AI in Education Stories

65 stories covering AI in Education.

March 18, 2026

Front PageSocietyAI in EducationHighWed, Mar 18, 8:00 AM

Accountability Arrived for OpenAI. Nobody Agrees What It Changes.

The copyright suits, the Microsoft tensions, the ad revenue revelations — they're landing in the same week, and the internet is processing them not as separate stories but as a verdict on how much leverage anyone actually has left.

LeadSocietyAI in EducationHighWed, Mar 18, 12:00 PM

Misinformation, Military AI, and Mass Layoffs Hit the Same Week and People Are Connecting Them

Across Reddit, Bluesky, and news sites, anxious conversations about AI deepfakes, autonomous weapons, and workforce coercion aren't running separately anymore — they're converging into something harder to name and harder to dismiss.

LeadSocietyAI in EducationHighWed, Mar 18, 4:01 PM

When Everything Breaks at Once

On a single day, AI conversation surged across misinformation, military deployment, education surveillance, and industry accountability — not because one event triggered it, but because accumulated pressure finally found release across every institution at once.

LeadSocietyAI in EducationHighWed, Mar 18, 8:00 PM

AI Discourse Has Split in Two and the Halves Are No Longer Talking to Each Other

Open-source builders are celebrating small models while political communities are spiraling about misinformation and military AI — and these two conversations are happening in the same 24-hour window without touching.

April 27, 2026

AnalysisSocietyAI in EducationMediumMon, Apr 27, 1:46 PM

State Policies on AI in Schools Are Asking the Wrong Questions

As states from Massachusetts to Texas rush to write AI education policy, the conversation keeps splitting along the same tired line — ban it or embrace it — while the harder question of what learning is actually for goes unasked.

StorySocietyAI in EducationMediumMon, Apr 27, 1:03 PM

Showing Students the "Steamed Hams" Clip Didn't Stop the Cheating

A teacher tried a Simpsons analogy to make AI plagiarism feel real to students. It didn't work — and the admission touched a nerve in a community that's run out of clever interventions.

April 26, 2026

StorySocietyAI in EducationMediumSun, Apr 26, 10:06 PM

India Is Teaching 600,000 Parents AI Through Their Kids

Kerala's massive digital literacy campaign flips the usual education model: children are the instructors, parents the students. It's one of the more telling signs that governments in the Global South aren't waiting for a consensus definition of "AI literacy" before acting on it.

StorySocietyAI in EducationMediumSun, Apr 26, 12:35 PM

AI Literacy Is Circling the Globe and Nobody Agrees What It Means

From a Stanford professor's campus initiative to a new youth center in Ghana's Ahafo Region, "AI literacy" is being declared a universal imperative. The problem is that the programs look nothing alike — and nobody is asking whether they're solving the same problem.

April 25, 2026

StorySocietyAI in EducationMediumSat, Apr 25, 10:53 PM

Students Are Writing Worse on Purpose, and Teachers Are Grading It

AI detection tools have created a perverse incentive: students who write well now get flagged as cheaters. One university writing center director's account of what's happening is the most honest thing anyone in the education AI debate has said in months.

April 23, 2026

AnalysisSocietyAI in EducationThu, Apr 23, 1:38 PM

AI in Schools Has Two Loudly Opposed Camps and One Quiet Question Nobody Wants to Answer

The education AI conversation keeps splitting along the same line — inevitability versus resistance — while the harder question of what learning is actually for goes mostly unasked.

April 20, 2026

AnalysisSocietyAI in EducationLowMon, Apr 20, 11:35 PM

Schools Told Students to Get Answers. Now Students Have a Machine That Does Only That.

A 16-year-old's confession that school feels irrelevant because ChatGPT answers everything crystallized a debate that edtech conferences aren't having. The crisis isn't cheating — it's that the thing being cheated at may have been the wrong game.

April 16, 2026

AnalysisSocietyAI in EducationMediumThu, Apr 16, 1:56 PM

What the AI Education Boom Looks Like From Inside a Classroom Running Out of Calculators

Institutional voices are projecting a $73 billion market and revolutionary cognitive shifts. Teachers on Reddit are posting about not having enough calculators for their students. These are the same conversation.

