Every year, Jane Hart asks people around the world to share the tools they use to learn. I always enjoy seeing the results.” This is my list. I’m not sure how to communicate them to Jane Hart (her site is …
Prototype testing, scaling, and standardizing AI tutors in schools
England’s Department for Education has moved from prototyping AI tutoring tools to piloting them in schools (“living laboratories”) and is now building a national standard via six funded companies (including Pearson/Anthropic, Google/Eedi), set to launch autumn 2026. The authors argue …
4 AI learning tools I’d use if I went back to college today
The article highlights AI tools that can make college study more efficient—helping students summarize readings, understand difficult concepts, create study materials, organize research, and improve writing. Its main message is to use AI as a learning assistant rather than a …
Teacher-directed instruction is dead – long live the future of education
Rather than react with fear to GenAI and attempt to ban it, let’s rethink traditional pedagogy instead, for more meaningful learning.
AI in Education
Doug Holton created a free, AI-generated reference site that summarizes recent open-access research and key concepts in educational technology.
Users can search the site or chat with its knowledge base through AI tools such as Gemini and NotebookLM.
MIT AI Report Calls for Alternative Grading, More Social Learning
Artificial intelligence is upending the MIT education, a committee has found. Students, instructors and administrators will need to revisit nearly every part of that experience to respond to it.
AI and Education – MIT
An MIT committee report proposes principles and recommendations for adapting education to AI while preserving human connection and institutional community.
It emphasizes experiential learning, laboratory spaces, residential education, social ties, and stronger review processes, approaches valuable well beyond MIT.
University of Tampa requiring students to take new generative AI class, starting this fall
The University of Tampa replaced its basic coding course with a required online course on generative AI and emerging technologies. Students will learn to evaluate AI outputs critically and use AI ethically and responsibly in academic work.
https://www.aol.com/articles/university-tampa-requiring-students-generative-205609000.html…
Spotlight on the 1st Day of Class
The first class is more than reviewing the course plan, it sets the tone for the entire semester by building connection, trust, and curiosity. There is no single formula for Day 1, but thoughtful choices can strongly influence students’ engagement …
AI Can Solve Almost Any Homework Assignment Tonight. Here Is How MIT Is Responding.
MIT says AI can now credibly complete nearly all undergraduate assignments, challenging traditional take-home assessment. It recommends oral exams, portfolios, and broader assessment redesign instead of relying on increasingly ineffective AI-detection tools.
Agentic AI is Available to Teachers at No Cost. Here’s a Job Worth Giving It.
A teacher used AI to organize 16 years of neglected course materials, compare them with current standards, and identify gaps, without using student data.
The result was a rebuilt archive, a comprehensive curriculum audit, and a practical seven-week preparation plan.…
Designing the AI-Integrated Classroom: A Triadic Learning Ecosystem
Artificial intelligence (AI) will transform the classroom into an interactive ecosystem of guidance and support. The Triadic Learning Ecosystem (TLE) offers an architecture of that near future, connecting teachers, students, and AI-enabled tools in a collaborative model of learning.
Collection of curated assignments that integrate AI tools, created by educators
10 Back-to-School AI Updates For Educators
Major AI platforms are embedding context-aware tools into education to support lesson planning, resource creation, personalized study, and classroom activities. Educators should evaluate them critically, prioritizing pedagogical value and student thinking over convenience or novelty.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danfitzpatrick/2026/08/22/10-back-to-school-ai-updates-for-educators…
How Claude’s text watermark works
Future Claude models will invisibly watermark generated text to comply with the EU AI Act, without affecting quality, content, token usage, or cost. The watermark adds no hidden characters or identifying data, and other major AI providers will implement similar …