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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]
How Teachers Are Making Computer Science Click
“Let’s do it!” That was Alexis Johnson’s reaction when she saw professional learning opportunities focused on computational thinking. A first grade teacher with no formal CS background, she jumped at the chance to explore how computer science princip...[Read More]
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 A...[Read More]
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 ...[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.