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

“Harvard’s New Playbook For Teaching With AI”

“Critically, Tan does not grade her students’ AI-generated content. Instead, she assesses their reflections and their ability to use AI meaningfully. Over time, students get better at writing effective prompts and critiquing the AI’s output. They learn to identify hallucinations, jargon that masks weak logic, and content that sounds plausible but lacks substance. Tan’s broader […]

Howard Gardner Is Rethinking Multiple Intelligences In Light Of AI

““I think most cognitive aspects of mind — the disciplined mind, the synthesizing mind, and the creative mind — will be done so well by large language machines and mechanisms that whether we do them as humans will be optional,” he said. “On the other hand, I don’t believe for a minute that aspects of […]

AI Is More Human Like Than Ever. But: Which Humans Is It More Like?

“Technical reports often compare LLMs’ outputs with “human” performance on various tests. Here, we ask, “Which humans?” Much of the existing literature largely ignores the fact that humans are a cultural species with substantial psychological diversity around the globe that is not fully captured by the textual data on which current LLMs have been trained. […]

Professor Shows “How—And When—Authoritarians Fall”

“Working with other researchers, Chenoweth has been able to pinpoint some predictors of a resistance movement’s victory. It turns out that organizational leadership and skills training sometimes matter more than money, and that boycotts and strikes often weaken a regime even more than massive demonstrations.”

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