Inside the AI Classroom: Dan & Ray's Big AI-in-Education Download

Inside the AI Classroom: Dan & Ray's Big AI-in-Education Download
In this fast-paced news roundup, Dan and Ray dive head-first into the latest research and developments shaping AI in education. From MIT's Perspectives for the Perplexed guide for schools, to McKinsey's take on "agentic AI," to Google's LearnLM experiments with AI-powered textbooks, the duo unpack what every educator needs to know right now.
They explore what's happening inside classrooms, universities, and edtech labs — including new findings on AI literacy, evolving assessment design, and why "policing AI use" misses the point. Plus, they debate the rise of AI-integrated browsers like ChatGPT Atlas, what it means for assessment integrity, and how tools like Microsoft Copilot are reshaping both teaching and admin work.
It's the ultimate AI-in-education briefing — thoughtful, fast, and full of insights (and laughs) from two of the field's most passionate voices.
Here's all the links to news and research mentioned in the podcast (and, most importantly) the Two Ronnies Fork Handles sketch!
Fork Handles youtu.be/sO6EE1xTXmw?si=5Iix8Jo_xiZCRVCn
News
MIT "Guide to AI in Schools: Perspectives for the Perplexed" tsl.mit.edu/ai-guidebook tsl.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/GuideTo…
One year of agentic AI: Six lessons from the people doing the work mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-ins…
OpenAI Atlas (and Perplexity Comet) openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-atlas
An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now oneusefulthing.org/p/an-opinionated-guide-to-u…
Google "Learn Your Way" pilot learnyourway.withgoogle.com
• Towards an AI-Augmented Textbook arxiv.org/abs/2509.13348
• Experimentally Testing AI-Powered Content Transformations on Student Learning arxiv.org/abs/2509.18664

PEW Research into AI attitudes around the world pewresearch.org/global/2025/10/15/how-people-a…
Copilot in Windows blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2025/10/16…
Copilot consumer updates youtube.com/watch?v=j4jXM8yTdnQ&feature=yo…
M365 Copilot Education updates microsoft.com/en-us/education/blog/2025/10/des…
BBC: The lecturers learning to spot AI misconduct bbc.com/news/articles/c2kn3gn8vl9o
UNE are rolling out their Madgwick AI system to all students linkedin.com/posts/aaronbdriver_aiineducation-…
Research
The Bubble and Burner Model of AI-Infusion: A Framework for Teaching and Learning papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=55… Firm or Fickle? Evaluating Large Language Models Consistency in Sequential Interactions aclanthology.org/2025.findings-acl.347 GASLIGHTBENCH: Quantifying LLM Susceptibility to Social Prompting, openreview.net/forum?id=0BYRYwGCbK
What does 'good teaching' mean in the AI age? journals.sfu.ca/jalt/index.php/jalt/article/vi…
How university students work on assessment tasks with generative artificial intelligence: matters of judgement tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02602938.2025…
AI Knows Best? The Paradox Of Expertise, Ai-Reliance, And Performance In Educational Tutoring Decision-Making Tasks arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16772v1