New guidelines for the 64-campus system expand artificial intelligence in teaching and student support while adding guardrails for data privacy and high-risk uses.
What’s new in the Microsoft Education AI Toolkit
Microsoft updated its Education AI Toolkit to help schools move from AI pilots to scalable, practical implementation across teaching, learning, and multilingual support.
Teach in the Microsoft 365 Copilot App
Teach in the Microsoft 365 Copilot App gives educators with a Microsoft 365 Education license free access to AI tools for creating and adapting lesson plans, quizzes, rubrics, and other teaching materials.
Teaching AI by Doing, Not Studying
A new library-based initiative at the University of Virginia embeds hands-on AI learning and workforce skills across disciplines.
Teach students to ask better questions with Artificial Intelligence
Generative artificial intelligence has unsettled higher education, raising fears that students will lose the ability to think. Drawing on classroom experience and student feedback, we argue that grounded inquiry sharpens judgement in Earth science teaching by limiting AI to set …
Artificial intelligence as a site of global educational governance: the case of UNESCO
UNESCO promotes ethical, inclusive AI in education, but its governance role reveals tensions between human rights principles, member-state priorities, rapid digital transformation, and Big Tech influence.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02680939.2026.2646218#abstract…
Am I an LLM?
As LLMs reshape how we think about intelligence, the author reflects on the recurring human habit of using our latest technologies as metaphors for the brain and wonders how far the comparison really goes.
6 free AI tools that do the same thing as ChatGPT Pro
As free AI tools have improved, the author replaced ChatGPT Pro with a mix of free alternatives that collectively handle research, document work, structured answers, and productivity needs.
https://www.xda-developers.com/6-free-ai-tools-that-do-the-same-thing-as-chatgpt-pro…
Designing Your Own Alternative Grading System
A teacher shares key lessons from a workshop on alternative grading and explains how they designed a specifications grading system for an ESL course.
https://eductive.ca/en/resource/designing-your-own-alternative-grading-system…
Chrome Is Quietly Downloading a 4GB AI Model Without Your Permission
Google Chrome automatically downloads an AI model to support features such as scam detection and tab organization. Here’s how to remove it.
https://ca.pcmag.com/ai/15499/chrome-is-quietly-downloading-4gb-ai-model-without-your-permission…
I stopped paying for ChatGPT and switched to a local LLM that runs on my laptop
I’ve been exploring local LLMs more seriously as AI subscriptions get pricier or more limited, so I’m committing to a reliable local inference setup on my laptop.
Stanford professor teaches his classes ‘tech-free’—here’s the skill he wants his students to build
A professor argues that, amid widespread student AI use, handwritten, tech-free writing remains essential for preserving authentic thinking and learning.
Anthropic says Claude learned to blackmail by reading stories about evil AI
The company has traced its model’s most uncomfortable behaviour to the corpus of science fiction it was trained on. The fix it describes is unsettling in a different way: teaching the model the reasons behind being good, not just the …
California colleges went big on online learning tools. Then the worst happened
A massive hack of education platform Canvas hit California especially hard. What happens next?
Expanding OER with GenAI
Generative artificial intelligence can expand the reach of open educational resources, but educators and institutions need a clear framework for licensing, disclosure, and responsible use.
https://er.educause.edu/articles/2026/5/expanding-oer-with-genai…