AI + Education Insights
New Prompts for Educators
Prompt Library updated with new prompts focused on lesson planning and AI-resistant assessment practices.
NYCPS’s HE3AT Program
This past year, AI for Education worked with a group of high schoolers from South Brooklyn to help shape GenAI policy proposals. We then asked the students to create PSA's for their policies.
Congresswoman Recovers Voice Through AI
Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton uses AI to recover her voice, which she lost due to progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP).
New Release: Claude 3.5 Sonnet
At AI for Education, we love training teachers and leaders on Claude.AI, so we are excited to see the release of their most advanced model 3.5 Sonnet for free! If you haven't tried it out yet, this is why we like it so much:
Say Goodbye to ChatGPT-3.5
ChatGPT-3.5 is finally out. OpenAI just launched 4o-mini, which is a scaled back version of OpenAI's frontier model 4o and replacing 3.5 for all users.
LAUSD’s $6M AI Chatbot Faces Uncertainty
LAUSD’s $6 million AI chatbot, "Ed" faces an uncertain future following turmoil at AllHere Education, the EdTech firm hired to build the tool.
8 New Speech Therapy-Focused Prompts
We’ve expanded our GenAI Chatbot Prompt Library with 8 new prompts focused on speech therapy.
AI Image Generation for Educators
Our latest webinar delves into the world of "AI Image Generation for Educators" and explores how this cutting-edge technology can transform your practice. Mandy DePriest and Amanda Bickerstaff review our favorite AI image-generation tools and highlight practical strategies and prompting techniques.
Getting Smart's AI Resource Hub
Tom Vander Ark and his team have curated the best-of-the-best resources out there from AI Literacy Frameworks for free classroom curriculum including AI for Education's free AI Literacy lessons for 7-9 and 10-12.
Teacher AI Literacy Development Program
AI literacy is essential for teachers. AI for Education has partnered with the Federation of American Scientists in their policy sprint calling for Congress to "Establish a National Teacher AI Literacy Development Program."
Digital Promise's AI Literacy Framework
As AI Literacy advocates, we are excited to share Digital Promise's AI Literacy Framework. Check out the highlights from the framework.
Exploring Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Mandy DePriest from our team at AI for Education demonstrates how the artifacts feature works with a quick walkthrough of a common classroom use case. Watch her create an interactive, digital vocabulary quiz in seconds with no code and only a few simple prompts. Check out the recording here.
Khanmigo for Teachers Now Free
Khanmigo for Teachers, an AI-powered teaching assistant developed by the well-known nonprofit Khan Academy, is now available for free to all U.S. teachers through a partnership with Microsoft. Khanmigo offers a relatively user-friendly interface that allows educators to start using its tools quickly after signing up.
AI Framework for State Education Agencies
Earlier this week the ILO Group released its “Framework for Implementing AI in State Education Agencies” providing much-needed strategic guidance to help SEAs navigate the impact of AI on student preparation for college, careers, and the workforce.
Prompt-a-thon in NYC!
We ran another incredible AI for Education Prompt-a-Thon this Saturday, teaming up with Thomas A Edison Career And Technical High School and Playlab AI to empower students and teachers to learn and create with GenAI in Queens South.
Catawba County Partnership!
We’re excited to share that Catawba County Schools (CCS) has partnered with AI for Education on a three-year initiative to implement GenAI across their 28 schools as part of a competitive, state-funded grant program announced today by the North Carolina State Board of Education.
The New Hiring Imperative
The Microsoft and LinkedIn 2024 Work Trend Index Annual Report is out, and unsurprisingly, AI is rapidly transforming the global workforce. Based on a survey of 31,000 people across 31 countries, here are the highlights, and what it means for education.
U.S. Senate’s AI Roadmap
Yesterday the US Senate released a bipartisan “roadmap” for AI policy and priorities with a goal of “harnessing the full potential of AI while minimizing the risks of AI in the near and long term.” Educators, however, won’t be too surprised by where the focus was, and wasn’t.
AI for Education Act
Big news out of DC as Senator Maria Cantwell and Senator Jerry Moran have introduced the bipartisan NSF AI Education Act that would revolutionize AI education in the US.
Parachutes vs. Backpacks
In Google's pursuit to stay in the GenAI race, you may have noticed new AI Overviews (AIOs) - AI-generated summaries/answers in Google Search results that are unfortunately sometimes laughably wrong.