Latest articles by Erik Ofgang
How to Help Students Overcome AI Hiring Algorithms
Whether educators and their students get hired will increasingly be influenced by AI. Here’s what to know about bias and how you can beat the algorithms.
2024 Edtech Trends: Authenticity, Better Tools, and More AI (Of Course)
Looking ahead to see what edtech trends may emerge in 2024
Teaching With the Apple Vision Pro
It’s early days for the Apple Vision Pro, but educators already see the new technology's potential as well as its limitations.
It’s Counterintuitive But Pretesting Consistently Works, Says Research
Research and tips for implementing pretesting in the classroom from Steven C. Pan, director of the Learning Sciences Laboratory at the National University of Singapore
Duet AI For Teaching: 6 Tips from Google’s Workspace for Education Manager
Duet AI is now available through Google Education. Vivek Chachcha, product manager for Google Workspace for Education, share tips for teaching with Duet.
The FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program Could End. Here’s Why That Might Not Be Bad for Schools
John Harrington, chief executive officer of Funds for Learning, discusses Affordable Connectivity and E-Rate.
Teachers Love 4-Day School Weeks. Do They Work?
Four-day school weeks are increasingly being offered as a way to recruit teachers, but the research is mixed on the advantages and disadvantages of the schedule. Now some states are reconsidering it.
The Research-Practice Divide is Real. Here's How To Overcome It.
Easy-to-implement strategies for both teachers and researchers to bridge the research-practice divide, from UMass Professor Torrey Trust
The 2024 National Educational Technology Plan is Out: Here’s What You Need to Know
Released by the U.S. Department of Education for the first time since 2016, the new National Educational Technology Plan focuses on the digital access divide, digital use divide, and digital design divide.
I Created A Version of ChatGPT To Tutor College Students. Here’s What Happened
OpenAI's new GPTs allow educators to create versions of ChatGPT that are designed to meet their needs and those of their students.
AI: Data Privacy Friend or Foe? How can AI be both a challenge and a solution for data privacy?
Teaching Forensic STEM Lessons
Teaching chemistry and STEM by using crime scene-style forensic investigations
What OpenAI’s New GPT Store Means for Educators
OpenAI is making customized versions of ChatGPT much more easily available, including many education-specific tools.
She Wrote A Book About AI in Education. Here’s How AI Helped
Alana Winnick was able to write "The Generative Age: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Education" in under a year because she used AI to make her writing process more efficient.
New Research: 16 Writing Interventions That Work
Digital tools and computer-assisted instruction are among the writing instruction strategies that work in middle and high school, according to a new study
4 Lessons From California’s Teaching with AI Guidance
California is one of the first states to comprehensively address AI in the classroom. Here are some of the state’s lessons.
6 Ways to Boost Student Agency
Advice for boosting student agency from award-winning educator Dr. Krista Herrera
Gemini: Teaching With Google’s Latest AI
Google says Gemini, its latest AI model, can outperform the most advanced version of ChatGPT. Here’s what that means for educators.
Khanmigo’s Academic Essay Feedback Tool Can Help Make Writing Instruction More Accessible, Sal Khan says
Khanmigo’s Academic Essay Feedback tool is designed to guide students through the writing process. As tools like this evolve, they might rewrite writing instruction, Sal Khan says.
5 Tips for Teaching With AI & Digital Technology, From The CEO of Digital Promise
Schools can do more to embrace AI and other digital technologies, said Jean-Claude Brizard, President and CEO of Digital Promise, during a recent keynote address.
5 Ways AI Assistive Technology Tools Can Help Students
The impact AI can have on assisted technology is hard to overstate.
Here’s What We Should Take Away From PISA Math Score Drop, Says Sal Khan
The latest PISA results showed U.S. Math scores plummeting but the real story is both more bleak and positive, says Sal Khan.
Making School Safety Alerts Accessible to All
How one district uses technology to ensure safety alerts are accessible to all
