Tandis que les grandes destinations anglophones ferment leurs portes, les universités d’Asie attirent de plus en plus d’étudiants internationaux. Une recomposition mondiale de la mobilité étudiante est en cours, explique le “Times Higher Education”.

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"Turns out, Silicon Valley isn't especially altruistic," writes the nonprofit education news site The 74. They're reading a new book promising "the inside story of how Big Tech catalyzed, co-opted, and ultimately came to capture computer science and AI education in America". Written by New York Times business reporter Natasha Singer, Coding Kids: Big Tech's Battle to Remake Public Schools tells "the story of the nonprofit Code.org and its charismatic, Harvard-educated leader, Hadi Partovi," according to their review: Thirteen years ago, Partovi... delivered a worrying message: Kids who didn't learn to write code would be left behind. And the long-term success of the United States economy depended on training these students to fill a million open tech jobs.... Fast-forward to 2026, and now we're dealing with AI, and tech is reading from a similar playbook. Asked by The74's Greg Toppo, "Does this moment seem different to you?", Singer replies, "This moment is different, but also similar. "We are in a moment in society where a lot of people have increased distrust of these huge tech companies, and we see a wave of parents pushing back against tech in schools. But we also see waves of people pushing back against Flock cameras, against data centers, that there's this feeling that tech has taken so much, and that people feel like they have lost control — that tech is being enacted on them... And parents are worried about the effects of unfettered tech access and kids' compulsive use of social media and phones, and so there's a different climate. And yet there seems to be a disconnect in some ways with AI because you see that Microsoft and OpenAI and Anthropic and Google are all competing to get their AI tools into schools, and you see school districts across the country say "We've partnered with OpenAI." "We are a ChatGPT Pioneer School," or "We've partnered with Microsoft, and we're going to use 10,000 licenses of CoPilot." It's amazing to me. We have had these cycles of tech in schools where there are all these promises about the latest tech, laptops, learning apps, massive open online courses, virtual reality, big data's going to revolutionize schools and like democratize access to education for kids and get them these great career skills, and we keep having these cycles. My concern is that we don't learn anything. One of the reasons I wrote this book is because it feels like we have collective amnesia. Now we're in the sixth or eighth cycle of this — and shouldn't we be asking questions about the push for AI in schools, based on what we've learned about the push for all the other things that came before? Two Slashdot posts are cited in the book, both submitted by long-time Slashdot reader theodp (Slashdot UID #442,580), who even gets a shout-out in the book's "Acknowledgements" section (along with consumer advocate Ralph Nader). Ironically, one member of Amazon's "Vine" program received a free copy of the book in exchange for a review — and apparently misunderstood its topic, writing that it made coding "feel approachable and even fun... [T]his is exactly the kind of book that could help a child become interested in technology without feeling overwhelmed by it. I particularly liked the way it encourages kids to be curious, experiment, and solve problems on their own. I would definitely recommend Coding Kids to parents, grandparents, or teachers looking for a good introduction to coding..."

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Des élèves sans affectation, une pénurie d’enseignants et des résultats revenus vingt ans en arrière. Longtemps érigé en modèle pour ses progrès spectaculaires, le système scolaire portugais accumule désormais les signes de crise, constate la presse locale.

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Il manque des profs à chaque rentrée.
L'état : Supprime 3000 postes de profs.

Et après ça pleure sur les résultats de PISA. 🤷‍♂️
Peut-être que si on veut une bonne éducation il faut y mettre les moyens ?
(Je veux dire: De VRAIS moyens, pas des conneries du genre SNU ou l'uniforme.)
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Plusieurs dizaines d’enseignants du comté de Leibo, dans le sud-ouest de la Chine, ont été forcés de poser pour une photo de groupe devant un écran géant qui affichait le mot “honte” au centre, à cause des mauvais résultats de leurs élèves. C’est cette photo qui est “une honte”, dénonce la presse chinoise.

