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thecooldown. com > green-tech > college-students-reading-stamina-issue

Professors say students can't finish a 20-page article as sustained reading craters

4+ hour, 17+ min ago  (545+ words) "What I am seeing in my classroom is no longer a hunch." A professor described students who could not get through 20 pages of assigned reading, a story many people see as a sign that reading stamina " and the attention needed…...

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thecooldown. com > green-tech > liceo-cavour-archaeological-discovery-roman-villa

Italian students accidentally discover 2, 000-year-old Roman villa beneath their school gym

23+ hour, 19+ min ago  (349+ words) At Liceo Scientifico Cavour, a high school close to the Roman Colosseum, students long passed around stories about hidden spaces beneath the gym floor. Those tales took on new meaning after some teenagers slipped underground and found shadowy corridors that…...

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thecooldown. com > green-tech > boise-state-university-digital-detox-requirement

Boise State students can now earn a 'digital detox certificate' to take back control from their phones

4+ day, 14+ hour ago  (417+ words) "We're trying to address the anxiety that comes with constantly feeling like you're out of control." Boise State University is taking an unusually direct approach to a distinctly modern college challenge: helping students build a healthier relationship with technology. Students…...

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thecooldown. com > green-tech > ai-generated-work-consequences-campus-professor

'I get paid the same whether I pass you or fail you': Professor vows to flunk students using Chat GPT

5+ day, 14+ hour ago  (558+ words) "I can immediately tell when Chat GPT has been used." The spread of generative AI on college campuses is prompting sharper consequences from faculty, including one theatre professor who says using Chat GPT on coursework can carry consequences well beyond…...

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thecooldown. com > green-tech > california-state-university-openai-deal-debate

California State University renews $13 million Chat GPT deal as survey finds most students and faculty doubt AI helps education

6+ day, 15+ hour ago  (594+ words) "I think refusing this technology needs to be a position that's on the table." California State University is pressing ahead with Chat GPT even though many of the students and faculty it expects to use the tool say they are…...

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thecooldown. com > green-tech > ai-impact-on-jobs-sam-altman-sydney

Sam Altman says the AI jobs apocalypse is not happening after all: 'Delighted to be wrong"

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (510+ words) "Forecasting economic impacts from AI is inherently speculative and uncertain." Sam Altman is backing away from some of his starkest warnings about artificial intelligence and jobs. After years of predicting sweeping worker displacement, the Open AI CEO now says the…...

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thecooldown. com > green-business > outraged-mom-debate-school-brainwashing

Concerned mom says child came home from school with AI data center propaganda

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (436+ words) "This is crazy, right?" A mom living in what she called the "data center capital of the world" is going viral after saying her child came home from elementary school with what she saw as data center propaganda. In the…...

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thecooldown. com > outdoors > veterinary-school-wsu-animal-welfare-concerns

WSU veterinary graduate says up to 68 healthy animals were killed each spring in opaque training labs

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (560+ words) The allegation is drawing fresh scrutiny to the ways veterinary schools train future surgeons. A recent graduate of Washington State University's College of Veterinary Medicine says the school's large-animal training program relied on "terminal labs" each spring " a practice that…...

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thecooldown. com > green-tech > gen-z-graduation-backlash-ai-commencement-speeches

Gen Z turns on AI as graduates boo speakers amid uncertain job market

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (449+ words) "You can hear me now, or you can pay me later." For a generation often described as digitally fluent, Gen Z's relationship with artificial intelligence appears to be shifting quickly " and this year's graduation season has become an unusually public…...

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thecooldown. com > green-tech > artificial-intelligence-skips-students-names-college-graduation-ceremony

Outrage ensues at graduation as AI skips names during ceremony

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (449+ words) "This is so heartbreaking for those students." A college graduation ceremony in Arizona turned into a major fiasco after an artificial intelligence system tasked with reading students' names skipped dozens of graduates as they crossed the stage. Videos of the…...

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