Under the policy, schools and higher education institutions can use AI to expand computer science and AI coursework, integrate AI into instruction, and provide professional development for educators. The priority also encourages AI use for personalized learning, tutoring, and student support, including for students with disabilities and those below grade levelThe department said the policy is necessary to maintain U.S. competitiveness, stating it “must provide our Nation’s youth with opportunities to learn how to use AI technology effectively.” The final rule follows more than 300 public comments, reflecting both support for expanding AI literacy and concerns about privacy, safety, and student development.
Monday, May 18, 2026
Bringing the AI-Active Lesson to Life in Higher Education - Adam Stone, EdTech
Evolving from researching artificial intelligence tools to substantive applications of AI, colleges are both boosting student engagement and supporting modern teaching in college classrooms.Across the higher education la ndscape, “we’re moving past AI readiness and starting to talk about how we can activate learning environments with AI,” says Micah Shippee, director of education at Samsung. Samsung’s AI-powered interactive display, for example, can give learners a shared point of focus and empower teachers with a range of capabilities to ensure student engagement.
https://edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2026/05/bringing-ai-active-lesson-life-higher-education
Sunday, May 17, 2026
Artificial intelligence assisted design of a novel cooperative learning technique for higher education - Özgür Tutal, Nature
Cooperative learning has long been recognized as an effective pedagogical strategy, yet the development of innovative techniques tailored to modern educational demands remains a challenge. This study introduces the Curriculum Concept Constellation Technique (CCCT), a novel cooperative learning technique developed with the support of artificial intelligence (AI). The CCCT employs a metaphorical and visual approach, wherein students collaboratively map key curriculum concepts into visual ‘constellations,’ (Throughout this manuscript, references to ‘constellations’ should be understood as a pedagogical metaphor for conceptual relationships, not as an astronomical or literal representation)—a metaphor representing how individual ideas (like stars) interconnect to form meaningful patterns. This approach fosters deeper conceptual understanding through creativity, role-based collaboration, and peer interaction.
Nature Retracts Oft-Cited Paper on Positive Impact of ChatGPT - GovTech
A widely read and frequently cited 2025 meta-analysis of 51 studies, which found positive effects of ChatGPT in education settings, has been retracted due to uncertainties about the studies and conclusions. A 2025 research paper finding substantial positive effects of ChatGPT on student learning outcomes was retracted last month, with the publishing journal Nature saying discrepancies “undermine the confidence the editor can place in the validity of the analysis and resulting conclusions.” The paper, The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis, reviewed findings from 51 research studies published between November 2022 and February 2025.
Saturday, May 16, 2026
The Secret to Understanding AI “Imagine the tech without the tech companies.” - Josh Tyrangiel, the Atlantic
Yet for all of the noise, a simple question stayed unanswered: What exactly was this new technology going to do for people? Not for corporations or the billionaires who aspired to become trillionaires, but for people with mortgages and sick parents and children struggling to learn things. Answers, when they came, were either so enormous as to be meaningless or so specific as to seem beside the point: AI would cure cancer and write your text messages
Rewiring for AI: From ambition to advantage - Lucia Rahilly and Roberta Fusaro, McKinsey Podcast
Companies chase AI everywhere but often fail to capture value—because they’re missing the muscle to scale what works. As generative and agentic AI reshape how work gets done, the real divide isn’t who has the best ideas—it’s who can turn them into real results at speed and scale. In this episode of The McKinsey Podcast, McKinsey Senior Partners Kate Smaje and Robert Levin speak to Global Editorial Director Lucia Rahilly about the updated Rewired playbook—and why winning with AI now depends less on ambition and more on building the organizational capabilities to deliver.
Friday, May 15, 2026
Canvas owner confirms cybersecurity incident - Anna Merod, Higher Ed Dive
Ed tech company Instructure said the data breach affected user names, messages and email addresses, as well as student ID numbers. A recent cybersecurity attack on Instructure exposed certain student information, the ed tech company confirmed in a May 1 status update. The following day, it said it believes the incident has been contained. Information impacted by the data breach includes messages between users, names, email addresses and student ID numbers, according to Instructure. The company said no passwords, dates of birth, government identifiers or financial information were believed to have been compromised as of May 2. While Instructure said it is actively investigating the incident alongside forensics experts, the company has not disclosed how many school districts were affected.
