Microsoft’s announcement at the White House AI Education Task Force marks a major consumer- and education-facing push: the company is offering Copilot built into Microsoft 365 Personal free for 12 months to every U.S. college student (including community college students) for sign-ups through...
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Microsoft’s latest education push folds generative AI into the everyday toolkit of U.S. college students by making Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot available free for eligible students—an aggressive expansion of earlier trial offers that places Copilot, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook...
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Brighton Hill Community School has begun what its leaders call a “reinvention” of everyday teaching by rolling out a campus-wide fleet of Acer TravelMate laptops equipped with Intel processors and Microsoft Copilot, in a partnership involving Acer, Intel and Microsoft that aims to embed...
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Millennials and Gen Z are reshaping what a good career looks like, and for a growing number of young professionals that redefinition includes teaching English as a foreign language—TEFL—as a deliberate pathway to travel, income flexibility, and long-term career options beyond the classroom...
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Microsoft’s recent decision to end Windows 11 SE signals another pivotal shift in the company’s long and contentious battle for dominance in the education technology sector. Introduced with fanfare in late 2021 as a “cloud-first operating system” designed for low-cost PCs in classrooms, Windows...
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Microsoft's recent announcement to discontinue support for Windows 11 SE by October 2026 marks the end of its latest endeavor to penetrate the education sector—a domain predominantly controlled by Google's Chrome OS. This decision underscores the challenges Microsoft has faced in offering a...
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Microsoft's recent announcement to discontinue Windows 11 SE by October 2026 marks the end of its latest endeavor to penetrate the education sector dominated by Google's Chrome OS. Launched in 2021, Windows 11 SE was designed as a streamlined, cloud-first operating system tailored for students...
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After a short-lived journey that began with high hopes in 2021, Microsoft has officially sounded the death knell for Windows 11 SE, its tailored school edition aimed at low-cost classroom PCs. This move marks not just the end of an operating system variant but signals another pivot in...
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Just over three years after its understated arrival in late 2021, Microsoft’s effort to challenge the dominance of Chromebooks in classrooms—Windows 11 SE—has come to a definitive end. This chapter in Microsoft’s long quest to engineer a worthy Chrome OS alternative is closing not with a bang...
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Just a few years after its ambitious debut, Microsoft’s experiment to wrest the education device market from Google—Windows 11 SE—is coming to an abrupt end. Launched in late 2021 as a stripped-down, classroom-focused edition of Windows 11, Windows 11 SE was billed as Microsoft’s strongest bid...
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Zensai, a pioneering force in AI-driven learning and performance management, has been honored as a 2025 World Future Award winner, securing its position among the Top 100 AI Tech Companies. This accolade underscores Zensai's commitment to revolutionizing workforce development through its...
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In the heart of southern India, a quiet yet transformational revolution has begun to unfold, guided not by new government mandates or corporate advertising campaigns, but by a cross-continental collaboration between Boston and the rural classrooms of Karnataka. At the center of this movement...
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Game-based learning has emerged as one of the most engaging and effective ways to inspire students in classrooms across the globe, and among its champions, Minecraft Education stands tall as a transformative force. As schools grapple with keeping lessons relevant, exciting, and meaningful...
The American Federation of Teachers’ recent alliance with OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic to launch a national AI training center for educators marks a turning point in the intersection of technology and public education. Announced as the “National Academy for AI Instruction” and based at the...
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As the education sector grapples with the daunting challenges of rapid change, growing student needs, and resource shortages, technology is increasingly being recognized not just as a supplementary tool, but as a force multiplier for human ingenuity. Amid this landscape, Microsoft’s latest move...
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Artificial intelligence is rapidly establishing itself as both a language and a partner in the global classroom, and nowhere is this transformation more visible—and ambitious—than in South Korea. As AI-powered tools from Microsoft, particularly Copilot, Minecraft Education, and the broad suite...
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In a significant development for the educational technology sector, Alef Education, the UAE's leading AI-powered K-12 platform, has announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft and Core42, the sovereign-cloud and AI-infrastructure arm of G42. This partnership aims to accelerate the...
In a groundbreaking study titled "From Chalkboards to Chatbots: Evaluating the Impact of Generative AI on Learning Outcomes in Nigeria," the World Bank Group's Education Global Department has unveiled transformative findings on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in education. Conducted in...
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If you walk into a modern high school classroom, you’ll likely be met with a tableau entirely distinct from the generations before it. Where once textbooks and chalkboards dominated, now rows of Copilot+ PCs hum with activity—students, once passive recipients of lectures, are now solving...
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Artificial intelligence has ushered in an era of notable change within global education systems, leaving a visible imprint from primary schools to advanced university programs. The widespread introduction of generative AI tools—led by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, swiftly followed by rivals such as Google...
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