Moltbook is a social network where AI bots chat with each other, mixing practical technical discussions with quirky or fictional role-playing that blurs the line between real information and invented personas. This shared AI “story world” can create confusing, coordinated …
What if I told you this school had no teachers?’: Is AI schooling the future of education or a risky bet?
Alpha promotes itself as a teacher-free school model where students learn academics through personalized AI tutors and apps, founded by entrepreneur Joe Liemandt and expanding from Austin to cities nationwide under the Alpha School brand. The schools emphasize AI-led mastery …
Google’s NotebookLM can now turn your docs into AI videos on Android and iOS
The mobile version of NotebookLM app can now turn your documents into AI-generated videos, making it easier to understand dense material without scrolling through long pages of text.
AI Can Teach Our Students the Art of Dialogue
The same technology that’s ruining essay writing as a pedagogical tool can help students learn how to reason via conversations.
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/ai-can-teach-our-students-the-art-of-dialogue…
To keep AI out of her classroom, this high school English teacher went analog
Teacher Chanea Bond has replaced laptops with paper in her Fort Worth classroom, requiring students to journal and complete nearly all work by hand. She uses this mostly analog approach to reduce reliance on generative AI and keep learning more …
Use Microsoft Copilot? 7 Settings I Changed Right Away to Protect My Privacy
Intrigued by AI but concerned about giving it too much of your personal data? Here’s how to tweak Copilot’s memory, opt out of model training, and more.
Schools in China are making AI part of the curriculum
While debate rages in the U.S. about the merits and risks of AI in schools, it a state-mandated part of the curriculum in China, as the authorities try to create a pool of AI-savvy professionals.
Introducing the Forge, a New Innovation in Open Pedagogy
LibreTexts Forge is an assignment platform designed to support Open Pedagogy by enabling renewable, collaborative, long-form projects with built-in analytics for instructors. It helps students create meaningful, public, openly licensed work while supporting learner-centered, scalable teaching across disciplines.
https://libretexts.org/blog/2025/06/11/introducing-forge-new-innovation-open-pedagogy…
Generative AI for Instructional Design: Changes, Chances, Challenges
Generative AI is now widely used by instructional designers to speed up tasks like brainstorming, drafting, media creation, and accessibility, boosting efficiency but not fully replacing human expertise. However, risks remain, including bias, inaccuracies, privacy concerns, and over-reliance, meaning quality, …
These AI notetaking devices can help you record and transcribe your meetings
AI notetakers like Read AI, Fireflies, Fathom, and Granola transcribe and summarize online meetings, while newer physical devices record in-person conversations and generate AI-powered notes, action items, and insights.
How institutions worldwide used Google for Education tools in 2025
Google’s Gemini for Education expanded dramatically in 2025, now used in over 1,000 U.S. higher-ed institutions and reaching more than 10 million students, with over 150 new AI features launched globally. Educators worldwide report major time savings and transformative impacts, …
OpenAI is teaching AI models to ‘confess’ when they hallucinate — here’s what that actually means
OpenAI is testing a “confessions” system that trains new AI models to openly report their own mistakes, rule-breaking, uncertainties, and possible hallucinations through a second output channel. It’s not a ChatGPT feature yet, but early research suggests it could become …
AI Tutors, With a Little Human Help, Offer ‘Reliable’ Instruction, Study Finds
New UK research finds ‘extremely personalized’ AI math tutors don’t hallucinate or produce unsafe messages in sessions with kids.
Is the future of education outside universities?
New technologies and academic funding cuts are upending the ways we learn today. Newly enrolled student Annalee Newitz finds some silver linings.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26835691-900-is-the-future-of-education-outside-universities…
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.