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

What 47,000 ChatGPT Conversations Reveal About Humanity

“Almost 1 in 10 users said the main reason was for social interaction… OpenAI estimated last month that 0.15 percent of its users each week — more than a million people — show signs of being emotionally reliant on the chatbot.”

How TikTok Addicts Its Users [Interactive]

“After a month, more than three-quarters of the users who had typically spent roughly 30 minutes per day on TikTok were now spending nearly twice that much time on the app, on average. A few months later, these users’ daily watch times reached 70 minutes, on average. For some, their time spent scrolling every day […]

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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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