Children & education

Amazon Prime Video has released a new teaser trailer for “Carrie,” the TV adaptation of Stephen King’s classic horror novel. All eight episodes of the series will debut on Oct. 7. The series is a “bold and timely reimagining of the story of misfit high-schooler Carrie White, who has spent her life in seclusion with […]

In just a few years, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI or GAI) has distinctly impacted numerous facets of human activity, particularly in how information is processed and transformed into knowledge. As centers for knowledge (co)creation and appropriation, universities face the opportunity and challenge of navigating a de facto integration of this promising yet disruptive technology. This study examines how instructors and students form their common-sense understanding of GenAI and endors

Teddy bears and stuffed plushies have long been a mainstay in toy collections. But today they don't talk back in a child's imagination --- some talk through built-in AI chatbots. Sometimes that's a problem, though:A scarf-wearing teddy be ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1277#7588)

As a writer who covers baby and kids gear, I'm inundated with emails about the hottest new toys: a box that automatically prints pictures based on kids' commands. A robot with facial recognition capabilities. A teddy bear that can craft end ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1277#7589)

A wave of AI-powered children's toys has hit shelves this holiday season, claiming to rely on sophisticated chatbots to animate interactive robots and stuffed animals that can converse with kids. Children have been conversing with stuffies ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1277#7590)

Amid a flood of toys boasting AI features this holiday season, a consumer advocacy group warns that more must be done to ensure the gadgets are safe for children. Public Interest Research Group, which pushes for corporations and government ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1277#7591)

A string of artificial intelligence (AI)-related cheating scandals at Korea's prestigious "SKY" universities --- Seoul National University, Yonsei University and Korea University --- has sparked renewed scrutiny of higher education in the d ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1270#7599)

Students helped design the A.I.-powered creation as a young female with dark hair and an upbeat personality. Then came the outrage.

Indian Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday in response to rising pressure from student-led protests.

This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. When students return to school this fall in the Salamanca City Central School District in Western New York, a new kind of teacher will be ready to greet them. The small, rural […]

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted two selfie videos on Instagram as student protests swept the country, with the first Reel drawing more than 300 million views in 24 hours and breaking the platform’s record for a single clip. The 75-year-old leader recorded the videos late Thursday and Friday, choosing the short-video format most popular […] This story continues at The Next Web

Mary Derfel, assistant director of early literacy at North Carolina Department of Public Instruction’s Office of Early Learning, recently heard Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen describe the dream that shaped his childhood. “As a kid,” Derfel recalled Hansen saying, “I knew I wanted to go to the moon. What I learned is that I can’t get […]

"¿Dónde se vive mejor?" La pregunta es, evidentemente, subjetiva la mires por donde la mires. Pero en el caso que nos ocupa más todavía: el Índice de Mejores Países de 2026 de la The Wharton School toma como base cómo percibe la ciudadanía de todo el mundo la calidad de vida en distintos países. Es decir, es un estudio de percepción y de reputación de marca (marca = país) que clasifica a los estados que se consideran que ofrecen la mayor calidad de vida del mundo. Este índice clasifica 85 países

Publication date: Available online 23 July 2026 Source: Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence Author(s): Wael Alrashed, Mosab Alrashed

Publication date: Available online 22 July 2026 Source: Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence Author(s): Tian Yali, Tang Mengxiao, Fang Ling Pei, Li Gengrui, Dang Wei

Bills this week focused on how minors — and seniors — engage with generative AI, gauging AI’s efficacy at the VA and addressing a myriad of policy issues.

Background: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in health care, with emerging applications in clinical decision support and nursing education. However, evidence on their performance in nursing contexts, particularly in oncology nursing, remains limited. Given the complexity and high-risk nature of oncology care, it is important to evaluate the performance and clinical relevance of LLM-generated responses in oncology nursing contexts. Objective: This study aimed to compare the perf

By some metrics, things are looking up for the Providence Public School District (PPSD). Students are coming to class more often. Their standardized test scores are rising. And more of them are graduating high school. These are a few of the accomplishments the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) highlights in a 62-page report released […]

BOSTON — Tatiyana Reaves got into trouble recently for writing a one-syllable word — and not the one you’d think. Taking a computer class at her Fayetteville, N.C., high school, she handed in a paper with the offending word: whilst. “[The teacher] called me over, and she was like, ‘I don’t want to see you […]

