OpenAI Introduces 'ChatGPT for Teachers' to Further Destroy the Minds of Our Youth
Soon we can have chatbots grade the work of chatbots.
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The Algorithmic Turn: The Emerging Evidence On AI Tutoring
If we take learning to be a durable change in long-term memory and if we take instruction as the key lever of that and if AI can teach better than humans, not as some distant possibility but as an emerging reality, then we must reckon with what that reveals about teaching itself.
The lesson here is not that AI has discovered a new kind of learning, but that it has finally begun to exploit the one we already understand.
But let’s be clear. Again, the history of Edtech is a story of failure, very expensive failure. This is not merely a chronicle of wasted resources, though the financial cost has been considerable. More troubling is the opportunity cost: the reforms not pursued, the teacher training not funded, the evidence-based interventions not scaled because capital and attention were directed toward shiny technological solutions. As Larry Cuban documented in his work on educational technology, we have repeatedly mistaken the novelty of the medium for the substance of the pedagogy.
The reasons for these failures are instructive. Many EdTech interventions have been solutions in search of problems, designed by technologists with limited understanding of how learning actually occurs. They have prioritised engagement over mastery, confusing students’ enjoyment of a platform with their acquisition of knowledge. They have ignored decades of cognitive science research in favour of intuitive but ineffective approaches. They have failed to account for implementation challenges, teacher training requirements, and the messy realities of classroom practice.
1,001 real-world gen AI use cases from the world's leading organizations
A snapshot of how top companies, governments, researchers and startups are enhancing their work with Google's AI solutions.
Podcast with Adam Pacton: The Higher Education Crisis & the Future of Written Assesment
The essay has stuck around...Should it stick around? I don't think so.
How Are Students Using AI?
A W. W. Norton newsletter with Annette Vee, offering insights and ideas for building AI literacy.
AI is making reading books feel obsolete – and students have a lot to lose
Even before generative AI went mainstream, fewer people were reading books.
AI is making reading books feel obsolete – and students have a lot to lose
AI in education is a public problem
Photo by Mick Haupt on Unsplash Over the past year or so, a narrative that AI will inevitably transform education has become widespread. You can find it in the pronouncements of investors, tech ind…
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AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading
The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools has transformed numerous aspects of daily life, yet its impact on critical thinking remains underexplored. This study investigates the relationship between AI tool usage and critical thinking skills, focusing on cognitive offloading as a mediating factor. Utilising a mixed-method approach, we conducted surveys and in-depth interviews with 666 participants across diverse age groups and educational backgrounds. Quantitative data were analysed using ANOVA and correlation analysis, while qualitative insights were obtained through thematic analysis of interview transcripts. The findings revealed a significant negative correlation between frequent AI tool usage and critical thinking abilities, mediated by increased cognitive offloading. Younger participants exhibited higher dependence on AI tools and lower critical thinking scores compared to older participants. Furthermore, higher educational attainment was associated with better critical thinking skills, regardless of AI usage. These results highlight the potential cognitive costs of AI tool reliance, emphasising the need for educational strategies that promote critical engagement with AI technologies. This study contributes to the growing discourse on AI’s cognitive implications, offering practical recommendations for mitigating its adverse effects on critical thinking. The findings underscore the importance of fostering critical thinking in an AI-driven world, making this research essential reading for educators, policymakers, and technologists.
IS AI making us dumb?
AI is saving money, time, and energy but in return it might be taking away one of the most precious natural gifts humans have.
College grads in ‘AI-proof’ careers like psychology and education are seeing negative returns on their degrees
There’s a boom in the economy: economics papers on the souring prospects of the recent college graduate in the AI-era economy of the 2020s. Harvard economists Lawrence Katz and Claudia Goldin found …
The K-12 Gap That Matters Most: Developing Student Builders in the Age of AI
While educators debate the boundaries of student chatbot use, a growing number of students are skipping past that conversation entirely—building with AI rather than just prompting it.
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI - Toronto Life
Kennedy Lashley was pummelled by pandemic high school. Then she faced an emaciated post-secondary system. Now she’s trying to find work in a market...
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Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of "AI": The View from the Humanities, Emily M. Bender
Katz Distinguished LectureResisting Dehumanization in the Age of "AI": The View from the HumanitiesEmily M. BenderThe production and promotion of so-called "...
AI Literacy is Not Tool Mastery: How to Build Sustained Educator Capacity | Getting Smart
AI literacy isn’t tool mastery—educators need sustained, human-centered professional learning to build confidence and capacity.
College students, professors are making their own AI rules. They don't always agree
For English professor Dan Cryer, using generative artificial intelligence to write a college essay is like bringing a forklift to the gym."If all we needed was the weights moved, then that would be great," says Cryer, who teaches at Johnson County Community College outside Kansas City, Kansas."But we
Canvas Unrolls AI Teaching Agent
Weeks after an outside agentic artificial intelligence tool called Einstein caused an uproar over its ability to complete entire courses in the learning management system Canvas, Canvas has unveiled …
More teachers and students are using AI despite potential risks
AI is being introduced to K-12 classrooms faster than evidence and understanding can support.K-12 teachers and students across the country are increasingly using AI in and out of classrooms, whether it is teachers turning to AI to refine lesson plans or students asking AI to help them research a part
AI is forcing a complete reimagining and reconfiguration of education
A little more than three years after ChatGPT went public, the argument over artificial intelligence is no longer just about better tools or faster work. In a new paper, Professor Yilei Shao of East China Normal University argues that AI is starting to reopen a question many once thought was settled:
Students just used AI to put their teachers' faces in fake videos — 107K likes | AI for Automation
Texas students used Viggle AI to create deepfake 'slander videos' of teachers and staff. One account hit 107,000 likes before the school district intervened.
Teachers are Enforcing a Taboo That Doesn’t Exist Yet
When it comes to cheating with AI, adults can't agree on where the line is, and students can't intuit it either.
More and more teachers and students are using AI – even though it might do more harm than good
Some new findings show that AI has certain benefits, such as reducing barriers for students with learning disabilities. But overall, more evidence is needed to understand how AI influences learning.
"If AI is writing the work and AI is reading the work, do we even need to be there at all?" Education workers reveal a growing crisis on campus and off
AI Killed My Job: Educators.
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Affirming the Right to Use AI
Resolution to Affirm the Right of Students and Faculty to Use Generative AI and to Refuse the CCCC Whereas in 2026 College Writing Programs reflect the sustained labor required to support scholarly exchange across writing and rhetoric ; and whereas this exchange must now include the digital flue...
Debate Cards: Teaching Students to Think With Evidence
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