Overview
- The OECD’s 2026 outlook reports that generative AI use has moved from fringe to widespread in upper secondary schools and universities.
- German schools describe new cheating methods that route photos of exam tasks through smartphones to AI and into tiny earpieces.
- State education ministries brief proctors to scan for covert devices, restrict materials in rooms, and treat unauthorized AI in exams as deception.
- Hesse’s education platform offers the telli chatbot to guide students with hints and code checks, and 64% of schools have adopted it.
- Bavaria pilots new assessment formats and configures school tools to nudge students to think, while teachers call for training and clearer rules.