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

On Living A Creative Life

“You have to love making the thing, the act of making the thing more than you love the feeling at the end where you look back and say, “oh, I made that thing.” You have to enjoy the process more than you enjoy patting yourself on the back about having a product that you created. […]

A Eulogy For TikTok

“More than any other app I’ve used, TikTok tethered me to the brutality and the beauty of being a person in the world. Its algorithm seemed to want to make me sob, by whatever means necessary, and so I watched war and death and grief and pain from afar, at the same clip that I […]

Chat, Is This New Teen Slang Real?

“Teens are taking slang from the screen to the schoolyard. It’s reshaping the way that they connect with each other and the world.”

NaNoWriMo + AI: Should Writers Be Able To Use AI? The Debate Continues

“NaNoWriMo has had a slew of criticisms thrown its way due to its statement on the use of generative A.I. in writing that was released last week.. At the time of reporting, the page has been updated a third time, removing the initial verbiage, keeping the text of the first edit, and linking to a […]

More Legal Questions About Copyright And A.I.

“One big problem for Ross Intelligence is that it was apparently using Thomson Reuters’ content with the hopes of competing directly with the company. Ross shut down operations in 2021, after it was sued. “If your work is directly competing in the same market with the work that you’re using, that’s a huge factor weighing […]

Issues

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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