Students ‘confused about assessment purpose’ in age of AI
Lecturers say they lack support in working with students to develop their academic writing
Slow math: Kids may learn more when AI makes them review mistakes
A randomized experiment involved more than 6,000 Tennessee middle school students learning fractions
Is universities’ AI embrace undermining their net-zero targets?
Amid all the debates about student employability and academic integrity, the question of how AI mandates square with universities’ commitments to addressing climate change has been largely neglected. Juliette Rowsell reports
Vibe Coding with Gemini: Build Your Own Classroom Tools
How Alice Keeler suggests you can vibe code with Gemini to create add ons for your school Google Drive. Privacy, tips, and thoughts for IT.
AudioSplat Recorder and Sound Editor
DrawSplat.org launches an easy to use, browser-based, Chromebook-friendly audio voice recorder and editor. Meet AudioSplat.
Katy ISD restricts the use of AI in elementary school classrooms – Houston Public Media
The Houston-area district, which serves nearly 100,000 students, is banning the use of generative artificial intelligence chat tools in kindergarten through sixth grade while gradually introducing its use for older students.
Appellate Brief Stricken By Court – Possible AI Use – Illinois Procedure and Sanctions Decisions
In Cole v. Lee, 2026 IL App (1st) 252223-U, the appellate court struck Cole’s brief and dismissed his appeal entirely for violations of Illinois Supreme Court Rule 341(h)(7) — the rule r…
ChatGPT desktop app is now available for Linux (in preview) - OMG! Ubuntu
OpenAI has announced a preview release of the official ChatGPT Desktop app for Linux. Compared to using ChatGPT in a browser tab, the GUI desktop app can
AI Note-Taking Apps Are Violating User Privacy | Lifehacker
Apps like Granola and Otter.ai are facing class action lawsuits over user privacy and consent.
The Window of Critique for AI is Closing Fast
Large language model-based AI is increasingly integrated into daily life, making it challenging for critics to highlight its limitations. As technology becomes user-friendly, the inner workings are…
Law School Bans Laptops and Phones as AI Cheating Scandal Grows
University of Chicago Law said it would ban phones and laptops in its freshman courses as part of its strategy to counter rampant AI usage.
Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments, in government move to combat AI cheating | CNN
High school students in Denmark will be required to verbally defend their written assignments as part of emergency government measures aimed at combating AI cheating.
Education’s AI ‘gold rush’ comes with risks for students - CSMonitor.com
Meet Amira, an AI reading tutor alarming some parents and school leaders in New Mexico
Literacy software powered by AI has captured hundreds of thousands of recordings of New Mexico students. Now the state faces questions about children’s data.
RAG, AI Agents, and Agentic AI: Most Developers Are Confusing All Three | HackerNoon
RAG, AI Agents, and Agentic AI are three different things. Most developers are building the wrong one. Here is the clearest explanation you will find.
New ways to learn and teach with ChatGPT Work and Codex | OpenAI
Explore new education plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex that help K–12 teachers, college educators, and students learn, teach, research, and build.
Layoffs strike major Texas TV station
More than a dozen people have been laid off of KRIS 6 News in Corpus Christi as parent company, EW Scripps Company, pushes for AI automation.
Measuring what matters: New Stanford white paper provides a roadmap for creating responsible student assessments in the AI era • Stanford Accelerator for Learning
AI is changing what, where, and how testing happens. How can schools, teachers, and test developers respond?
Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos
Researcher says months of coordination with Microsoft have yet to produce a robust mitigation
A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands - The New York Times
The future of artificial intelligence depends on finding more skilled humans for some very physical jobs.
Gov. Kemp backs Georgia data centers despite worries about AI's risks - The Current
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp criticized proposals for a statewide moratorium on data center construction, arguing that such pauses are irresponsible despite expressing concerns over the potential risks of artificial intelligence.
Audits lag for Texas data centers getting sales tax break
Out of 138 data centers that qualified for the tax break, only 20 have been audited so far. Six facilities were found to be out of compliance.
Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32 students cheating on their midterm with AI | TechSpot
In an online discussion post, Alcorn State University history professor Dr. Jason Gibson posed a question that represented part of his students' midterm. It was about the...
NOAA ditches weather-predicting supercomputers for Google Cloud
Government agency will use Google Cloud H4D VMs to replace HPE Cray machines
West Virginia begins rollout of first-in-the-nation AI literacy and digital science curriculum – Tri-State Alert
BERKELEY COUNTY- West Virginia has developed what they’re calling the first digital science and AI literacy framework in the entire country, with educators learning about it this week. State Superintendent of Schools Michele L. Blatt is sharing the new AI and Digital Science Framework during […]
Building AI Literacy: Frameworks, Tools, and Practices | Databricks Blog
AI literacy blends functional, critical, and ethical skills for using AI tools responsibly. Explore the framework, strategies, and evaluation practices.
Why we’re building better roads, not selling faster cars
AI hands everyone a faster car; almost no one is building better roads. Why BoodleBox exists, and how we're closing the AI divide.
AI is boosting student homework scores, but tanking exam performances even years after adoption | Fortune
There’s a massive debate over whether Gen Z is the first generation to be less cognitively capable than their parents. A study of 26,800 high school students suggests AI incentives only point in one direction.
Katy ISD bans generative AI through 6th grade after parent pushback
Katy ISD will ban generative AI through sixth grade and restrict its use in older grades beginning in the 2026-27 school year.
But What Can You Actually Do? Why Higher Education is Shifting to Competency-Based Learning
Inside the rise of competency-based education and what it means for today’s learners.Higher education is in the middle of a quiet but important shift. Across campuses and online programs, colleges are rethinking a long-standing question: should learning be measured by time spent in class, or by what