AI in Edu: News, Views, & Moves (May 15)
Google’s Education Impact Team unveiled the AI Educator Series, a 60‑minute kickoff that introduces 31 modular Gemini‑powered learning sessions aimed at reshaping K‑12 instruction. Parallel reports highlight English‑learner teachers wrestling with AI’s scaffolding, equity and overreliance issues, while Eric Curts’ Study Coach Gem lets educators generate a custom AI tutor in under three minutes. Thought leaders warn that the pandemic‑driven screen boom has outpaced pedagogy, prompting calls for selective device rollbacks rather than outright bans. Across the sector, practical AI prompts and new teacher personas signal a shift from novelty to workflow‑centric adoption.
AI in Edu: News, Views, & Moves (May 8)
Education Week identifies a cultural and political backlash against ed‑tech, driven by pandemic‑era device rollouts, the rise of generative AI, and concerns over student mental health. The backlash is reflected in mixed educator sentiment—some see academic value, others cite harms...
From Google Updates to Classroom Practice: AI Videos I’m Watching
Google’s Gemini AI now creates fully formatted files—Docs, Slides, Sheets, PDFs, and more—directly from chat, turning conversational prompts into downloadable resources. The feature’s classroom potential includes auto‑generating lesson plans, rubrics, quizzes, and handouts, though teachers must assess instructional quality. Parallel...
The AI Tutor Debate Is Misframed. Speakology Helps Explain Why.
The recent backlash against Khanmigo has been framed as a failure of AI tutoring, but experts argue the problem lies in the chatbot‑centric model rather than the technology itself. Effective AI tutors, such as Duolingo and the hyperrealistic platform Speakology,...
Practical Tools for Managing AI Cheating in Student Writing
Educators are grappling with AI‑generated writing, prompting a free EdTechTeacher webinar that offers practical tools rather than theory. The session highlights three solutions: Traffic Lite for embedding AI‑use policies in Google Classroom, EduGems’ AI Expectations gem for crafting assignment‑specific guidelines,...
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...
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...