Education AI

A new survey from the ed tech provider also found that two-thirds of instructors and students are concerned about artificial intelligence’s accuracy.

Teachers must lead the AI in education debate—setting classroom standards instead of letting armchair critics dictate them.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft are investing in educators with free premium AI tools. Learn why teachers have become central to the future of AI in education

A new theoretical review explores whether artificial intelligence is making us stupid. While outsourcing mental tasks to algorithms can erode specific learned skills, scientists suggest our foundational cognitive abilities are resilient. The impact depends on how we use it.

Teachers say generative AI is forcing them to rethink one of school's oldest institutions.At the beginning of each new class, Al Rabanera lets his students know that he knows they’re using AI.“I’m …

Anthropic has launched Claude for Teachers, a new version of its AI chatbot designed specifically for K-12 educators in the United States. The company said verified teachers will get free access to …

I was interviewed today, and this is what I said (with fewer F-bombs)

Anthropic gives K-12 teachers a year of premium Claude, at no cost.

AI can be a helpful tool to help students learn, but many are taking shortcuts and learning less, according to a study.

Mixed messages on AI are another challenge when Gen Z already faces a tough job market

Higher ed claims to foster critical-thinking skills. It has no real system for developing them.In the age of AI, machines may be able to do a range of brainwork and tasks, like gathering and …

AI is starting to make some classrooms look a little more old school.The University of Chicago Law School is requiring first-year students to keep their laptops closed in class this fall, as part of a broader strategy to ensure students learn to think independently as artificial intelligence becomes

Despite challenges, teachers believe AI can broaden students’ horizons.

New technologies making academic fraud ever more common and sophisticated

Brown University leaders’ response to the alleged cheating incident has been “meek,” the professor said.

When ChatGPT arrived in late 2022, educators quickly asked whether students would use artificial intelligence to cheat, learn or simply get through homework more efficiently. Evidence is beginning to …

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Artificial intelligence is offering us an opportunity to give every student in the lecture hall the chance to think ideas through and truly understand. Let’s take it

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.