Teacher Brain Burnout? GPT-4.1 and 8 Other Headlines that Matter
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From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis
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Looking for ideas to engage your students in conversation? In this week's quick news roundup, I give you stories about:
- The impact of overwork on the teacher's brain,
- An idea for an energy drink experiment for science teachers around the chemical “taurine”
- NASA and the tectonic plates of Venus
- YouTube's new “Peak Points” Advertising strategy as an AI article to discuss with students
- ChatGPT 4 going away? And how I teach students to test different models of AI and share their results
- How some people are installing local LLM's on their machines
- New AI guidance for teachers and common patterns I'm noting
- Google's AIME and the future of medical chat bots
- DuoLingo goes AI, and
- A Star-Wars themed personality test gone to the dark side?
We're all so busy. So, once a week, I work to share news articles and stories with you. These are the ones I'm using in my classroom and with other teachers who teach other subjects. I want you to have a quick idea for turning each headline into a warm-up, debate topic, or short project. I also want to feed your intellectually curious mind. Finally, since I'm doing so much with teaching about AI and ethics, I think that the headlines are the best ways to teach (what book can keep up), so I thought by sharing these with you that you would find them helpful. Either way — enjoy!
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