Rick Clark, the executive director of undergraduate admission at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and his staff spent weeks this summer pretending to be high school students using A.I. chatbots […]
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Back to news homeHow Schools Can Survive A.I.
Last November, when ChatGPT was released, many schools felt like they’d been hit by an asteroid.In the middle of an academic year, with no warning, teachers were forced to confront […]
In Classrooms, Teachers Put A.I. Tutoring Bots to the Test
On a recent morning, Cheryl Drakeford, a third-grade teacher at First Avenue Elementary School in Newark, projected a challenging math question on her classroom’s whiteboard: “What fraction of the letters […]
Khan Academy’s AI Tutor Bot Aims to Reshape Learning
A dozen students huddled at communal classroom tables one morning this spring, their gazes fixed on math lessons on their laptops.The sixth graders at Khan Lab School, an independent school with […]
Hey, Alexa, What Should Students Learn About A.I.?
Rohit Prasad, a senior Amazon executive, had an urgent message for ninth and 10th graders at Dearborn STEM Academy, a public school in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood.He had come to the […]
U.S. Semiconductor Boom Faces a Worker Shortage
Maxon Wille, an 18-year-old in Surprise, Ariz., was driving toward Interstate 17 last year when he noticed a massive construction site: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company at work on its new […]
At This School, Computer Science Class Now Includes Critiquing Chatbots
Marisa Shuman’s computer science class at the Young Women’s Leadership School of the Bronx began as usual on a recent January morning.Just after 11:30, energetic 11th and 12th graders bounded […]
Don’t Ban ChatGPT in Schools. Teach With It.
Cherie Shields, a high school English teacher in Oregon, told me that she had recently assigned students in one of her classes to use ChatGPT to create outlines for their […]
Three-Quarters of Teenagers Have Seen Online Pornography by Age 17
The internet has transformed pornography, making it much easier to view and share than in the days of Playboy magazine and late-night cable television.For teenagers, that’s created a deluge of […]
‘Miles Walked, Miles Driven’: This Year’s College Essays About Money
Each year, we seek out college application essays about money, work or social class. Here are five from writers who are now undergraduates. Read More