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.

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

How should university teaching change due to AI? A professor's job is to decide what to teach and how to present this material. The job of the course structure is to ensure students learn that content. AI presents three issues: the link between performance and student knowledge has been broken, students need to be able to use AI effectively in their future life, and AI should let us improve how much students learn. We need to modify our courses, our expectations, and our evaluations because of AI, but we can do so in a way that makes education more effective than ever.

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…

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.

‘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?

AI Quests

AI Quests: A game-based learning experience for middle schoolers (11-14) on AI. Code-free quests use real Google projects to solve societal issues.

Does AI stop children from learning?

New data show the peril and promise of the technology

From Crutch to Coach?

What a new research study tells us about AI's impact on human learning & skills development