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The European Union has announced that it has started work on a certificate for "AI literacy". It would be awarded to successful 15-year-old students from the next school year.
Read the original →The piece says AI can be useful in certain contexts but often means completely offloading part of a task. It describes using AI on an assignment, especially when disallowed, as at best an acceleration of tedious tasks and at worst blatant plagiarism.
Read the original →The EU plans to introduce an AI literacy certificate for 15-year-olds by the 2027-2028 school year. It would teach how AI works, how to verify outputs and when to keep a distance. Brussels is also moving to limit teenagers' social media use.
Read the original →Korea Eximbank will provide an Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF) loan of $170 million (about 27 billion yen) to Tanzania. The funds are for a project to build an AI and digital technology education institution.
Read the original →Dong Thap province aims for all general education institutions to implement AI education effectively by 2030.
Read the original →School students across Australia will be blocked from using generative AI in class and during assessments. The plan aims to crack down on excessive screen use in classrooms and reverse a generational decline in reading and maths scores. Source: The Australian.
Read the original →The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education will inspect examinees' glasses every period at the kindergarten, elementary and special school teacher appointment exam on the 7th. The measure is meant to prevent cheating with AI smart glasses. The office announced this on the 5th.
Read the original →Cactus Communications announced that the Kindai University school corporation will adopt Paperpal, the company's AI tool for supporting English academic paper writing.
Read the original →In Seoul's recruitment exam for kindergarten, elementary and special-education teachers for the 2027 school year, candidates wearing glasses must remove them before the exam and have them checked by proctors. The rule is meant to prevent cheating with AI smart glasses. The exam covers national, public and private schools in the city.
Read the original →On Tuesday, November 3, Google announced it will change the default settings of accounts for children at elementary, middle and high schools so that generative AI and search services are unavailable. At schools that ban AI, Google Search would also become unusable, and some people have raised concerns about the measure.
Read the original →NCS has expanded an AI and coding workshop to reach more than 130 lower-income primary pupils in Singapore.
Read the original →Restricted access to AI, compulsory civics lessons and anti-Semitism education will form the basis of a nationwide curriculum overhaul.
Read the original →Google announced on the 3rd that it will restrict internet search and AI features on learning accounts used by elementary, middle and high school students worldwide, at school and at home. The features will be disabled by default, and schools can choose to enable them. Google said it will notify schools of details within a few months.
Read the original →The awards ceremony for the 18th Hansokukaigi Planning Competition was held. Winners were announced for the Grand Prix, Gold, Silver, Student Award, sponsor awards and individual judges' awards. Elementary and high school students were among the winners this year.
Read the original →A latest survey by the National School Library Association on children's reading found that the share of children who read no books in a month exceeded 10% among elementary school pupils for the first time in 25 years.
Read the original →Economists were given 178 public schools in Brazil to randomize which ones received an AI essay-feedback tool called Letrus. The description asks what the outcome was.
Read the original →A class using generative AI was held at a high school in Sakata, Yamagata Prefecture, where students learned how to use AI well to deepen their knowledge. Sakata Koryo High School, a prefectural school, has held classes using generative AI for four years.
Read the original →The Gia Lai Provincial People's Committee issued Plan No. 436/KH-UBND on implementing the national program for AI human resource development to 2030, with a vision to 2035, in the province.
Read the original →The joint research will set up a research base and explore the expansion of expression in three areas: painting, music and society. The announcement is dated November 5, 2026, from Dentsu Inc.
Read the original →ChatGPT, Claude and other AI tools used in classrooms prompt discussion among faculty and students, questioning their ethicality.
Read the original →On November 5th, the Artificial Intelligence Festival - AI4VN 2026, themed "Agentic AI & The Future of Learning - Autonomous AI and the Future of Learning," took place at Vietnam National University, Hanoi. The event marked eight years of development of AI technology in Vietnam. It also served as a forum connecting the government, universities and businesses in promoting a sustainable AI ecosystem.
Read the original →The rapid development of AI is placing new demands on workforce training and technology research. At the Vietnam AI Festival (AI4VN 2026), Minister of Science and Technology Vu Hai Quan shared insights from practical AI research and conveyed a message on technological innovation to the younger generation.
Read the original →Halmek, publisher of a magazine for women aged 50 and over, will hold an AI workshop for senior women titled 'First Steps in Getting Along With AI' on November 13 at Hiroshima T-SITE in Nishi Ward, Hiroshima.
Read the original →SilverX issued a press release on November 5, 2026 at 10:00 reporting on the first demo day of its program. Seventeen people aged 58 to 80 who launched businesses using AI agents pitched in Yokohama. The second cohort, renamed the 'Startup Program From Age 50,' begins December 11, and applications open today.
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