Studying and Grammar Tremendous Present plus AI & Faculty Information

On at present’s present, we’ve some back-to-school reminders for instructing studying, a brand new AI studying software from Digital Promise with Jean-Claude Brizard, constructing readers with Jennifer Burns, and instructing grammar playfully with Patty McGee. We may even have a Harvard pupil from Coventry, England, Zak Adams, who’s one in all a rising group of volunteers working with Venture Entry, a nonprofit that helps high-potential, low-opportunity college students to assist them apply to high universities the world over.

In our opening information we focus on the mixing of AI into Canvas, some disturbing new analysis outcomes in regards to the dire penalties of children utilizing cell telephones underneath the age of 13, analysis on cellular phone ban opinions and fogeys, how main AI fashions are recommending completely different wage ranges to folks based mostly on their gender and race, Delta Airways is contemplating utilizing AI pricing (and we’ll all pay completely different costs for gala’s in the event that they do,) a wonderful evaluate from Tech and Studying of the paper “Your Mind on ChatGPT” that everybody’s speaking about, and the rollout of AI agent by ChatGPT and what it means for the way forward for the Web.

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AI is now out there in Canvas – https://www.chronicle.com/article/instructors-will-now-see-ai-throughout-a-widely-used-course-software

New analysis of two million folks in 163 nations with dire warnings about cellular phone use earlier than the age of 13 – https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19452829.2025.2518313#summary

PEW analysis about the usage of cell telephones – https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/07/16/americans-support-for-school-cellphone-bans-has-ticked-up-since-last-year/

Issues about smartphone use in younger youngsters – https://www.sheknows.com/parenting/articles/1234905671/kids-smartphones-detachment-from-reality/

AI Hiring Instruments are advising ladies and minorities to ask for decrease pay in wage negotiations – https://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/ai-hiring-tools-are-advising-women-and-minorities-to-ask-for-lower-pay-in-salary-negotiations/91217775

“Floor equity, Deep Bias: A comparative Research of Bias in Language Fashions” Analysis research: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10491‘

Delta is utilizing AI to cost tickets (and we’ll all pay completely different costs in the event that they do) – https://fortune.com/2025/07/16/delta-moves-toward-eliminating-set-prices-in-favor-of-ai-that-determines-how-much-you-personally-will-pay-for-a-ticket/

Wendy’s surge pricing drawback – https://www.cnet.com/tech/wendys-says-no-to-surge-pricing-but-yes-to-ai-here-are-the-key-takeaways/

Tech & Studying’s tackle “Your Mind on ChatGPT” – https://www.techlearning.com/information/your-brain-on-chatgpt-everything-educators-need-to-know-about-mits-ai-study

AI Brokers and the online – https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/do-websites-go-away-ai-agents-theory-ventures-goe2c/

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Zak Adams

Zak is a pupil at Harvard from Coventry, England. His work is to help high-potential, low-opportunity college students into high universites the world over. Hailing from a single-parent, low-income background in an space with low development to increased training, Zak felt the challenges confronted by underrepresented college students.

Regardless of the challenges of his background, Zak earned a spot at Harvard, and now works to make sure folks from backgrounds like his personal can comply with comparable paths. He works throughout charities, startups, councils, and colleges to impression over 1000 college students in attaining their college aspiration. Zak’s strategy combines sensible steerage with empathetic help. He empowers college students to know how far their potential can take them.

From one-on-one mentorship to designing initiatives that adress systemic inequities, Zak grounds his work in “You canot be what you can not see.” His advocacy equips studens with the idea that nowhere is off limits. College students are inspired to outline themselves, and never let their background outline them.

Zak continues to champion change, proving that entry to high universities is achievable for each pupil, no matter their place to begin. Linked In: www.linkedin.com/in/zakjayadams

Jean-Claude Brizard

Jean-Claude Brizard is President and CEO of Digital Promise World, a worldwide, nonpartisan, nonprofit group targeted on shaping the way forward for studying and advancing equitable training methods by bridging options throughout analysis, apply, and expertise. He’s former Senior Advisor and Deputy Director on the Invoice and Melinda Gates Basis the place he targeted on PK-16 training. He additionally led a number of methods supporting Washington State’s academic system. The Carnegie Company of New York honored Brizard within the 2023 class of “Nice Immigrants, Nice Individuals,” a prestigious honor celebrating naturalized residents who’ve enriched and strengthened our society.

He’s former Chief Govt of Chicago Public Faculties. Previous to his appointment in Chicago, he was Superintendent of Faculties for the Rochester, NY College District. Mr. Brizard’s expertise additionally features a 21-year profession as an educator and administrator with the NYC Division of Schooling. He served as a Regional Superintendent, supervising greater than 100 colleges within the Borough of Brooklyn and he additionally served because the system’s Govt Director for its 400 secondary colleges. He’s a Fellow of the Broad Middle, a Fellow of the Pahara-Aspen Institute, and a member of the Aspen Institute World Management Community.

Jennifer Burns

Jennifer Burns is a literacy advisor, creator, speaker and coach who makes use of a student-centered strategy in all of her work. This strategy creates collaborative conversations that make instructing, studying and progress enjoyable. Her signature strategy helps create alternatives for college kids to interact efficiently with volumes of varieties of studying. Outdoors of instructing, Jennifer likes to stroll, learn, spend time with household and discover enjoyable espresso outlets.

Weblog: https://www.buildingareader.com/

Fb: BuildingaReader

YouTube: @buildingareader

Podcast: Constructing a Reader Podcast https://www.buildingareader.com/podcasts/building-a-reader

Patty McGee

Patty is an creator, educator, and advisor whose ardour and imaginative and prescient is to create studying environments the place lecturers and college students uncover their true potential and energy.  Patty calls herself a touring instructor as a result of, as a second grader mentioned, “her job is to make lecturers’ jobs just a bit bit simpler and typically she teaches college students.” She has served colleges nationally and internationally to help literacy instructing and studying. Her third guide with co-author Tim Donohue, Not Your Granny’s Grammar (Corwin), shall be launched in June 2025.

Be taught extra about Patty and her work at www.pattymcgee.org.

Weblog: www.pattymcgee.org

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patty-mcgee-36507926/