Author: Errica Jensen

There is currently a specific type of quiet rebellion taking place in classrooms, one that is much more unsettling to the institution than the kind that results in students being sent to the principal’s office. The curriculum is not being protested by students. They are merely utilizing AI to create something that better suits them in order to get around it. It doesn’t appear dramatic. After a macroeconomics lecture, a Chicago college sophomore opens ChatGPT and asks it to explain the same idea from the perspective of her grandmother’s Guadalajara small business. An AI is asked to suggest books that…

When you stroll through a large engine maintenance facility, where wide-body jet engines are kept on stands under fluorescent lighting by coverall-wearing technicians who are familiar with every bolt by feel, you’re likely to notice the average age of the workers. Those with twenty or thirty years of accumulated knowledge own the hands. Now, the unsettling question facing the aerospace industry is who will take their place when they depart. The figures underlying that discomfort are not conjectural. According to the International Civil Aviation Organization, the aviation sector will require an extra 2.5 million workers worldwide by the early 2040s.…

When a child can’t stop moving, a certain kind of frustration permeates the classroom. A bouncing knee beneath a desk. A tapping pencil. A body twisting in a chair that seems to have been made for someone who has never experienced an uncontrollable thought. Teachers’ natural reaction has been the same for decades: stop fidgeting, sit still, and pay attention. According to recent Stanford research, even though the response made sense, it might have been completely incorrect. According to a study that was published in the Journal of Educational Psychology in late 2025, about 80% of middle school students came…

The furniture in the graduate fiction seminar at nearly every British university offering an MA in creative writing is essentially the same. A seminar table was piled with photocopied manuscripts. Pens hovered in a circle of students, ready to analyze someone’s first chapter. Critical language is precise, repetitive, and almost liturgical: “the voice feels uncertain here,” “this scene earns its emotion,” “I wanted more interiority.” It’s a specific type of room. It’s also worthwhile to consider what kind of literature typically emerges from it. Although the question of whether MFA and creative writing programs are limiting British fiction is not…

Most teachers are aware of a particular moment. Around nine o’clock at night, a stack of thirty more essays is still waiting, the kitchen table is piled high with papers, and the red pen is completely dry. There are no written lesson plans for Thursday. There has been no response to the parent emails. Beneath all of that responsibility lies the real motivation behind this person’s decision to become a teacher in the first place: the discussions, the discoveries, the student who at last grasped a concept that had baffled them for weeks. The current wave of AI tools is…

A group of parents waited to be informed that the program their children relied on was being reviewed on a Tuesday evening in February in a West London school hall with fluorescent lighting, rows of plastic chairs, and a projector screen that no one had bothered to lower. Once more. In local government parlance, the word “review” hardly ever means what it sounds like. The majority of the parents present were aware of it. They were advocating for a bilingual creative education partnership, which is the kind of program that links kids to language, art, drama, and music instruction in…

Johnston Gate, the historic brick arch that has welcomed students since 1889, is located on Harvard Yard’s eastern boundary. On most mornings, it exudes a certain institutional tranquility. The quiet weight of four centuries of accumulated reputation, the red brick, and the elms. It’s hard to think of the organization behind it as financially unstable when you’re standing there. However, that was exactly what happened in the spring of 2025. Due to alleged antisemitism on campus, the Trump administration suspended over $2.2 billion in federal grants to Harvard. Harvard filed a lawsuit. The restoration of funds was mandated by a…

A student is uploading their course notes into Adobe Acrobat somewhere on a university campus in Birmingham, England, San José, California, or western Sydney. The system creates study flashcards, a podcast synopsis, a test, and a visual mind map in a matter of seconds. Not a single line of code was written by the student. Nothing was designed by them. In the time it used to take to locate a highlighter, they were able to construct a semester’s worth of cognitive scaffolding. This isn’t a feature. It’s a tactic. And it has taken twenty years to create. Adobe’s stated goals…

When you stroll through the lobby of nearly every large corporate headquarters constructed in the past ten years, you’ll notice that the terminology used to characterize the individuals in charge of these establishments has changed. This is evident in the glass walls, open floor plans, and whiteboards that are still faintly marked with someone’s afternoon brainstorm. The terms “operational excellence,” “financial oversight,” and “process management” that once dominated executive job postings have been replaced by something more difficult to quantify and, as it turns out, more difficult to locate. Nowadays, businesses are searching for leaders who can listen. who is…

A novelist opens ChatGPT next to her manuscript in a peaceful Seattle apartment. She types a prompt to get unstuck, not to create her next chapter. She desires diversity. alternatives. Not precisely the solution, but enough friction to identify what she doesn’t want, which will ultimately reveal her actions. After reading the output, she returns to her own document without using any of it. The scene is written thirty minutes later. Was it dishonest? She doesn’t believe that. The researchers who watched writers for nine months don’t seem to enjoy her work either. One of the more cautious studies to…