5 Questions to Ask When Developing AI Companion Policies As students engage with artificial intelligence companions, schools must develop guidelines that focus on education, monitoring and content moderation.

"States are beginning to pass laws that address the mental health and safety risks posed by AI companions. Schools have a responsibility to be more proactive" #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Learning From Failure For Rapid Adaptive Learning Growth Learning from failure boosts skills 4x faster with 200% better retention via safe spaces, instant feedback, and gamification.

"Top companies are now adopting "fail forward" philosophies, where failure is used to create explosive growth within their adaptive learning strategies." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Career readiness starts with a critical, undertaught skill: Decision Education New workforce research shows decision education is one of the most sought-after skills in an AI-driven economy.

"[W]hile technology can generate information and automate tasks, people still need to evaluate options, weigh tradeoffs, and determine what to do next. These are decision-making skills–and demand for them is rising." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

A Simple Print-Based Fix for Re-Centering Reading in the Age of AI Discover how print-based reading strategies in the age of AI improve student engagement, accountability, and critical reading skills in college classrooms.

"Generative AI tools...can quickly produce fluent overviews of complex texts. While these tools can be useful for review or clarification, they also make it easy for students to bypass the cognitive work that reading is meant to support." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

CSU paid $17 million for ChatGPT. But students, faculty give AI a mixed grade CSU's multimillion-dollar AI push across its campuses is showing mixed results, according to a major survey of 94,000 students, faculty, and staff from 22 campuses.

"The California State University system is grappling with how AI is affecting assignments, classroom instruction, competition for jobs and academic integrity." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Social media on trial. How design was used to target vulnerable children "In March 2026, a California jury found in favour of a plaintiff (identified by the court-protected name “KGM” or “Kaley”) who had sued Meta and Google for deliberately targeting children like her with addictive design.   KGM alleged that Instagram and YouTube had caused them addiction and depression which eventually triggered body dysmorphia. The jury, finding in their favour, awarded $6M in total damages (additional penalties because they determined that Meta and Google had “acted with malice, oppression and fraud”)."

"Social media companies are finally facing legal consequences for their toxic design philosophy." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

What Happened After a Teacher Ditched Screens Why one early adopter of computers in classrooms has decided to toss them

"[I]n January, he took the Chromebooks away. He had sensed that the technology was falling short of its promises. Within weeks of ditching the screens, he saw how they had been holding both him and his students back." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Universal design for learning: a benefit, a challenge and a solution Discover how to embed choice into learning in a clear, manageable and meaningful way

"People are diverse with multiple different needs. UDL understands this. A core concept at its heart is to provide multiple means to learn." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

CSU Releases Findings After Conducting the Largest and Most Comprehensive Survey on Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Responses from more than 94,000 students, faculty and staff reveal higher education’s promising yet complex relationship with AI.

"Demand for training is real, and the students who need it most want it most." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu
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America Is About to Be Graded on AI Literacy. We Are Not Prepared Riley: With AI literacy becoming part of PISA, are we ready for this level of embarrassment on the global stage for a technology we largely created?

"What’s needed now is a shared national commitment to AI literacy that creates urgency around implementation and ensures that by 2029, students and educators alike are prepared, confident, and competitive on a global stage." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

When It Comes to Developing AI Rules, Who Asked the Students? Student View: School AI policies directly affect students’ outcomes and futures. To exclude them from the conversation is simply undemocratic.

"These AI policies directly affect students’ outcomes and futures. To exclude them from the conversation is simply undemocratic." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges Resilience is often presented as feats of bravery and endurance. But everyday practices like journaling, drafting a text or even writing a to-do list are manifestations of a capacity to adapt.

"Choosing to write is also choosing to make meaning. Studies suggest that having a sense of agency is both a prerequisite for, and an outcome of, writing." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

How does AI affect how we learn? A cognitive psychologist explains why you learn when the work is hard Chatbots can facilitate ‘cognitive offloading,’ or taking shortcuts when learning. But emerging research on AI and cognitive science shows that learning is like a workout.

"As with other complex technologies such as smartphones, the internet or even writing itself, it will take more time for researchers to fully understand the true range of AI’s effects on cognition and learning." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Too Many Tools, Not Enough Impact: Districts Rethink Their Edtech Stacks QUALITY OVER QUANTITY: A re-examination of digital tools was already underway in districts, as part of curriculum reviews and budget trimming afte

“We’re trying to get much [clearer] about what this is going to address,” says Warden. “What do we need students to learn, and which tools will help us understand where they are?” #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Faculty Push Back Against OpenAI Deals "As higher ed institutions pay tech companies millions to provide students and faculty access to custom AI-powered tools, some faculty in Colorado and California are pushing back."

