AI in Edu: News, Views, & Moves (April 10)
Gallup’s latest poll shows 51% of Gen Zers use generative AI at least weekly, a level unchanged from 2025, but their sentiment has soured sharply—excitement fell to 22% and anger rose to 31%. The same research reveals that only 46% believe AI speeds learning, while 80% think it could make future education harder. A separate Gallup survey finds 42% of bachelor’s students and 56% of associate‑degree students have seriously considered changing majors because of AI’s impact, with 16% already switching. Schools such as Summit Public are experimenting with AI‑native models and conversation‑first governance to address these shifts.
Keeping Up With 8 AI Tools Educators Are Actually Using
The article reviews eight AI tools that have added significant education‑focused features since November 2025, highlighting how they are becoming embedded in classroom workflows, multimodal, and curriculum‑aware. Google deepened the Gemini‑NotebookLM integration, added audio/video lessons, and introduced AI‑suggested feedback in...
AI in Edu: News, Views, & Moves (April 3)
Gallup’s latest poll shows 57% of U.S. college students now use AI in coursework at least once a week, with one‑in‑five doing so daily. The trend extends to K‑12, where over a third of teachers employ AI for lesson planning...
AI Can Help Teachers Give Better Feedback—But Only If We Start with the Right Problem
Teachers struggle to give timely, personalized feedback on student writing, a bottleneck that hampers formative learning. AI promises to accelerate feedback, increase precision, and ensure consistency, but its value hinges on clearly defined instructional goals. Google’s Gemini feature embeds AI‑drafted...
AI in Edu: Signals & Moves (Feb 20, 2026)
In this episode Tom outlines three emerging signals in AI for education: the rise of agentic AI that can complete LMS tasks, the shift from optional chatbots to embedded AI feedback within grading workflows, and growing concerns about platform fatigue...
Face-to-Face with AI: Hyperrealistic Tutors Are Poised to Become a New Instructional Medium
The article highlights emerging hyperrealistic, conversational video tutors that act as face‑to‑face AI instructors. By combining lifelike visual agents with learning‑tuned models like Google’s LearnLM, these tutors can conduct real‑time dialogue, ask probing questions, and adapt to student responses. Companies...
Face-to-Face with AI: Hyperrealistic Tutors Are Poised to Become a New Instructional Medium
The episode explores the emerging field of hyperrealistic, conversational video tutors—AI-driven visual agents that can engage learners in real‑time voice and video dialogue. It contrasts the old paradigm of static AI‑generated videos with a new responsive model that enables full...