Generative AI is reshaping programming education, yet educators often infer students' AI-supported learning from classroom observations alone. This experience report presents a trio-ethnography involving two computing educators with different teaching philosophies and one undergraduate computer science student to examine how these interpretations evolve through dialogue. Across three conversations, the educators reflected on students' AI use, discussed changes to programming pedagogy, and revisi

Most educational technology for children is built around visual interfaces, which excludes the many children worldwide who live with visual impairment -- an estimated 1.4 million children are blind and many more have low vision. We present Kutti AI, a voice-first learning companion designed so that audio is the primary and sufficient interface: children learn curriculum concepts through spoken conversation, respond by speaking, and receive spoken feedback, with no reliance on visual elements. Th

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The European Commission on Friday said it found TikTok had not adequately protected children’s privacy rights on its platform by allowing adults to view the accounts of minors. The action exposed children to cyberbullying, unwanted contact and predatory behavior, commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier said. “Children’s content must never be visible to strangers,” he said. If TikTok does not take steps called for by the European Union’s landmark Digital Services Act , “minors are exposed to preda

For as long as anyone remembers, no childcare center on Kauaʻi has had a single opening for an infant or toddler. Not one. On this tropical island lush with vegetation, the childcare landscape is desolate. Kauaʻi is the only major Hawaiian island that has gone without center-based infant and toddler care for most of the […]

Generative social robots (GSRs) powered by large language models offer new possibilities for personalized tutoring in higher education, but also introduce risks related to misinformation, missing transparency, or reinforcing incorrect student responses. Prior work identified knowledge-based design (KBD) requirements that define the informational prerequisites for GSRs to manifest responsible and effective tutoring behavior in higher education. In this paper, we operationalized selected KBD requi

Open-weight language models from different families exhibit complementary capabilities, motivating their consolidation into a compact student through on-policy distillation (OPD). However, full-vocabulary OPD typically assumes a shared tokenizer, while existing cross-tokenizer methods may discard teacher probability mass or assign it to student tokens with unrelated content. We introduce Byte-Prefix Marginalization (BPM), which re-expresses the teacher's next-token distribution over the student

This year, my son’s school sent out a book for the entire district to read, “The One and Only Ivan,” about a gorilla who lives in a cage in a mall on the side of a highway. While the book was deeply depressing, what was even more heartbreaking was the fact that my fourth grader, […]

Sometimes, what matters isn’t your output but what you put into the process. Think of it like work v the gym I teach public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Munk School at the University of Toronto. And it will come as no surprise to you that my students regularly use AI to complete their writing assignments. Doing so is a waste of their tuition money. But if their entire career is going to include AI writing assistants, why shouldn’t they embrace their future? The best way I’ve foun

States are in a tough bind as they contemplate how to address childcare needs. The extra federal money from the pandemic era is gone just as they are trying to swallow higher spending and cost shifts mandated by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which Republicans passed last year. Some states have pulled back on […]

“I think it should stand for artificial idiot,” one 9-year-old says. Here’s why kids of all ages are calling AI “disgusting” and “creepy.”

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3 Programmatic Accreditors Withdraw From Federal Recognition jessica.blake@… Fri, 07/24/2026 - 03:00 AM Education Under Secretary Nicholas Kent said the withdrawals relate to the Trump administration’s higher standards. But at least one accrediting group disputes that. Byline(s) Jessica Blake

Turning Apprenticeships Into Degrees Joshua.Bay Fri, 07/24/2026 - 03:00 AM Michigan’s apprenticeship-credit initiative helps working adults apply job training toward an associate degree and future education. Byline(s) Joshua Bay

PhD student Lauren Fortier is building on the experience she gained operating a nuclear plant for the Navy to solve a critical hurdle in the wider adoption of the energy source.

Educators and students find themselves on the front line as AI labs begin to muscle in, fears about cognitive atrophy surface, and AI cheating detection tools are revealed to be faulty. It is time to arm students with ‘eval’ powers, a professor argues

Anthropic and OpenAI are among groups providing free and cut-price tailored solutions for educators and students

Long-term effects of incorporating the technology into learning are still unknown, but inequalities are emerging

Organisations will need people with the skills to test models constantly against what they actually need