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?
Once a week, I work to share news articles and stories with you that I'm using. I want you to have quick ideas for turning headlines into a warm-up, debate, or story starter.
Show notes and links: https://www.coolcatteacher.com/e902
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