Learning in the Open: What AI Is (and Isn’t) Changing

How Khan Academy Is Building a Better AI Tutor: Our Most Recent Learnings

Khan Academy shares how it improved its AI tutor Khanmigo with faster responses, smarter data use, and better student learning outcomes.

What Parents Need to Know About AI in the Classroom | Stanford HAI

From immersive learning and personalized tutors to lesson plans and grading, AI is everywhere in K-12 education.

Methodologies for Improving the Quality of AI Tutoring in K-12 Education

Many AI tutors leverage large language models (LLMs) today. Given that LLMs are opaque black boxes, robust evaluation and live experimentation to measure the impact of every change are essential. We pioneered AI-powered tutoring for K-12 with the launch of Khanmigo (Khan Academy 2023). We describe the metrics we use to measure AI tutoring quality and student engagement as well as various experiments we have run. We highlight the changes that have moved our metrics, including models, prompting, personalization and agents.

Alex Veremeyenko on Twitter / X

MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students.A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet.Study groups are disappearing.… pic.twitter.com/kSxKk4h06o— Alex Veremeyenko (@alex_verem) September 12, 2026

Children of the Magenta Line

Why minimally guided AI does not work. Chatbots, novices, the automation of learning and the case for Alpha School

AI Literacy Across the Curriculum

As you have no doubt seen, AI is becoming ubiquitous in our lives and in the technologies we use every day. Generative AI is no longer an experimental tool, but a deployed technology in many of the…

Kevin A. Bryan - Eight Rules for Teaching in AI World

Eight rules for how university teaching should change because of AI.

Report

MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training

From Chalkboards to Chatbots : Evaluating the Impact of Generative AI on Learning Outcomes in Nigeria

This study evaluates the impact of a program leveraging large language models for virtual tutoring in secondary education in Nigeria. Using a randomized controlled trial, .

AI, Learned Today

AI, Learned Today is a learning-in-public journal about how to use modern AI through my everyday use. It’s a place to share what I tried, what I noticed, and what I’m learning. Honest field notes from someone exploring the field of rapidly evolving AI tools.

A new direction for students in an AI world: Prosper, prepare, protect | Brookings

This report explores the potential risks generative AI poses to students and outlines what we can do now to minimize them.

Eleven Things I Wish Educators Understood About AI and What it Means for "Education"

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AI Is Evolving — And Changing Our Understanding Of Intelligence

Advances in AI are making us reconsider what intelligence is and giving us clues to unlocking AI’s full potential.

AI in the workplace vs. AI in education

Quoting Dan Willingham: Students should only use AI for things that they already know how to do well.

‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom

Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?