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

“Teaching AI Ethics 2026: Emotions And Social Chatbots”

“In 2023, my main concern was that companies were building AI systems to read our emotions. In 2026, I am far more worried that companies are building AI systems to influence our emotions. Social chatbots, sometimes called AI companions, have emerged as one of the fastest-growing applications of generative AI. Unlike the general-purpose assistants like […]

“AI Has Changed The Way I Write Forever”

“Generative artificial intelligence technologies have made written assessments of knowledge all but useless outside of supervised conditions. That doesn’t mean that writing isn’t important. It doesn’t mean that thinking through writing isn’t important, either. But it means that my experience of moving in and out of different platforms, drafting verbally, and even bringing in multimodal […]

AI Is Unavoidable, But Not Inevitable — There’s A Difference

“What I’m suggesting here is not necessarily resisting the technology. We’re almost at a point where that would be akin to resisting the internet or electricity in the classroom… But the way we use technology, and the form the technology takes in the future, is not set in stone. The line between ubiquity and inevitability […]

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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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