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Most Teachers Use AI. Most Have Never Been Told How.
Teachers are adopting AI faster than schools are creating formal guidance. What minimum AI policies do educators need for responsible classroom use? The post Most Teachers Use AI. Most Have Never Been Told How. first appeared on EdTechReview.
Before Students Miss the Opportunity, Adults Miss the Signal
By: AJ Gutierrez Since 2021, U.S. public schools have lost about 1.18 million students. Projections indicate that enrollment will further decline by 2.7 million students by 2031. To better serve students, schools have an opportunity to better unders...[Read More]
Steward Stories: How Big Thought Turned Compelling Questions Into a Citywide Learning System
By Merita Irby and Karen Pittman Our “Steward Stories” series captures lessons learned from interviews with leaders of mature, purpose-built ecosystem intermediaries. An ecosystem steward is a boundary-spanning leader who goes beyond traditional out...[Read More]
Banning AI Alone Won’t Snuff Out the ‘TechLash,’ Parent Advocates Say
Parents worry about AI but also data privacy, video use, and screen time in general, advocates say.
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.