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The Law School Deans Driving AI Innovation in Legal Education [Vedhere]

On 07/07/2026, in 21st century, Access to Justice (A2J), Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, change, communities of practice, corporate / business world, curriculum, emerging technologies, expectations, experimentation, faculty/staff, future, game-changing environment, generational differences, higher education, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, instructional design, intelligent systems, law schools, Legal operations, legal reform, legal technologies, legislatures / government / legal, by Daniel Christian

The Law School Deans Driving AI Innovation in Legal Education — from natlawreview.com by Shivani Vedhere, AI & the Law Newsletter; via Colin S. Levy

Artificial intelligence is no longer a peripheral issue for legal education. It is quickly becoming one of the central questions facing law schools: how to prepare future lawyers for a profession in which AI will affect research, client counseling, litigation strategy, access to justice, and the business of law.

For decades, law schools treated legal technology as an elective or a niche interest for students already inclined toward innovation. That era is ending. Law firms are adopting AI tools at scale and even investing in developing their own tools. Clients are asking harder questions about efficiency, cost, and competence. Courts are sanctioning lawyers and litigants for AI-generated hallucinations, with the number of identified cases in the United States now exceeding 1,000. Students entering the profession will be expected to keep up with this rapidly changing landscape.

The most forward-looking law schools are responding accordingly. That transformation is being driven in large part by a group of innovative law school deans who are treating AI not as a passing trend, but as a structural change in legal education.

These initiatives signal a broader shift in legal academia where law schools are no longer merely debating whether AI belongs in the curriculum. The more pressing question is how deeply, how early, and how responsibly AI should be integrated into legal education.

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A Comprehensive Report on Teens, Tweens, and AI [commonsensemedia.org]

On 07/07/2026, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, attention, education, education technology, emerging technologies, experimentation, human-computer interaction (HCI), media/film, online media, parents/guardians, policy, privacy, psychology, social learning / networks, social media, society, student-related, the downsides of how people use tech, youth, by Daniel Christian

A Comprehensive Report on Teens, Tweens, and AI — from commonsensemedia.org

To find out what that actually looks like day-to-day, we surveyed more than a thousand 9- to 17-year-olds across the country. We asked them how they use AI, how often, and for what.

The Common Sense Media Census: AI Use by Tweens and Teens (2026) is the first in a series we’ll repeat every year to learn how this generation’s relationship with AI evolves over time.

A few things stood out:

  • Kids are using AI for many things. It’s not just a homework helper anymore. For some kids, AI has become a confidant, even though our research is clear that AI companionship is not safe for anyone under 18.
  • Guardrails are thin to nonexistent. Schools are talking about rules more than safety. Three-quarters of kids say their school has discussed what they can and cannot use AI for, but just over half have been taught how to use AI safely.
  • Just like we saw with smartphones and social media, the conversation is once again lagging behind the technology. Nearly half of kids have never had a conversation with their parents about AI safety.
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Flipped Classrooms and Academic Achievement [Megan Sumeracki]

On 07/07/2026, in blended learning, colleges, communities of practice, community colleges, content development, aggregation, repositories, digital learning, faculty/staff, flipping -- inverted learning, higher education, hybrid learning, instructional design, K-12 related, learning, Learning Experience Design, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, learning theories, research, student-related, teachers, teaching & learning, United States, universities, by Daniel Christian

Flipped Classrooms and Academic Achievement — from learningscientists.org by Megan Sumeracki

There are actually many, many ways to design a flipped classroom, and it has been fascinating to learn about the ways my colleague typically structures her hybrid, flipped-classroom courses. As a result, we’ve been able to engage in really interesting conversations about the best approach for this particular course, and why. As a result of some of these discussions, I came across a few recent meta-analyses related to the effects of flipped classrooms, the results of which I thought were worth sharing here (1, 2, 3).

 

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Higher Education Can’t Wait for the Future to Arrive (Lev Gonick, Arizona State University) [Salisbury]

On 07/07/2026, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, career development, change, changing business models, collaboration, colleges, community colleges, competency-based learning/education, faculty/staff, future, future of higher education, game-changing environment, heutagogy, higher education, innovation, instructional design, learning, learning agents, learning ecosystem, Learning Experience Design, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, learning preferences, liberal arts, more voice more choice more control, skills, society, student-related, teaching & learning, trends, United States, universities, vision/possibilities, by Daniel Christian

Higher Education Can’t Wait for the Future to Arrive (Lev Gonick, Arizona State University) — from humanistxyz.substack.com by Allison Dulin Salisbury
“The biggest risk we face as a sector is assuming we can wait out AI.”

