Teachers Are Trying to Make AI Work for Them

Jennifer Goodnow, who teaches English as a second language in New York, feels similarly. She now plugs complex readings, like essays or book excerpts, into ChatGPT and asks it to create separate versions for advanced and beginner students, with corresponding depth-of-knowledge questions. Amanda Bickerstaff, a former teacher and CEO of AI for Education, an organization…

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Is Roblox Getting Worse? | WIRED

Still, when the biggest game during the summer break involves kids cultivating their own gardens, it’s easy to see why parents let their children continue to use the platform. “Maybe it’s because of the graphics, or maybe it’s because of the way it’s marketed, [but] there’s an assumption that Roblox is made for children, and…

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The End of Handwriting | WIRED

People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal punishment perfected my penmanship. But that’s not why. It’s because of my mom. An engineer by trade, she can execute the kind of perfect block letters that only come with years of working on…

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