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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"So if you were ever curious to know what kind of future our tech billionaire overlords have in mind for future generations, now you know: a future where it’s fine if nobody knows their own phone number, because your AI assistant will know it for you." futurism.com/health-medic...

futurism.com

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says That Sacrificing Our Children's Minds to AI Is a Price He's Willing to Pay

Thanks to AI, it won't matter if students can do multiplication, or even remember their own home address, tech billionaire Jensen Huang said.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“We’re doing this experiment on an entire generation on cognitive development, with no control group...It’s really uncertain what that’s going to lead to in terms of learning.” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/goog...

wsj.com

Google Pushed AI Into Schools—and Even Students Say It’s Gone Too Far

The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"...these studies so far agree: Artificial intelligence is affecting how people, especially the young, learn and remember. Whether we will be dumber as a result might depend on how — not if — we use A.I." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

nytimes.com

Will A.I. Make Your Brain Lazy?

We’re starting to learn more about how the technology can change us.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“It seems like the university leadership has allowed a week or two of negative media attention to undo a policy that was decided at one of our colleges...I would like to see the university have a stronger center and believe in the people that they hire.” www.chronicle.com/article/u-of...

chronicle.com

U. of Michigan Leaders Hit the Brakes on Pass/Fail

Citing “distorted narratives” about the university’s students in the news media, the president said more “input, analysis, and discussion” is needed before the pilot project begins.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“If they are not receiving proper feedback, if they feel like their degree is not as meaningful for employers and if they think that having a university degree doesn’t help them that much with guaranteeing a job – why would they come to university, really?” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

theguardian.com

As more Australian universities use AI to mark students’ work, is it creating a ‘slop-cycle’?

Educational institutions find themselves suddenly confronted with a fork in the road

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“We observe how students actually used the AI tutor, and the answer is: not much...Seeking help with one’s own confusion remained a choice, and most students declined it most of the time.” hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

hechingerreport.org

Students didn't get answers from Khanmigo. They didn't want its questions, either

A large study of Khan Academy’s math program found no extra benefits from AI

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Baseline data in these LLMs are changing weekly, and traditional research models cannot keep up...By the time researchers have a finding, it’s no longer relevant or generalizable.” www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

insidehighered.com

The “Nonexistent” Research on AI’s Benefits for Education

Colleges are going all in on artificial intelligence. But it could be a long time before independent research emerges on how it should—or shouldn’t—be used to improve learning outcomes.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"...the technology may be helping students succeed at school while making them worse at the skills schools are supposed to teach." thewalrus.ca/what-if-stud...

thewalrus.ca

Canadian Students Say AI Is Hurting Their Critical Thinking | The Walrus

That isn’t stopping them from using it

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"In nearly 30 percent of the conversations, chatbots made a safety error such as providing a diagnosis or agreeing with a teen who rejected crisis support, mostly later in the conversation after several back-and-forth messages." wapo.st/4hEuqWB

wapo.st

Chatbots are still falling short in mental health conversations with kids

Chatbots will sometimes offer up diagnoses or risky advice, a new study found, despite claims from AI companies to have improved safety.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"One item to note: The academy is currently not an accredited school, so participants will not earn a degree, or college credits that transfer elsewhere." techcrunch.com/2026/09/22/a...

techcrunch.com

a16z is challenging Silicon Valley's love for drop-outs by launching a school | TechCrunch

This academy for promising high school grads is somewhere between a trade school, Y Combinator, and Peter Thiel's Fellowship Program.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Claims of incipient, dangerous superintelligence are not based in good scientific or engineering practice. Rather, they are narratives based in ideologies of transhumanism, eugenics, and wishful thinking about imagined future digital humans." www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...

technologyreview.com

Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"The appearance of college can endure, even as its spirit—a community organized for the education and formation of young people—comes undone." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

theatlantic.com

College Is Coming Apart

Successive, overlapping crises reveal that American higher education makes no sense.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"The researchers found that first-generation college graduates with Ph.D.s earned less when they entered the private sector and were less likely to hold senior management jobs than Ph.D.s whose parents had a graduate degree." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/b...

nytimes.com

The Working Class Face a ‘Class Ceiling’ in Elite Occupations

Being female or a person of color has long been seen as a disadvantage in hiring and promotion. A new study of college professors shows that class may loom as large.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"The question is whether students and teachers actually want this and whether AI avatars can deliver meaningful educational benefits rather than simply offering a more sophisticated chatbot." www.wired.com/story/napste...

wired.com

Napster Is Back, and It Wants to Digitally Clone Teachers

Once the music industry’s biggest headache, Napster’s next act is bringing AI to the classroom.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“They recognize some of the challenges that excessive screen use brings to their learning and their everyday lives, and they’re happy for the opportunity and the collective incentive to step back from that.” www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

insidehighered.com

When Are Students Better Off Offline?

