When to put the devices away (and what to do when they're gone) "It’s more 'all or nothing' thinking. Before, it was 'technology will revolutionize education.' Now, it’s 'technology is a terrible way to learn.'"

When to put the devices away (and what to do when they're gone)

In my social media feeds, I don’t have to go very far to find posts decrying technology in the classroom.People are upset and want change. And I

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Show Them the Ceiling and the Floor of AI "I’m not trying to raise children who believe it’s magic, & I’m not trying to raise children who believe it’s poison. I want them to pick it up the way they’d pick up any powerful tool — knowing what it’s built for, what it’s bad at"

Show Them the Ceiling and the Floor of AI

Students who only see AI's power become marks. Students who only see its flaws get left behind. Fluency is teaching both.

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Neurodiversity 101: Is ADHD real? Is that the right question? | LinkedIn "DSM-5-TR defines ADHD as a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development. Diagnosis requires six or more symptoms of inattention"

Neurodiversity 101: Is ADHD real? Is that the right question?

What the evidence actually shows construct validity, outcome validity, and why differential diagnosis still matters. Every so often, ADHD's status as a genuine, definable condition gets questioned again in comment sections, in newsrooms, sometimes in staff rooms in schools and in workplaces.

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Google Search: AI Overview & AI Mode "it is ubiquitous on children's personal & school-issued devices, its AI features can't be turned off, & its AI-generated answers often fail in ways that young users may not be able to detect." institute.commonsens...

Problem Patterns in AI: Beyond Hallucinations "slop isn’t just about hallucinations: strip out all the factual errors & the feeling of slop remains: the genericity, the fluent-seeming but empty prose, the structures & rhetorical techniques."

Problem Patterns in AI: Beyond Hallucinations

The article discusses the rise of “AI slop”, characterised by generic, uninspired content produced by AI, often resulting in stylistic and substantive issues, rather than just factual i…

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Adults Have Struggled to Set Rules for AI In School. These Teens Figured It Out "high school juniors & seniors, gathered in a precise replica of the U.S. Senate chamber & attempted what the real, adult Congress has largely failed to do: draft & pass 'legislation'"

Adults Have Struggled to Set Rules for AI In School. These Teens Figured It Out | KQED

Should students be allowed to use AI on assignments? What about on tests? Who should teach AI literacy? About 100 teenagers got together to try to decide.

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ADHD Looks Different in Girls and Women, Posing Unique Health Risks "symptoms in girls are easier to miss. That’s one reason why girls tend to get diagnosed years later than boys, often not until adulthood. Instead, women will spend years wondering what’s wrong with them"

ADHD Looks Different in Girls and Women, Posing Unique Health Risks | KQED

For decades, ADHD was viewed as a childhood condition that mostly affected boys. Researchers now know ADHD manifests differently in girls, but many still go undiagnosed until adulthood.

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Mental models of data needed as well "users exhibit a strong "trust bias" toward search engine rankings. Participants consistently assumed that if a page was at the top of Google, it was the definitive answer."

SearchResearch (07/31/26): Mental models of data needed as well

What do you believe about the data? In the previous post I wrote about mental models of systems—that is, how you believe an information retr...

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Big Companies Are Starting to Hire Again, Defying Predictions of AI Wipeout - WSJ “After a year of holding back on new hires, companies from tech and transportation to defense now say they need more people to work alongside AI” www.wsj.com/business...

Trump's huge hidden upward redistribution “American consumers are getting shafted. Their wages aren’t keeping up with the price increases. Yet they have no alternative but to pay the higher costs for energy and steel and everything else”

Trump's huge hidden upward redistribution

The truth about Trump's war, Trump's tariffs, and Trumponomics

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The Most Expensive Assumption We Ever Made "the ban had been fear, not strategy — and during those months of prohibition, students didn’t stop using ChatGPT. They stopped using it where any adult could see them and coach them"

The Most Expensive Assumption We Ever Made

Why leaning into AI conversations in our schools is a must and why prohibition defers the teaching somewhere else

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Google Was a Lifeline for Publishers. Now Some Are Thinking of Cutting It Off. "AI changes the way people ask questions, siphons off search traffic & upends publishers’ revenue models. They say the search engine is no longer a reliable source of visitors" www.wsj.com/business...

A Leading School Shootings Researcher Says He Was Wrong | KQED “Astor now believes many perpetrators are driven by a desire for notoriety. Shooters study previous massacres, learn from online communities and seek the publicity that follows a mass attack.”

A Leading School Shootings Researcher Says He Was Wrong | KQED

Anti-bullying and social-emotional learning haven’t reduced school shootings. Minimizing public attention on shooters might.

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Teachers union blasts use of AI-powered classroom robot "'A robot built by a company associated with sex dolls has no business in our classrooms,' said New York State United Teachers President Melinda Person." www.timesunion.com/e...

How to elevate an award-winning math strategy "transitioned teachers from working in isolation to participating in job-embedded, collaborative professional development tailored to their specific classroom needs"

How to elevate an award-winning math strategy

Tuscaloosa City Schools is proving that the secret to national math success is investing in people.

