Latest articles by Erik Ofgang
Some students are interacting with AI in place of a friend or even a therapist. A new online course helps educators learn how to recognize the signs of dangerous AI use from their students.
Goosechase is a digital tool that helps students learn through scavenger hunts
Educators have many ways that they can help their students prepare for roles in the coming quantum computing revolution.
Book Creator is a free tool that allows users to create multimedia ebooks
These are common mistakes for those new to the teaching profession, but are easy to overcome.
Speaker Coach, the AI-powered presentation tool built into PowerPoint, is not fun to use, but it could help me get better at giving presentations.
AI cheating will decrease, the techlash will continue and other predictions for the coming school year.
Veterans and active-duty military members together make up about 5% of college students in the U.S. Educator and retired Major General Matt Smith shares tips for connecting with these students.
One of the best deep research AI tools we’ve come across, CoChat acts as a lightning-fast research assistant.
Dabble is a writing tool that helps users organize, save, and produce long writing drafts, and is perfect for thesis projects, novels, and more.
From grading to lesson creation, these are some of the times when educators are finding it is best for them and their students to do things the old-fashioned way
Hopefully, Ted Lasso is not all that you get, but the optimistic soccer coach does model some good behavior for teachers.
Gemini’s new learning mode is built on educational science, and that helps set it apart from some of the competition in our tests.
A professor at the University of South Florida created this library of education-centric AI tools that is free for teachers.
Copilot’s Study and Learn agent refuses to be an answer machine for students and is designed to facilitate learning instead
If you're new to teaching, it particularly helps to remember that you’re not the only one navigating some difficult waters.
With a major new film adaptation on the way, the leading modern Odyssey translator shares her tips for teaching Homer’s beloved epic.
A new study suggests that critical thinking can be taught when the right strategies are in place.
The conversation around AI in schools is changing almost as rapidly as the technology. Here are some recent trends.
Scite is an AI-powered research assistant tool designed to help make academic research more efficient -- and largely succeeds at that goal.
AI plagiarism is becoming more and more common in and outside of the classroom.
As more of my students have submitted AI-generated work, I’ve gotten better at recognizing it.
Health sciences professor Humberto López Castillo urges students to use AI to help with science research, but never to lose sight of the human element.
