Lauraine Langreo

Washington, D.C.

Reporter @educationweek | K-12 edtech, student wellness, future of work & learning environments | She/her. 🇵🇭 @EdWeekUnion @aaja @edwriters

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What Trump's Draft Executive Order on AI Could Mean for Schools

2 days ago | edweek.org | Arianna Prothero |Lauraine Langreo

A draft executive order from President Donald Trump aims to integrate artificial intelligence across K-12 education, with potentially significant ramifications for schools. The order would instruct federal agencies to take steps to teach students how to use AI, train teachers to incorporate it into their tasks, and partner with the private sector to develop relevant programs in schools, according to the Washington Post, which obtained a copy of the draft order and first reported about it.
Concord Consortium Studying AI for Math Education

3 days ago | govtech.com | Lauraine Langreo

The nonprofit educational research and development organization has partnered with the Florida Virtual School and the University of Florida to provide an "Artificial Intelligence in Math" supplemental certification program for middle and high school students taking Algebra 1. The program, which began April 7, will introduce students to the foundational principles of AI that intersect with core math topics.
Why This School System Is Integrating AI Literacy With Algebra 1

1 week ago | edweek.org | Lauraine Langreo

Could connecting artificial intelligence with math concepts boost students’ attitudes toward the subject? A research project from the Concord Consortium aims to find out. The nonprofit educational research and development organization has partnered with the Florida Virtual School and the University of Florida to provide an “Artificial Intelligence in Math” supplemental certification program for middle and high school students taking Algebra 1.
Why This School System Is Integrating AI Literacy With Algebra 1

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Lauraine Langreo

NowIn 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic began to squeeze and reshape higher education, I wrote that the experiment we were all about to endure might be worth it because it would expose the weakness of trying to teach and learn online. Turns out, I may have been right about that. And wrong. I was wrong …
4 Things to Know About School Cybersecurity and Trump Funding Cuts

2 weeks ago | edweek.org | Lauraine Langreo |Arianna Prothero

Schools stand to lose significant cybersecurity support as the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, slash and reorder the U.S. government in the name of reducing waste. Federal departments and agencies play a crucial role in sharing threat information and best practices with districts as well as alerting districts that they have been hacked and helping them respond quickly.
Why Some Math Teachers Don’t Want Professional Development on AI

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Lauraine Langreo

2 hours agoAI LLMs Astonishingly Bad At Doing Proofs And Disturbingly Using Blarney In Their AnswersIn today’s column, I examine an insightful AI research study that sought to ascertain whether state-of-the-art generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are any good at devising mathematical proofs.
Why Some Math Teachers Don’t Want Professional Development on AI

2 weeks ago | edweek.org | Lauraine Langreo

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being embedded into many tools that students and teachers use daily, and experts say it’s important for educators to understand and engage with the technology so they can use it responsibly in their work and model appropriate use for students. Nearly 7 in 10 math teachers surveyed by the EdWeek Research Center said they have not yet received professional development on using AI to teach that subject.
How Will Trump Budget Cuts Affect School Cybersecurity?

2 weeks ago | govtech.com | Arianna Prothero |Lauraine Langreo

The federal government plays a crucial role in sharing threat information, best practices, and other resources with school districts that are frequent targets of cyber criminals — many operating outside of the United States. District technology directors, like Jun Kim of Moore public schools in Oklahoma, are bracing to see how cuts at the federal level will affect the services they have come to rely on to protect their districts' systems and students' data.
Could Trump Budget Cuts Lead to More Cyberattacks Against Schools?

2 weeks ago | edweek.org | Arianna Prothero |Lauraine Langreo

Schools stand to lose vital cybersecurity support from the federal government as the Trump administration takes dramatic steps to shrink its size, and the Education Department suspends a major cybersecurity support initiative. The federal government plays a crucial role in sharing threat information, best practices, and other resources with school districts that are frequent targets of cybercriminals—many operating outside of the United States.
Math Teachers Find Uses for AI in Lesson Planning, Tutoring

4 weeks ago | govtech.com | Lauraine Langreo

It's "a scary proposition" to have to reimagine teaching when the work is "already difficult," Karabinos said. "That creates lots of fear and anxiety in an already tumultuous field."But by spring 2023, Karabinos was ready to see what all the buzz was about. It was the end of a marking period, and he needed to give students another graded assignment. At the time, he was also teaching reading, so he asked ChatGPT to create a quiz on prepositions for sixth-grade students.