AI, wearables, and assistive devices

Feb 2, 2026. College Board Bans Smart Glasses During SAT. “The College Board will prohibit students from wearing smart glasses—wearable, internet-connected computers that allow users to see a computer display in the lenses—while taking the SAT, starting in March 2026.”
Jan 30, 2026. AI Assistive Technology Improves Inclusion in K–12 Environments. Adam Stone. “With AI incorporated into powerful reading tools, voice-enabled assistants and time-management solutions, educators are leveraging assistive technologies to elevate student performance.”
July 25, 2025. Janine Arantes, Andrew Welsman, and Bec Marland. Smart glasses’ boost to inclusivity could cost us our academic freedom. “AI-enabled smart glasses are rapidly moving closer to everyday use in universities, potentially ushering in the kind of frictionless and inclusive education that has long been advocated by educationalists.”

Concerns

Feb 14, 2026. Meta Adding Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses That Identifies People in Real Time, Hoping the Public Is Too Distracted by Political Turmoil to Care. Joe Wilkins. “[Meta] is now working on rolling out a massive facial recognition feature across its entire smart glasses platform — a launch which involves timing the announcement with political drama to minimize scrutiny.”
Jan 30, 2026. TikTok’s Filming Strangers Problem Keeps Getting WORSE. “TikTok has a serious problem with filming strangers, and it keeps getting worse. For years, filming strangers in public has been a trend present in many types of social media content. Multiple women’s storytime videos recently went viral on TikTok. All of these women shared that a man approached her, secretly filmed their conversation with Meta glasses, and posted it to TikTok. The men who create “rizz” or “pickup” content have received criticism for secretly filming women in public for TikTok content. In this video, I discuss the growing TikTok trend of filming strangers and how Ray-Ban Meta glasses contribute to this issue.”

2014. Mobile Devices and Recording in the Classroom: A Survey of Policy in UK Higher Education Institutions. Yasmin Ibrahim and Anita Howarth. “Mobile technologies such as tablets, iPads, laptops, netbooks as well as mobile phones with internet connectivity and recording features present new challenges to the academy. In the age of convergence and with the encoding of several features into mobile telephony, private spaces of the classroom can be reconfigured through the mediation of technologies. In most cases, existing rules and regulations of higher education institutions do not comprehensively address these challenges. The introduction of new technologies into the classroom has been often framed historically as vital and relevant for a progressive academic society or as part of a national imperative to transform the ways in which the authors access and engage with knowledge.”