AI Commons Bulletin 2/24/2025

🚫 No More Guidance from USDE
Beyond the AI guidance for schools and the toolkits for educators and developers, the entire Office of Educational Technology website is gone. tech.ed.gov now directs to the USDE website.

Learn MoreU.S. Department of Education

📽️ Try This: Create AI Video for YouTube
Short videos can be useful tools for teaching something, or that students can use to demonstrate something. YouTube now offers tools to use AI to generate video based on a text prompt.

Learn MoreHere’s How You Can Create AI Videos in YouTube Shorts, Thanks to Google Veo

🤔 AI Operator Can Take e-Learning Courses For You
OpenAI’s Operator tool can take an online course, which means it’s time to rethink asynchronous course design.

Learn MoreThe Fall of Click-Next e-Learning: What Operator Means for Training

✍️ Should We Invent New Words to Talk to AI?
Want a fresh way to discuss AI literacy? These authors argue we need new words—not just human vocabulary—to grasp AI. Encourage students to create neologisms for human concepts AI should learn or machine ideas we must understand. What might they invent?

Learn MoreHewitt, Geirhos, & Kim, (2025). We Can’t Understand AI Using our Existing Vocabulary.