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The Education Department Outlines What It Wants From AI

ED Surge

For edtech firms, this partly means figuring out how to prevent their bottom line from being hurt, as students swap some edtech services with AI-powered DIY alternatives , like tutoring replacements. Primarily, for instance, it stresses that humans should be placed “firmly at the center” of AI-enabled edtech.

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See the Big Picture: Holistic Student Support with Data Interoperability in K-12 Schools

ED Surge

In most places, student data exists in silos, separated by the multiple edtech platforms within the schools’ data ecosystems. In the latest State of EdTech Leadership Report from the Consortium for School Network (CoSN), interoperability was identified as one of the largest needs in school districts—second only to cybersecurity.

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Los Angeles School District Launched a Splashy AI Chatbot. What Exactly Does It Do?

ED Surge

More than 26 members of local and national media were on hand for the splashy announcement (a detail that Carvalho noted in his remarks), and the event also featured a human dressed in a costume of the shiny animated character of Ed, which has also long been a mascot of the school district, for attendees to take selfies with.

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OPINION: America should learn from Europe and adopt tougher regulations on artificial intelligence

The Hechinger Report

When it comes to AI, we can’t afford the same wait-and-see approach many governments took to regulating social media. Policy always lags innovation, but when it comes to AI, we can’t afford the same wait-and-see approach many governments took to regulating social media, for example. I now also chair Ireland’s first A.I.

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Both Humans and Technology Are Noisy: How Do We Move Forward?

Digital Promise

Like the Ark of the Covenant at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, this report was lost in the vast government archives, but I saved a copy and it has influenced the way I currently see efficacy research and behavioral science research writ large. Human beings themselves are innately noisy and variable creatures. Stokes, D.

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What Could Web3 Mean for Education?

ED Surge

It’s a digital world where internet users retain ownership of their online activities—their intellectual property, or IP—which are tracked by blockchains, which help everyone make money without having to rely on governments, institutions or corporations. Some edtech entrepreneurs are eager for Web3 to arrive and change education.

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Unlocking Skills: What Learners and Employers Need to Know About Microcredentials

ED Surge

Credentials that adhere to the Open Badges or CLR [Comprehensive Learner Record] standards have a specific way of packaging that data to be both human-readable and machine-readable. In the higher education setting, a lot goes into the governance structure around creating course content. That's where the credential value comes in.