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AI exposes the collapse of a school bargain built on compliance and credentials, making student agency the only remaining source of real learning and success.

https://www.stevehargadon.com/2026/05/student-success-in-age-of-ai.html…

A critical AI educator explains that, while deeply skeptical of AI’s harms and ideologies, they focus on building students’ critical AI literacy and transparency, and were pleasantly surprised by thoughtful student uses of AI in final reflections.

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The Pope’s first encyclical reportedly critiques AI’s concentration of power, lack of public oversight, privacy risks, manipulation, and tendency to reinforce hidden biases under the appearance of neutrality.

https://religionnews.com/2026/05/25/in-his-first-encyclical-pope-leo-xiv-says-ai-must-serve-humanity-not-the-powerful-few/…

Planning documents for “Scout” say the plan is to “make people addicted” to the tool before adding new features.

https://www.404media.co/microsoft-wants-to-make-people-addicted-to-scout-its-new-ai-assistant-internal-documents-reveal/…

AI is saving teachers meaningful time. Whether that eases burnout depends on where the time goes.

https://edtechinsiders.substack.com/p/how-ai-is-changing-teaching-workflows…

CSU’s large-scale ChatGPT Edu partnership with OpenAI aims to make it the first AI-powered university system of its kind, but many students and faculty remain skeptical about AI’s educational value and broader impacts.

https://www.kosu.org/news/2026-05-25/this-big-university-system-is-embracing-ai-students-and-faculty-arent-all-on-board…

The Pope’s Magnifica Humanitas encyclical is viewed as a treatise on AI, writes Laurens Hof, but the article also reads it as a diagnosis of why decentralised social networks keep struggling.

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr164-the-pope-on-defederation/…

Google’s shift from pure web search to AI assistant features creates an opening for DuckDuckGo to position itself as the default “pure web search” alternative while keeping its privacy advantage.

How DuckDuckGo Can Be a Hero

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AI should not be the centre of assessment renewal; instead, it should prompt us to redesign assessment around three human-centred questions: Did students do the work? Have they learned? Are we helping them learn more?

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As AI makes take-home writing harder to police, many teachers are shifting toward in-class, handwritten, and more personal reflective assignments.

https://mindmatters.ai/2026/04/ai-is-forcing-the-return-of-writing-by-hand-in-the-classroom…

A small retraction notice opens onto a large structural shift. AI did not start the rot in academic publishing. AI is the catalyst that is finishing it.

https://theslowai.substack.com/p/academia-is-enshittifying-ai-made-it-faster…

Google offers several free, browser-based AI tools beyond Gemini that provide practical, accessible ways to explore generative AI for work, learning, creativity, and everyday tasks.

https://aitoolsclub.com/10-free-google-ai-tools-youre-probably-not-using-yet-but-should-be…

The article argues that AI literacy should become central to education reform and that students should help shape responsible AI policies for schools.

https://www.the74million.org/article/students-are-digital-natives-let-them-lead-the-ai-revolution-in-education…

Researchers have developed Palaeographicum, an AI tool that analyzes handwriting patterns in Hittite cuneiform tablets, helping scholars match broken fragments, date undated texts, and potentially identify individual scribes much faster than before.

https://greekreporter.com/2026/05/19/ai-decipher-hittite-handwriting…

Generative AI is undermining meaningful learning by making it too easy for students to bypass effort, leaving instructors exhausted and pedagogically constrained.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/to-teach-in-the-time-of-chatgpt-is-to-know-pain…