We have an opportunity right now to reorient the university around student experience—not as an aspiration, but as a necessity. I’m calling this shift TechEd, which I explore in detail in my LinkedIn series The TechEd Revolution.

AI poses a fundamental shift in how technology might empower students to own their discovery and educational journey, and to drastically reduce the friction that makes college so unappealing to so many.

To that end, we need to urgently redesign systems and opportunities around skills and competencies. That work should be far more advanced than it currently is. And one of the hardest challenges is rethinking how we operate as a workforce in academia. 

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Empowerment Spotlight: Building advocacy skills for families and students with disabilities

On 07/06/2026, in Bias | Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DE&I), communications, more voice more choice more control, neurodivergent/special needs, parents/guardians, skills, student-related, teachers, by Daniel Christian

Empowerment Spotlight: Building advocacy skills for families and students with disabilities — from rightquestion.org

Shove says the Right Question Institute has helped her help families advocate for themselves. She uses the Question Formulation Technique to teach adults and children to ask better questions and know when to use open-ended questions, which encourage longer, more detailed responses, and when to use close-ended ones, which tend to elicit short responses such as “yes” or “no.”

“It’s using that Question Formulation Technique to guide the discussion and obtain the information we all will use to make decisions and a plan for the child,” adds Shove, a former elementary school teacher who started doing advocacy work after discovering how tough it was to obtain special education services for her own children in the early 2000s.
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We recently interviewed Shove to learn more about how she uses the Question Formulation Technique — and how families’ interactions with school officials can change after they master it.

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Anthropic, NVIDIA Move AI Agents Deeper into Scientific Workflows [Waters]

On 07/06/2026, in 21st century, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, NVIDIA, productivity / tips and tricks, research, STEAM-related, vendors, by Daniel Christian

Anthropic, NVIDIA Move AI Agents Deeper into Scientific Workflows — from campustechnology.com by John K. Waters

Key Takeaways

  • Anthropic’s Claude Science beta and NVIDIA’s BioNeMo Agent Toolkit show AI agents moving beyond general productivity into specialized scientific research workflows.
  • The companies are emphasizing auditability and reproducibility, including preserved code, environments, message history, reviewer agents, and integration with existing research tools.
  • For enterprises and research teams, the key test will be whether agentic AI can produce traceable, reliable results while keeping humans in control of sensitive data, compute, and scientific judgment.
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Instructional Design Trends: What’s Shaping The Future Of Learning? [Pappas] + “The Future Of Personalized Learning And The Leaders Being Trained To Deliver It” [Ayers]

On 07/06/2026, in analytics, content development, aggregation, repositories, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, future, game-changing environment, human-computer interaction (HCI), ideas, immersion, innovation, instructional design, intelligent systems, intelligent tutoring, leadership, organizational change, personalized/customized learning, skills, strategy, traditional / tradition, training / L&D, trends, user experience (UX), by Daniel Christian

Instructional Design Trends: What’s Shaping The Future Of Learning? — from elearningindustry.com by Christopher Pappas

Table of contents

1. Why Instructional Design Is Entering A New Era
2. The State Of Instructional Design Today
3. Top Instructional Design Trends Shaping 2026
4. The Future Of Instructional Design And Technology

Also from elearningindustry.com, see:

The Future Of Personalized Learning And The Leaders Being Trained To Deliver It — by Ryan Ayers

Table of contents

1. Personalized Learning For Future Leaders
2. Where Personalized Learning Is Heading
3. What Implementing Personalized Learning At Scale Actually Requires
4. The Educational Leaders Being Trained To Deliver This Future
5. Conclusion

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“Tech & Learning Announces Winners of Best of Show at ISTE 2026” + “Best Sites for Blended Learning”

On 07/06/2026, in blended learning, hybrid learning, platforms, tools, vendors, by Daniel Christian

Tech & Learning Announces Winners of Best of Show at ISTE 2026 — from techlearning.com
These annual awards celebrate the groundbreaking products exhibited at ISTE that are transforming education in schools around the world.

Also from techlearning.com, see:

Best Sites for Blended Learning — by Diana Restifo
Blended learning websites help teachers combine traditional instruction with online learning.

Blended learning is a teaching approach that combines both traditional in-class instruction with digital technologies for lessons, assessments, feedback and more. In other words, face-to-face teaching is supplemented and supported by online lessons and content.

