AI for Educators

Today we are exploring an article I wrote for Forbes last week, titled "What’s Really Going On With AI In Schools? A High School Student’s POV." I hope this piece can give us a powerful lens into the realities of AI in education, not through the eyes of policymakers or academics, but from the perspective of a high school student, William Liang, based in San Jose, California.

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Today we are exploring a piece of research titled "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task." This paper comes from a multidisciplinary team led by Nataliya Kosmyna at the MIT Media Lab. The team conducted an in-depth study to examine the cognitive effects of using large language models, like ChatGPT, in the context of educational essay writing.

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Today we are exploring a thought-provoking academic paper titled "A Participatory Strategy for AI Ethics in Education and Rehabilitation grounded in the Capability Approach." This work, penned by Valeria Cesaroni, Eleonora Pasqua, Piercosma Bisconti, and Martina Galletti, originates from a collaboration among institutions including the University of Perugia, Sapienza University of Rome, and Sony Computer Sciences Laboratories in Paris. The paper examines a nuanced intersection of artificial intelligence, inclusive education, and rehabilitation for children with special educational needs.

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Today we are exploring “The Art of Asking Smarter Questions” by Arnaud Chevallier, Frédéric Dalsace, and Jean-Louis Barsoux, published in the May–June 2024 issue of Harvard Business Review. This article dives into a deceptively simple but powerful concept: asking better questions. While it speaks primarily to business professionals and executives, there is a deep undercurrent here that applies just as profoundly to education—particularly in the context of how we engage with artificial intelligence and teach future generations to think critically in a data-saturated world.

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Today we're diving into a fascinating study from Stanford University, titled "Future of Work with AI Agents." It's the kind of research that makes you stop and think about what our classrooms should really be preparing students for.

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Today we are exploring a provocative and deeply insightful report titled Disability, Bias, and AI, recommended by Caroline Keep. The report was authored by a group of distinguished researchers including Meredith Whittaker, Meryl Alper, Cynthia L. Bennett, Sara Hendren, Elizabeth Kaziunas, and several others from NYU and Microsoft Research. It builds on discussions from a workshop that brought together disability scholars, AI developers, and human-computer interaction researchers to examine how artificial intelligence systems intersect with disability bias.

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Today, we’re diving into a thought-provoking article called “Ethics & LLMs: Sustainability” by Dr. Karen Boyd. It’s a piece that takes a very human, practical look at something that’s on a lot of people’s minds lately, how much energy and environmental impact comes with using AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude.

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Today we’re diving into a story that’s probably going to feel very familiar to a lot of teachers — especially those who’ve recently looked at a student’s answer and thought, “Hmm… that sounds suspiciously polished.” The piece we’re unpacking is called “From English to Automotive Class, Teachers Assign Projects to Combat AI Cheating.” It was written by Nadia Tamez-Robledo and published on EdSurge News on June 10, 2025.

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Today we are exploring an article by Jo Ciavaglia for the Bucks County Courier Times titled, "Police: CR student under investigation for alleged AI deepfakes".

Today, we are exploring an article titled "How a Tennessee district is using AI to close literacy gaps," written by Roger Riddell and published by K-12 Dive

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Today we are exploring a compelling and deeply insightful piece written by William Liang, a high school student and education journalist from San Jose, California. His article offers a rare and refreshingly candid glimpse from the student’s side of the classroom. Titled simply as a firsthand account, this piece doesn’t appear in a major newspaper or journal, but its message might just be one of the most important ones circulating in education circles right now. Liang brings us into a high school chemistry class, one of many across the country, where an AI training session was recently held to teach students how to use ChatGPT “responsibly.” From the outset, he peels back the layers of policy versus practice and highlights the gaping chasm between what schools hope students are doing with AI and what students are actually doing with it.

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