Todays article comes to us from Spark Learning. What role should AI be allowed to play for teachers and students? Is it ok for teachers but not for students? https://www.esparklearning.com/blog/predicting-the-challenges-of-ai-use-in-schools-and-how-to-avoid-them/ One of the most surprising things about artificial intelligence is just how quickly it has progressed. That’s also one of the reasons some are still wary about using it, particularly in school settings. When it’s changing so quickly, how can we predict what the challenges of AI use will be? How do we make sure to prepare for those challenges, so that our students don’t wind up suffering the consequences? There’s no way to … [Read more...]
AI Agents Will Shape Every Aspect Of Education In 2025
From an article at Forbes Artificial Intelligence has been at the forefront of educational technology and innovation discussions these past two years and will likely continue to be so for the foreseeable future. To discern what may be coming in 2025, I asked several education innovators who had shaped stories in 2024 for their takes on what they see as being just over the horizon. One theme that stood out was the rise of AI Agents. The Rise Of AI Agents In this context, the sense of “agent” is the difference between using a tool to accomplish something yourself and asking someone to do something for you. Imagine that you are trying to solve a mathematics program. The tool approach … [Read more...]
The Basic Education Bait-and-Switch
I had a chat with the Gemini AI at Google and asked it to go into "Expert Mode" and provide citations for it's findings. Following is that report for your consideration. The opposition narrative regarding school levies in Washington often centers on the tension between Washington state’s "Paramount Duty" to fund basic education and the local districts' use of enrichment funds to fill structural gaps. The following narrative outlines the arguments used by fiscal conservatives, taxpayer advocates, and legal critics to suggest that districts are bypassing the spirit—and sometimes the letter—of the law. The core of the opposition argument is that school districts use Enrichment … [Read more...]