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

“People Are Losing Loved Ones To AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies”

“Kat was both “horrified” and “relieved” to learn that she is not alone in this predicament… The replies to her story were full of similar anecdotes about loved ones suddenly falling down rabbit holes of spiritual mania, supernatural delusion, and arcane prophecy — all of it fueled by AI… To make matters worse, there are […]

Plagiarism: Even The Former Editor In Chief Of The New York Times

“In her new book Merchants of Truth, Abramson, the former executive editor of the New York Times, had apparently plagiarized from several sources… The irony was thick. Here was a veteran of the industry, a Harvard journalism lecturer no less, getting facts wrong in a book about “the fight for facts” in contemporary news.”

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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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