Teacher Brain Burnout? GPT-4.1 and 8 Other Headlines that Matter

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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