UNESCO and Tec Launch Regional Observatory on the Benefits and Risks of AI in Education - Ricardo Treviño, TecScience
Artificial intelligence is already being used as a tool in classrooms, but it can be a double-edged sword: either accelerating learning or exposing deep inequalities. Through the observatory, the goal is to promote evidence-based public policies that support the responsible and effective use of AI in the region’s educational systems. The observatory will conduct an assessment of AI use in education to generate evidence that can help shape public policy design. One of the observatory’s first ambitions is to reach more than 250,000 teachers across the region. During its first year of operation, the observatory will organize working groups to define impact measurement models.
Thursday, May 14, 2026
One New Thing: Campus Libraries Become AI Hubs - B. Navarre, US News
Alina Tugend is an award-winning education reporter. Here is her latest rave on an EdTech innovation: Campus libraries are becoming the go-to place for helping students, faculty and researchers learn about artificial intelligence and how to best integrate it into their work. For example, the libraries at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Oklahoma both provide AI “sandboxes” – shared virtual spaces for experimentation and education about various AI tools with ongoing support. This year, the University of Virginia launched its AI Literacy and Action Lab, developed in partnership with the university’s library. The lab is based on a framework created by Leo S. Lo, UVA’s new university librarian and dean of libraries, that integrates technical knowledge, ethical awareness, critical thinking, practical use and societal impact.
Chico State’s 2026-27 Book in Common to Tackle Artificial Intelligence - Chico State
The AI Con is a thought-provoking work examining the rise of artificial intelligence and its far-reaching impacts on society, education and the economy. The selection comes amid heightened interest and debate surrounding AI technologies, including within higher education. Co-authored by a University of Washington linguistics professor and a former Google employee, the book takes a critical look at artificial intelligence, exploring how it functions, the realities behind its rapid expansion, and the social, ethical and environmental implications of its use. Topics include the influence of AI on jobs and creative industries, concerns about academic integrity, and the environmental costs associated with large-scale data centers. “AI is now part of nearly every aspect of our lives,” Mahlis said. “This book helps readers understand not just what AI does, but how it works, and encourages us to question both the hype and the real consequences.”
https://today.csuchico.edu/chico-states-2026-27-book-in-common-to-tackle-artificial-intelligence/
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Leadership Vision of the COLO to Shape Higher Ed Future? - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
The chief online learning officers at colleges and universities are increasingly charting the future of teaching and learning. We are now on the cusp of a significant adjustment in the model of higher education. Who else within the institution’s administration has the combination of technological, pedagogical and innovative knowledge and experience to lead us into the future? The COLO’s knowledge of advanced technologies coupled with the experience of overseeing the application of the vast array of online technologies as they have evolved over the past 30 years is the combination we need to succeed. Our chief online learning officers bring credibility and sagacity to the table in leading us while making this critically important next step in enhancing online learning in higher education.
Instructure Pays Ransom to Canvas Hackers - Kathryn Palmer, Inside Higher Ed
Although the monetary value of the deal is unknown, Instructure says the cybercriminals have returned the hacked personal data and offered assurance “that no Instructure customers will be extorted as a result of this incident.” Instructure has paid a ransom to a gang of cybercriminals that have twice hacked the company’s learning management system, Canvas, over the past week and a half. According to an update published by the education-technology company Monday night, the deal means that the hackers have returned the compromised data of some 275 million users across more than 8,800 institutions.
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Global infrastructure’s inflection poin - Alistair Green, ReThink McKinsey
Infrastructure is a crucial component of economic growth. Reliable transport, logistics, energy, communications, and other critical building blocks are vital to keep industries running. But much of the world’s infrastructure is getting old and outmoded and is no longer suited for the challenges ahead. Many systems that were built decades ago are nearing the end of their lifespans. Even newer infrastructure can come under pressure from shifting population dynamics, climate volatility, or digital disruption. Growing urbanization, geopolitical shifts, and the arrival of new technologies are revealing the limits of existing infrastructure systems.Meanwhile, what we call “infrastructure” is changing. For decades, this term referred mostly to traditional assets such as roads, bridges, ports, and power grids. Today, the definition of infrastructure is expanding to include tech-driven prerequisites for modern growth, such as hyperscale data centers, fiber networks, and electric-vehicle-charging stations.
AI Outperforms ER Doctors in Diagnostic Cases, Study Points to Collaborative Care - Macy Meyer, CNN
The study, published in the journal Science, found that a state-of-the-art large language model outperformed human doctors on a range of common clinical tasks. Using real emergency department data and hundreds of physician comparisons, the model matched or even exceeded human clinician performance in diagnostic choices, emergency triage and determining next steps in management. The authors of the study said those results do not mean AI models are ready to replace human doctors. Instead, the results indicate that industry professionals need faster, more rigorous standards for evaluation and rules for using AI in medicine.
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