education technology

The University of Pittsburgh has quietly built a broad, institution‑backed toolbox of generative AI services and training aimed at researchers, instructors, and staff — and that progress has exposed the exact paradox universities face in 2026: access and capability are expanding faster than most...

Puerto Rico’s public school system has quietly started a transformation that other education systems will watch closely: the Department of Education is rolling Microsoft 365 Copilot into teacher workflows, device management, and learning activities with an explicit focus on accessibility...

MIT Technology Review’s new short series, Making AI Work, lands as a practical counterpoint to the hype: a seven-issue, weekly newsletter that walks readers from real-world case studies to the tooling and — critically — the operational steps organizations need to make AI deliver measurable...

Artificial intelligence is already reshaping how students study, how teachers teach, and how schools measure learning—and the question most parents, teachers, and students now ask is not whether AI will matter, but how it should be used so that it actually benefits learning rather than replacing...

Artificial intelligence has moved from promise to practice: in 2026 it quietly shapes morning routines, classroom lessons, workplace workflows, and caregiving tasks so consistently that millions now treat AI helpers as ordinary household and professional tools. Background The shift that makes...

Artificial intelligence is no longer a novelty for technophiles — in 2026 it has woven itself into the daily routines of children, working adults, caregivers, and seniors, quietly automating chores, personalizing learning and health support, and turning complex tasks into simple conversations...

At the start of 2026 Austria’s data protection authority (DSB) ordered Microsoft to stop deploying certain tracking cookies on a school‑issued device after finding the cookies were placed without a valid legal basis while a pupil used Microsoft 365 Education — a ruling that threads technical...

At the end of January 2026 Austria’s data protection authority (DSB) delivered a sharp rebuke to Microsoft: the regulator found that Microsoft 365 Education had placed tracking cookies on the device of a pupil without a valid legal basis and ordered the company to stop that processing within...

Microsoft has been ordered by Austria’s data protection authority to stop deploying tracking cookies on a pupil’s devices after a regulator found the cookies were installed without valid consent and were being used for purposes that go beyond purely educational needs. The ruling — the latest in...

Microsoft is giving eligible collethe students a year of its newest AI-powered productivity suite alongside LinkedIn’s premium career tools — free — in a limited-time package that bundles Microsoft 365 Premium with LinkedIn Premium Career and aims to bridge classroom work with job readiness...

Qatar’s Ministry of Education and Higher Education has begun a measured push to introduce Microsoft’s Copilot tools into the school and higher-education ecosystem, running hands‑on workshops that pair product demonstrations with role‑based training and immediate license activation for...

Just a few years after ChatGPT’s public debut, a quiet revolution has taken hold in Bangladesh’s classrooms and study halls: artificial intelligence has moved from novelty to default, reshaping how students learn, how teachers prepare lessons, and how educational institutions think about equity...

Chrome OS’s momentum is real — especially in education and low-cost hardware — but the case that it will topple Windows across consumers, enterprises, and power users is far from proven, and Microsoft has clear, defensible advantages that keep it comfortably in the fight for the foreseeable...

Central Bucks School District’s plan to embed AI literacy into classroom instruction lands at a moment of sharp contrast: districts across the country are moving quickly to teach students how to use and evaluate artificial intelligence, even as security researchers expose new ways those same AI...

Artificial intelligence is no longer a speculative future — it is reshaping how students research, how educators teach, and how entire information ecosystems supply the raw material of thought. Mount Royal University’s recent feature frames this moment as both opportunity and warning: large...

Microsoft's quiet withdrawal from the K–8 classroom OS wars has a clear deadline: Windows 11 SE will stop receiving feature updates and security servicing after Windows 11 SE, version 24H2, with support ending in October 2026 — a fact Microsoft has reflected in its lifecycle documentation and...

As schools across England are now being issued with AI-generated minimum attendance targets, the practical experiment described by a Welsh headteacher—who used Microsoft Copilot to turn raw register data into per-pupil “attendance profiles”—is an instructive case study in both the potential and...

Microsoft’s 2025 cleanup of Windows reached deep into the operating system this year, touching everything from long‑standing network services to small in‑box consumer apps — and in many cases the company didn’t just deprecate functionality, it removed binaries from fresh images or published firm...

Microsoft’s quiet update to its education documentation has a clear, unavoidable headline for school IT teams: Windows 11 SE will stop receiving feature updates and security support in October 2026, with version 24H2 designated as the edition’s final release. This effectively ends Microsoft’s...

With the dust settling on the Windows 11 refresh cycle, the PC market’s next commercial battleground is clear: turning a rapidly growing installed base of AI-capable PCs into sustained, measurable everyday use. Recent market trackers show that a large and growing share of European PCs sold in...