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

Epistemology: “Learning Is About Trust, Not Truth”

“To learn from an experience, we have to trust the evidence of our senses. To learn from a person, we have to trust them enough to believe that what they’re sharing is knowledge. We have to feel their values align with ours in that moment. Trust is a proxy for certainty in the absence of […]

AI Both Helps And Hurts Students In Assessments

“This term, the highest and lowest marks I awarded were to AI-augmented submissions. The worst one was a depressing stack of LLM list outputs, complete with Title Case Subheadings. Although there was no declaration of AI use, it wasn’t a stretch to imagine how the student might have prompted a bot with key words from […]

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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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