k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Technology has permeated every facet of our lives, making many tasks easier, and even doing some of our work for us. Now, educators are trying to navigate the ethical use of artificial intelligence in the field. Teachers are constantly battling for students attention, often losing that battle to smart phones.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2025

But as these tools become more common in schools, serious questions about their legal impact arise. Many educators and administrators feel unprepared to manage these legal and ethical challenges effectively. Managing these issues proactively safeguards schools and promotes the ethical use of AI.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Nam is the co-founder of the Vietnam Innovative Educators Foundation (VIEF), a professional network of over 157,000 educators committed to advancing technology-enhanced and student-centered teaching practices nationwide. In a recent interview with K12 Digest, Nam Ngo Thanh discussed his experience with technology, innovation, and education.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

In a digitally-driven world, artificial intelligence (AI) has become the latest technology that either will save or doom the planet depending on who you speak with. Artificial intelligence is no different, but how can we ease the minds of those educators who have trouble embracing the newest innovation in emerging technologies?

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 26, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are increasingly prevalent in higher education, raising questions about how students can engage with AI meaningfully. Moreover, effective prompting can highlight ethical concerns, such as AI bias and misinformation, which promotes digital literacy (Kasneci et al.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2025

So, in 2019, when I found out that a former manager of mine was starting a school that answered the same questions that plagued me, I knew I wanted in. By asking these questions, we instill the importance of decision-making skills in students and a sense of responsibility for their learning that traditional school models otherwise lack.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

The key question is: how can we transform AI from a potential source of plagiarism into a valuable educational resource? This allows educators to gain insights from students interactions with these technologies, fostering a deeper understanding of their applications and promoting ethical use.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

In a digitally-driven world, artificial intelligence (AI) has become the latest technology that either will save or doom the planet depending on who you speak with. Artificial intelligence is no different, but how can we ease the minds of those educators who have trouble embracing the newest innovation in emerging technologies?

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 26, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are increasingly prevalent in higher education, raising questions about how students can engage with AI meaningfully. Moreover, effective prompting can highlight ethical concerns, such as AI bias and misinformation, which promotes digital literacy (Kasneci et al.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Technology has permeated every facet of our lives, making many tasks easier, and even doing some of our work for us. Now, educators are trying to navigate the ethical use of artificial intelligence in the field. Teachers are constantly battling for students attention, often losing that battle to smart phones.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

Balch & Blanck, 2025; Butulis, 2023; Parks & Oslick, 2024) and to provide their students with instruction and practice in using AI in productive and ethical ways (e.g., Why College Instructors Matter: A Student’s Perspective I had a conversation with one of my students recently about this exact question. Schoeder, 2024).

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

Imagine youre a ninth grader navigating a world where generative AI, agentic AI and other emerging technologies dominate the headlines. How can we ensure that all students develop the computing skills and knowledge necessary to thrive in an increasingly technology-driven workforce? Computer science is essential, not optional.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2025

Schools across the country are racing to integrate artificial intelligence into classrooms, but the real challenge isnt just adopting the technology its making sure it works for all students. As districts explore AIs potential, they must also confront critical questions about equity, algorithmic bias and access.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2025

In fact, the answer to the question… “What online images can I use?” Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This project started with a deceptively simple question: What arent our students telling us? I wanted to change thatnot just by asking better questions, but by building an open-access platform that would amplify student voices and inform actionable change. Not because they lacked courage, but because they didnt feel invited to speak.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2025

Their mission is to ensure every student is “ AI ready ” — prepared to use emerging technologies, like generative AI, in an ethical and responsible manner in school, life and future work, regardless of where those careers take them. These factors influenced the types of questions used.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

But the technology offers only a shadow of accurate detection: It highlights any matching text, whether properly cited or not; it flags everything that mirrors AI’s writing style, whether a student used AI inappropriately or not. He said $15 million is a lot of money to spend on a tool with such limited value. I trust you.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 8, 2025

In our Day 1 workshop, we will use the free 4 Shifts Protocol to redesign lessons, units, and other instructional activities for critical thinking and problem solving, greater student agency, more real-world authentic work, and robust technology infusion.

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Elevate k12

JULY 3, 2025

Oversight for Special Education is shifting to the Department of Health and Human Services, raising urgent questions about IDEA enforcement and IEP accountability. That plan is now in question due to visa bottlenecks and federal review protocols ( Chalkbeat , EdWeek ). Domestic pipelines are shrinking too. Fewer teachers. Less funding.

