AI at school
Classrooms, tutors, cheating, school rules and the teachers caught in the middle.
- Candidates for governor in California and Texas pledge to curb AI and screens in classrooms Chalkbeat
Steve Hilton would ban AI in California schools on day one; at least 13 states have passed laws on AI in education. - Australia's education ministers will weigh a schools 'digital detox' next month after record-low PISA scores ABC News (Australia)
Minister Jason Clare cites Sweden's experience; Estonia's AI-tool embrace and Chinese AI pilots are the counter-examples. - Reported AI school promised '2x learning'; most kids missed it Gizmodo
About half missed the math target and one in five the reading target at the AI-tutored chain; spokesperson declined interviews. - NYC schools cut AI features from 38 ed-tech products; the Amira reading tutor, in 200-plus schools, is banned Chalkbeat New York
Some vendors say their listed tools have no student-facing generative AI; the Education Department is reviewing case by case. - More than 100 US universities now offer an AI major, about double a year ago; MIT's has 354 students WBUR
Northeastern database shows AI majors doubling in a year; a May study found a third of 66 institutions require an ethics course. - Cheongju middle-school student hospitalized after classmates beat him over deepfake images of female students The Korea Herald
Images were made from video-call screenshots; police are investigating two students for assault and the alleged creator under the sexual-crimes act. - A $55,000-a-year AI school says students master core subjects in two hours a day with no teachers CBS News
CBS visits Alpha School's Chicago campus; a University of Colorado analysis found about a third of its adult guides have education training. - Incheon court orders a former student to pay 17.7 million won over deepfake sexual images of a teacher Seoul Economic Daily
Incheon District Court orders a former student to pay 17.7 million won to a teacher over deepfake sexual images.