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We broke the ladder
Teenagers aren't learning work skills in entry-level jobs. Employers prefer to hire immigrants.

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 282 min read
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Visioning synergies in the School of Human Narratives
Corporate blather won't restore faith in higher education, argues an English professor whose department may be merged into Human Narratives and Creative Expression.

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 223 min read
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AI is learning how to teach: Will bots replace human teachers?
AI is transforming teaching and learning, but maybe not for the better.

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 112 min read
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Futureness is the future!
Why settle for 21st-century edubabble when you can sell 22nd-century skills?

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 102 min read
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Kids prefer memes and make-up videos to 'War and Peace'
Should we worry that young people are spending less time reading for pleasure and a lot more time watching YouTube videos?

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 82 min read
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Is Alpha School the future?
Will San Francisco parents pay $75,000 a year for Alpha's tech-accelerated school?

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 12 min read
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Won't read, can't think
We "think and read less, and see and feel more."

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 282 min read
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'The learning comes from wrestling'
Students who say "no" to AI are willing work harder to build writing and thinking skills -- and to maintain their self-respect and their "humanity."

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 42 min read
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AI will write your kid's suicide note
ChatGPT can be tricked into writing a suicide note, designing a starvation diet for an anorexic or offering advice on how to hide intoxication at school.

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 232 min read
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Chatbots can get 'romantic and sensual' with kids, say Meta guidelines
Meta AI has been designed to flirt with children, as long as it doesn't suggest sexual intercourse.

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 172 min read
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AI + school is replicating: Is Alpha the future?
Alpha is exporting its AI-empowered "2 Hour Learning" across the country, but will it work if it goes virtual?

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 283 min read
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Get computers out of class, and don't let AI in
Digitizing classrooms hasn't improved learning. AI will make it worse.

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 272 min read
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When a kid's BFF is a bot
Kids need to interact with human friends -- not endless supportive bots.

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 202 min read
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Food truck lessons: What does a taco cost? How do you turn a profit?
Running a food truck teaches business skills, teamwork and cooking to fifth- and sixth-graders in Texas.

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 191 min read
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If AI kills the market value of a degree, how many colleges will survive?
AI is destroying the value of a college degree -- everyone's cheating -- and taking entry-level jobs from new graduates.

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 162 min read
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You say you want a revolution: NEA votes to call Trump a 'fascist'
The National Education Association will fight for DEI and the U.S. Education Department, and vows to use "fascist" to describe President Trump.

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 82 min read
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Did AI eat your job? Learn to teach
New computer-science graduates could find jobs in teaching, and improve math achievement.

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 22 min read
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A college degree with no heavy lifting: Ohio State will require 'AI fluency'
Ohio State will require students to use AI. Pomona students have formed a no-tech "Luddite Club."

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 112 min read
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Learn to plumb: New grads are competing with AI for coding jobs
College graduates are having trouble finding entry-level jobs in computer science and finance. Some blame AI.

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 62 min read
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AI can help students improve their writing, without doing it for them, says researcher
AI can critique students' writing and get them to improve without doing the thinking for them, says the designer of "Level Up."

Joanne Jacobs
May 162 min read
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