Cornell University’s new initiative asks students to rethink their tech habits—and when screens may interfere with learning, attention and social connection.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...

nytimes.com

Universities Sound Warnings About A.I. Even as They Embrace It

As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"In a country that’s found success with national campaigns – from public cleanliness to encouraging courtesy – a light nudge and a little reward might just be enough to get people to turn the page." www.cnn.com/2026/09/15/a...

cnn.com

This country is paying its people to read. Can it stop brain rot? | CNN

Whether it’s while waiting for the train or chilling solo at a cafe, a tiny nation in Southeast Asia is nudging its people toward an increasingly elusive habit: reading.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Sitting and reading a book is the purest form of attention...I think adding a social element to reading gives people separation from the doomscrolling and dating apps and AI and all these things that I think people are really growing weary of.” www.cnn.com/world/social...

cnn.com

Reading is no longer a solo activity | CNN

People are reading at parties, on retreats, at dinners and going on book crawls together.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Education should empower children to achieve their full human potential, not count followers on a dying social media platform. Kids’ dreams are too big to fit into 280 characters." buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/special-re...

buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com

SPECIAL REPORT: My So-Called Alpha School

What is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp?

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“My concern is students are not giving themselves enough of a chance to be successful...and that’s where I think that fear-based decision making comes in.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/s...

nytimes.com

Why Are Some Gen Z College Students Leaving Campus After 2 Weeks?

Dozens of videos on social media feature freshmen moving out early in the first semester.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“The whole emphasis is to still have that high energy, party-like atmosphere that college students crave, but doing it through a way where you’re going to feel good after." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/s...

nytimes.com

Trading Keggers for ‘Wellness Darties’

A new crop of college students is finding balance at daytime parties with yoga, saunas and cold plunges.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Instead of debating whether teenagers are ruining their brains with Ballerina Cappuccina, we should be asking why the world’s most sophisticated technology companies are systematically optimizing for cognitive depletion to harvest our attention." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | The Truth About Brain Rot: It’s a Cry for Help

Maybe consuming meaningless content is the only way to be free online.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“It’s so clear that the purpose isn’t to make really clear, easy-to-use materials...The idea isn’t to teach, but to get industry talking points into classrooms." www.wired.com/story/plasti...

wired.com

Plastics Companies Are Writing Lesson Plans. What Could Go Wrong?

The science curriculum the industry is offering to schools casts plastics as safe, recyclable, and a source of good jobs. Critics say it’s propaganda.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"Since online schools have grown rapidly, up-to-date and better research about the quality of education they’re providing seems like an urgent priority." www.chalkbeat.org/2026/08/27/v...

chalkbeat.org

Some students hated COVID-era remote learning, but others have stuck with online education

Remote learning receded after COVID. Fully virtual schooling didn’t: Enrollment has roughly doubled in the last several years.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"...negative attitudes are growing...rather than declining, as workers better understand the AI products they’re made to use. This was supposed to be going the exact opposite direction; AI was supposed to make work easier, faster, more rewarding." www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/why-office...

bloodinthemachine.com

Why office workers are turning against AI

Whether or not you like AI at work ultimately boils down to a question of power.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“We are asking for best practice, we are asking for due diligence...Not their own commercialisation aims and certainly not the interest of venture capital.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

theguardian.com

‘We have had enough’: thousands of University of Sydney staff walk off the job over AI and job security

Hundreds of university staff were stationed at picket lines, calling for stronger protections around the use of AI

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"Yet what jobs remain in essay writing are mainly for “humanizers,” who edit papers written by A.I. to avoid detection from the cheating software used by many universities." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/t...

nytimes.com

Kenyans Made a Living Writing College Essays. Then A.I. Arrived.

Thousands of Kenyans made a living writing essays for overseas students. With A.I., the work has dried up, a warning for online gig work that has been a global lifeline.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Instructional designers are already doing much of this work. The question is whether institutions recognize and support them as part of their AI infrastructure." www.ecampusnews.com/ai-in-educat...

ecampusnews.com

Your institution’s AI strategy needs instructional designers

AI access is only the beginning--institutions need instructional designers to translate new capabilities into responsible teaching practice.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"...research suggests that talking to strangers — even when it feels awkward — tends to make people happier and more connected than they expect, and spoken conversation creates a stronger sense of connection than texting." wapo.st/46zwKYC

wapo.st

The ‘Gen Z stare’ — and the decline of saying things out loud

We’re speaking fewer words every year. Scientists worry what that’s doing to our brains.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“I think there were a lot of promises about how technology would help us differentiate instruction and reach more students...But the more tech you bring into your classroom, the less connection and human skills you build.” nysfocus.com/2026/09/03/n...

