I once believed university was a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated.
Reading, Writing, and Thinking in the Age of AI
Writing fosters genuine expertise by requiring students to organize, integrate, and apply knowledge across contexts, a cognitive process AI cannot replicate. By embedding informal writing, iterative feedback, and synthesis into learning, educators cultivate critical thinking and deep disciplinary understanding.
OpenAI Launches Its Shiny New GPT-4.5 AI Model — But It’s Not What You’re Expecting
The long-awaited moment is here: ChatGPT is receiving an enormous upgrade to GPT-4.5. However, despite OpenAI calling GPT-4.5 its “largest and most knowledgeable model,” it comes with a few caveats that might see you continuing to use its older models …
AI Is Changing How We Learn: The New Role Of Human Teachers
AI should support, not replace, human teaching, enhancing education while preserving critical thinking and emotional intelligence. Teachers remain essential as guides in fostering curiosity, ethics, and human insight in an AI-driven world.
Some Teachers’ Use of AI
I have gathered comments from teachers who used AI in daily lessons and to grade student work.
Turkey’s translators are training the AI tools that will replace them
Human fallout may include being replaced by LLMs, diminished skills, and fewer career options for all but the elite scholars.
https://restofworld.org/2025/turkeys-translators-training-ai-replacements…
The Cambridge Handbook of the Law, Ethics and Policy of Artificial Intelligence
This collection features essays on AI’s impact across ethics, law, policy, and various sectors, emphasizing the importance of learning from historical governance. It warns against excessive AI hype and urges a balanced, informed perspective. The book is available as an …
What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor
French AI company Mistral, valued at $6 billion, is gaining attention with its assistant Le Chat, endorsed by President Macron. Despite the hype, it still faces challenges competing with OpenAI while maintaining its eco-friendly and independent identity.
What Students Are Saying About A.I. and the Future of Work
We asked teenagers, Are you worried about A.I. taking human jobs? They shared their hopes and fears about an increasingly technologically-driven future.
How I Made Copilot in Microsoft Word My Writing Partner
Copilot in Word allows you to leverage the power of AI to go from a blank page to a complete draft. But apart from just writing from scratch, I’ve also been using Copilot to analyze and transform my documents.
https://www.makeuseof.com/using-copilot-microsoft-word-writing…
Claude: Everything you need to know about Anthropic’s AI
Anthropic’s Claude AI models handle tasks like writing, coding, and image captioning, but keeping track of them can be challenging. This guide provides an updated overview of Claude’s capabilities.
Alibaba offers free access to its AI model that can generate realistic video and images
Alibaba has open-sourced four variants of its Wan 2.1 generative AI models, enabling users to create realistic videos and images from text or image input. These models are available on Alibaba Cloud’s ModelScope and Hugging Face for researchers, academics, and …
AI-detection software isn’t the solution to classroom cheating — assessment has to shift
Two years after ChatGPT’s release, educators remain divided on AI in assessment—some ban it, others embrace it, and many struggle with inconsistent policies. AI detection tools help but fail to solve the deeper issue of designing valid assessments.
The Costs of AI in Education
Universities are purchasing AI licenses not for access or equity but for the illusion of control, believing large-scale adoption will help them manage student use. However, students already have free or low-cost access to top AI tools, and institutional AI …
New Tools. Old Complaints. Why AI Won’t Kill Education or Fix it
AI won’t kill education. But will it kill learning? The challenge isn’t AI itself—it’s whether students can still think for themselves when the answers are always one click away.
https://www.coolcatteacher.com/artificial-intelligence-in-schools…