Hello and welcome to AI in Education Daily. Today, we are exploring “How One School Counselor Uses AI to Support More Students,” written by Brandi Vesco and published on GovTech.com

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Today we are exploring "Why AI Literacy is Now a Core Competency in Education," written by Tanya Milberg

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Today we are exploring an expansive and deeply provocative conversation between Ezra Klein and Rebecca Winthrop, featured in The Ezra Klein Show from The New York Times.

Winthrop is the director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution and co-author of the recent book The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better and Live Better.

Their discussion takes us through a shifting landscape in education, altered by declining reading engagement among teens, rising classroom disaffection, and, most radically, the emergence of generative AI.

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In this episode, Google VPs Shantanu Sinha (Google for Education) and Bryan Lee (Chrome OS and Education) discuss the transformative potential of AI in education. They explain Google's commitment to meeting the unique needs of educational institutions, focusing on data protection, student safety, and security.

The conversation highlights how AI is empowering educators by saving time on repeatable tasks to focus on human interaction and building critical skills. Google also aims to drive global access and equity, making powerful tools like Gemini available to all education customers to overcome barriers regardless of socioeconomic status or location. Preparing students for a dynamically changing future requiring adaptability, problem-solving, and critical thinking is also a key focus

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Today, we are doing something different. I was back at Google HQ in Mountain View today and I got to spend half an hour with Ben Gomes, a Senior Vice President at Google. I recorded our conversation with Ben's permission.

In our chat we discussed:

• How AI can help people learn.
• Curiosity as the key to learning.
• The huge changes to Google Search.
• How Teachers will guide AI use.
• Closing the digital divide with AI.
• How he will know if LearnLM is successful.
• How wearable AI fits into the future of learning.

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Yesterday I was in Mountain View at the Shoreline Amphitheatre for the Google I/O conference. I chatted with Sundar Pichai and experienced firsthand the AI tech of tomorrow. Here's my take.

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Today we are exploring a new research paper called "Close Reading as a Novel Task for Benchmarking Interpretive Reasoning". This paper introduces KRISTEVA, a new benchmark that aims to evaluate how well large language models can perform interpretive reasoning tasks akin to close reading in literature.

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Today we’re digging into a thought-provoking piece from The New York Times, written by Callie Holtermann. The article is called "A New Headache for Honest Students: Proving They Didn’t Use A.I.," and it uncovers how students are reacting to the rise of AI detection tools in schools and universities. What’s happening is both revealing and a little unsettling.

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