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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…

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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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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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/…

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…

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…

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/…

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/…

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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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…

Claude Design may be emerging as a powerful AI presentation tool, able to generate cohesive, well-designed slide decks more effectively than tools like Gemini in Google Slides.

https://www.makeuseof.com/claude-design-built-best-slideshow/…

YouTube is adding AI-powered search with “Ask YouTube,” allowing users to ask complex and follow-up questions and receive generated responses based on both Shorts and long-form videos.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/ask-youtube-brings-ai-powered-conversational-search-to-video-adds-gemini-omni-to-shorts/…

Google has thrown down the gauntlet as the first major player to change that by announcing Gemini Spark at Google I/O 2026. It’s a 24/7 personal AI agent that prioritizes out-of-the-box user-friendliness, seamless app integrations, and entirely cloud-based processing. Gemini …

Students are using generative AI widely for schoolwork, but beyond cheating concerns, it is raising deeper questions about authorship, academic identity, legitimacy, and whether AI-assisted work still feels truly their own.

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-college-students-aismoothed-strong.html…

The article tests viral “expert prompt” frameworks to see which genuinely improve AI responses and which mainly create overconfident hallucinations.

https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/i-tried-the-viral-chatgpt-prompts-everyone-is-sharing-heres-what-actually-works…