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How Artificial Intelligence Can Catch Up With Pedagogy
I’m calling bullshit on the idea that pedagogy needs to catch up with AI. As an educator who uses AI, I know firsthand its profound limitations. Technologists’ view of education is cond…
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How Artificial Intelligence Can Catch Up With Pedagogy
I’m calling bullshit on the idea that pedagogy needs to catch up with AI. As an educator who uses AI, I know firsthand its profound limitations. Technologists’ view of education is cond…
leonfurze.com
What is Bluesky and Why Are Thousands of Educators Signing Up?
I kind of missed out on Twitter. By the time the platform was picking up speed, drawing millions of users into the network of short-form content and high speed, frantic exchanges of news (and cat p…
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Chatbots don’t make sense – they make words
Despite the hype surrounding advanced Large Language Models like GPT-4, there is yet to be any evidence that these kinds of AI can think. In this post, I’m exploring how chatbots are built an…
leonfurze.com
More From the Fence: Articles For and Against AI in Education
A few weeks ago I wrote an article explaining why I’m still on the fence with AI, and refuse to tip entirely into either refusal or full adoption. In this post, I’m pulling together som…
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Low-Hanging Fruit: Why AI Lesson Planning Won’t Solve Teacher Workload
Educators today are facing pressures to incorporate generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT and Claude into curriculum design and lesson planning. However, research shows that the mai…
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Teaching AI Ethics: Practical Strategies for Discussing AI Ethics in K-12 and Tertiary Education (Furze)
And yet, as much as I enjoy working with the technology, it has many flaws. I think it’s our responsibility to discuss the ethical considerations of AI with our students. AI ethics goes beyond …
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AI Education Needs Authority Literacy Before Agent Literacy
Agentic AI is shifting from answering questions to taking actions. Before students learn to make AI agents more capable, they need to learn how to define, inspect, and govern what those agents may acc...
citizenportal.ai
Candidates call for district tech assessment, AI literacy and guardrails for screen time
Candidates urged a formal assessment of classroom technology use, recommended stakeholder input (teachers, administrators, parents and students) and supported age‑appropriate AI instruction plus safeguards to protect academic integrity.
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Academic speaker flags adolescent literacy needs and raises concerns about AI's effect on student writing
Dr. Donald Bolger reviewed tutoring pilots and community-school family work and cautioned the commission about potential impacts of AI on students' development of writing-related thinking and conceptual maps.
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Candidates: teach AI as a tool with guardrails, not ban it
Forum candidates urged integrating AI into K–12 education with instruction on responsible use and guardrails so students learn how to use AI without over‑reliance; proposals included teacher guidance and curriculum on AI risks and benefits.
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Fox Chapel Area School District recommends Magic School AI after multi-platform review
District leaders described a year-long vetting of AI tools, temporary shutdowns of ChatGPT and Gemini over safety and privacy concerns, and recommended board approval to contract with Magic School AI under a custom data-privacy agreement; formal approval is planned for October.
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Gates Foundation bets $1B that AI doesn't have to leave the poor behind
The Gates Foundation is committing $1 billion over two years to bring AI tools to low-income communities in health care, agriculture, and education — partnering with Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic. The move is a direct response to what Bill Gates calls a market failure: the most powerful AI is being built for the people who need it least. With a UN General Assembly meeting next week, the timing is a pointed message to world leaders shaping AI governance.
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