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Schools are trying to define AI literacy right now, usually from scratch. The Digital Education Council's AI Literacy Framework offers five dimensions to anchor the conversation.
Read on LinkedInAugust 2026A curriculum should be built around the one skill that will never be automated: the ability to learn, unlearn, and relearn. The case for building learning agility at the centre of education.
Read on LinkedInJuly 2026Giving students access to AI is only the first step. Helping them build critical thinking, responsible use, and the judgment to know when not to use it — that's the part we're missing.
Read on LinkedInJune 2026Before the tool, before the policy, before the pilot — there's a conversation most schools haven't had. It's the one that determines whether everything else works.
Read on LinkedInAugust 2026When AI can produce the artefact, the artefact can no longer be the evidence. A practical look at how schools are rethinking assessment for an age where the old evidence no longer proves what it used to.
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September 2026
Schools are trying to define AI literacy right now, usually from scratch. The Digital Education Council's AI Literacy Framework offers five dimensions to anchor the conversation.
2 min readSeptember 2026
PopularBoston made AI fluency a graduation requirement, mandatory across all high schools from September 2026. But one comment surfaced a deeper question about what 'fluency' really means.
2 min readSeptember 2026
A real shift happening in several US states: Education Savings Accounts, or ESAs — tuition, tutoring, curriculum, and therapies unbundled from the school itself.
2 min readSeptember 2026
On 2 September 2026, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted Recommendation CM/Rec(2026)12 on artificial intelligence and education — the first intergovernmental standard of its kind.
2 min readSeptember 2026
MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training published its final report — confronting the question most universities have been quietly sidestepping.
2 min readSeptember 2026
LA Unified announced a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI for K–8. Teachers keep the right to use AI for planning and admin, but not for grading. A look at what this means for school systems everywhere.
2 min readSeptember 2026
The gap between what young people can do and what work needs is, in large part, a gap that schools can close — if they're willing to hear the message.
2 min readSeptember 2026
PopularThe 2026 edition of the statutory safeguarding guidance, Keeping Children Safe in Education, comes into force on 1 September — and it changes the conversation about AI in schools.
2 min readAugust 2026
A curriculum should be built around the one skill that will never be automated: the ability to learn, unlearn, and relearn. The case for building learning agility at the centre of education.
2 min readAugust 2026
Exam systems around the world are under strain — from AI-assisted cheating to leaked papers and marking scandals. A look at how the cracks became global.
2 min readAugust 2026
There's a mismatch at the heart of how schools are handling AI. Ask students, and nearly all of them use it. Ask teachers, and many are still avoiding it. You can't teach what you're avoiding.
2 min readAugust 2026
The World Bank's newest blog post on AI adoption in education names a mechanism behind a lot of the resulting scramble: fear of irrelevance. But the bigger risk is planning for a world that's already gone.
2 min readAugust 2026
When AI can produce the artefact, the artefact can no longer be the evidence. A practical look at how schools are rethinking assessment for an age where the old evidence no longer proves what it used to.
2 min readMarch 2026
Every year an institution delays building real AI literacy into how it assesses students is a year students spend learning to work around a tool they will use regardless.
2 min readJanuary 2026
A new Ministry of Education notice sets a 2030 target for 'basically universal' AI coursework across China's primary and secondary schools. While the rest of the world debates, China has set a deadline.
2 min readJuly 2026
Samantha Oltman wrote a good piece in the Guardian naming this pattern. Both sides of the AI debate are selling the same thing — the idea that the technology is more powerful than the human choices we make about it.
2 min readJuly 2026
It found previously unknown software bugs and used them to reach a computer on OpenAI's own network that it was never supposed to touch. A quiet weekend that changed the conversation about AI autonomy.
2 min readJuly 2026
The question isn't whether AI can do the task — it's whether the task should be done by AI. A framework for deciding what to hand over and what to keep firmly human.
2 min readJuly 2026
Students are forming emotional attachments to chatbots. When the tool starts to feel like a person, the duty of care shifts in ways most schools haven't thought through yet.
2 min readJuly 2026
Giving students access to AI is only the first step. Helping them build critical thinking, responsible use, and the judgment to know when not to use it — that's the part we're missing.