The advantages of blended learning include flexibility, student engagement, and the ability to personalize lessons.

The following blended learning sites, many of which are fully free, provide a variety of features through which educators can implement their blended learning approach.

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NotebookLM’s 60-second videos turned my doomscrolling curse into something useful [Sood]

On 07/06/2026, in Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, digital audio, digital learning, digital video, education technology, emerging technologies, experimentation, faculty/staff, platforms, productivity / tips and tricks, student-related, tools, by Daniel Christian

NotebookLM’s 60-second videos turned my doomscrolling curse into something useful — from digitaltrends.com by Shimul Sood

Google has announced Short Video Overviews for NotebookLM, a feature that turns dense documents and complicated sources into 60-second vertical videos that explain key ideas. Instead of staring at pages of notes, you get a quick visual walkthrough of the concept you’re trying to understand.

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Scan More than 60 Million Stars in the Most Detailed Photo of the Milky Way Ever Taken

On 07/06/2026, in 21st century, Europe, research, science, STEAM-related, by Daniel Christian

Scan More than 60 Million Stars in the Most Detailed Photo of the Milky Way Ever Taken — from thisiscolossal.com by Kate Mothes and The European Space Agency (ESA)

In March 2025, the Euclid mission led by the The European Space Agency (ESA) enabled scientists to capture the highest resolution image ever taken of the dense, glowing center of the Milky Way galaxy.
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Harvard Law Today: America Unfinished

On 07/06/2026, in Legal operations, legal reform, legal technologies, legislatures / government / legal, society, United States, universities, by Daniel Christian

Harvard Law Today: America Unfinished — from linkedin.com by various authors

In this issue:

  • A new essay collection contemplates the past, present, and future of the U.S.
  • Explore exhibits and talks at Harvard Law School marking the semiquincentennial.
  • Meet the editors behind “America Unfinished: 250 Years of Law and Governance.”

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Everything colleges and universities need to know about the collapse of the youth labor market, internships and entry-level jobs… [Busteed]

On 07/06/2026, in business side of he, career development, change, colleges, community colleges, faculty/staff, higher education, parents/guardians, society, student-related, trends, United States, universities, by Daniel Christian

Brandon’s posting on LinkedIn.com

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We are losing the war for Access to Justice. And we keep aiming our attacks on our own side. [Nori]

On 06/29/2026, in Access to Justice (A2J), law schools, Legal operations, legal reform, legal technologies, legislatures / government / legal, tools, United States, by Daniel Christian

Contrapposto — from sateeshnori.substack.com by Sateesh Nori
We are losing the war for Access to Justice. And we keep aiming our attacks on our own side.
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“To Public Interest Lawyers of Any Kind:

Only when you have vanquished every eviction notice that shouldn’t have been filed… Only when you have defeated every predatory landlord, every wage thief, every debt collector armed with a default judgment… Only when you have lifted the burden from every tenant who faced Housing Court alone… Only when every family has shelter and every worker has been paid what they’re owed… Only when every immigrant has had someone in their corner and every person in crisis has had a lawyer who showed up… Only when every child aging out of foster care has had counsel, and every survivor of domestic violence has had an advocate who knew the system cold…

Only then — only when you have directed your energy toward the real adversaries: the justice gap, the underfunded courts, the 92% who never get a lawyer at all — only then can you attack another public interest lawyer for the tools they chose to fight with.”

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23,000-Square-Foot Clasping Arms Celebrate Community Resilience in Minneapolis [Saype]

On 06/29/2026, in art, communications, creativity, society, United States, youth, by Daniel Christian

23,000-Square-Foot Clasping Arms Celebrate Community Resilience in Minneapolis — from thisiscolossal.com by Saype and Kate Mothes

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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Entry-Level Work: A Framework for Safeguarding and Reinventing Early Career Pathways

On 06/29/2026, in 21st century, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, business, career development, change, corporate / business world, economics, global / globalization, participation, pathways, policy, reinvent, society, student-related, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Entry-Level Work: A Framework for Safeguarding and Reinventing Early Career Pathways — from the World Economic Forum (weforum.org) and PwC

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping how organizations hire, develop and advance talent, and this is most visible at entry-level. Globally, more than one in three young workers are employed in occupations with medium to high exposure to AI-driven task change. How these roles evolve will have significant implications for organizational performance, workforce participation and economic mobility.

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