Natasha Singer

Teachers, parents and students: I'm writing some back-to-school technology stories and would love to hear about your experiences with cellphones, A.I. and other digital tools in schools. If you're interested, you can share your experiences here: https://t.co/xcWBFBHb1y

More states are passing laws barring students from using their phones during class. In a story today, I explain the phone bans -- and why classroom phone distractions are only part of the tech problem facing many public schools. https://t.co/zy19DrS4NE

Looking forward to moderating the CS/AI keynote panel at #CSTA2024 on Thursday. +I'm looking for K-12 educators to interview about teaching AI literacy and A.I. tools. If you are an educator who wants to weigh in, please DM me or email: [email protected] thanks!

CS Teachers Association (CSTA) @csteachersorg

Join us for a conversation surrounding the future of CS education! NYT reporter @natashanyt will moderate the #CSTA2024 keynote panel “CS Education in the Age of AI,” featuring panelists Maggie Johnson, @kipglazer, @mehran_sahami, and @CCrawfordTech. https://t.co/wPWUrw47bs https://t.co/YUMWKQFM62

RT @whyy: Who should be held accountable for children's inappropriate online behavior - parents, kids, government, or social media platform…

Looking forward to being on @WHYYNews @npr at 12:20pm ET today to discuss our scoop about a TikTok attack by middle school students who impersonated, trolled and disparaged more than 20 of their teachers in Malvern, Pa. https://t.co/PauVCg8kf7

I wrote about a new A.I. education program, backed by Cornell Tech, M.I.T. and UCLA, that helps prepare lower-income female students for tech careers. 80% of graduates land paid internships, more than twice the national average for college students. https://t.co/THdqJdfW1q

In another indication that A.I. abuse is spreading in education, a high school athletic director in Baltimore County was arrested after using A.I., police say, to manufacture a racist audio clip impersonating a school principal. https://t.co/mcsWv4lujD

This just in: Maryland passed two major tech bills over the weekend, a sweeping consumer privacy measure and a children's online privacy bill. I spoke with the bills' sponsors:  Delegates @SaraLove4MD and @jaredssolomon https://t.co/Auuxkjluvf

What a turnabout for tech. Nvidia's CEO now makes the case that pushing kids to learn coding is obsolete. "In fact, it is almost exactly the opposite," Jensen Huang says, "it is our job to create computing technologies such that nobody has to program." https://t.co/bdB7KGFKlY

Lawsuits filed by a trade group for Meta and TikTok have halted new children's online safety laws in three states. Ohio's lieutenant governor @LtGovHusted told me he found the social media firms "cowardly and disingenuous." https://t.co/UpT2eVV28i

Will A.I. tutoring bots transform education, for better or for worse? To find out, I spent the last few weeks speaking with experts like Sal Khan of @khanacademy and Randi Weingarten @AFTunion. Here's what they told us: https://t.co/4Dh9kUz40t

This just in: The FTC has proposed sweeping changes to strengthen the children's online privacy protection rule, the main federal law safeguarding kids online. our story here: https://t.co/rh9vnbI74e

RT @sapna: New: TikTok quietly changed its U.S. user terms in July, which some lawyers say could make it harder to bring legal claims again…

These high school students in New Jersey want to widen A.I. discussions beyond dueling tropes of tech magic and doomsday panic. “A.I. is actually a huge human rights issue because it perpetuates biases,” a tenth-grader named Tessa told me. https://t.co/d8CIPxJziM

Remember all that panic over A.I. chatbots and cheating in schools? New research from Stanford suggests those fears were overblown. More details in story here: https://t.co/S3gdaiXVdH