This week, a district that replaced its AI ban with AI literacy courses, a national study showing how far teacher training trails classroom AI use, and a warning about scammers using AI to target students. Here’s what happened and what it means for your school.
Students are navigating platform design, influencer marketing, and school tech policy every day. #WinAtSocial gives them the skills to make smart calls in each of those moments, with peer-to-peer lessons co-created with students and ready for your classroom.
The U.S. Department of Education’s August 2026 Dear Colleague letter shifts the ed tech conversation away from counting minutes and toward measuring learning. Assistant Secretary Kirsten Baesler asked schools to make technology use purposeful, instructionally sound, and tied to measurable student outcomes. School leaders can act on that by sorting every tool into one of four tiers of quality use, then bringing real student data to the next technology decision.
Students are already telling us how AI is shaping their focus, their friendships, and their well-being. California is building a council to hear it. Common Sense Media and Drexel researchers had to read studies and Reddit posts to find it. Educators get to hear it first, in the hallway and in the classroom, when students know the door is open.
A comeback, a creative partnership, and a viral raccoon all point to the same skill this week: helping students show up as themselves online. Here’s what happened and what it means for your classroom.