Children & education

Joint statement on AI-generated or altered child sexual exploitation or sexual abuse material by the Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY) and the Committee of the Parties to the Convention on the ...

Knowledge distillation is usually framed as a choice of what to match in the teacher - its logits, hidden features, or sample relations - which presupposes that the teacher's representation has absolute coordinates to match. It does not: a pretrained representation is identifiable only up to an orthogonal-and-isotropic-scaling equivalence class, so a student should learn the teacher's equivalence class, not its features. The organizing fact is that capability is the teacher's output function, a

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The NCA says there is a growing threat of children's images being used to create child abuse material.

I went into my kid’s school a couple months back and spoke to the year group about manufacturing. Honestly it was the most rewarding speaking gig I’ve done all year. It was about the process of making my AI clock and I have a ton of pics from my factory visit to Shenzhen (mostly pics that I have only shared with Kickstarter backers). I talked about where ideas come from and the value of playing around, and how it’s neat to learn new techniques that you can combine together. I talked about protot

We present CAFÉ, a learning platform designed to introduce computer science students to Formal Methods (FM). CAFÉ aims to scaffold students' structural thinking (in contrast with operational thinking) by promoting the practice of Graphical Loop Invariant Based Programming (GLIBP). In the GLIBP approach, students solve loop-based problems by first constructing a Graphical Loop Invariant (GLI) before deriving the corresponding code. The GLI is an informal diagrammatic representation of the loop in

The OECD Digital Education Outlook 2026 explores emerging research on the use of generative AI in education and presents innovative tools and applications that show promise. The report examines the ...

This is creating a gap between how people already use AI and the formal training required to do so ethically and effectively. Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions need ...

Martin Sticker (2026) expresses sympathy for our application of Kant’s formula of humanity to the morality of LLMs (Aylsworth and Castro 2024), but he also raises objections: he claims that the argument rests on an ambiguous conception of “humanity;” that it entails the absurd conclusion that every student ought to specialize in the humanities; and that we should think of LLM use in terms of the prohibition to use others as a mere means (rather than in terms of a self-regarding duty to cultivate

A 12-year-old primary school student with a rare muscle-wasting disease gives his peers and teachers a lesson in resilience.

CSET’s Jessica Ji shared her expert insight in an article published by CNBC. The article examines the House passage of the Kids Internet and Digital Safety (KIDS) Act, a bill aimed at strengthening protections for minors online through age verification, content restrictions, and parental oversight tools. The post A major online safety bill for kids just passed the House. Here’s what experts say parents need to know appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technology .

In today's data-driven world, students often struggle with interpreting visualisations due to limited visualisation literacy. Data comics have emerged as a promising medium to enhance engagement and understanding, but their educational value has seen little empirical examination, partly due to the effort required to create them. Recent advances in Generative AI (GenAI) offer a scalable solution to this challenge. We conducted a within-subjects study with 60 university students, comparing convent

For the world’s poorest people, climate change does not announce itself in parts per million. It arrives as a ruined harvest, a flooded shopfront, and lost learning as children are kept out of school.

What GAO Found Under federal special education law, students with disabilities are to be educated alongside their peers without disabilities to the maximum extent appropriate. Nationally, the number of students with disabilities in the general education classroom (gen ed) for at least 40 percent of their day increased 25 percent from school year 2012–13 through school year 2023–24 (see figure). The largest increase came from students with disabilities in gen ed for at least 80 percent of their d

This final rule removes duplicative and unnecessary sections from the Runaway and Homeless Youth Program regulations. These amendments will streamline the Runaway and Homeless Youth Program regulations to make them more accessible to the public.

Drawn by affordable international schooling rather than glitz, Chinese students in the UAE are quietly rethinking how they see education, work, and future opportunities.

As Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based technologies have been integrated into school classrooms where multiple stakeholders (with different roles) interact with each other, it is critical to deeply understand stakeholder views in the classroom. In particular, prior work has not fully uncovered how teachers' and school students' views might or might not align well with each other, especially in K-12 classrooms. We conducted a speed-dating study using storyboards with 16 school students and 15 scho

Yesterday, EPIC filed comments in response to the California Department of Justice’s proposed rules to implement the Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act (SB 976). EPIC commended California for the proposed rules, which align strongly with the privacy- and speech-protective principles for age assurance implementation that EPIC urged the state to follow in a comment submitted last year. In this latest round of comments, EPIC recommended additional tweaks to further enhance privacy

Google, the New York Jobs CEO Council and Urban Assembly hosted an AI summit for 150 education and industry leaders.