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Case Study: Understanding Cyclospora Infection "Instead of memorizing facts about parasites, students become medical investigators. They follow Ryan, a healthy young man whose seemingly harmless meal leads to days of explosive diarrhea, dehydration"

Case Study: Understanding Cyclospora Infection

Explore a real Cyclospora outbreak through a case study with diagnosis, digestion, CER writing, and anatomy connections for biology students.

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One of the world's rarest animals has been caught on camera – and the photo is extraordinary “two-year-old Mãhina, which means ‘moon’ in Tongan, is a true rarity – only 1 in 40,000 humpback whales is born with this lack of colouration”

One of the world's rarest animals has been caught on camera – and the photo is extraordinary | BBC Science Focus Magazine

Say hello to Mãhina, an all-white humpback whale who starred in the 2026 World Nature Photographer of the Year competition

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Guidance on AI Detectors — AI for Education "current research shows they have important limitations and should not be relied on as the sole evidence of academic misconduct"

Guidance on AI Detectors — AI for Education

A practical, research-informed guide to the appropriate use of AI detectors in education.

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How AI Literacy Changes Student Use of AI — AI for Education "when students recieve good AI literacy training means more critical use of the tools"

How AI Literacy Changes Student Use of AI — AI for Education

How AI Literacy Changes Student Use of AI

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TikTok Shop creators are facing an AI reckoning "AI can imitate & iterate on these creators' gimmicky videos that use similar scripts around flash sales & short-window price drops. These AI-generated product videos are increasingly showing up in the feed"

TikTok Shop creators are facing an AI reckoning

TikTok Shop brands are using synthetic characters or AI versions of products to test ideas or replace gimmicky videos from side hustlers.

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AI Tutors and Students — AI for Education "The question we should be grappling with shouldn't be how to get young kids to use an AI reading tutor more often. The better question is whether these tools belong in early elementary classrooms at all."

AI Tutors and Students — AI for Education

AI Tutors and Students

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The Crash of 2026 "Even if it’s a bubble, it’s impossible to predict when it will burst. Maybe not for several years. And maybe not with a bang but with a whimper"

The Crash of 2026

I hope I'm being unnecessarily alarmist

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US judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of copyright lawsuit “ruled that Anthropic made fair use of the authors' work to train Claude, but found that the company ​violated their rights by saving ​more than 7 million ⁠pirated books to a ‘central library’” www.reuters.com/worl...

How much fiber do you need in a day? We asked a gastroenterologist. | Popular Science “The primary role of dietary fiber is to enable proper digestion, which eventually turns what we eat into energy, muscle, bone, and—every fibermaxxer’s favorite—waste.”

How much fiber do you need in a day? We asked a gastroenterologist.

Is the high-fiber trend all it’s crapped up to be? We consulted the gut gurus on fibermaxxing.

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Education Researchers Warn Political Review of Federal Grants Could Reshape What Gets Studied | KQED "education research groups argued that some provisions could have unintended and harmful consequences by narrowing the questions researchers study"

Education Researchers Warn Political Review of Federal Grants Could Reshape What Gets Studied | KQED

Critics say the White House proposal could curtail studies of achievement gaps and long-term research.

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Scrawled signature names a Maya astronomer for the first time "Sak Tahn Waax. The signature of this person, whose name translates to “white-chested fox,” was found on a wall scrawled with mathematical formulas in a room that may have served as a sort of math classroom" www.science.org/cont...

'The Trojan Teddy Bear': The Promise and Peril of Childhood in the Age of AI "they carry hidden risks for child development. she wanted to emphasize the positive — & irreplaceable — role that parents, teachers, & caregivers play in molding young ones"

'The Trojan Teddy Bear': The Promise and Peril of Childhood in the Age of AI | KQED

AI is moving beyond chatbots and into toys, dolls, and robots built to befriend children. A leading child-development expert says the technology offers real promise — but also risks crowding out the human relationships children need most.

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Harmful tech? Why cell phone bans only fix part of the issue “The goal, she says, is to move away from technology that limits the teacher’s ability to provide tailored instruction and encourage classroom participation.”

Harmful tech? Why cellphone bans only fix part of the issue

The pushback against screens goes beyond cell phones. Educators tech that "untethers" them from the front of the classroom.

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Ancient Egyptian princesses were skilled archers and used weapons 4,000 years ago, bone study finds | Archaeology News Online Magazine “Weapons buried with ancient Egyptian princesses have long puzzled archaeologists.”

Ancient Egyptian princesses were skilled archers and used weapons 4,000 years ago, bone study finds | Archaeology News Online Magazine

Ancient Egyptian princesses buried with bows and daggers used them in life, new skeletal analysis from Dahshur suggests.

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😳😖 A New York school district is testing robot teachers “The robot, part of Realbotix' M-Series and named Sally, will be present in select Salamanca City Central high school AI and Robotics courses.”

New York school district is testing lifelike robot teachers

AI company Realbotix is piloting STEM robots for rural schools.

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