When thoughtfully adapted for education, AI offers new possibilities to measure skills differently and to assess skills that have previously been difficult to measure.
Students learn technical skills from the nature of the curriculum, as well as digital fluency skills from engaging with those courses in a digital format.
The study found that using AI in education can "undermine children's foundational development" and that "the damages it has already caused are daunting," though "fixable."
The conference, which begins Jan. 11 in Orlando, offers education leaders and their teams new insights on harnessing AI, expanding project-based learning and practicing self-care.
Federal policy and AI drew a lot more attention than typical local issues in school board meetings nationwide. Here's what other topics are top-of-mind.
Many teachers and students raise concerns about cheating, sparking some institutions to try to ban the technology or to get students to promise not to use it.
"The most effective guidelines encourage critical thinking, center the human decision-making and allow for nuance," says Ken Shelton, an edtech thought leader and featured speaker at the 2026 Future of Education Technology Conference.
