Microsoft just dropped their third AI in Education Report.
They surveyed over 3,000 people across six countries—students, teachers, the usual leadership types. Ira Apfel caught Pat Yongpradit at ISTELive 6 in Orlando.
Yongpradit runs Microsoft’s education and workforce policy. They make Copilot. He talks about trust. Training. And that lingering fear that everyone is just going to cheat.
Why isn’t everyone using it?
Here is the weird part.
Nine out of ten educators have tried these tools. Same for students and leaders.
Daily use is still lagging.
Why?
Yongpradit calls it a bump in the road. Not a crash. Just a dip. It’s familiar territory in the tech adoption curve.
Student optimism has dropped recently.
People worry this means something is wrong. He says it’s predictable. Just friction. Nothing fatal.
“The panic around cheating has more to do than with any single tool.”
The Training Lie
School leaders think teachers are trained.
They probably aren’t.
There is a massive gap between what administrators believe their staff has learned and what teachers say they have actually experienced in the classroom.
The leaders assume the knowledge is there. The teachers feel left behind.
It is a disconnect built on assumption, not reality.
It’s not about the code
Let’s talk about cheating.
Yongpradit has a candid take on it. The academic integrity panic isn’t really about AI. It’s about old temptations wearing new clothes.
Kids were cheating before Chatbot. They’ll keep doing it. The tool didn’t invent laziness. It just made it faster.
Stories Mentioned:
– Microsoft’s 2026 AI in Education
