The OECD Digital Education Outlook 2026 says generative AI can support learning β with conditions. Without proper pedagogical design, AI raises scores but steals real learning.
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.
Korea's AI Digital Textbook (AIDT), adopted by 4,095 schools in the first semester of 2025, dropped to 1,686 schools by the second semester. A legal status change, budget cuts, and field resistance β we look at why an ambitious education innovation reversed itself within a single semester.