Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This week’s news: AI is already in the classroom — the rules aren’t AI is already in the classroom, but the rules are missing. As a result, decisions fall to individual teachers and students, and it takes a toll on trust. This week’s newsletter tackles the question of who actually gets to decide. Per Størup Lauridsen • 10 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This Week's News: The Wrong Assignments Everyone is waiting for a national AI strategy. Meanwhile, high school students are holding their own AI summit, and Birgitte Vedersø is urging teachers to change their teaching now. Because the problem isn't just cheating. It's the assignments we give. Per Størup Lauridsen • 11 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This week's news: Students are cheating themselves without realizing it This week's theme is mistrust. A student censors their own language, another was accused by their favorite teacher, and new data from SDU shows that students are cheating themselves without knowing it. What happens to school when no one trusts anyone? Per Størup Lauridsen • 10 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This week's news: What do we want from AI once the safeguards are in place? Following the Sorø meeting, the question is no longer just how schools curb AI-enabled cheating, but what we actually want to achieve with AI in education. This week's newsletter gathers new data, research, and debate on students' use of AI, learning, judgment, and teachers' competencies. Per Størup Lauridsen • 13 min read
Illustration: Midtjourney Newsletters This week's news: The bill comes due at exam time 26,000 Chinese students spent 30 percent less time on assignments and got higher grades. On the exam, grades fell by 18 and 24 percent. The same pattern is now emerging in Danish high schools. Per Størup Lauridsen • 18 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This Week's News: The First AI Graduating Class The first cohort that had AI throughout high school has graduated. 25 teachers agree: Students can do less than their grades suggest. This week's newsletter is about what we do now. Per Størup Lauridsen • 11 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This week's news: The questions that come after The Sorø meeting was supposed to be about early childhood provision. Now it's about AI. A new government wants a national AI strategy, and the question is whether it will focus on detecting cheating or on helping students learn. Per Størup Lauridsen • 13 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This Week's News: The strategy is coming—but what should it actually do? The government has put AI at the top of the education agenda, and a national strategy is on the way. But what does the strategy actually need to do to be effective? Estonia has a clear piece of advice: Don't forget the teachers. Per Størup Lauridsen • 10 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This Week's News: Control or Trust Cheating, comma errors, and professional anxiety dominate this week's debate about AI in high school. And in my commentary I argue that what really breaks is not the exam, but the relationship between teacher and student. Per Størup Lauridsen • 13 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This Week's News: The Honest Students Lose Examiners declare the written assignment dead, and a Berlingske editorial warns that honest students are losing the race for grades. This week's newsletter focuses on exams as the arena where the AI debate is now truly heating up. Per Størup Lauridsen • 13 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This Week's News: When Students Miss Their Own Voice Teachers and experts are calling for new exam formats and a rethink of pedagogy. But behind those demands lies something else the students themselves have articulated: they miss their own voice when AI has polished the text. Per Størup Lauridsen • 11 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This Week's News: Schools are beginning to find their own way with AI Gymnasiefællesskabet, Ordbogen, and teachers across the country are starting to find answers to how AI can enhance teaching. It's no longer just a matter of rules, but of direction. Per Størup Lauridsen • 12 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This Week's Newsletter: When AI Creates an Illusion of Work Students aren't dodging the work; they believe they've done it. This week's newsletter is about the cognitive debt that arises when AI does the thinking first. Per Størup Lauridsen • 12 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This Week's Newsletter: When AI Steals the Productive Struggle AI can speed up schoolwork, but what happens to learning when that productive struggle disappears? This week's newsletter brings together new examples from schools and the workplace, where AI both creates opportunities and raises questions about thinking, mastery, and the purpose of education. Per Størup Lauridsen • 13 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This week's newsletter: Learning is not a technical problem This week's newsletter rounds up a set of stories that revolve around the same question: What do we actually expect AI to solve in schools? Per Størup Lauridsen • 10 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This Week's News: Cognitive Support or Cognitive Decline? AI hasn't just lowered the bar in schools. It has removed it entirely. Read this week's newsletter on the balance between AI as cognitive support and the danger of outsourcing thinking to machines. Per Størup Lauridsen • 14 min read
