NotebookLM now adds Cinematic Video Overviews, a feature that converts uploaded documents into animated video explainers with dynamic visuals to make research easier to understand.
Harvard Professor Says AI Users Are Losing Cognitive Abilities
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb warns that excessive reliance on AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini may erode human cognitive abilities and critical thinking over time.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/harvard-avi-loeb-ai…
Academics Need to Wake Up on AI
A researcher argues that recent advances in AI are poised to radically transform academic research, publishing, and the structure of academia itself.
https://alexanderkustov.substack.com/p/academics-need-to-wake-up-on-ai…
6 free AI tools that do the same thing as ChatGPT Pro
As free AI tools have rapidly improved, the author shifted from paying for ChatGPT Pro to using a combination of specialized free tools that collectively meet their daily productivity needs.
https://www.xda-developers.com/6-free-ai-tools-that-do-the-same-thing-as-chatgpt-pro…
13 Powerful Studies That Tell the Story of AI
As AI use rises, the distinction between shortcut or scaffold becomes increasingly harder to spot.
https://www.edutopia.org/article/13-powerful-studies-that-tell-the-story-of-ai…
AI Agents Are Recruiting Humans To Observe The Offline World
Agents need us, as sensors, as verifiers, as bearers of liability, in ways we have barely begun to account for.
You’re overpaying for a password manager: this free one does everything you need
Bitwarden offers most essential password-manager features for free, making it a strong alternative to the more polished but paid 1Password.
https://www.makeuseof.com/bitwarden-vs-paid-password-managers…
Towards the Permissive and Transparent use of Generative AI in Education
Since 2022, generative AI has made it easy for students to produce essays, presentations, and even videos, forcing educators to rethink traditional assessment strategies.
College students, professors are making their own AI rules. They don’t always agree
As generative AI becomes widespread in education, professors and students are divided between seeing it as a shortcut that undermines critical thinking and embracing it as a powerful tool that, if used responsibly, can enhance learning.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/03/nx-s1-5716176/ai-college-students-professors…
AI Literacy Frameworks
This tool, which the website source reveals was created by Perplexity computer, compares 20 AI literacy frameworks across 9 domains. The domains are: technical understanding, practical application, critical evaluation, ethical reasoning, societal and systemic awareness, human agency and identity, governance …
Open data, private learners: a de-identified student activity and performance dataset for learning analytics
Learning Analytics leverages students’ digital interaction data to study and optimize learning processes, but while expanding research collaboration, it also raises significant privacy concerns, addressed here through a publicly shared, de-identified clickstream dataset with documented validation.
Want AI Certification? Anthropic’s Claude Courses Are Now Free
Anthropic has launched Anthropic Academy, a free training platform offering practical AI courses to help students, professionals, and developers effectively use and integrate its Claude models into everyday work.
https://in.mashable.com/tech/106518/want-ai-certification-anthropics-claude-courses-are-now-free…
What We Must Do About AI In Education
The Manifesto for Generative AI in Higher Education by Hazel Farrell and Ken McCarthy (2025). A critique of the Manifesto’s claim that students “must learn with GenAI before they can question it” argues that firsthand use is not a prerequisite …
How do students regulate their learning with a genAI chatbot?
An exploratory study found that while most students used a genAI chatbot to boost essay performance and engage in higher-level cognition, many offloaded key self-regulated learning processes, highlighting both benefits and risks of AI integration in digital learning.
https://learningletters.org/index.php/learn/article/view/61…
Agentic AI Can Complete Whole Courses for Students. Now What?
Three years after ChatGPT ignited academic integrity concerns, new AI agents like Advait Paliwal’s “Einstein” can now autonomously log into Canvas and complete entire online courses, fundamentally challenging traditional models of teaching and assessment.