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 Please add me to those not at all shocked that little kids are finding their way around various kinds of restrictions on school laptops to...

 memo is here Craven has left; Hills now chairing speaking on this, per the memo: Rob Curtin, Deputy Commissioner, Matt Deninger, Associate ...

 New this morning, the American Academy of Pediatrics has issued today their first updated guidance on recess, and they're doubling down...

Is there bad AI news this week? Friends, there is ALWAYS bad AI news! Two things to review:  A paper released by Cornell University looking...

 From recent research from Cornell:  In every experiment, the researchers found that participants’ views shifted in the direction of the AI ...

 Once we got through this year's/week's round of "how do superintendents decide on snow days, anyway" followed by "he...

Rhetoric arguing that technology adoption in and of itself represents innovation and progress is not only false but undermines society’s abi...

 This was released yesterday How great is the clever title? A building foundation...the foundation budget? The upshot is that if Shrewsbury ...

 ...and while I cannot go to the release, some of you may wish to! Worcester Regional Research Bureau and MassInc are coming out with a join...

 ...please be sure and review the results of the recent "Online Experiences and Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People" from The Tre...

 If you've been among those who've fought, these past years, for state funding reform for schools, you may have been concerned by he...

 THERE IS ALWAYS BAD NEWS ON AI IN EDUCATION! Okay, but first some good news: students are pushing back. Can teachers s et up "simulate...

 Yes, friends, there is ALWAYS bad news in AI education! First up, Benjamin Riley is as frustrated as I am about AI in education and this no...

 ...but friends, you are not going to glean them from reading the Boston Globe 's coverage . Please enjoy these lovely flowers from Mont...

 And this week, you don't want to miss:  This piece in the New York Times on people 1 whose interactions with generative AI sent them do...

 MIT's Technology Lab ran the numbers on generative AI's energy use; you can find their results here.  The big takeaway is that we d...

 Without commenting further at this time--though I have many thoughts!--I did want to share two things that I think are below the radar to r...

And I mean that with all the negative baggage that carries, yes. And a periodic reminder that the only person I speak for here is me   xkcd ...

It's been awhile since I posted anything on the WPS budget--we've been sailing along through quarter two here--but there are a few t...

 ...go figure. A new report released this week in the New England Journal of Medicine  effectively used DESE's rescinding the mask requ...