AI + Education Insights

The Rise of AI Companions & Synthetic Relationships
AI is changing not only the way that we communicate, but also how we define relationships. People, and especially young people, are increasingly turning to AI chatbots and virtual companions for emotional support, friendship, and even romantic connections.

AI Hallucinations Impact Medical Summaries
Study Reveals Frequent AI Hallucinations in Medical Summaries, Raising Healthcare Concerns

22 States Release K12 AI Guidance
A resource to review the 22 state departments of education that have issued AI guidance for their K12 schools.

Chatbot Cheatsheet
Our handy comparison chart breaks down key features, costs, and limitations of popular AI platforms.

AI’s Potential Impact on the Classroom
Bridging the Gap Between Century-Old Classrooms and Future Learning.

Senate Fights AI-Generated Deepfakes In New Bill
The US Senate unanimously passed the DEFIANCE Act, a bipartisan bill aimed at providing legal recourse to victims of AI-generated deepfakes.

Women in AI + ED Community
Our Women in AI + ED community is growing. Join now!

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.