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

Don’t Use AI Detectors: Too Much Is Still Left To Inconsistent Judgment

“A false-positive rate of 0.19 percent means that out of 1,000 human-written essays, the detector falsely flags only about two texts as AI-generated. Sounds great, doesn’t it? But unfortunately, none of those numbers can really tell you what will happen in your classroom. Because outside of a controlled lab environment, they have very little meaning… […]

AI Knows When It’s Useful Better Than We Know When Its Useful

““Write me an essay on the causes of the First World War” arrives carrying nothing but itself. Given an empty context, all I can return is the center of mass of my training data — the statistically comfortable average of everything ever written on the subject, smoothed into paragraphs.”

The AI Genie Won’t Go Back Into The Bottle

“This recognition demands a different approach to AI in education. We cannot rely on the technology becoming unavailable or prohibitively difficult to access. We cannot depend on content filtering or detection tools to identify AI-generated work when students can run unfiltered models locally. And we particularly cannot assume that limiting school access to commercial AI […]

What Is Critical Thinking In The AI Era?

“It is not an “AI curriculum”; it is a comprehensive framework for critical thinking in a multi-modal world. AI is the catalyst that makes these skills urgent, but their scope is far broader. 1) Critical Reading: This is no longer just about analyzing a printed text. It’s about interrogating the logic of hyperlinks, understanding the […]

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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.

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– Peter Nilsson

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