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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Apache Iceberg Dev Mailing List – Weekly Digest (Aug 9 – 15, 2025)

SparkTable refreshEagerly clarification The week began with a clarification question about the refreshEagerly option on SparkTable. Limin Ma asked whether enabling refreshEagerly would automatically fetch changes from the remote catalog and update Spark’s schema. Szehon Ho clarified that refreshEagerly only refreshes the local table metadata; it does not fetch remote changes. To ensure that Spark sees the…

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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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Local Meeting Notes with Whisper Transcription + Ollama Summaries (Gemma3n, LLaMA, Mistral) — Meetily AI

Introduction Taking notes during meetings is one of those universal pain points. Most teams either assign someone to jot down minutes, or rely on cloud-based AI note takers like Otter, Fireflies, or Jamie. But these come with trade-offs: Your data lives on someone else’s servers. Subscription costs scale with team size. Integrations can break or…

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