April 13, 2026

AnalysisSocietyAI in EducationHighMon, Apr 13, 1:18 PM

Sal Khan Walked Back the AI Education Dream. The Internet Was Already There.

The most prominent optimist in ed-tech just admitted his AI tutor underdelivered — and the conversation that greeted that admission had already turned sharply skeptical on its own.

StorySocietyAI in EducationHighMon, Apr 13, 1:07 PM

Sal Khan's Sobering Lesson and What It Says About AI's Promise to Schools

The most prominent AI optimist in education is now walking back his predictions, and the gap between what reformers promised and what teachers experience has never been louder online.

April 12, 2026

StorySocietyAI in EducationHighSun, Apr 12, 10:05 PM

Teachers Are Fighting for the Right to Keep Teaching

A single Bluesky post captures something most AI-in-education coverage misses: the people most resistant to AI in classrooms aren't technophobes — they're educators who see a choice being made for them.

StorySocietyAI in EducationHighSun, Apr 12, 12:28 PM

Sal Khan Thought AI Would Reinvent School. Khanmigo Changed His Mind.

The founder of Khan Academy once predicted AI would transform education faster than anything before it. His own AI tutor has turned that prediction into a cautionary tale — and the ed-tech community is watching.

April 6, 2026

AnalysisSocietyAI in EducationMon, Apr 6, 10:48 AM

Universities Are Telling Students AI Helps Them Learn. Some Educators Think That's the Lie Doing the Most Damage.

A Bluesky post from an academic researcher went viral after landing in the Times Higher Education — not because it warned about lazy students, but because it accused universities themselves of misleading the people they're supposed to serve.

April 2, 2026

AnalysisSocietyAI in EducationLowThu, Apr 2, 8:17 AM

The Classroom Conversation That Nobody at the Top Can Actually Lead

Teachers on Reddit are pushing back harder than ever — not against AI, but against administrators who demand pedagogical innovation without being able to demonstrate it themselves. The real AI-in-education argument isn't happening in policy briefs.

March 26, 2026

AnalysisSocietyAI in EducationLowThu, Mar 26, 2:42 PM

Oberlin Students Just Rejected 'The Year of AI Exploration' and They're Not Alone

A student resistance movement at Oberlin is drawing applause across Bluesky while administrators at Duke sign AI contracts without faculty input — and a PNAS study just confirmed that unsupervised AI in classrooms actively degrades learning. The education establishment and its students are arriving at opposite conclusions.

March 23, 2026

AnalysisSocietyAI in EducationMon, Mar 23, 2:09 PM

A Professor Is Being Told to Stop Catching Cheaters. A Med Student Is Praising Her AI Tutor. Both Are Right About Education.

The AI-in-education conversation has fractured into two populations who barely acknowledge each other exists — and the gap between them is widening in ways that institutional policy has no framework to address.

AnalysisSocietyAI in EducationMon, Mar 23, 8:01 AM

Someone on r/cscareerquestions Noticed That Every AI Doomer Post Reads Like an Ad

A veteran software engineer called out what looked like astroturfed doom-posting on r/cscareerquestions, and the timing — Anthropic's 2026 IPO on the horizon — made the suspicion feel less paranoid than precise.

March 22, 2026

AnalysisSocietyAI in EducationMediumSun, Mar 22, 10:55 PM

r/cscareerquestions Thinks It's Being Sold a Panic Attack

A veteran software engineer called out what looks like a coordinated astroturfing campaign pushing AI doom — and the timing, tied to Anthropic's 2026 IPO, is hard to ignore.

AnalysisSocietyAI in EducationMediumSun, Mar 22, 8:00 PM

YouTube Sees AI in Education as a Tool. Teachers on Reddit See It as Another Thing Going Wrong

The warmest takes on AI in education are coming from YouTube creators, while the communities that actually work in classrooms are grinding through job insecurity, student struggles, and frustration with AI study tools. That gap is the real story.

AnalysisSocietyAI in EducationMediumSun, Mar 22, 2:00 PM

Higher Ed's AI Problem Was Always a People Problem

Across Reddit and Bluesky, a quiet consensus is forming that AI didn't break education — it just made the existing damage harder to ignore. The debate has moved from whether to use AI in classrooms to why classrooms felt broken before AI arrived.

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