Is this right? Google just integrated AI into Google Classroom with no notice? Thats is ... significant. Will be very interesting to see how this plays out. Thanks for the heads up!
Thank you for spotlighting these topics, Nick. "Google's decision to extend Gemini access to students under 13 is a significant reversal... as well as the potential FERPA implications that are not satisfactorily clarified in their 18-month default retention policy for chat histories." Lots of scrutiny needed here!
Top content here Nick. Glad to have you as a voice working into these choices - so how does a startup work in 2025 for ed tech, right? Find a need, fill the need with a well designed product - avoid scope creep, build base, amplify success, manage setbacks with positive pr...and then get bought out by Google? Thinking of this from last February's federal eo about innovation and removing barriers, and looking ahead to what you wrote here as a possible resource for a classroom activity in the AI and Ethics class: create a startup ed-tech tool to serve a specific need within your experience as a student, create then a business plan and compare through multiple LLM's to project best steps for growing your company, best steps to maximize profits compared to sustaining growth and retaining company control. What about the educator and student is improved throughout the process? What challenges might be overlooked for the educator and student because the ed tech company is, at its core, a for-profit business? Good ethical questions here, lots of language choice to study.
Thanks, Scott. Yes, lots of questions and concerns to work through. This will definitely push things forward. It may amplify resentment, given the over the summer-know one is looking-nature of the push.
Is this right? Google just integrated AI into Google Classroom with no notice? Thats is ... significant. Will be very interesting to see how this plays out. Thanks for the heads up!
Thank you for spotlighting these topics, Nick. "Google's decision to extend Gemini access to students under 13 is a significant reversal... as well as the potential FERPA implications that are not satisfactorily clarified in their 18-month default retention policy for chat histories." Lots of scrutiny needed here!
Top content here Nick. Glad to have you as a voice working into these choices - so how does a startup work in 2025 for ed tech, right? Find a need, fill the need with a well designed product - avoid scope creep, build base, amplify success, manage setbacks with positive pr...and then get bought out by Google? Thinking of this from last February's federal eo about innovation and removing barriers, and looking ahead to what you wrote here as a possible resource for a classroom activity in the AI and Ethics class: create a startup ed-tech tool to serve a specific need within your experience as a student, create then a business plan and compare through multiple LLM's to project best steps for growing your company, best steps to maximize profits compared to sustaining growth and retaining company control. What about the educator and student is improved throughout the process? What challenges might be overlooked for the educator and student because the ed tech company is, at its core, a for-profit business? Good ethical questions here, lots of language choice to study.
Thanks, Scott. Yes, lots of questions and concerns to work through. This will definitely push things forward. It may amplify resentment, given the over the summer-know one is looking-nature of the push.
Yes, big news. Sneak attack!