Category: Artificial Intelligence

How artificial intelligence could push educators back to the fundamentals of meaningful learning.

https://laurenowens.substack.com/p/is-ai-going-to-make-us-better-educators…

A deep reflection on Khan Academy’s mission, international strategy, and the gap between ambitious goals and ground realities in resource-constrained classrooms. Drawing from my interview experience and secondary research across India, Pakistan, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

https://guptasudhir.com/blog/decoding-khan-academy-mission-world-class-education…

Study shows students had low and often ineffective reliance on ChatGPT-4 in quizzes, with persistent misuse patterns and clear behavioral predictors, highlighting the need for better training and smarter AI design to support effective and ethical use.

https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AIES/article/view/36760…

Windows already includes a free built-in cleanup tool, Storage Sense, making many third-party PC “optimizer” apps unnecessary.

https://www.makeuseof.com/wasted-money-on-cleanup-apps-before-realizing-windows-had-one-built-in…

There are a bunch of reasons you should prioritize investing in a new display before you cast off your current graphics card. Resolution and refresh rate upgrades are key, as is the sheer pedigree of the underlying quality of your …

Each chapter in this open access book describes the research on an evidence-based practice, the iterative development process the authors used to create a prompt that enacts the practice, the methodology by which the prompt’s performance was evaluated, the results …

LLMs can sound highly confident and well-structured, but they still frequently generate incorrect or fabricated information, especially for certain types of prompts, so their answers shouldn’t be trusted without verification.

https://www.makeuseof.com/llms-hallucinate-most-ask-them-do-this…

Language learning apps complement traditional methods by offering flexible, habit-building practice tools, but require selective use since no single app covers all skills effectively.

https://www.bgr.com/2149603/best-language-learning-apps…

Anthropic has been on a tear lately. On April 16, the company released a major model update with Claude Opus 4.7. On April 17, Anthropic announced a powerful new tool called Claude Design that aims to do for design work …

Schools are caught between optimism and concern about technology’s impact on student wellbeing, struggling to find a balanced approach that leverages its benefits while minimizing its harms.

https://www.edweek.org/technology/why-schools-need-tech-and-why-they-dont…

If it feels like AI is developing too fast to keep up with, a group of Chinese researchers have some bad news – because they’ve developed a model that “evolves” on its own, creating better versions of itself with each …

As creative industries grapple with the prospect of AI-generated content, how can educators hone critical thinking skills in the book publishers of the future? Find advice here.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/questions-publishing-students-need-be-asking-about-genai…

Admissions to Texas computer science programs are down roughly 20%, professors said, but they still see a future for their students.

AI is changing how Texas universities teach computer science as job market slows

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The replacement critique misses what AI actually does to thinking.

https://timmoon.substack.com/p/ai-a-mirror-that-amplifies…

A journalist charts the progress of AI pioneer Demis Hassabis from child chess prodigy to Nobel prize winner.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/16/the-infinity-machine-by-sebastian-mallaby-review-the-story-of-the-man-who-changed-the-world…