#AI in education
11 stories taggedAI in education.

AI in the Classroom: How One School Stopped Panicking and Started Teaching With It
Cheshire Academy in Connecticut tried banning AI, then tried ignoring it. Neither worked. Here is what they are doing instead.

Harvard Business School Is Using AI Avatars to Coach Its $699 Startup Bootcamp Students
A digital copy of a real venture capital investor is now giving feedback to budding entrepreneurs. Students say they like it. The investor admits it is a little creepy.

OpenAI's new ChatGPT for Teens is here, with parent controls baked in
A tie-up with CodeAI aims to teach high schoolers how AI actually works, not just how to ask it for essay help.

What kids actually think about AI (it's not what adults expected)
A new survey and dozens of conversations with 10-to-18-year-olds reveal a generation that is cautious, opinionated, and far less dazzled by artificial intelligence than the headlines suggest.

Denmark tells students: defend your AI-written essay out loud or fail
Danish schools are adding oral exams and screen monitoring to catch students who use AI to write their essays. Here is what the new rules mean and why other countries are watching.

AI exam proctoring went wrong at Mexico's biggest university, and 58,000 students must sit the test again
Nearly 160,000 applicants took UNAM's entrance exam remotely this year, watched by AI software instead of human invigilators. The results looked nothing like any previous year, and now tens of thousands of students face a retake.

A New York school district just hit pause on its robot teacher plan
One district wanted to put a humanoid android in front of students. Parents and researchers have questions. So do the kids, probably.

A professor hid secret text in an exam to catch AI cheaters. Every single one of his 35 students fell for it.
Jason Gibson embedded invisible instructions inside an essay prompt. The results were as absurd as they were revealing.

Should you use AI for a task? A Harvard professor has a simple test
Bruce Schneier explains why letting AI write for you can be like hiring a personal trainer to do your push-ups.

Australian universities clash over how to handle AI cheating, as one expert warns of a national brain drain
An ANU academic calls campus crackdowns 'hysterical', while a colleague says weak assessment standards could hand Australia's intellectual talent to tech giants in California and China.

India's tinkering labs get an AI teaching assistant, powered by Gemini
Google DeepMind and the Atal Innovation Mission are piloting ATL Saathi in 100 schools, giving teachers a 24/7 planner that spits out project ideas, wiring diagrams and safety notes in eight languages.