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Building effective frameworks could help promote ‘deep thinking’ rather than ‘cognitive atrophy’

Foreign language anxiety (FLA) can be a major barrier to second language acquisition (SLA), especially in conversational contexts. With the proliferation of large language models (LLMs) throughout all areas of life, recent work suggests that interacting with LLM agents can be instrumental within the field of SLA and foreign language education, especially for reducing FLA. Related work also suggests that linguistic demands and task complexity can be predictors of FLA, implying that the use of dem

In this article, we investigate influences of social positionality, designer bias and educational exposure on algorithmic design in healthcare. Against the backdrop of literature on designer bias that points to how it contributes to disproportionate, discriminatory and unethical impacts for racialized and gendered bodies, this study tests this argument with an experiential case study involving Aldebaran’s NAO robot and mechatronics and robotics engineering students at a university in S. E. Ontar

Social media sentiment analysis has become one of the most significant instruments for understanding the opinion of the population in the spheres of healthcare, politics, and education. Yet, large language models (LLMs) remain unevenly distributed in their linguistic coverage, failing to adequately serve a large portion of the world's languages. This study evaluates five state-of-the-art LLMs: GPT-4o, Gemini 2.0 Flash, DeepSeek-V3, Mistral Large, and Claude 3.7 Sonnet on three-class sentiment cl

The AAP’s new guidance helps, but putting it into practice in classrooms remains challenging.

After decades of work and family responsibilities, older Chinese are pursuing overseas education for themselves, but many are finding classrooms designed for younger students.

A dangerous prank involving an AI-generated image of a school engulfed in flames caused widespread alarm in Orlando yesterday, January 5. It is alleged that a youngster shared the fabricated image with emergency services, falsely claiming ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1605#7571)

A fake AI-generated photo of Orlando West High School in Soweto on fire - has drawn a stern warning from emergency management services. Kagiso Phasha from Joburg EMS says anyone who pulls this kind of prank and gets caught will face the ful ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1605#7572)

More than a dozen pupils travelling to school in a minibus died in a collision with a truck in South Africa shortly after the academic year began in mid-January. On the day of the crash, posters circulated online purporting to show each of ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1608#7577)

Background: Children with inattentive attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often present with impairments in executive functions and fine motor skills in addition to core inattentive symptoms. However, evidence remains limited regarding structured telerehabilitation-based fine motor training for these outcomes. Objective: This study aims to examine the effects of a 12-week telerehabilitation-based fine motor training program on inattention symptoms, executive functions, and fine motor

A self-scheduled, prepaid consultation fee is exactly the kind of low-stakes, high-access tool solos and smalls should be able to use without a compliance department. The post It’s Easier To Get Into Harvard Law School Than To Accept A $300 Consultation Fee From A Self-Scheduled Platform appeared first on Above the Law .

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become part of scientific inquiry. Scientists use AI to observe and measure phenomena, to identify patterns in data, and to build models. As AI moves into scientific inquiry, it gains relevance for science education: students should learn how AI is changing scientific practices, ideally by engaging in AI-integrated scientific inquiry themselves. How to design such instruction, grounded in authentic scientific practice rather than taught as a standalone topic, rem

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. It’s not quite the “Mississippi Miracle,” but California’s reading scores have been inching upwards since the state poured billions into changing the way students learn to read. A shortage of literacy coaches, however, may be preventing students from improving even more. In 2013, before California overhauled its […]

Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise for medical education, but most existing systems focus on localized interactions such as question answering or single-turn feedback, rather than organizing an entire clinical case into a decision-centered learning trajectory. We introduce \textit{MedGame}, a framework that transforms static clinical cases into structured, executable storytelling games. MedGame uses a dual-engine design: a Medical Narrative Designer synthesizes case-grounded clinical stor

On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) is promising as it removes the external teacher required by on-policy distillation (OPD), yet it still needs asymmetric information between teacher and student to ensure that the self-teacher provides a stronger learning signal than the student. Existing methods create this asymmetry either through privileged answers or visual evidence. We ask whether both can be removed, yielding a simpler form of OPSD driven purely by input conditioning. For this purpose, we

