The OECD's Digital Education Outlook 2026 revealed an uncomfortable truth: students using AI produced better assignments, but scored up to 17% lower on follow-up tests without AI. When a tool does the thinking, real learning disappears.
The EU set a bold target: 80% of citizens with basic digital skills by 2030. But at the current pace, Europe will only reach 60% β a 20-point shortfall. What is the EU doing to close the gap?
South Korea set out to become the first country to bring AI-powered textbooks into public schools. Parliament then stripped those textbooks of their legal status. Here is how it unraveled.
As of March 2026, roughly 60% of schools worldwide ban or restrict smartphones β up from 40% just a year earlier. France is expanding its ban to high schools, Germany is tightening rules state by state. AI walks into the classroom; the smartphone waits outside. How should we make sense of this paradox?
In September 2025, Estonia launched the AI Leap program, providing free AI learning tools to 20,000 high school students and 3,000 teachers nationwide. While Korea's AI digital textbook experiment has struggled, this small European country is quietly leading the way.