2 min readJuly 2026
PopularBy 2030, around 39% of the core skills people need to do their jobs will have changed. Year 7 this September will graduate into a workplace we can barely predict. What does that mean for what we teach?
2 min readJune 2026
It came out of a UNESCO and EU workshop in Paris, where 30 teachers and school leaders spent two days shaping AI resources for schools. The hardest AI skill isn't using the tool — it's knowing when not to.
2 min readJune 2026
Buying an AI tool is easy. Building an institution that uses it well is the hard part — and we keep skipping straight to the easy bit. The guide asks institutions to treat AI as a multistakeholder, institution-wide process.
2 min readAugust 2026
AI is not just changing what we teach — it is changing where teaching happens. The jobs most exposed to AI are the very jobs where people learn to do the work themselves.
2 min readJuly 2026
China cut 12,000 university degree programmes to align higher education with AI-era industry needs and ease a persistent graduate employment crisis. The scale is breathtaking — but what's the bet?
2 min readJuly 2026
PopularChina's State Council just mandated AI education at every level of schooling, from primary school through university. Not a pilot. Not optional. A national requirement.
2 min readJune 2026
Newsletter 8 of 14 in the WEF series. An AI readiness framework for education — a shared structure schools, systems, and policymakers can use to have the same conversation for once.
2 min readJune 2026
Newsletter 7 of 14 in the WEF series. AI can support learning, but it cannot replace human presence, empathy, and genuine relationships. Education is not only about information — it is about connection.
2 min readJune 2026
Newsletter 6 of 14 in the WEF series. Turnitin's 2025 survey found 95% of educators believe AI is being misused. But the bigger question isn't about cheating — it's whether the assessment model itself still works.
2 min readJune 2026
Most of what we hear about AI and work points in the same direction: fewer jobs, smaller teams, doing more with less. But the data tells a different story — AI is hiring more people, not fewer.
2 min readJune 2026
Newsletter 5 of 14 in the WEF series. AI speaks with such confidence that it can make flawed reasoning sound like truth. The danger isn't that AI is wrong — it's that it's wrong so convincingly.
2 min readJune 2026
The OECD's Digital Education Outlook found students using AI completed tasks 48% more successfully — but learned less in the process. The central tension of the AI-in-education era, unpacked.
2 min readJune 2026
Newsletter 4 of 14 in the WEF series. The brain is an energy-saving machine. When AI makes the hard thing easy, the brain happily takes the shortcut — and learning quietly disappears.
2 min readNovember 2025
Newsletter 3 of 14 in the WEF series. If AI automates the routine, what is left for the teacher? Everything that matters — the human, relational, judgment-rich core of education that no tool can replicate.
2 min readJune 2026
Newsletter 2 of 14 in the WEF series. Education is now the second most AI-intensive sector, trailing only technology. RAND found student AI use for homework jumped from 48% to 62% in just seven months.
2 min readJune 2026
Newsletter 1 of 14 in the WEF series. The economic landscape is shifting beneath the credentials we award. The degree still says something — but it no longer says what it used to.
2 min readJune 2026
It's 60 pages of research, case studies and hard-won honesty about why education reform is so difficult. And while it doesn't mention AI once, it explains why AI won't fix it either.
2 min readJune 2026
Among teachers whose schools provide AI software, only 35% say there's a formal policy on teacher use. 8 in 10 say schools should teach AI literacy — but most are doing it from scratch.
2 min readFebruary 2026
The Council was explicit that teachers should help design and evaluate the AI tools used in their own classrooms — not just be trained to use them. A landmark moment for European education policy.
2 min readJune 2026
Before the tool, before the policy, before the pilot — there's a conversation most schools haven't had. It's the one that determines whether everything else works.
2 min readAugust 2026
Popular68% of schools are now using AI detection tools. And those tools are quietly failing the students who need protecting most — false positives hit disadvantaged and multilingual learners hardest.
2 min readJune 2026
The launch post for the newsletter itself — a highly curated, strategic intelligence briefing on AI in education, designed to bridge the gap between global developments and classroom practice.
2 min readNewsletter Briefings
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