Issue 2026-W40

Covers:2026-09-28 – 2026-10-04

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AI in education, this week

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Anthropic invests $100 million to train 10,000 engineers and tackle the enterprise AI talent gap

Source summaryThe first-of-its-kind Academy trains Frontier Deployed Engineers using the same standard of skills as Anthropic’s own engineers, starting with cohorts from Accenture, Bain, Capgemini, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Deloitte, McKinsey, Morgan Stanley, Novo Nordisk and others.Today we are launching Claude Frontier Academy to solve one of the most pressing issues in AI implementation: talent.…

  • Skills and workforce

Five Ways Khan Academy Is Making Student Practice More Motivating

Source summaryPractice is one of the most powerful ways students build real understanding. But every teacher knows that getting ... Read more The post Five Ways Khan Academy Is Making Student Practice More Motivating appeared first on Khan Academy Blog.

  • Tools and products
  • Teaching practice

3 Questions: A new resource to empower young entrepreneurs

Source summaryMartin Trust Center Managing Director Bill Aulet introduces Dear Dreamer, a free platform for middle and high school students who want to learn about entrepreneurship.

  • Tools and products
  • K-12

Designing for Interpretation Uncertainty: Architecture and Principles for Topological Learning Analytics Dashboards

Source summaryTopological Data Analysis (TDA) offers novel methods for understanding temporal dynamics in complex systems, yet its application in information systems design faces a fundamental challenge: how should systems present analytical outputs when interpretation frameworks are still developing? This paper reports on the development of TopoLA, a dashboard system applying Zigzag Persistent Homology to…

  • Higher education
  • Tools and products
  • Research

Scaling Peer Assessments: An Integrity Report from a Large Engineering Internship

Source summaryAssessing learning in large classrooms presents a significant challenge for individual instructors, who may have limited capacity to evaluate the understanding, participation, and assessment behaviour of every student. Peer assessments have been a way of distributing this responsibility among learners, allowing them to evaluate and provide feedback to one another while reducing dependence on…

  • Higher education
  • Academic integrity
  • Teaching practice

Who Thinks First? Designing Productive Friction with Engage-to-Unlock GenAI

Source summaryGenerative AI can support writing, but frictionless access may cause cognitive offloading before users develop their own ideas. We introduce Engage-to-Unlock, a productive-friction mechanism that unlocks generative capabilities after users meaningfully engage with the task. In a controlled experiment (N = 398), participants completed a writing task under one of four conditions: Human-Only,…

  • Teaching practice
  • Tools and products
  • Higher education

WIP: DBWorkout: A Gamified SQL Practice Platform to Support Formative Learning in Database Courses

Source summaryThis research WIP paper presents DBWorkout, a web-based platform that supports formative SQL learning through sandbox-based execution, automated result-based feedback, and session-based gamification. Learning Structured Query Language (SQL) remains challenging for undergraduate students due to limited opportunities for interactive practice and immediate feedback. Students iteratively practice SQL…

  • Higher education
  • Teaching practice
  • Tools and products

1,400 educators joined our Badge-a-thon: Day of AI Learning.

Source summary1,400 educators earned 4,000+ digital badges at the Google Badge-a-thon. Watch the on-demand sessions on YouTube and claim your first badge today.

  • Tools and products
  • Teaching practice

What AIMS EduData Cohort 1 Learned About Teachers and Students

Source summaryThe AIMS EduData grantee cohort shared research findings at a summer convening The post What AIMS EduData Cohort 1 Learned About Teachers and Students appeared first on Digital Promise.

  • Research
  • Teaching practice

Supporting AI readiness in higher education

Source summaryAt the EDUCAUSE annual conference, Google.org announced its support of three higher education initiatives to scale ethical AI readiness, modernize institutional planning…

  • Higher education

Can Schools Trust AI Features in Edtech Products?

Source summaryIn this episode of This Week with EdSurge, two former educators join to discuss EdReport's recent brief and explain why it is so important to verify ...

  • K-12
  • Tools and products
  • Policy

Higher education’s AI advantage is the intelligence institutions already hold

Source summaryThe institutions that lead the next phase of AI will connect the intelligence they hold to AI in ways that are secure, governed, and actionable. The post Higher education’s AI advantage is the intelligence institutions already hold appeared first on Microsoft Education Blog.

  • Higher education