Product updates, school stories, and the thinking behind how we build Alpto. https://alpto.ai/feed.xml 2026-04-28T00:00:00Z Alpto AGhello@alpto.ai https://alpto.ai/favicon-32.png https://alpto.ai/landing/logo.png © 2026 Alpto AG, Zürich https://alpto.ai/blog/cognitive-atrophy-the-hidden-cost-of-ai-in-schools 2026-04-28T00:00:00Z 2026-04-28T00:00:00Z Lara Hofmann

A quiet shift is happening in schools across Europe. Most leaders cannot yet name it — but it is the gradual weakening of independent thinking when AI is used as a shortcut rather than a scaffold.

https://alpto.ai/blog/why-an-ai-policy-isnt-enough 2026-04-21T00:00:00Z 2026-04-21T00:00:00Z Tim Guntermann

Most schools that take AI seriously have written a policy. It feels like progress. But policy describes intent — not what students actually do at the kitchen table.

https://alpto.ai/blog/blooms-taxonomy-in-the-age-of-ai 2026-04-14T00:00:00Z 2026-04-14T00:00:00Z Lara Hofmann

AI has done something no previous technology has done: it has made the higher tiers of Bloom’s pyramid look easy. The skills most at risk are the ones school exists to build.

https://alpto.ai/blog/one-system-not-three 2026-04-07T00:00:00Z 2026-04-07T00:00:00Z Tim Guntermann

Most schools have arrived at their technology stack by accumulation, not design. The European policy direction is now unmistakably towards consolidation, interoperability, and unified foundations.

https://alpto.ai/blog/home-school-partnership-in-the-age-of-ai 2026-03-30T00:00:00Z 2026-03-30T00:00:00Z Lara Hofmann

The single biggest factor in a child’s progress is whether home and school are working together. AI has made the partnership question more important, not less.

https://alpto.ai/blog/why-swiss-hosting-matters-for-european-school-data 2026-03-19T00:00:00Z 2026-03-19T00:00:00Z Tim Guntermann

Where school data physically sits is no longer a technical detail. It is a strategic decision shaping which laws govern it, which authorities can access it, and how stable that arrangement is over twenty years.