I’ve said it before and been proved wrong but I think that we are moving towards an understanding about the impact of AI on education or more precisely on learning. There is a growing understanding that while Generative AI chatbots are good at supporting performance they are not effective in supporting learning. Indeed a series of research studies report that despite impressive performances while using AI for assignments, subsequent similar tasks undertaken without the support of AI display poor learning returns. In his substack post Ethan Mollick, a long time AI enthusiast of AI in education,illustrates this with an account […]

A new report from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) offers a sobering diagnosis of the current state of our digital public sphere. Enitled Fractured Reality: How Democracy Can Win the Global Struggle Over the Information Space, the report details how the fundamental architecture of the internet—specifically the “attention economy”—is systematically undermining democratic resilience in Europe [1]. For practitioners and leaders in education the report is not just a theoretical warning. It outlines a set of structural challenges that directly impact how citizens learn, how they engage with civic life, and how educational institutions must adapt to a world […]