A former teacher and self-described curmudgeon writes essays on education and technology, arguing that classroom screens and enshittified edtech distract students and entrench costly systems. Other issues reflect on what genuinely appreciating teachers looks like, drawing on personal memories of idiosyncratic teachers.
Website: https://www.selim.digital/
Ethan Mollick's newsletter explores how AI is changing work, education, and everyday life, drawing on his research and hands-on experiments with agentic AI tools. Readers get practical examples of rapidly advancing AI capabilities, along with reflections on management, delegation, and the pace of progress.
Covers research and practical experience on reforming grading in higher education, including alternative grading, ungrading, and late-work policies. Readers get firsthand course designs, evidence reviews, and guest posts from instructors.
A newsletter by a cognitive scientist that examines research on critical thinking, generative AI and human reasoning. Issues unpack specific papers and their methods, and discuss what the findings do and do not show.
Tom Yeh's newsletter teaches AI math, algorithms and model architectures through hand-worked examples and Excel spreadsheets, plus announcements for guest seminars. Readers get step-by-step walkthroughs of topics such as RNNs and small language models, with downloadable live calculations.
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