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Anthropic Launches Claude for Teachers as AI Companies Battle for Classrooms
Anthropic launched Claude for Teachers, joining Google, OpenAI, and Khan Academy as tech companies compete to become the go-to classroom AI for educators.
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Digital Testing Keeps Screens in Schools
Educators questioning classroom devices are running into a practical barrier: State exams that are now widely taken on computers.
The End of Homework? Teachers Grapple with Cheating in the Age of AI
At the beginning of each new class, Al Rabanera lets his students know that he knows they’re using AI. “I’m not going to pretend like you aren’t,” he tells his students. “I know it’s readily available for most of you, if not all of you.” A math teacher at La Vista High School in Fullerton, […]
K–12 Students Learn Broadcasting Skills With Classroom Tech
Washington’s Mercer Island High School introduced instruction in the art and science behind podcasting as part of its curriculum about seven years ago, just as the medium started to gain widespread popularity. MIHS Students in the school’s radio and podcasting program have the opportunity to gain firsthand experience o…
Teachers Save Time with AI. Their Students May Pay the Price
Artificial intelligence is often promoted as a way to make teachers more effective by helping them write lesson plans, generate classroom materials and provide feedback to students in seconds. But one of the first randomized trials testing AI in real classrooms found that it can also undermine learning. Students whose…
Talking Technology School Staff
School leaders have a unique opportunity to gather staff together and talk about unresolved questions around AI and classroom technology.
School’s Out: Focus on Device Maintenance and Readiness for Fall
For K–12 IT teams, summer is one of the busiest and most important times of the year. Once devices are collected, classrooms are cleared and summer projects begin, technology teams must assess, repair, update and prepare the tools that students and teachers will rely on when they return to school. Classroom technology…
Not All Screen Time Is Equal
With the growing movement to limit technology in schools, parents and educators are right to question how much time students spend on screens. But, as schools reconsider the role of technology in the classroom, an important distinction is often getting lost in the public conversation: Not all screen time is equal.
5 Questions to Ask When Choosing EdTech Solutions
Technology can accelerate learning when chosen with care, but it can also