ResearchBuzz: FirehoseThe Atlantic: My Son’s Math Homework Is Essentially Just Pokémon. “Over the past few years, districts across the country have enacted phone bans or restrictions in a bid to limit distractions. Schools have also blocked students from using their laptop to access sites such as YouTube and Roblox. But those measures don’t solve the deeper problem: Software has eaten the American school, and […]
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The City (NYC): NYC Yanks AI-Themed High School and Shelves Plans To Close UWS Middle Schools. “In a major reversal, New York City schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels is withdrawing controversial proposals to open the city’s first artificial intelligence-focused high school, close two middle schools, and relocate another.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/29/the-city-nyc-nyc-yanks-ai-themed-high-school-and-shelves-plans-to-close-uws-middle-schools/
The City (NYC): NYC Yanks AI-Themed High School and Shelves Plans To Close UWS Middle Schools
The City (NYC): NYC Yanks AI-Themed High School and Shelves Plans To Close UWS Middle Schools. “In a major reversal, New York City schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels is withdrawing controversia…
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I'm not sure what I think about this.
On the one hand, I immediately feel wary when I hear conservatives talking about "back to basics" in education, while on the other I suspect that more consideration needs to be given to the possible downsides of the digital classroom.
Tim GreenAI mental health tools in schools are deploying rapidly without proper regulation or oversight, risking harm to vulnerable children. The lack of governance and accountability raises urgent ethical and legal concerns.
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Dr Leon FurzeTeaching Writing in the Age of AI
With Victoria the latest state to ban ChatGPT, teachers everywhere are grappling with the implications of the large language model and the impact it will have on the classroom. We know that banning and blocking technology is - at best - a temporary solution. Students will find ways around the blocks, and teachers will be faced with policing the technology and its use. Aside from the "cheating narrative", many teachers are also very hopeful of how the technology could be integrated into their […]https://leonfurze.com/2023/02/06/teaching-writing-in-the-age-of-ai/
Secondary School Assessment and Artificial Intelligence
When ChatGPT landed on our doorsteps in November 2022, it largely slipped beneath the education radar. By the time term 1 2023 rolled around, however, it's fair to say that the situation had changed. Most states in Australia banned the technology in Department schools, and those bans remained in place for several months. Despite the bumpy start, policy is quickly catching up with the reality of these technologies. We're now starting to see some guidelines emerging from various states and […]https://leonfurze.com/2023/06/13/secondary-school-assessment-and-artificial-intelligence/
Creative but critical: How educators can learn to live with AI
December 2022 represented a step-change in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. With the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, suddenly the whole world (or at least the millions of users who logged in within a week of its launch) were talking about Large Language Models. LLMs represent just a portion of AI technologies, but ChatGPT shifted the public narrative in ways we hadn’t seen before, even with impressive image generation applications like DALL-E 2 and Midjourney. LLMs are a form of […]https://leonfurze.com/2023/01/29/creative-but-critical-how-educators-can-learn-to-live-with-ai/
Education Next - A Journal of Opinion and Research About Education PolicyDon’t Just Fight Teen Screen Time—Fund the Alternatives
