Teachers Union Urges Schools to Curb A.I. Chatbots and Screen Time

The demand from 29 members comes as the Department of Education is updating its guidance for how teachers should use the technology in their work and classrooms.

Dr Deirdre Hughes says the issue of chronic underinvestment in high-quality, impartial careers guidance across schools, colleges and communities needs to be addressed Alan Milburn’s interim review into young people not in education, employment or training lays bare what those of us working in careers support services have long observed: this is a system failure, not a failure of young people (‘A record of failure’: what’s in the first part of Alan Milburn’s Neet report?, 28 May). Milburn rightly identifies the deep structural dysfunction that has left more than 1 million young people locked out of work and learning – and the stark imbalance between the £25 spent on benefits for every £1 directed at employment support. But the review’s framing of this primarily as a welfare and employment problem risks missing a deeper structural deficit: the chronic underinvestment in high-quality, impartial careers guidance across schools, colleges and communities. Continue reading...

Three years into a state takeover, Houston Independent School District will expand its controversial reform model, which is focused on preparing students for an "AI-enabled world," from two schools to nine.

OpenAI advances Education for Countries, expanding AI adoption in schools with new partnerships, teacher training, and tools to improve global learning outcomes.

Schools can compromise children’s privacy, exposing them to potential identity fraud, harassment and AI exploitation, says Dr Claire Bessant It was concerning, but sadly unsurprising, to read a Guardian article reporting that UK schools are being blackmailed with AI-generated child sexual abuse images created from photos shared on school websites and social media pages (UK schools should remove pupils’ online photos as AI blackmail threat grows, say experts, 8 May). Lord Russell, in the 2024 debates on the data (use and access) bill, highlighted the potential for AI to be used to scrape images from school websites and social media. His comments were informed by research undertaken by Defend Digital Me, which found pupil data in publicly available AI training datasets. Welsh government guidance warns schools to “exercise great caution sharing images or videos of learners publicly on social media platforms due to the potential risk of the content being misused”. It notes that social medi

Schools already know the importance of early childhood education, standardized curricula, data-driven interventions, leadership accountability and instructional time. AI has the potential to support all of these.

The post Labor Unions Join Banking Industry In Opposition To Senate Crypto Bill, The Clarity Act appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Five of the nation’s largest labor organizations are urging the Senate to vote against a pending cryptocurrency market structure bill, warning that the legislation would expose retirement accounts to digital asset volatility ahead of a key committee vote Thursday. The AFL-CIO, Service Employees International Union, American Federation of Teachers, National Education Association, and American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees sent letters and emails to Senate Banking Committee members, according to CNBC, which obtained the correspondence first. The crypto industry takes ‘risks’ The groups wrote that the bill “jeopardizes the stability of workers’ retirement plans, including public pensions, and introduces significant volatility to retirement savings accounts.” “This legislation invites the cryptocurrency industry to take outsized risks,

From Salt Lake City to New York City, parents are demanding more sway over the digital tools that schools give children.