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JR DeLaney discusses how AI is transforming Learning Management Systems and the necessary steps districts must take before the upcoming school year.

This week on The Friday Download, JR unpacks the education AI story you didn't see coming: it's not about new chatbots — it's about the plumbing of learning getting smarter. First up: Rasmussen University (125+ years old) is ditching Blackboard for D2L Brightspace and going all-in on Lumi AI — personalized tutoring, feedback, and study plans baked directly into the LMS. But new research warns that AI doing the thinking for students leads to cognitive offloading and measurable drops in criti...

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