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Day 172 (of 2025/26) Grad Eve & 3 stories you may have missed; AI National experiment; Ethic-ai?; overcrowding during declining enrolment? 

It’s graduation eve, and for the first time – as Regional Partners In Education Principal I get to (have to?) make a speech to the broader district community as we acknowledge our ‘area of growth’ – graduating students who are primary to our school… Big evolution in our Provincial Online Learning School…. Hope the speech goes over well! I like one of my catch-phrases: thank you for adding a “slice of PIE” to your learning journey PIE = Partners In Education 🙃

1. If AI becomes every student’s personal tutor, what becomes the unique value of the classroom? In Estonia – they are trying to focus on AI asking questions (AFL says questions leading to more questions is a great way to increase the depth of learning)  https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/estonia-schools-chatgpt-9ff76cc7 
2. What are/ought to be the ethics around education and AI?  Schools spent decades evaluating books, websites, and software. Should AI tools require an entirely new kind of literacy and review process? Boston Univeristy has an index, https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2026/06/01/ai-ethics-index-boston-university-just-horizons-alliance  and BC Educator Marcus Blair re-shared some of his thoughts recently
3. We often debate what learning should look like in the future while still building schools based on assumptions from the past. Can we leverage this in a weird time of ‘school overcrowding’ and declining enrolment in BC?  https://www.freshetnews.ca/new-west-students-could-be-sent-to-burnaby-as-part-of-mega-schools-plan/

Bonus: 

These results did not need a ‘ban’… proper instruction would garner the same end results as well… https://montrealgazette.com/news/student-reaction-to-quebec-school-cellphone-ban/ sigh…