by BrainStream Chief Operating Officer Tzu-Ying (Kimberley) Chen The global education sector is entering a new phase of AI adoption. Across North America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania, educational institutions are moving beyond experimentation and beginning to explore how AI can be integrated into teaching, learning, and school operations in practical and sustainable ways. While approaches…
by BrainStream CEO Steve Alcorn On June 4th, Prime Minister Mark Carney stood in Toronto and launched AI for All, Canada’s first national artificial intelligence strategy. The headline numbers are big: $200 billion in targeted economic growth, 250,000 new AI-related jobs over five years, and a push to lift national AI adoption from just over…
by BrainStream CEO Steve Alcorn Ethan Mollick published a piece this week called Choosing to Stay Human that gets at something we think about constantly at BrainStream: the difference between AI that does the work for you and AI that helps you do better work yourself. The research he cites is striking. In a Turkish…
by BrainStream Chief Financial Officer Phyllis Chia-Hua Chen We have officially moved past the “Wild West” era of educational AI. Institutions are no longer just handed individual sandboxes to play with; they are looking for enterprise-grade, system-wide transformations. Canada’s leading research institute, Signal49 Research, just dropped a crucial national study that confirms this exact macroeconomic…
by BrainStream CEO Steve Alcorn USC’s Sol Price School of Public Policy just published a detailed case study about integrating AI into their curriculum. Their instructional designer, Minh Trinh, built a framework that scaffolds students from basic AI use (summarizing readings) through increasingly sophisticated engagement—using AI as a debate partner, a mentor that asks questions…
by BrainStream Chief Operating Officer Tzu-Ying (Kimberley) Chen Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the way people learn, access information, and develop skills. In education, AI offers the potential to create more personalized, adaptive, and accessible learning experiences at scale. But as these technologies become more integrated into classrooms and learning environments, an important question remains:…
by BrainStream CEO Steve Alcorn Molly Worthen’s essay in today’s New York Times, “You Can’t Game Your Way to a Real Education,” makes a strong case against gamification in schools. Points, badges, cartoon confetti, lonely scrolling for dopamine hits—she nails why turning math class into a video game hasn’t worked. She’s right about all of…
In 1984, educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom published a study that haunted education for 40 years. Students who received one-on-one tutoring performed two standard deviations above those in conventional classrooms. In plain terms: a student at the 50th percentile, given a personal tutor, outperformed 98% of their traditionally taught peers. Bloom called it the 2-sigma problem:…
by BrainStream Chief Financial Officer Phyllis Chia-Hua Chen Over the past year, conversations around AI in education have noticeably shifted. As a CFO at an EdTech company, I see this not just as a technology trend—but as a market maturity signal. Not long ago, the focus was on what AI could do. Demos were impressive,…
by BrainStream Chief Operating Officer Tzu-Ying (Kimberley) Chen Multiculturalism and inclusive education are foundational values in modern learning systems. With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), special education is transforming from a support function into a learner-centered space for innovation. As an Education Technology (EdTech) startup, we see AI not merely as a tool, but…
