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Easy to find, not always true: Helping students evaluate AI-generated content

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Key points: Students need more than digital access; they need guidance 5 AI tools for classroom creativity A new era for teachers as AI disrupts instruction For more news on navigating AI, visit eSNs Digital Learning hub Finding accurate information has long been a cornerstone skill of librarianship and classroom research instruction.

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Hundreds of STEM Grants Have Been Terminated. K-12 Math Educators Will Lose Out

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This is part of a growing trend away from rote learning, which technological advances have made redundant, and towards students developing more robust mathematical problem solving skills. Its worth noting, they say, that they have to apply for federal funds through nonpartisan, peer-reviewed methods.

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Students’ AI Chats Reveal Their Largest Stressors

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What we’re trying to do is deliver skill-building in an interactive way that helps them navigate daily challenges,” says Elsa Friis, a licensed psychologist and head of product and clinical at Alongside, a company with a proprietary AI chatbot app.

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What Can College Instructors Offer Their Students in the Age of AI? 

Faculty Focus

In a world where AI skills and fluency will be necessary and marketable, colleges and universities have made efforts to embrace AI in the classroom (e.g., We are needed to engage them and to help them develop curiosity and critical thinking skills to offset their potential AI-induced brain rot. The Age of AI is Upon Us. Saucier, Ph.D.

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Practical Strategies for Interdisciplinary Teaching in Today’s University

Faculty Focus

O’Sullivan (2025) suggests a “U-shaped learning” model for teaching across fields, focusing on two main skills: blending knowledge and putting it to work. Teachers must be skilled guides, steering talks, handling conflicts, and helping students find common ground. Yang et al. Yang et al. Yang et al.

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Practical Strategies for Interdisciplinary Teaching in Today’s University

Faculty Focus

O’Sullivan (2025) suggests a “U-shaped learning” model for teaching across fields, focusing on two main skills: blending knowledge and putting it to work. Teachers must be skilled guides, steering talks, handling conflicts, and helping students find common ground. Yang et al. Yang et al. Yang et al.

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Self-Checking Student Work to the Rescue!

Teacher Mood

If the point of the activity is fluency, exposure, or skill-building, then students having immediate access to correct answers isnt cheatingits reinforcing. Its a simple concept, but its impact is huge. If students have access to the answers, wont they just copy them? Heres the thing: the goal of practice is learning, not performance.