Issue 2026-W37

Covers:2026-09-07 – 2026-09-13

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AI in education, this week

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Can AI Help Colleges Reach Struggling Students Earlier?

Source summaryCan AI Help Colleges Reach Struggling Students Earlier? Joshua.Bay Fri, 09/11/2026 - 03:00 AM Austin Community College is using artificial intelligence and real-time data to identify students who need help and connect them with support before problems escalate. Byline(s) Joshua Bay

  • Higher education
  • Tools and products
  • Teaching practice

Introducing Claude Corps

Source summaryWe’re launching Claude Corps, a national fellowship program for people early in their careers who are passionate about extending the benefits of AI to communities across America.We’ll teach 1,000 fellows how to use Claude well, match them with nonprofits across America, and pay them to spend a year—full-time, in-person—helping host organizations to advance their missions. Our goals are twofold:…

  • Skills and workforce

"Coder first, advocate second, college student third": The Liminality of Going to College as a Blind Computing Student

Source summaryBlind or low vision (BLV) students are less likely to graduate from college, particularly in computing. Prior work documents accessibility challenges in high school and college, but we lack understanding of the transition process that produces this "leaky pipeline." To address this, we interviewed ten BLV college students about going to college to study computing. We analyzed our data through the…

  • Higher education
  • Research

Alternative AI Philosophy: Daoism as Method for AI in Education

Source summaryAs artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly iterates and transforms teaching, learning, and knowledge production, philosophical reflection has become increasingly indispensable to educational debates that remain predominantly shaped by Western intellectual traditions. This article proposes Daoism as an alternative philosophical framework for reimagining AI in education. Through philosophical analysis…

  • Research
  • Higher education

Ethics Training Agents: Facilitating Group-Based Ethics Education with Role-Playing and Discussion for Ethical Reflection and Exploration

Source summaryGroup-based ethics training for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) students is a complex challenge, requiring substantial resources and expertise. While activity-based teaching methods, such as role-playing and discussions, are commonly employed to simulate real-world scenarios, current practices are often manual and lack integration with effective online platforms for…

  • Teaching practice
  • Tools and products

Higher education advisory board and AI Fluency courses

Source summaryThe choices made in the next few years about how AI enters the classroom will shape a generation's relationship with both technology and learning. Today, we're announcing two initiatives for AI in education to help navigate these critical decisions: a Higher Education Advisory Board to guide Claude's development for education, and three AI Fluency courses co-created with educators that can help…

  • Higher education
  • Teaching practice
  • Tools and products

Anthropic joins White House AI education pledge

Source summaryFollowing our August signing of the White House's 'Pledge to America's Youth: Investing in AI Education', today we joined companies across the country at the White House's AI Education Taskforce event, deepening our commitment to helping America's students build essential skills to excel and lead with AI.Anthropic has made three concrete commitments that will expand AI education access…

  • Policy
  • K-12
  • Higher education

What Children’s Creative Writing Taught Us About Responsible AI Use

Source summaryStory Sprout is a student-run creative writing program for children that leverages AI The post What Children’s Creative Writing Taught Us About Responsible AI Use appeared first on Digital Promise.

  • K-12
  • Teaching practice

With a Thermomix You Lose the Ability to Cook: A Kitchen Machine Analogy for Applications of Generative AI in Education

Source summaryThe rapid adoption of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT has sparked intense debate about their risks and opportunities for education, as well as the ways researchers should investigate them. In this paper, we approach these discussions through an analogy with the Thermomix, a smart kitchen appliance that has similarly provoked both enthusiasm and critique. By mapping Thermomix use cases onto…

  • Teaching practice
  • Tools and products
  • Higher education

Responsible deployment in K12.

Source summaryHow Lynwood Unified School District and Township High School District 211 pair privacy protections, professional learning, and a clear purpose to prepare faculty and staff to use AI responsibly.

  • K-12
  • Higher education

Implementing AI in Schools: What Teachers Need to Make it Work

Source summaryAI implementation works when schools invest in teachers, not tools The post Implementing AI in Schools: What Teachers Need to Make it Work appeared first on Digital Promise.

  • K-12
  • Teaching practice
  • Tools and products

Missouri and Google partner on AI and career training

Source summaryGoogle is partnering with Missouri to provide 1.1 million students free access to Gemini for Education and career certificates. See how to get started.

  • Teaching practice
  • Skills and workforce