As we move through early 2026, the conversation around Artificial Intelligence in education has shifted from speculative "what-ifs" to a complex, lived reality. This collection of insights explores the tension between AI as a transformative efficiency tool—facilitating personalized learning paths in Tanzania and powering high-fidelity flight simulators—and the growing movement to preserve the "human core" of pedagogy. While platforms like Khan Academy and Google collaborate to automate tutoring, educators like Allison Littlejohn and Stephen Downes remind us that teaching is an emotional and cognitive craft that cannot be reduced to a bundle of tasks. From the rise of "Social AI" that manages group dynamics to the integration of Open Educational Practices (OEP), the focus is no longer on whether AI belongs in the classroom, but on how we can develop the human capacities to steer it. Whether it is a ChatGPT-authored argument on school technology or a VR-driven simulation for vehicle crews, the message is clear: the infrastructure of learning is being rebuilt, and the most critical question remains how we define the "human" in a hybrid horizon.
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Carlo Iacono, Hybrid Horizons, Jan 08, 2026 I'm looking at this article with this other article in mind: Agile Learning's Strategies for Keeping AI (Mostly) Out of Your Course. Why would you do this? Here's a fresh take from Carlo Iacono: anxiety about AI isn't universal, but reflects the concerns of a specific...
Open Thinkering, Jan 08, 2026 This is a longish article that begins with the problem of people forming emotional attachments to AI systems and tracing through a discussion of AI literacies. I could follow some digressions here, but better to trace directly to the main point, "How do we develop the capacities...
Alex Sarlin, Sarah Morin, Ben Kornell, Jen Lapaz, Edtech Insiders, Jan 08, 2026 Working with an AI chatbot is essentially a solitary exercise. This leaves the field open for social AI applications, especially in education. Applications include: facilitating group dynamics, matchmaking learners, surfacing...
Allison Littlejohn, National Institute of Education (NIE), Jan 14, 2026 "If we want to know where AI belongs in schools, we have to be honest about what teaching is," writes Allison Littlejohn in this Singapore publication. "Teaching isn't a bundle of tasks. It's a demanding set of cognitive, emotional and...
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Eric Curts, Control Alt Achieve, Jan 23, 2026 Eric Curts has collected more than I recently collected over 40 examples of AI policies, guidelines, and frameworks and uploaded them all into a public notebook in NotebookLM (it takes me back to the weeks it took me to compile and summarize a similar list of...
Alice Leung, Jan 22, 2026 I like this post because while it's very focused and descriptive of one person using AI in one classroom, it doesn't try to generalize and say that everybody should be doing the same thing. Because they probably shouldn't, and not only because it's specific to New South Wales (NSW)...
Ben Gomes, Google, The Keyword, Jan 21, 2026 This article (advertorial) announces Google's partnership with Khan Academy to integrate its AI, Gemini, with Khan's reading and writing coach. Khan has been moving in this direction since forever, so an announcement is surprising only because it's with Google...
Heather M. Ross, et al., Saskatchewan Open Education Resources, Jan 21, 2026 Fresh off the press. Open educational practices (OEP) include open educational resources (OER), open pedagogy, "where students are creators of learning materials and not just consumers", open access publishing, and open research...
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AI generated image, 100% human-authored text Artificial Intelligence has entered the world of education like an explosion, leaving us reeling in its wake. Everyone has questions: how could AI reshape education? What risks does it create? These questions are natural, coming as they do from our common experiences. But what if they’re the wrong questions...
LibreTexts, Jan 30, 2026 I should have covered this last June, but oh well, better late than never. I didn't notice it until it was mentioned in today's LibreText newsletter (which doesn't seem to have a web version). Anyhow, the Forge "is an assignment platform specifically built to advance Open Pedagogy...
Stephen Downes, Feb 06, 2026 This is an early version of an article I wrote intended to appear elsewhere, and the two versions are quite different, and I like this version, so I thought I would post it here. The main intent is to move the discussion toward better questions about AI in education than we have...
Bharathwaj Vijayakumar, Samyukta Alapati, EDUCAUSE Review, Feb 05, 2026 This is a good article that really makes clear a lot of the institutional constraints to using AI. It's presented in a '10 lessons learned' format, and while some of the lessons are useful (such as, "culture is infrastructure") the greater value is found in the contrast...
Edtech Insiders, Feb 05, 2026 This is a report from the BETT London show (formerly known as the 'British Educational Training and Technology Show', but we can't have meaningful names any more). The headlines from this year's BETT were about what you would expect, so no need to linger on them. In this article Natalia Kucirkova argues that...
Juliana Kamaghe, Research in Learning Technology, Feb 13, 2026 If we take this research (14 page PDF) at face value, on what grounds do we oppose the use of AI in Tanzania? "The data presented below, gathered from 120 secondary school teachers across Tanzania, reveal a substantial perceived improvement in multiple...
This article was written by ChatGPT 5.2 based on some prompts provided by myself. See the conversation here. I always write my articles without AI assistance, but I didn't feel like it today, and I wanted to get the argument out there, so I did this while watching the hockey game. I know it's not a fully automated D2L Brightspace coach, but hey, I do...
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