Artificial Intelligence in Education


Savvas Acquires Whooo's Reading, Plans to Integrate Its Proprietary AI for Better Personalization

Savvas Learning Company has acquired Whooo’s Reading and its AI-driven technology that gives students adaptive feedback on their writing and reading skills and shows teachers where students may need extra support or personalized instruction.

K16, GPTZero Partner for AI Writing Detection

K16 Solutions has partnered with GPTZero to bring AI writing detection to K–12 schools and higher education institutions.

Turnitin AI Writing Detector to Be Available as Soon as April

Plagiarism detection company Turnitin reported that its AI writing detection tool will be available as a feature of its existing products as soon as April.

New Free Tool for Teachers Can Detect ChatGPT-Generated Student Work, Nonprofit Creators Say

Education technology nonprofits Quill.org and CommonLit.org have launched AIWritingCheck.org to help teachers determine whether writing was human- or AI-generated text, the organizations said in a news release.

Meet MathGPT: a Chatbot Tutor Built Specific to a Math Textbook

PhotoStudy, an on-demand 1:1 tutoring solution developed by Hung Tran in 2015, said it can now transform any math textbook by any publisher into a “MathGPT” chatbot that works similarly to the groundbreaking ChatGPT tool making headlines in recent weeks.

Is ChatGPT Writing Your Students' Homework? A New Technology Will Be Able to Detect It

AI writers like ChatGPT can often produce work that is, at least on first glance, indistinguishable from human writing. With a simple prompt like "write an essay on symbolism in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness," ChatGPT can spit out an organized, coherent, expository essay in seconds. And no two essays will be identical.

AI to Experience Massive Growth in Education

Artificial intelligence will experience more than a tenfold growth in the education sector over the next eight years. According to a new forecast by P&S Intelligence, expenditures for AI by schools will grow from $2.13 billion in 2022 to $25.77 billion in 2030.

DARPA AI Adult Learning Tools Competition Open for $750,000 in Awards

The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), an arm of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), is taking proposals to compete for $750,000 in awards to develop projects that use innovative AI approaches, such as self-directed, remote AI tutoring, to train adults for the current and future national security workforce.

Four Key Considerations for Selecting School Security Technology

A security technology executive offers insights for K-12 leaders considering security technology solutions and says schools must make such decisions the way they would with any other business function — that is, they should factor in people, process, and technology or PPT, and must first understand the specific problem that they are trying to address.

Navigating Schools' Liability Shifts Following the Oxford High School Shooting

A Michigan school district is being held legally accountable for the tragic shooting that took place at its Oxford High School last year, marking an undeniable shift in liability when it comes to school shootings — signaling a shift that school districts can be held responsible for acts of violence on campuses, regardless of whether they had the right technology and protocols in place to help staff identify warning signs and take appropriate preventative action.

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