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The American Psychological Association distinguishes engagement and assisted performance from durable learning. It calls for evidence that knowledge transfers beyond an app or chatbot.
ChatGPT for Teachers expanded to 55 additional school systems, reaching over 300,000 educators across more than 100 K–12 organizations. OpenAI also introduced a Student Data Privacy Consortium agreement covering 15 states, including Virginia, plus California.…
For eligible K–12 students whose districts already enabled Copilot Chat, Microsoft now preselects its Study and Learn agent. Administrative enabling and age controls still apply.
Stanford found strong evidence for human-led tutoring, emerging evidence for AI supporting tutors, and insufficient evidence for fully automated tutoring. AI recommendations increased lesson-topic mastery by four percentage points overall and nine points with…
Canvas is testing ways to show how students used AI during assignments. Anthropic is adding text watermarking and plans a detection interface, but acknowledges that watermarking indicates probability, not authorship.
On September 9, Microsoft, the AFT and UFT announced a standard that districts can incorporate into Microsoft customer agreements. It prohibits using student or educator data to train AI, selling or repurposing that data, student tracking and unsupervised…
Governor Newsom signed a 13-bill child-technology package on September 10. It includes independent safety assessments and parental controls for companion chatbots, restrictions on addictive feeds for children, and stronger pupil-data protections. AB 1159…
Missouri and Google announced no-cost enterprise AI tools, training and credentials for nearly 100,000 educators and more than 1.1 million K–12 and higher-education students. Offerings include Gemini for Education, Gemini Notebook and professional…
For 108,000 students, Baltimore County reported average daily school-device use of 70–90 minutes in middle school and 75–100 minutes in high school. Grades 3–5 averaged 50–60 minutes; K–2 averaged about 30 minutes. A separate 344-district benchmark covering…
Jordan School District and SchoolAI reported a 28% increase in a rubric-based measure of critical thinking across 13,882 student-AI conversations involving 82 teachers over two years. Higher-level reasoning classifications more than doubled, with stronger…
OECD reading scores fell 14 points from 2022. PISA links AI use for summarizing, drafting, and preliminary research with lower science scores. Weekly use for general learning shows similar scores to non-use; opportunities to assess AI information accompany…