New York City Public Schools is banning generative AI for students from pre-K through eighth grade for the 2026-27 school year, affecting more than half a million students in the nation's largest school district. ABC News reports: In a statement to ABC News, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that the city is implementing a moratorium on generative AI for students in pre-school or 2-K through eighth grade and will spend the next year "studying the impacts of this technology." Mamdani wrote in part, "the tech industry wants us to believe that A.I.-powered early education is not only inevitable, but necessary." "We do not see it that way," he added. [...] The district said it is implementing the most expansive AI moratorium in the nation, eliminating software that uses student-facing AI and banning companion chatbots. The city's AI moratorium does not apply to high school students. The district said it will offer twice-yearly AI literacy classes designed to help high school students "think critically" about the technology before they start to "rely" on it.

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Le recours aux écrans et aux applis éducatives est devenu omniprésent dans les écoles américaines. Aujourd’hui, des parents s’interrogent sur les bienfaits de ces outils, souvent synonymes d’addiction et de distraction en classe. S’organisant en collectifs, ils font évoluer les politiques scolaires, raconte “The Christian Science Monitor”.

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Sur Instagram, la psychologue américaine Becky Kennedy livre trois phrases pour rassurer son enfant le jour de la rentrée. Une pour chaque moment de la journée, jusqu’aux retrouvailles du soir.

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America's public education system has become "an avenue for multitrillion-dollar companies to enact their agendas," argues a NewYork Times reporter who's covered that tech industry influence for over 10 years. Big tech companies "advocate for new laws to require schools to teach industry-aligned subjects. They sit on committees that help shape learning standards for public school students..." The reporter concludes that "Silicon Valley's efforts to capture the attention of education professionals and provide student training materials can also double as marketing or indoctrination." They enable some of the most powerful corporations on the planet to spin rosy technology stories for administrators, teachers and students, giving them a sanitized view of industry practices and product risks. Many parents would likely object if, say, Exxon Mobil wrote their children's environmental science curriculum. Or if Purdue Pharma trained their children's biology teachers. Yet, over the last decade, schools have often embraced the technology industry in similar ways with few questions asked. The article excerpts the soon-to-be-released book " Coding Kids: Big Tech's Battle to Remake Public Schools," with the reporter adding more thoughts on LinkedIn: Every few years, Silicon Valley has urged American public schools to quickly adopt the latest technology or teach the latest tech subject: Big Data analytics; laptops for every child; algorithm-driven math and reading apps; compter programming; virtual reality. And each time the urgent arguments sounded remarkably similar: if schools just adopted the latest tech tool, or taught the latest tech subject, it would democratize learning for every child and equip students with valuable career skills. Despite good intentions, "today we know some of those classroom tech drives did not exactly pan out as advertised." Now some of the same companies that urged schools to provide laptops and coding lessons are employing similar arguments to urge schools to quickly adopt A.I. tools. I've spent years covering Chromebooks and student chatbot use. And I'm troubled by our collective amnesia around school tech. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader theodp for sharing the article.

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Aucune purin de réflexion : Interdiction du téléphone au lycée soit-disant pour "protéger les enfants" (what else ?), alors qu'on demande aux élèves d'utiliser les services numériques pour tout:
- l'emploi du temps (qui change tout le temps)
- les devoirs
- le carnet de correspondance
- l'accès aux livres numériques
- l'accès à la cantine
- ah ! et je ne parle pas des élèves handicapés (coucou les aides auditives ?), les élèves fragiles, etc.

Ça ne tient pas debout.

Comme prévu, la rentrée se passe bien : https://sebsauvage.net/p/#/framapiaf.org/s/117194683294399649?view=full
"15-ans arrive au lycée sans smartphone. On vous racontera mais ça commence fort : le proviseur explique qu'il faut présenter sa carte scolaire pour entrer et sortir, et qu'elle n'existe… qu'en démat'.
Techniquement, pour l'entrée, c'est pas incompatible avec l'interdiction du smartphone au lycée, vu que l'élève est encore au-dehors…"
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L’Algérie poursuit sa politique de remplacement de l’enseignement du français par celui de l’anglais, qui devient la première langue étrangère des élèves dès la troisième année de primaire. Pour le média algérien “Twala”, si le débat revêt, dans le pays, une forte dimension symbolique, la réforme risque de se révéler hâtive et masque mal un manque de moyens chronique.

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