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Le classement PISA des élèves français est mauvais, et bien sûr - sans aucune surprise - c'est la faute aux vilains écrans.
Niveau zéro de la réflexion, aucune mise en perspective des réformes successives des différents ministres (ni de questionnement sur la pertinence des uniformes à l'école ou du SNU), ni du manque de profs à chaque rentrée, ni des *raisons* du manque de profs, ni de la violence des problèmes sociaux qui ont directement un impact sur la scolarité, etc.
Et même derrière toutes cette merde et absence de réflexion, des propositions encore plus démago et débiles (comme la maternelle dès 1 an).
Le journalisme est mort.

EDIT: https://mastodon.social/@AllanBarte/117241290036494356
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Ce grand test comparatif, réalisé depuis 2000, mesure les savoirs fondamentaux des adolescents dans une bonne partie du monde. La dernière édition confirme une tendance à la baisse, scrutée avec inquiétude par la presse internationale.

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Il vient de sortir et il fait peur. Le nouveau rapport PISA confirme la baisse des résultats scolaires dans la plupart des pays d'Europe, mais aussi en Corée et dans d'autres nations de tête. Sauf que, pour la France, il s'agit d'un plongeon. Une fatalité ? Pas forcément.L’article PISA : Anatomie d’une chute est apparu en premier sur Les Électrons Libres.

Face au déclin mondial souligné par PISA 2025, l'Estonie et le Royaume-Uni font figure de modèles. Leurs secrets ? Des enseignants valorisés, une gestion intelligente des écrans et une culture de l'entraide garantissant une véritable équité.L’article Les secrets des champions éducatifs européens est apparu en premier sur Les Électrons Libres.

« L'IA détruit le cerveau de nos enfants ! » Dans ce climat de panique morale, que dit vraiment la science ? Loin d'être une simple machine à tricher, l'intelligence artificielle pourrait bien être le tuteur personnalisé dont notre école a tant besoin.L’article IA et éducation : la nouvelle panique morale est apparu en premier sur Les Électrons Libres.

Teen reading, math, and science scores have fallen to their lowest levels since international PISA testing began in 2000, with 15-year-olds now reading at roughly the level previously expected of students a year younger. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) linked weaker results to more screen time, less reading for pleasure, and digital distraction. It also found that students who regularly used AI chatbots for tasks like drafting essays and summarizing text scored about 20 points lower in science, roughly equivalent to a year of learning. Reuters reports: A 2012 reading high of 501 on PISA's index had declined to a score of 466 last year. The test is widely regarded as the world's leading gauge of educational performance and its results are closely scrutinized by governments and educators. "In reading, more screen time and less reading for pleasure have gone hand in hand with weaker results," OECD head Mathias Cormann told a press conference. "We're also seeing more hasty reading, students rushing through a text and giving a quick wrong answer." Reading scores fell more sharply in students from better-off backgrounds, the study added. Hindered by falling reading standards, average teenage science and maths skills were also at their lowest this century. Science fell from a 2009 high of 506 on the index to 486, while maths was down from 502 to 469 in the same period. East Asia was the best-performing region. Chinese cities that participated in the test, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan had the best educational systems with Britain and Estonia the only countries outside the region that made it into the top 10 in reading, mathematics and science.

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Réserver la lecture au CP : et si c’était déjà trop tard ? Dans un nouvel essai, la pédagogue plaide pour un apprentissage dès la maternelle. Johannes Ziegler, directeur du Laboratoire de psychologie cognitive d’Aix-Marseille et spécialiste de la question, qui signe sa préface, s’en explique.

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Quels classiques aborder avant le collège ? Comment choisir les bons livres pour éveiller en son enfant le goût de la littérature sans le décourager ? À cet âge charnière, comme souvent, les bons compagnons font toute la différence. Conseils d’experts.

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Les étudiants de 15 universités américaines sont confrontés à une facture salée pour l’année 2026-2027. Plus de 100 000 dollars sont exigés pour couvrir le coût de leurs études. Les experts avertissent que cette tendance va s’accentuer.

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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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