (Yes, Really) (Opinion)
Two veteran teachers give 4 rules for responsibly using chatbots in writing workshops.
What Will Kids Lose If PBS Gets Cut?
Near a cardboard cutout of Daniel Tiger, a small stuffed version of Curious George and plenty of promotional posters in the PBS Kids office, there sits thick stacks of graduation invitations. Most are accompanied with handwritten letters from student...[Read More]
Why Giving My Students More Choice Was the Most Punk Rock Thing I Could Do
“Back in school, you ever get busted for trying to walk and have some administrator tell you, ‘Son, you can shirk your obligations and try to be different from your peers, but the responsibility of your future is gonna find you!’” These are the...[Read More]
PBLWorks Launches Web-based App to Help Scale Project-Based Learning
PBLWorks, the provider of professional development for project-based learning (PBL), has introduced PBLWorks TEACH, a web-based application that provides ready-to-use, standards-aligned PBL projects for middle school math, science, English language a...[Read More]
Meta Assembling ‘Superintelligence Group’ to Pursue Artificial General Intelligence
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is forming a team focused on achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), amid internal dissatisfaction with the performance of its current AI offerings. The team, known internally as the superintelligence group, is part ...[Read More]
In Dallas, a Big Thought is Brewing About How Cities Can Help Their Children Grow
In the cultural and commercial hub that is Dallas, Texas — home of the NFL’s Cowboys, site of JFK’s assassination, and land of the Big Oil VIPs — one out of every four residents is under the age of eighteen. One of them is Kismet Jayce “KJ” Hudson, a...[Read More]
Through Comedy Classes, Students Take ‘Big Swings’ for Mental Health
“If you were an object, what object would you be?” Chris Gethard, a veteran comedian and improv teacher, posed this question to a group of high school students in Northern California at a Laughing Together workshop he was leading. He remembered one w...[Read More]