While large audio-language models have achieved remarkable progress in auditory perception, they still lag behind text-based large language models in deep logical reasoning, primarily due to the scarcity of high-quality audio reasoning data. To bridge this gap, we propose X$^3$-OPD, a cross-modal on-policy distillation framework that transfers reasoning capabilities from a powerful text teacher to an audio-language student. During training, the student generates reasoning trajectories conditione

It’s been a difficult year for Mary Moody, owner of the top-rated Silver Bluff Kids Early Learning Center in Haywood County. She said her business has struggled since federal pandemic funds used to keep childcare centers open ran out in 2025. Moody didn’t want to cut staff salaries after the federal money ran out, she […]

Artificial intelligence is being deployed across the Global South at a pace matching or exceeding the Global North, yet AI governance has not kept pace, and the gap is far wider in the South. Drawing on a decade of AI audit practice across Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia Pacific (the only fully published second-party audit of a deployed system in the region, Robot Laura in Brazil; two completed but unreleased national audits, of a child-welfare risk model and a public-employment matc

In experiential learning environments, Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students often experience ``split attention,'' dividing their focus among tasks, instructors, and access providers. Augmented reality (AR) has been proposed as a means to centralize communication access within the student's field of view; however, little is known about how such systems affect the instructors, interpreters, and captioners who support access in these settings. We present a formative, expert-based evaluation of A

The groundbreaking new board overseeing the Indianapolis Public Schools and charter schools in the city has hired the head of a major national charter school organization as its first executive director. Karega Rausch, president and CEO of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers since 2020, was selected Wednesday to lead the Indianapolis Public Education […]

This past school year, Cambridge, Massachusetts, placed every eighth grader in Algebra I. It didn’t go well. Ultimately, more than 60% of rising ninth graders will repeat the course.  The consequences were immediate: weeping students, angry parents, and roiling debate about the rollout, teacher support, and tracking. Lost in the shuffle was this essential point: We teach obsolete rote math that adults don’t use, while missing entirely the math that defines our lives.   Let’s start

As large language models (LLMs) become integrated into programming education, learner-facing systems increasingly differ in how that assistance is bounded, enacted, and controlled. These governance decisions are often described implicitly, making it difficult to compare systems in educationally meaningful ways. To address this gap, we conduct a scoping review and qualitative synthesis of 90 peer-reviewed LLM-based programming support systems in CS education. We analyze assistance governance thro

You probably know that it’s been a choppy semiquincentennial summer here in the District of Columbia. The National Mall’s murky, smelly reflecting pool and the sparsely attended American State Fair made national news. There’s been less coverage of the degree to which the capital’s bunkered down — fences and barriers have made walking the Mall […]

Black students have been excluded from high-quality mathematics for generations — with dire outcomes academically and professionally, a California-based math equity group found. Just Equation’s recent report, “Calculated Barriers,” notes that while these students make up 15% of the nation’s public school population, they accounted for only 6% of those enrolled in AP math classes […]

Delhi is, once again, host to a large student protest. It emerged in response to a pathetic comment by the sitting Chief Justice of India, and has now centred around entrance exam irregularities and education reforms. As the events are still developing and taking new turns as I write, it is impossible to judge their trajectory. Nevertheless, in this piece, I assess what these protests convey about the arc of a government that has now been in office for over a decade. The post Three Phases of the

Zero-shot summarization using Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly advanced the abstractive summarization task by producing coherent and fluent summaries. However, underlying stochasticity of the large language models raises concerns about the stability and trustworthiness of the LLM-generated summaries. This issue has become increasingly important due to proliferation of LLM-generated summaries in educational settings, where students and researchers summarize complex academic material

Katie stood outside the managing partner’s door like a naughty student. Tim had sent everyone else away so he could have a solitary, emergency brainstorm. ...