"More than a year after the California State University system spent $17 million to give all students, faculty and staff access to ChatGPT Edu in the name of workforce readiness, thousands don’t want the system to renew its contract with OpenAI." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

The next phase of higher education will blend digital and human learning AI is transforming higher education with personalized learning, hybrid models, and smarter systems—while redefining quality, access, and future-ready skills.

"As higher education stands at the crossroads of rapid technological transformation, Artificial Intelligence and digital learning are reshaping not just how knowledge is delivered, but how it is experienced." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

The Quest to Build a Better AI Tutor Researchers make progress with an older ed tech idea: personalized practice.

"It’s easy to get swept up in the hype about artificial intelligence tutors. But the evidence so far suggests caution." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Generative AI is most useful for the things we care about the least The technology is always on call and is quite competent. But it lacks the contemplation and attention to detail that yield great works of art.

"The technology can certainly save time, but it does so precisely to the extent that the user is willing to surrender control over the final product." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

What Teens Are Doing With Those Role-Playing Chatbots "There are a growing number of companies offering social chatbots that can act like friends, enemies, lovers, adventurous companions, or the manifestation of a fictional or real person you’ve always wanted to meet. You can pick A.I. Elon Musk’s brain or spar with A.I. Draco Malfoy. The myriad characters, often created by fellow users, offer drama, romance, therapy and LOLs."

"[T]eens who have less social experience, and are lonely, are more attracted to chatbots." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Generation AI starts early: A guide to technologies already shaping young children's lives AI is already in young children's lives. Sweta Shah explains the current landscape of AI-enabled products affecting young children.

"A child’s early years—from birth to 8 years—are critical to development. At this age, the effects of AI—some of which is “invisible”—are especially consequential." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

The Hidden Cost of AI in Schools 6 ways school leaders should adjust how AI is used so as to avoid teacher overload and potential burnout

"AI does not reduce work, but intensifies it. Workers complete tasks more quickly, but instead of reclaiming time, they take on more. The result is greater cognitive load, longer work hours, and expanded responsibilities." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

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A rich conversation with Hannah Jardine about finding a place in the conversation for educational developers in #GenAI in #HigherEd

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AI Agents, slop, and reclaiming the responsibility of learning

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When AI Gets It Wrong: A Pedagogical Approach Discover how using AI to teach critical thinking in higher education turns AI errors into powerful classroom strategies that build information literacy and academic judgment.

"When AI gets things wrong, it creates powerful teachable moments. Giving students an AI-produced answer that contains mistakes pushes them to slow down, test claims, and fix problems." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

ChatGPT’s impact on student learning outcomes: a meta-analysis of 35 experimental studies "With the rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technology, the potential educational applications of Chat generative pre-trained transformers (ChatGPT) have attracted significant attention. However, the research on the specific effects of ChatGPT on student learning outcomes and its moderating factors remains insufficient. This study aimed to quantify the effects of ChatGPT on student learning outcomes and explore relevant moderating variables using a meta-analysis approach."

"The analysis included 35 studies... involving 4193 participants. The results indicated a moderately positive effect of ChatGPT on student learning outcomes (g = 0.670), significantly enhancing both cognitive and non-cognitive skills." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

College students are writing with AI – but a pilot study finds they’re not simply letting it write for them A pilot study analyzing college students’ writing with AI shows an interactive process, from brainstorming to editing the output produced by chatbots.

"[S]tudents appear to be negotiating when and how AI belongs in their writing." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Perfect homework, blank stares: Colleges are turning to oral exams to combat AI Educators are no longer naively wondering if students will use generative AI to do their homework for them. A big question now is how to determine what students are actually learning.

"Educators are no longer naively wondering if students will use generative AI to do their homework for them. A big question now is how to determine what students are actually learning." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Building next-horizon AI experiences "Many organizations are struggling to scale gen AI and agentic AI. But adoption challenges are not technical—they are experiential. Here’s how to design AI tools that people will embrace."

"[U]sers tend to oscillate between accepting outputs uncritically or abandoning tools when the results are disappointing. AI-native experiences must make collaboration, review, correction, and intervention feel like a natural part of the workflow." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #AIEdu

AI is rewriting the rules. Language is following. "Language has always evolved. But this time, it’s being rewired faster than most of us can keep up with, and our sentences are caught in the middle."

"We train AI on human-generated text. AI redistributes that text back to us, statistically optimised and lightly laundered...Over time, the boundary between what the machine sounds like and what we sound like starts to blur." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Is AI addiction a thing? "An article published in 2025 proposed a newly observed disorder called Generative AI Addiction Syndrome (GAID), describing how some users feel anxious when cut off from AI, lose sleep over it, or withdraw from social contact. Is AI really addictive, or is it the way it’s designed that hooks us? As AI becomes more common, these are questions worth asking."

"Researchers define AI addiction by three core traits: loss of control over use, continuing despite negative consequences, and anxiety when access is cut off." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu