Education AI

Are you smarter than a 4th grader?Gone are the days of university freshmen reading classical philosophers like Plato or contemporary pedagogues like Ta-Nehisi Coates. These days, incoming college …

Brown University professor Roberto Serrano says he has detected what appears to be the largest AI cheating scandal in Ivy League history.

The Portrait of a Teacher project aims to redefine the role of educators in response to the rapid technological and workforce changes shaping society.

Teachers warn that writing, attention, and critical thinking are collapsing in American classrooms

Using AI can create short-term results but may stifle long-term learning.A new study tracked 26,811 Chinese secondary school students over 30 months. The research measured how generative AI impacted …

What a month. When it comes to the effect of generative AI on student learning, the evidence is clearly pointing in one particular direction: Kids are using generative AI a lot. And they’re using it to cheat. Or if you prefer more nuance: they’re using it to disintermediate the artifacts of learning (essays, answers, grades, etc) from learning itself. Since we last chatted, the studies keep dropping. The hits keep coming. ↳ Nature retracted the big study showing positive learning gains from AI. (Hundreds of citations previously.) https://lnkd.in/gRSTJ6-S ↳ Researchers found that AI gives different feedback based on a student’s race and gender. https://lnkd.in/gwX5NeNp ↳ A giant study of 30k Chinese students found that their AI usage increased homework scores, decreased completion time, and lowered exam scores by 20%. https://lnkd.in/gYUHMYHF ↳ Failing grades are way up in UC Berkeley’s computer science classes. https://lnkd.in/ggiYjCMM ↳ A study of 3.2M math practice interactions showed kids spending significantly less time on problems that are easier to send into an LLM (pure text-based) and a corresponding 25% decrease in exam performance. https://lnkd.in/gyJ-PEXA We need to be adults here. A thing got invented and its existence in the world—without denying any of its affordances—has not only failed to produce the learning gains promised by so many and instead produces evidence of negative transformation weekly. All the usual suspects are placing their faith in pedagogical AI—the kind that won’t just burp an answer in a student’s direction—and that sounds potentially helpful during class. But why would kids use it outside of class where they have unrestricted access to the answer-burping AI? I’m still working on some AI stuff that interests me, but now that this technology has arrived, the exciting education innovations are IMO almost entirely social and political: ↳ Curriculum that gives kids more reasons to do the hard work of learning. ↳ Stronger social ties in learning. ↳ More accountability between parents, students, teachers, and schools. ↳ Tighter connection between the artifacts and the learning. Blue books, public presentation of learning, etc, etc, e.g., these interesting pedagogical design patterns. ↳ A political economy that is quite a lot less cutthroat, one where grades and credentials aren’t perceived as one of a vanishing few exit tickets from poverty.

Lessons learned from a year of building an AI literacy tool.

Students, faculty and staff now have free access to ChatGPT EDU and Claude EDU, UT Enterprise Technology announced in an email. The new tools are part of the University’s artificial intelligence toolkit, which also includes Microsoft 365 Copilot, Google Gemini and UT Sage. “As one of the first research universities to provide both leading platforms...

The country is cutting back on tech in classrooms.

Explore two professors' approaches to AI and assignment design, from AI-resistant assessments to AI-integrated learning experiences.

Big tech companies and small start-ups are using social media to hype new tools that allow students to trick teachers and A.I. detectors.

Nearly a third of China’s university programmes have been impacted

Generative AI (GenAI) chatbots will provide different information to the same question based on the location and timing of the user request (Gumilar et al, 2024). Think about that for a minute. It …

BY MARTHA LINCOLN AND MARTHA KENNEY Earlier this spring, we published an essay in Academe about the California State University’s secretive and costly initiative to provide ChatGPT Edu, a general-p…

Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei said it was coming, but it still feels like a milestone: More than 80% of the code merged into Anthropic’s production codebase in May wasn't authored by humans, but by its own AI model, Claude, according to a new report shared by the record-breaking AI startu

EduGems is my website where I share my favorite Gemini Gems for schools. You can access , use , and copy any of the Gems at edugems.ai whe...

A widely cited study claiming ChatGPT improved student learning has now been retracted. This article explores what the controversy reveals about AI research, information literacy, peer review, and the growing pressure on schools to make decisions before evidence has fully matured.

Two conversations that keep getting in each other’s way — and what to do about it

UC Berkeley School of Law adopts one of the strictest AI policies in higher education, banning AI for most assignments effective Summer 2026.

A special edition examining why the American Library Association is giving exhibitor space to Librar Labs, the AI startup promoting “AI librarians,” and why many librarians believe this sends the wrong message during a time of staffing cuts and attacks on public institutions.

A one-size-fits-all approach to AI training risks leaving students unprepared for the discipline-specific demands of their future careers. Rose Luckin explores what field-specific AI literacy looks like in practice

Schools are facing a new AI threat from blackmailers who are manipulating images of students taken from school websites and social media feeds.

Guidance for education settings and organisations working with children and young people

AI is saving teachers meaningful time. Whether that eases burnout depends on where the time goes.

College used to be different. We had computers, sure, but when it was 5 a.m. and you were staring down a 9 a.m. deadline for a 10-page paper, there was no algorithm there to save you. You got used to …

Learn what constitutes good feedback and how to get students actively engaged in learning from their assessments

Granta publisher says ‘perhaps we never will know’ true authorship of work that won Commonwealth prize

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