arXiv:2607.19699v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rise of generative AI (GenAI) in higher education has prompted urgent debates surrounding academic integrity and ethical use. This study examines cross-cultural differences in student perceptions of GenAI use, comparing responses from students at Canadian and South Korean universities. Using a scenario-based survey administered in Fall 2024, we analyzed how students judged the ethicality and rule compliance of AI-assisted coding practices. Resu

arXiv:2607.19988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative AI is changing a basic premise of educational assessment: that submitted work can reliably evidence the human capacities a credential claims to certify. The challenge is not simply whether students use AI, but what remains inferable about learning when some cognitive work has been delegated to a system. This paper develops cognitive stewardship, a framework for AI-mediated assessment that links the learning claim, delegation boundary, ev

arXiv:2607.20149v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning courses often use pre-labeled datasets, hiding the subjectivity of human annotation. This creates students with an overly trusting view of AI data and models, undervaluing interpretive diversity. We investigated whether manual data annotation tasks teach students about subjective labeling. Study Design: An annotation activity was implemented at two universities: Fontys (Netherlands) and IT University Copenhagen (Denmark). Students

arXiv:2607.20047v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With generative AI (GenAI) entering classrooms the question to which teaching approach best supports metacognitive skill acquisition in AI-assisted learning becomes pressing. In this short-term longitudinal study we investigate two contrasting approaches: experiential learning encompassing hands-on approaches and instructional learning such as classical lectures. We conducted a quasi-experiment with 126 university students from a first-year engin

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang today visited the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, to commission an NVIDIA DGX GB300 system — bringing one of the world’s most powerful AI platforms fully online for the students, researchers and faculty at the U.S. military’s flagship graduate university. “Our nation depends on our men and women […]

DOJ Files Childish Brief, Begs Judge Not To Take Its Allowance: The $1,000 a day fine Todd Blanche would really like to avoid. Heartbreaking: DOJ Lawyers Used To Have To Follow Ethics Rules : While the current DOJ argues that government lawyers should be immune from professional responsibility, over 500 former Justice Department attorneys filed a brief explaining that they never had issues serving the government ethically . So Much For Nothing To Hide : House Oversight threatens Alan Dershowitz

MARIETTA, Ga. — In his first public school visit since taking office last year, President Donald Trump stopped at an Atlanta-area high school Wednesday to promote his administration’s effort to kickstart savings accounts for the nation’s children. For decades, he said, Washington politicians gave young people “nothing but debt,” he said. “The government is finally […]

The Monterey, Calif-based naval command will use the powerful Nvidia DGX GB300 AI supercomputer to train students in how and when to employ such technologies.

A minor who sued multiple social media companies over claims that he suffered mental health problems due to his use of their platforms has dropped his lawsuit against Meta, just days before the case was set to go to trial in California. The plaintiff identified only as “R.K.C.” had brought claims against YouTube, Meta, Snap...

Between the two of them, the couple has four NBA championships, a business empire, flourishing entertainment careers, an Oakland charity and four young children: “The thrive-in-chaos lifestyle is a real thing.”

Large language models are increasingly used in K-12 education, but existing benchmarks mainly test exam question answering rather than understanding how curriculum knowledge is structured and visually presented. We call this capability curriculum cognition. It covers prerequisite chains, concept taxonomies, experiment-concept links, pedagogical sequencing, and visual grounding. We introduce K12-KGraph, a curriculum-aligned knowledge graph extracted from official People's Education Press textbook

On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) is promising as it removes the external teacher required by on-policy distillation (OPD), yet it still needs asymmetric information between teacher and student to ensure that the self-teacher provides a stronger learning signal than the student. Existing methods create this asymmetry either through privileged answers or visual evidence. We ask whether both can be removed, yielding a simpler form of OPSD driven purely by input conditioning. For this purpose, we

Both houses of the French Parliament voted to block social media access for children under 15, making France the first European country to enact a ban amid a broadening global crackdown.