He captivated the world with visions of self-driving cars and Google Glass and has signed up 1.6 million students for online classes. So why is he pivoting away from MOOCs? "We don't educate people as others wished, or as I wished," Thrun says.
Learning Online | Christina Cacioppo
That we’ll learn school-ish things on the internet seems inevitable, but most people seem not to learn very much or very quickly online; Sebastian Thrun admitted as much in a Fast Company interview a few months ago. To figure out how computers actually could help people learn, I spent the summer teaching students and building software.
Why is Claude for Teachers?
Anthropic bumbles its way into education
Praxis on Twitter / X
I think we should question the way we talk about useful education. Useful to whom, exactly? And who gets to decide which kinds of education are worth pursuing? Gramsci’s Men or Machines? has something to say about this. Obviously, he was writing in a different historical++ pic.twitter.com/5JVwkz7hqN— Praxis (@praxiss) November 8, 2026
Learning to code is overrated: An accomplished programmer would rather his kids learn to read and reason
Mayor de Blasio is winning widespread praise for his recent promise that, within 10 years, all of New York City’s public schoolchildren will take computer science classes. But as a career programmer who founded two successful software…
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
Josh Braun (@josh@sciences.social)
Look, the price of tuition today is a crushing burden that shocks the conscience. Amid this backdrop, there's no way for families *not* to look at college — or choice of degree — in terms of return on investment. 🧵 1/9 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/podcasts/the-daily/is-college-worth-it.html
‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom
Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?
Why a leading professor of new media just banned technology use in class
Anyone distracted in class doesn’t just lose out on the content of the discussion but creates a sense of permission that opting out is OK, and, worse, a haze of second-hand distraction for peers.
Can AT Protocol Fix Monolithic Platforms?
How to Break the Academic Silo Mindset - The Community Solution Education System
What’s stopping higher education from reaching its full potential? In this episode of Radical Cooperation, Dr. Michael Horowitz sits down with Dr. Beronda Montgomery—biologist, author of Lessons from Plants, and former Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean at Grinnell College—to unpack why silos persist in colleges and universities, and how those divisions hold institutions […]
Education Shouldn't Be Held for Ransom
Google told K-12 schools they could turn off AI, but only if they gave up search too. That isn’t integration. It’s holding education for ransom.
Why students are throwing tons of money at a program that won’t give them a college degree
There's a hidden dark side of one of the hottest trends in higher education.
Academia: What Was "Digital Literacy"?
Short Shelf Lives Make For Bad Curricular Planning
Learning to Learn: You, Too, Can Rewire Your Brain (Published 2017)
How an engineering professor who “flunked my way” through high school math and science went on to create the world’s most popular online course.
the collapse of online political education is upon us
the greatest minds of our generation are wasting time making video essays about sydney sweeneys jeans, liberal influencers are taking dark money, Philosophy YouTube is crumbling & im really stressed
Apple's Student Discount