educationThursday, July 16, 2026
Today's education coverage is split between practical responses to AI and wild overreactions. A school shares its collaborative approach to AI policy, while a sex doll company's proposal to make AI teachers reminds us how bizarre the landscape can get. Meanwhile, deeper pieces question what cognitive skills we're losing and how to use AI as a scaffold.
Two pieces show the range of responses schools are having to AI, from thoughtful to absurd.
An Indigenous school's tech coordinator shares how they built an AI-ready culture through open dialogue and common sense, offering a rare example of a school that didn't just ban or ignore generative AI.
Realbotix, a company that started with crypto and then sex dolls, is now pitching AI teachers to a New York school district. The piece rightly points out the absurdity of using companionship-based AI tech in classrooms.
This article argues that AI is quietly eroding cognitive skills like writing and reasoning by removing the friction that forced us to practice them. It shifts the conversation from job displacement to skill atrophy.
A counterpoint to the fear: this piece suggests AI can be a learning scaffold in higher education, enhancing Socratic dialogue and critical thinking rather than undermining it.
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Confidence Trickery, Illogic, and Misrepresentation in Knowledge Engineeringmark-burgess-oslo-mb.medium.com
Women in marine sciences in India: progress or disparity?www.frontiersin.org
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Education Department Begins Notifying Student Loan Borrowers They Have 90 Days To Switch Planswww.forbes.com20+ Beautiful Handwriting Fonts for Students & Teachersdesignshack.net
A curated collection of over 20 handwriting fonts suitable for educational materials, worksheets, and classroom resources. The article presents fonts that balance playful, human-like handwriting aesthetics with readability, making them ideal for teachers and students creating sch
Chicago Public Schools plans to lay off 760 teachers as officials look to close massive deficitwww.chicagotribune.com
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) leaders unveiled a proposed budget that includes laying off 760 teachers and 801 school-based support staff, along with five furlough days, to address a $732 million deficit. Some layoffs stem from reducing the student-to-teacher allocation ratio by o
Seed function in space and time: how spatial transcriptomics completes the picturedoi.org
This review article examines how spatial transcriptomics technologies are being applied to study spatiotemporal gene expression in seed development and germination. It highlights that while these technologies have advanced knowledge of gene expression patterns in plant and animal
Ten quick tips to SNIFF out sustainable and secure scientific softwarejournals.plos.org
This article presents ten quick tips organized around the SNIFF framework (Source, Network, Interaction, Fit, Fragility) to help researchers evaluate whether open-source scientific software tools are reliable, secure, and sustainable. While extensive guidance exists for building
Disability Services | Berkeley Public Librarywww.berkeleypubliclibrary.org
This is a library services page from Berkeley Public Library detailing accommodations and resources for patrons with disabilities. It lists available services including sign language interpreters, real-time captioning, large print materials, California Relay Service, audiobooks,
NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebookblog.google
NotebookLM, Google's AI-powered note-taking and research assistant, has been rebranded as Gemini Notebook. The product remains the same standalone tool but now features deeper integration with Google's ecosystem, including Gemini AI capabilities and a secure cloud computing envir
Linux Desktop Startup Recovery: A Beginner’s Guideostechnix.com
A practical guide for beginners on recovering a Linux desktop that fails to start (showing only a black screen). It explains that the OS likely hasn't crashed — only the graphical interface has failed. The guide covers identifying the failed component, regaining system access via
Call For Papers: Future Perspectives on Battery Chemistriesgo.acs.org
This is a Call for Papers announcement for a Special Issue at JACS Au focused on future battery chemistries beyond Li-ion technology. It invites submissions on emerging systems such as alkali-ion, multivalent, aqueous, organic, Li-metal, Li–S, Li–O2, and solid-state batteries, wi
Wait-a-Minute! Viking Mars Missions, A Search for Life on the Red Planet Revisitedwww.leonarddavid.com
A reflective piece marking the 50th anniversary of NASA's Viking Mars missions, which sought to answer whether there is life on Mars. The article highlights a special issue of Astrobiology journal featuring expert contributions on the historical Viking program, the transition to
Subject Content for V Levels Revealedwww.fenews.co.uk
The UK government has published subject content for new V Levels, Foundation Certificates, and Occupational Certificates — qualifications designed to provide alternative routes into skilled jobs for young people who may not thrive in a traditional one-size-fits-all education syst
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