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DavidPBLRoss
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Former CEO of Partnership for 21st Century Learning. Former Senior Director Buck Institute for Education. Current Gen AI in Education advisor, writer, speaker. Web: www.davidpblross.org/splash
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Teachers: What if your lesson hook could cause a mental itch students had to scratch?
This blog shows how to use AI to spark student curiosity, design discrepant events, and sustain inquiry in PBL.
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How Generative AI Can Spark—and Sustain—Student Curiosity in Project-Based Learning
Discover how AI-powered tools and strategies like discrepant events, Socratic prompting, and curiosity-based hooks can transform your lessons into inquiry-driven investigations
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February 10, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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The Campus AI Crisis Young graduates can’t find jobs. Colleges know they have to do something. But what? Via @NYMagazine nymag.com/intelligence... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #futureofwork
What Is College for in the Age of AI?
Young graduates can’t find jobs. Schools know they have to make big changes. But what?
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February 9, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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ClassPoint AI is an AI add-on for presentations that lets teachers turn PowerPoint slides into live quizzes, polls, and real-time checks for understanding. Windows only. www.classpoint.io #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai
ClassPoint | The #1 Student Engagement Tool in PowerPoint.
ClassPoint is an all-in-one teaching and student engagement tool integrated seamlessly with PowerPoint. It helps educators, trainers to engage students in class as convenient and effortless as possibl...
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February 9, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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What Happened When We Taught AI Literacy Like Writing via @substack open.substack.com/pub/mikekent... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai
What Happened When We Taught AI Literacy Like Writing
Results from a four-week experiment in a Grade 12 classroom in Geneva.
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February 9, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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GovAI is hiring for its next cohort of Research Scholars and Research Fellows. Scholars are one-year positions. www.governance.ai/post/researc... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai
Research Scholar | GovAI Blog
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February 9, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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Research finds AI-integrated coursework strengthens student learning and career skills via @UOPX journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai
Bridging the AI skills gap: A blueprint for future-proofing the workforce by including industry advisory councils for undergraduate environmental science program course redesign - Jacquelyn Kelly, Dia...
This study explores the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) skills into an undergraduate introductory environmental science course designed for non-trad...
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February 9, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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Playlab launches tuition-free “AI Lab Schools” program that will support up to 20 leadership teams over 24 months as they design and launch new school models or restructure existing ones www.playlab.ai/ai-lab-schools #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #Playlab
February 9, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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What the Data Shows about AI Replacing Teachers - check out to the podcast version of my latest blog. notebooklm.google.com/notebook/8b2... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #NEA #AFT
February 6, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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Common Sense Media announced it will be taking a break from edtech reviews beginning this month. www.commonsense.org/education/ho... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #techreviews #commonsensemedia
February 6, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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AI-Generated Student Email is Rampant via @techlearning www.techlearning.com/technology/a... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #studentlife
AI-Generated Student Email is Rampant. Here’s What I’m Doing About It
I’ve been noticing more and more students using AI to generate emails to me. Here’s how I’m handling this unfortunate new trend.
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February 6, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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Microsoft has introduced Elevate for Educators, a new program designed to "provide educators and school leaders with access to a global community, professional development." elevateforeducators.microsoft.com #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #microsoft
February 6, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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What actually determines AI’s impact on humanity? Incentives, value networks, and the forces shaping AI’s future via @christenseninst www.christenseninstitute.org/publication/... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai
What actually determines AI’s impact on humanity? Incentives, value networks, and the forces shaping AI’s future. - Christensen Institute
Understanding the invisible pressures created by value networks is the most reliable way to anticipate where AI is actually headed.
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February 5, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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IBM Opens Global RFP for AI-Driven Solutions Shaping the Future of Work and Education via @IBM newsroom.ibm.com/2026-02-04-i... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #IBM
February 5, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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A beta feature in Gemini is designed to let you move your ChatGPT chat history over, so you can keep working with the same context instead of starting from scratch via @MSN www.msn.com/en-in/money/...  #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #gemini #chatGPT #MSNBC
February 5, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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AI Conversations Are Texts. Teach Them That Way via @substack open.substack.com/pub/mikekent... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #writing #textanalysis
How to Model Effective AI Use in Class (Without Prompt Hacks)
A writing teacher’s method for modeling interactions that transfer.
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February 5, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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Stanford added 204 new studies to its AI Hub for Education Research Repository in January, bringing the total number of papers to 1,027 @SCALEInitiative scale.stanford.edu/ai #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #stanford #research #edresearch
February 5, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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Can AI replace teachers?
New blog post breaks down the real data — from task maps to pilot programs to GPT simulations.
Read why teaching doesn’t scale — and why that’s the point.
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Can AI Replace Teachers? What the Research Actually Says
Using labor data, AI task analysis, and real-world experiments, this article shows why generative AI threatens teaching tasks — but not the teaching profession itself.
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February 5, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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Your School May Be Wiretapping Without Knowing It via @theaireport www.theaireport.ai/partner-colu... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai
February 4, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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Vermont Agency of Education releases new guidance to support the use of AI in schools via @VTeducation education.vermont.gov/sites/aoe/fi... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #vermont #edpolicy
February 4, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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Minnesota School District Pilots AI, Cameras for Teacher Evaluation via @govtechnews www.govtech.com/education/k-... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #teacherevaluation
Minnesota School District Pilots AI, Cameras for Teacher Evaluation
Southwest Metro Intermediate District 288 is in the early phase of testing an AI-powered video analysis system that could help administrators deliver faster, more detailed feedback to classroom teache...
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February 4, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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How Fear Of AI Makes Us Worse Teachers via @patheos www.patheos.com/blogs/jackso... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai
How Fear Of AI Makes Us Worse Teachers
We're in a quiet crisis in education, and it's not primarily a technological one. It's a crisis of fear, especially of AI
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February 4, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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States race forward on education AI regulations despite Trump objections via @thehill thehill.com/homenews/edu... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #edpolicy
February 4, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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AI systems could identify math anxiety from student inputs and change feedback via @physorg_com
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AI systems could identify math anxiety from student inputs and change feedback
Math anxiety is a significant challenge for students worldwide. While personalized support is widely recognized as the most effective way to address it, many teachers struggle to deliver this level of...
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February 4, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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What happens when students believe their AI companions are conscious? From Moltbook to phenomenology, I explore how human-AI relationships are turning classrooms into social ecosystems
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Why Students Think AI Is Conscious: Moltbook, Phenomenology, and the Future of Teaching
As AI companions and agents become emotionally persuasive, teachers must rethink student relationships and what it means to learn from something that feels sentient.
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February 3, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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AI is eating jobs — the UN says education and ethics are the only way out via @unitednations news.un.org/en/story/202... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #unitednations
Can workers compete with machines and stay relevant in the AI era?
AI looks set to be transformative for us all, but it also brings a real risk of job losses and widening social and economic divides. UN experts are focusing on how to manage that transition, to ensure...
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February 2, 2026 at 6:37 PM