A weekly collection of education-related news from around the web.

Can We Write With AI And Retain Our Voices? It Takes Effort.

“Writing this piece required a careful dance—collaborating openly with AI tools while firmly protecting my own voice. I didn’t simply push “The Button.” Instead, I used the back-and-forth, the friction, the continual clarification of prompts and revisions to sharpen my thinking. This dialogue, though algorithmically mediated, deepened my sense of what I wanted to say. […]

“A Running Timeline Of My AI Usage On One Day In April”

“9:30 AM—Experimentation with Essay Feedback: Explored grading and feedback automation with GPT 4.5. Initially, I blind-read student essays, assigning brief notes and preliminary grades. The rubric itself had previously been generated in collaboration with GPT 4.5, based on the original assignment criteria. Next, I uploaded the student essays, prompting GPT 4.5 to generate class-wide feedback—remarkably, […]

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Every week I send out articles I encounter from around the web. Subject matter ranges from hard knowledge about teaching to research about creativity and cognitive science to stories from other industries that, by analogy, inform what we do as educators. This breadth helps us see our work in new ways.

Readers include teachers, school leaders, university overseers, conference organizers, think tank workers, startup founders, nonprofit leaders, and people who are simply interested in what’s happening in education. They say it helps them keep tabs on what matters most in the conversation surrounding schools, teaching, learning, and more.

Peter Nilsson

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