Business schools are charging $28,000 to teach executives how to be "chief AI officer"
No one seems entirely sure what a chief AI officer actually does though
Sam Altman says four years is too long for college as AI tears up the traditional career path
The OpenAI boss says two years was the "exact right amount of time" for him
The "Godmother of AI" says the biggest AI risk in schools isn't cheating – it's students losing the desire to learn
Fei-Fei Li warns overreliance on AI could erode students' motivation, agency, and ability to think for themselves
More Americans now support banning phones all day at school, not just in class
Pew survey finds 77% of Americans now support in-classroom phone bans
Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32 students cheating on their midterm with AI
The students submitted essays containing phrases such as "Madagascar purple bicycle whispers to the ceiling"
Facepalm: Modern problems require modern solutions – according to the meme. In this case, the issue is students using AI to cheat on assignments. The solution, used to great effect by one professor, was to hide a white-colored font in the assignment prompt telling the AI to talk nonsense about an unrelated subject.
New York school will deploy AI teaching robot from company linked to sex bots
A headline for our times, if ever there was one
UChicago Law bans laptops and phones for first-year students, mandates in-class exams starting this fall
The goal is to protect critical thinking skills as AI reshapes legal education
Professor's chart exposes the scale of AI cheating in college exams
One student's scores are honest if nothing else
Facepalm: The endemic scale of AI-assisted cheating among students over the past few years is well documented, but few visual representations illustrate the problem as well as a recent chart from a Brown University professor. As concerning as the graph is, the university's muted response to it is potentially even more worrying.
Meta settles a lawsuit that said it addicted students and left schools to deal with the damage
The Kentucky district claimed addictive design features forced schools to divert resources from education
A cyberattack on Canvas knocked out access for students at Harvard, Columbia, and hundreds of other schools during finals
The breach is a case study in how a single platform compromise can take down an entire sector at once
A major study claiming ChatGPT improves student learning has been retracted
The most-cited evidence that ChatGPT helps students learn just fell apart
YouTube has quietly become the backbone of US classrooms
The big picture: American classrooms now run on YouTube. In many districts, it sits at the center of the entire tech stack: Chromebooks or iPads in every backpack, Google accounts for every student, and videos queued for everything from math lessons to indoor recess. Teachers use it to read to a class, teach first graders to draw, or fill the last few minutes before dismissal. But the platform was never designed to be the primary gatekeeper of what children watch during the school day.
Florida school to deploy security drones designed to stop school shooters mid-attack
The technology combines rapid deployment, live video feeds, and non-lethal force to intervene before police arrive
Forward-looking: When classes resume this fall at Deltona High School in Florida, students might find an unusual addition to their campus security system: ceiling-mounted drones designed to respond to active shooter threats. The machines – called Black Arrows and built by Austin-based startup Mithril Defense – can race through school corridors at speeds up to 100 miles per hour, emit piercing alarms, flash strobes, and even spray pepper gel at an attacker.
Meet the 102-year-old teaching seniors how to use smartphones and Windows
Computer Pals president Dean Simes teaches everything from WhatsApp notifications to avoiding malicious links online
Students are learning to write for AI detectors, not for humans
AI checkers wanted less cheating, but they got blander writing instead
After $30 billion in school tech, the laptop classroom experiment may have backfired
Schools went all-in on laptops – now test scores are telling a different story
Computer science enrollment falls across the University of California for the first time in 20 years
AI tools and job market uncertainty are reshaping the student pipeline that once powered Silicon Valley
Gemini now offers free SAT practice tests with instant scoring
Google's AI generates full-length exams, grades them, and explains every answer
The college diploma is losing its hold on Silicon Valley hiring
Sergey Brin says passion, not a college degree, fueled his career
A Florida school went into lockdown after AI flagged a clarinet as a gun
A false alarm at a middle school renews questions over the accuracy of these systems
Parents say mandatory iPad use at school is hurting kids' grades, causing behavioral issues
Teachers and child behaviorists are also warning about excessive screentime
Move over, computer science: students are flocking to AI majors
AI's rise accelerates, prompting worries about lost fundamentals
Chegg replaces CEO and cuts 45% of staff as AI decimates its one-time $12 billion business
The study-help giant struggles to survive in the age of ChatGPT
High school student surrounded by police and handcuffed after AI mistakes his bag of Doritos for a gun
Does AI have a particular dislike of triangular chips?
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