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eSchool News

MAY 23, 2025

As part of the course, students use artificial intelligence tools often viewed in a negative light due to privacy and other technical concerns to explore their career interests and better understand how technology could shape the workforce. That could potentially lead towards higher earnings for them too, Ma said.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 19, 2025

Our questions at the time were as follows: Will I need to find work in another state? These diversified interests may create new possibilities in state government policy development, technology, or research efforts. Finally, let your work and research ethic at your current institution be outstanding. The death was sure to come.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 19, 2025

Our questions at the time were as follows: Will I need to find work in another state? These diversified interests may create new possibilities in state government policy development, technology, or research efforts. Finally, let your work and research ethic at your current institution be outstanding. The death was sure to come.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

In todays technology-rich classrooms, digital literacy is becoming a foundational skill–students are learning to navigate devices, use educational software, and collaborate online. But as we prepare students for the future, its no longer enough for them to simply use technology. And it doesnt require a separate course.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

On the 6th Day of Edtech, our story focuses on ethical AI use. As AI evolves to become an ever-present part of education, there must be a systemic imperative for K-12 school districts to cultivate an ethically-driven mindset. Join eSchool News for the 12 Days of Edtech with 2024s most-read and most-loved stories.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2024

As AI evolves to become an ever-present part of education, there must be a systemic imperative for K-12 school districts to cultivate an ethically-driven mindset. Our AI guiding principles started this process of building an ethical AI mindset, which provided pathways to critically question AI in our system.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2023

Transhumanism, a philosophy advocating for human augmentation through emerging technologies like AI, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology, is shaping a new educational frontier. As artificial limbs made of carbon fiber potentially outpace natural ones, we must ask: In education, is it ethical to embrace such technological enhancements?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Once imagined only in science fiction, artificial intelligence now powers much of the technology we interact with every day—from smart home devices to cognitive assistants to media recommenders. The field of education is no less affected by these technologies. Furthermore, educators are not the only ones using AI technologies.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Walberto Flores EdTech Coordinator, Highlands International School San Salvador Artificial intelligence has entered our classrooms — sometimes invited and other times not — leaving educators to ask essential questions about its implementation and impact. Walberto Flores: How might we redefine teaching and learning?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

With education hanging in the balance, the question looms: Could AI be the answer? AI offers the potential for virtual tutoring, a helper that can answer students’ questions, guide them through assignments, and provide targeted feedback without requiring the teacher’s constant input.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It’s also somewhat eclipsed conversations about the ethics of how these tools are implemented, according to one observer. And the decisions those teachers make may be influenced by factors like how familiar they are with the technology or even what gender they are, according to a new study. The main findings?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 2, 2024

Let’s find out the truth through the Ask a Tech Teacher team: Ethics and the Use of AI in Essays AI-driven tools and their use in creative writing, specifically with the purpose of writing essays, have long been a subject of heated debate. There are several key questions that bother students who are seeking help.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

That’s the ethics debate playing out in one online educator space , a lively back-and-forth carried over from a recent workshop on educational A/B testing. Those questions were posed in the thread by Collin Lynch, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. “A/B How Harmless?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2021

You likely had a stronger reaction to the second question. Emerging technologies like synthetic biology are all around us and at varying degrees of development and dissemination. Some instances of scientists or technologists going too far or misusing technology reach the mainstream media and make headlines. But by and for who?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2019

Formulating a product, you better know about ethics and understand legal frameworks.” Madsen recently tweeted his frustration, spurring a conversation about ethics in data science curriculum, what’s missing, and where programs are already working to fill in the gap. Research ethics is baked in throughout the curriculum,” Hale explains.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Key points: Technology works in service of teaching, not the other way around Teaching ethical edtech for future innovators Leveraging edtech to help students, teachers stay connected through illness For more news on AI, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Artificial intelligence brings opportunities and questions to classrooms worldwide.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2022

But when it comes to ethical monitoring—concerned with how school systems set up their digital classroom management tools and teachers use them—we hear far too little. If we truly expect learners to develop those desired digital citizenship skills, educators must first become ethical monitors of their students’ online activity.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Chip Donohue is the founding director of the Technology in Early Child Center at Erikson Institute, and a senior fellow at the Fred Rogers Center. It is important to note that none of these technologies were originally designed for young children.

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