{"id":33122,"date":"2026-03-27T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hkmu.edu.hk\/oetools\/?p=33122"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:41:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:41:29","slug":"weekly-ai-news-update-20-26-march2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hkmu.edu.hk\/oetools\/news-events\/weekly-ai-news-update-20-26-march2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly AI News Update (20-26 March2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"33122\" class=\"elementor elementor-33122\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider wavo-column-gap-default elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-543014c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"543014c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4a17fee\" data-id=\"4a17fee\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0d540aa elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0d540aa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li>OpenAI's Raghav Gupta states AI should serve as a personal tutor to maximise learning, not a shortcut, emphasising the need for student engagement to preserve educational friction. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/ai-a-great-personal-tutor-for-students-not-a-shortcut-for-learning-says-openais-raghav-gupta\">\ud83d\udd17 The Straits Times<\/a><\/li><li>New Wonkhe research analyses how assessment design, not AI policy, determines whether students use artificial intelligence to support learning or to replace it. <a href=\"https:\/\/wonkhe.com\/blogs\/trained-to-stop-learning-how-students-are-experiencing-assessment-and-learning-in-an-age-of-ai\/\">\ud83d\udd17 Wonkhe<\/a><\/li><li>NYC Education Dept releases its AI policy after over two years of varied school-level approaches, developed whilst awaiting formal city guidance. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chalkbeat.org\/newyork\/2026\/03\/23\/schools-develop-ai-policies-awaiting-city-guidance\/\">\ud83d\udd17 Chalkbeat<\/a><\/li><li>Generative AI assists with summarisation, structuring, and analysis in education, functioning as a tool that requires critical human oversight to enhance learning rather than replace thinking.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.analyticsinsight.net\/generative-ai\/how-generative-ai-in-education-changes-the-way-we-study\"> \ud83d\udd17 Analytics Insight<\/a><\/li><li>Boston Public Schools launches a $1 million AI literacy programme with UMass Boston, aiming to integrate ethics-focused, credit-bearing curriculum across high schools from next year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/news\/2026\/03\/26\/boston-public-schools-ai-literacy\">\ud83d\udd17 WBUR<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI's Raghav Gupta states AI should serve as a personal tutor to maximise learning, not a shortcut, emphasising the need for student engagement to preserve educational friction. \ud83d\udd17 The Straits TimesNew Wonkhe research analyses how assessment design, not AI policy, determines whether students use artificial intelligence to support learning or to replace it. \ud83d\udd17 WonkheNYC...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":748,"featured_media":33114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v17.3 (Yoast SEO v21.2) - 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