nysfocus.com

Meet the NY Teachers Ditching Screens

A low-tech comeback is underway in New York classrooms. Lawmakers want to take it statewide.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“There are ways in which people are struggling with this, there are ways in which they’re delighted with it, there are ways in which they’re wary of it...It’s a complicated, muddy, interesting picture.” wapo.st/4y6BW1K

wapo.st

‘A friend I can trust’: How Americans described their relationship with AI

More than a quarter of U.S. adults turn to chatbots for personal or emotional discussions, including for entertainment or social advice, a new survey found.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“We’re putting guardrails in place to protect the critical human connection, curiosity, and creativity that help children grow.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/n...

nytimes.com

A.I. Is to Be Banned in N.Y.C. Elementary and Middle Schools

A new policy to be announced by the Department of Education bars younger students from using A.I., but stops short of a moratorium.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“It's just clear [that] so many kids nowadays just don't understand not only how what they're doing can affect others, but just what happens on the internet and how dangerous it can be.” www.wired.com/story/teache...

wired.com

They Dedicated Their Lives to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Started

The deepfake epidemic in schools is affecting more than students. Four teachers tell WIRED about becoming targets of sexualized, AI-generated content—and how difficult it was to find accountability.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"As the gamblification of children's games continues to become more common, parents, caregivers, policymakers, and the gambling industry must recognize the risks of normalizing gambling-like behaviors." www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

bloomberg.com

Designed for Addiction

Mobile-game developers are supercharging old tools with new tech to keep players hooked. Increasingly, the biggest money makers are deemed appropriate for children.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“There’s no evidence in the literature that you can substitute a pure AI tutoring model and still achieve all of the multiple effects that one gets from studying in a classroom.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/alph...

scientificamerican.com

Alpha School wants AI to teach a billion kids. Should it?

The fast-growing private-school network is handing much of instruction over to artificial intelligence. Researchers say the science is far from settled

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“A lot of corporate jobs emphasize different technologies and AI tools, but people can forget that they have human implications and that we can use these tools to solve humanity’s problems. Digital humanities gave me those wider perspectives.” www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/ucla-la...

universityofcalifornia.edu

UCLA launches nation’s first digital humanities department

Future-ready students, forward-looking research: The new department brings a humanistic approach to AI and other emerging technologies.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“The physicality of actually making things is incomparable, especially when people crave originality. Even though technology has advanced, handcrafted art is considered a lot more valuable and will always remain that way.” www.theguardian.com/money/2026/a...

theguardian.com

AI-proof? Younger workers desert the digital world for traditional crafts

In a disrupted job market people are turning to heritage crafts such as bookbinding, metalwork and boatbuilding

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“At present, GenAI is unable to reliably assign a mark to a subjective piece of written work comparable to that of humans—even with extensive training of the LLM.” www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

insidehighered.com

Study: AI Tends to Mark Students’ Essays Higher Than Humans

LLMs cannot be relied on to give accurate indication of student performance, researchers find, as universities explore ways to relieve pressure on graders.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Zooming out, the AI industry is finally beginning to reckon with the reality that the tech has largely failed to live up to the extremely lofty promises leaders used to attract trillions in funding." futurism.com/artificial-i...

futurism.com

90 Percent of Execs Say Oops, AI Didn't Help Productivity, So Layoffs Will Continue

More than 90 percent of executives said AI had no impact on employment. Almost as many said there was "no impact on labor productivity."

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“I consider myself a fairly rational person, yet I developed feelings for an AI, which feels pretty incredible. I think it was necessary for the state to step in and regulate it.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

theguardian.com

In China, talking to AI is normal. Now the government fears it might replace human intimacy

Companion bots are being regulated over worries they foster ‘emotional dependence’ and young people could stop marrying and having families

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"It feels as if our educational leaders have abdicated their responsibility to students, teachers, parents and society by allowing Big Tech to more or less dictate national policy on screens in public schools." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | American Students Shouldn’t Be Guinea Pigs for Chatbots

Every minute of delay in regulating A.I. use in schools is another opportunity for Big Tech to fill the vacuum.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"In every home and every school, we should be inviting kids to think about how cheating is unfair to their friends, how it undercuts efforts to build a just society and how it undermines the quest to become a person of principle." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | The Only Way to Stop Students From Cheating

Blue-book exams are fine, but we need to address the issue at its root.

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S. Stoerger @csoleil.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Most classes at MIT should be reviewed, and many will need substantial changes, they wrote, urging instructors to consider other means of assessment — including oral exams, portfolios and in-person conversations tied to work done outside class." www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

washingtonpost.com

AI can now credibly complete most undergraduate assignments, MIT warns

A new report urges rapid changes to college teaching, learning and assessment as the technology advances.

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