Education edition
A court ruling on made-up sources, an AI pause in New York, and a deadline for your school's digital security.
Made-up sources in a paper count as fraud, even without intent
The highest administrative court says: it's about the outcome, not the student's intention.
The Administrative Jurisdiction Division of the Council of State confirms that made-up sources count as fraud. This applies even if the source says something different to what the student claims. It even applies when an AI tool made up the source and the student meant no harm. So an exam board doesn't need to prove it was done on purpose. What counts is the outcome, not the intention. A student can still appeal within six weeks to the Board of Appeal for Examinations, if the punishment seems too harsh.
Background for subscribersThis edition mainly gives you something to hold onto. The ruling on made-up sources means that with fraud, you only need to check if a source is real, not whether a student lied. The debate on AI at a young age, the drop in IT course enrolment, and Kennisnet's new self-assessment show that policy on AI in schools is very much still developing, from classroom use to digital security.
New York wants to keep AI out of the classroom for its youngest pupils, for a year
Public schools in New York City are considering pausing AI use by pupils up to secondary school age, for a year. That would affect almost 600,000 young pupils. Other American school districts are choosing to roll AI out fully instead.
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