Newsletters This week's news: Are we measuring what matters? Exams are losing their value, a homework researcher wants to bring homework into the classroom, and debate is raging over what teachers should actually spend their time on. This week, it's about what AI reveals about the system we've built—and what we should be measuring instead. Per Størup Lauridsen • 11 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This Week's News: Fear Drives Students' AI Use The EVA report has reignited the familiar debate about cheating. But the key finding is about fear. Fear creates a culture where students go underground instead of being equipped to navigate the technology. Per Størup Lauridsen • 13 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This week's news: Should AI replace or support? Should AI replace or support? In the U.S., the teacher is being removed. In Estonia, the focus is on pedagogy. Also read about autonomous AI agents, the EPX debate, and why we're still asking the wrong questions about learning. Per Størup Lauridsen • 10 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This Week's News: When the Struggle Disappears AI is already in classrooms, but when students can get answers to everything with one click, what happens to learning? This week's news suggests that the guardrails are missing, and the struggle is disappearing. Per Størup Lauridsen • 9 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This Week's News: Does AI Make Students Smarter or Dumber? Two major reports warn that AI in schools may harm students' cognitive development. In Denmark, SkoleGPT is criticized for being unreliable. But the solution lies neither in bans nor in the pursuit of perfect machines. It lies in pedagogy and in human interaction. Per Størup Lauridsen • 10 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This Week's News: Who's in Charge of AI in Education? We can't buy our way out of responsibility. While the U.S. is betting on error-prone detectors and STIL is tightening data rules, we're at a crossroads. The solution isn't new software, but reinventing pedagogy. Per Størup Lauridsen • 10 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This week's newsletter: Is AI cheating a symptom of a broken system? High school students are using AI to cheat, but is it a sign of laziness or of an education system with misaligned priorities? The first newsletter of the year takes a close look at how we should use AI in teaching, and why the focus should be on learning rather than control. Per Størup Lauridsen • 15 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This Week’s News: The Battle for the Human Element What do we lose when we strip away the awkward? In the final newsletter of the year, we take a close look at the battle for the human element in an era of virtual teachers, effective chatbots, and warnings from Anders Søgaard. Per Størup Lauridsen • 9 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This Week’s News: Pen, Paper and Expulsions The education sector is under pressure. In Sweden, hundreds of students have been expelled for AI cheating. In Denmark, one in five examiners report problems with AI in assignments, and several universities have scrapped take-home exams in favor of pen and paper. Per Størup Lauridsen • 9 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This Week's News: The Educational Car Crash Do we lose the ability to think when AI writes for us? This week we spotlight Thomas Telving’s op-ed in Politiken on cognitive offloading, chatbots creeping into public primary schools, and new figures from the University of Copenhagen that show an overwhelming need for AI education. Per Størup Lauridsen • 12 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This Week’s News: Human writing is more important than ever More than half of all content on the internet is now written by AI. That makes human authenticity more important than ever. Read this week’s newsletter about the tech giants’ power, the future job market, and why we must insist on what machines can’t do—being real human beings. Per Størup Lauridsen • 10 min read
Newsletters This week's news: When the chatbot lies to your students New reports reveal that schoolchildren as young as 6 have unrestricted access to AI that hallucinates, while Norwegian teachers warn that the exam system is collapsing. Read about the consequences and the educational solutions here. Per Størup Lauridsen • 9 min read
Photo: Midjourney Newsletters This Week's News: When AI Creates More Bureaucracy New trends from the United States show AI being used to draft complaints that take extensive resources to handle. At the same time, three educators argue that exam rules need an overhaul and that we should make room for trust rather than control. Per Størup Lauridsen • 7 min read
Newsletters This Week's News: The Digital Book Burning Has Begun This week we write about a new, shocking article that reveals how AI is being used for a so-called 'digital book burning' in the US, and Danish educators warn that AI is creating deep social inequality in Denmark. Per Størup Lauridsen • 8 min read
