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

Can AI Bring People Together In Schools?

“Unlike the solo AI agent paradigm dominating headlines, multi-user collaborative AI represents something fundamentally different and truly exciting: AI as social infrastructure that strengthens relationships and encourages collaboration. This is why one of my predictions for 2026 is that it will be the year that “Social AI” breaks into the mainstream, especially in education.”

Should Each Student Have A Portable Learning Model For EdTech?

“Imagine a Portable Learning Model… that is, a framework for how to understand a user as a learner that is contained outside of any single chat or learning tool. Let’s call this a learner’s PEARL: a Portable, Evidence-Based, Adaptive Representation of a Learner.”

SXSW EDU 2025 Brings Steak — And Not Just Sizzle

“The crowd, speakers, and content were a cross-section of the education landscape at every level… SXSW EDU delivered pretty deeply across key challenges, innovations and opinions affecting the sector. Though we didn’t see former Presidents, current Secretaries of Education, or billionaire philanthropists on the schedule this year, the depth and value of the content was […]

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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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