In 2025, an Australian couple asked to have their remaining embryos moved to another clinic, only to discover that the child they had birthed 2 years earlier had not come from their own embryos, but an embryo belonging to a different couple. These situations can lead to disputes about who is recognised as ‘the parents’ in the biological or social sense, as well as who has moral or legal claims to parental rights and responsibilities. In terms of specific legal disputes over custody o

We respond to Gillon’s critique of our data-driven analysis of the history of Journal of Medical Ethics ( JME ), in which we used a topic model to trace intellectual trends in the journal’s first 50 years. Gillon, drawing on his personal memories as JME ’s second (and longest serving) editor, challenges several of our findings, particularly those concerning the prominence and classification of topics such as Ethics education . In this reply, we clarify misunderstandings that le

This is creating a gap between how people already use AI and the formal training required to do so ethically and effectively. Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions need ...

Today, the New Jersey legislature passed the New Jersey Kids Code Act, which prohibits online companies from engaging in data and design practices that harm minors online. The bill now advances to the desk of Gov. Mikie Sherrill. EPIC applauds lawmakers’ passage of this crucial piece of legislation, which features several provisions from the model Age-Appropriate Design … Continued

Washington, D.C. — Today, the New Jersey legislature passed the New Jersey Kids Code ActNew Jersey Kids Code Act, which prohibits online companies from engaging in data and design practices that harm minors online. The bill now advances to the desk of Gov. Mikie Sherrill. EPIC applauds lawmakers’ passage of this crucial piece of legislation, which features … Continued

Amidst the general excitement about the opportunities afforded by artificial intelligence (AI), the tech industry must confront the uncomfortable reality that generative AI also facilitates child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA). This issue remains under-addressed in the literature. Aiming to deepen the understanding of online CSEA and the misuse of generative AI, we report empirical insights from semi-structured interviews with seven UK law enforcement practitioners. The topics covered rang

Effective writing feedback is among the strongest drivers of student learning, yet producing it at scale is labor-intensive. LLMs offer a natural path to scaling writing support, but two gaps stand in the way: few public corpora capture how instructors actually deliver feedback in real classrooms, and no reliable method measures whether generated feedback aligns with what an instructor would write. We address both. SEFORA is a public corpus pairing instructor inline feedback with assignment prom

At New America, our work spans across five issue areas—each essential to building a nation and a world where everyone can thrive. What Parents of Young Kids Want: Insights from the 2026 National ...

This work investigates uncertainty-aware deep learning approaches for direction of arrival (DOA) estimation in automotive radar, focusing on probabilistic modeling and downstream integration. A circular-statistics-based von Mises (VM) ensemble (ENS) is compared with an evidential deep learning (EDL) framework based on a normal inverse gamma formulation, yielding a Student t predictive distribution in the Euclidean domain. The ENS framework produces angular predictions parameterized by (mu, kappa

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Social robots have shown promising potential in educational contexts worldwide, with studies reporting significant cognitive and affective gains when such robots are deployed. However, among other factors, the high cost of commercial robots limits this line of research to a small number of laboratories and hinders large-scale adoption in real-world educational settings, with most studies remaining short-term pilot interventions. Although several reviews exist in this domain, they primarily focus

The legislation cleared the House despite opposition from some kids’ safety advocates and resistance from senators backing a competing proposal.

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly integrated into daily life, with millions now using AI chatbots built on Large Language Models (LLMs) for companionship. Both humanlike AI qualities and user predispositions to anthropomorphize relate to social consequences, such as increased trust, social health benefits, and psychological harms. Populations such as children, older adults, or those with mental health vulnerabilities may be particularly susceptible to anthropomorphism and its

Associate Professor Anna Huang delivers the keynote address, “In Search of Human-AI Resonance,” to a capacity crowd.

The 5th edition of the ECML-EC Summer Academy took place from 29 June to 3 July 2026 in Graz, ...

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On the heels of filing a landmark federal lawsuit against social media and tech giants, Bucks County District Attorney Joe Khan today announced the arrest of a New Britain Borough man facing multiple felony charges for producing and possess ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1562#7480)

Artificial intelligence (AI) is influencing creative work, negotiating not only how artists create but also how they understand their own identity as creators. This study examines how art high school students navigate AI’s role in their creative processes, using identity formation theory as a framework. While existing research primarily focuses on AI’s technical benefits, such as efficiency and productivity, there has been little exploration of how AI alters young creators’ self-concept and auto

On June 28, the International Society for Transforming Education — the organization behind the editorially independent news site EdSurge — released an expanded version of its “ Profile of an AI-Ready Graduate ,” a framework designed to help K-12 educators teach students how to work with artificial intelligence. The updated framework, designed with support from the nonprofit Britebound, goes beyond basic literacy to higher-order skills. It identifies six roles the organization says students shoul

Worried that their children may not apply to the right schools, parents are enlisting application consultants for help — and getting scammed.