Dan Fitzpatrick: Articles on AI in Education
Articles, analysis, and practical guides on AI in education by Dan Fitzpatrick for AI Educator Tools. Covers AI tools, classroom practice, school leadership, AI policy, and the research shaping AI in schools.
Articles by Dan Fitzpatrick
Are Governments Failing Schools When It Comes To AI?
There is a distinction between managing the present and creating the future. This is difference that many school systems are failing to see.
The AI Debate Is Missing The Most Important Question
AI is changing work faster than we are adapting. What does that mean for jobs, skills, education, human judgment and the future of work?
Microsoft Offers Schools Enforceable AI Guardrails
Microsoft and the AFT want school districts to put AI safety and privacy promises into enforceable contracts. Here is what the proposal does and does not do.
Schools Ban AI For Students While Teachers Get It Free
New York Public Schools and Los Angeles Unified School District remove students' access to AI. What does it all mean?
The Teen Building A Better Kind Of School AI
What happens when a high school senior designs an AI for studying? 17 year old Bowe Lubin has took matters into his own hands with a platform he thinks will help schools
10 AI Updates That Put Teenagers In Charge Of Their Own Learning
As students return to school, AI is rapidly integrating into education. Here's how they can use it to help their learning.
10 Back-to-School AI Updates For Educators
Discover new AI updates for educators as they return to the classroom for the start of the new academic year
Claude's Watermark Proves It Was Used, Not Who Wrote It
Anthropic's Claude AI now embeds invisible, machine-readable watermarks in all generated text globally, a move driven by the EU AI Act. But what does that actually mean?
NotebookLM Is Now Gemini Notebook. I’m Confused
Google bring their popular AI tool NotebookLM into alignment with the Gemini brand. Here's what it means.
Anthropic Launches Claude for Teachers (US)
Anthropic launches Claude for Teachers, offering free AI tools aligned to standards, curriculum, privacy requirements and everyday classroom workloads nationwide.
The Case For Emotional Education For An AI Economy
As AI reshapes jobs, employers increasingly value empathy, communication and emotional intelligence. Are schools preparing students for this human future?
Google Tested Its AI Tutor In Real Classrooms. It Worked
Google says its AI tutor delivered a year of math progress in eight weeks. I asked the DeepMind researcher behind the trial what the numbers show, and who gained most.
Google Unveils Its Most Ambitious AI Push In Schools Yet
Google just launched a wave of new Gemini and Classroom AI tools. Here's what's new, what the trial evidence shows, and what it means for educators and students.
Microsoft's AI Education Lead Says Job Fear Is Real. Here's The Fix
Microsoft Elevate leader Justin Spelhaug validates young people's "rational fear" about AI's impact on jobs, acknowledging his own daughter's anxiety and supporting data on career disruption.
The AI Resilience Guide for Schools
What Happens If The AI Your School Relies On Disappears Overnight
A U.S. government order forced the shutdown of the most capable AI model the public could use, with no notice and no appeal. For schools building daily routines on tools like these, the real lesson is not about one company. It is about who controls the off switch.
Prompt Engineering Is Not Dead
It's become trendy to say prompt engineering is dead. It's not, here's why.
When Should Students Use AI?
MIT and RAND research suggests when students use AI shapes what they learn. Teaching them to think before prompting protects critical thinking as classroom AI use climbs.
What Google I/O 2026 Means For Education
Inside Google I/O 2026: what Gemini Spark, Antigravity 2.0 and the new agentic era mean for educators with insights from Google's VP of Education.
Throw Away The Digital Adoption Playbook. AI Is A Behavior Problem.
Four years advising schools on AI adoption taught me that the digital playbook everyone is still running was built for a problem AI doesn't have. Here's what works.