Latest articles by Erik Ofgang
A study conducted by Project Tomorrow found large print books help student readers, even those without vision impairments.
Arizona State University professor Andrew Maynard has tips for educators on keeping up with AI developments and harnessing its educational potential in the process.
Bill Henry, an 8th grade English teacher, shares prompts and advice for teaching English with the help of AI.
A new study of the remembered success effect finds that adding less challenging questions to the beginning or end of an assignment can improve student motivation.
OpenAI’s new video-generating tool is impressive and flashy but needs work before it’s a realistic classroom option.
Google Classroom AI updates and new accessibility features for Chromebooks are among the new features Google recently announced.
Grok — the AI tool from X and its polarizing owner, Elon Musk — offers similar teaching opportunities as other popular generative AI tools, but also has some unique features and advantages that set it apart.
Writing effective AI prompts is an increasingly important skill for educators and their students.
Students learn coding, math, physics, cybersecurity, and other STEM lessons while becoming drone pilots.
ChatGPT has a lot of potential to help educators with class prep.
The one-hour free course from OpenAI and Common Sense provides lots of good prompt writing advice and an overview of using AI as a teacher
Designed to harness the best of social media, Perusall is a digital annotation tool that helps students to complete assigned readings.
The future is unwritten, but these aspects of education are almost certain to see change in 2025.
AI is here to stay, and we need to find ways that AI can help our students while also creating assignments that prioritize human creativity and protect "real" writing.
AI tutors are here, but so far the research on efficacy is mixed. Here is some of the most intriguing research conducted so far.
I used QuillBot with all my writing for several days. It’s a great spelling and grammar-checking tool even if I’m not a fan of its generative AI features.
AI is increasingly be used by predators to connect with underage students online. Yasmin London, global online safety expert at Qoria and a former member of the New South Wales Police Force in Australia, shares steps educators can take to protect students.
Google Scholar PDF reader uses Gemini AI to read research papers. The AI model creates direct links to the paper’s citations and a digital outline that summarizes the different sections of the paper.
How to strengthen your security operations center with student employees and provide them educational opportunities at the same time.
Human and AI chatbot “friendships” are becoming more common. Mental health experts worry they can be harmful but also see potential if these are designed with real-world relationships in mind.
In India, a nonprofit is using a simple AI grading tool to provide feedback to more than 50,000 students per day, providing potential lessons about scalability and accuracy standards in AI grading.
I recently reviewed GMTech and found multiple ways educators might use the tool to prepare teaching materials with the help of AI and to see how students might use AI to cheat.
A professor at Arizona State University is studying an AI tutor designed to help students without giving away answers.
