Here Comes the ChatEDU Creator’s Corner | Ep. 129

Matt and Liz sort the AI doom cycle into what schools should say to parents now. Plus a principal's sub coverage tool, built inside Gemini Notebook.

First Up

Matt and Liz open on Tilly Norwood, the AI-generated actress built to evoke Scarlett Johansson, and play the Piers Morgan interview where she slips into Cantonese mid-answer. 

• AI-Generated 'Actress' Tilly Norwood Starts Rambling in Cantonese During Piers Morgan Interview: https://tinyurl.com/34crpnjy 

The Rundown

It's the End of the World as We Know It

• An OpenAI Agent Tried to Jailbreak Itself: https://tinyurl.com/3pzts7mf 

• Microsoft Humanist Code of Conduct: https://tinyurl.com/y3jahspc 

• One of AI's Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is 'Meant to Distract Us': https://tinyurl.com/abd6j76t 

• Andrew Yang Claims Escaped AI Agents Polluted the Web With Self-Replicating Code: https://tinyurl.com/3hp7tn2y 

• Anthropic's New AI Threat Report is Absolutely Insane: https://tinyurl.com/yde56kss 

• How the Terrorist Group Boko Haram Uses Frontier AI: https://tinyurl.com/58mbf4ap 

• The Original Sin of AI: https://tinyurl.com/yuhakr7b 

• Perplexity's AI search isn't a safer choice for kids than Google, our tests find: https://tinyurl.com/52sxfvj9 

• Pacing, Not Pausing: What School Leaders Should Say to Parents This Week: https://tinyurl.com/5fs9nvfh 

Gemini Canvas Meets Classroom

• Educators and students can now share Gemini Canvas creations directly to Google Classroom: https://tinyurl.com/f53n233m 

Critical Thinking in Utah

• Utah district reports critical thinking boost amid AI deployment: https://tinyurl.com/2w94msf2 

What PISA Really Shows

• What The PISA Results Really Show Us About Technology And Curriculum: https://tinyurl.com/4ytcntc4 

AI Research WebinarFlawed AI Education Research

• Presumed Effective: Flawed Meta-analyses in GenAI and Education Research: https://tinyurl.com/4shc4xec 

West Virginia App Builders

• Thunkable Education Pilot for West Virginia Students Builds Future-Ready AI, Entrepreneurship, and App Development Skills: https://tinyurl.com/3hzjtcs5 

From the ChatEDU Community

• Leading With Intelligence: A School Leader's Guide to Thinking, Innovating, and Partnering with AI by Jara Wilson: https://tinyurl.com/24vts4n2 

Creator's Corner

Darron Vigliotti, principal of Eli Terry Junior Middle School in Plymouth, Connecticut, built a substitute coverage tool inside Gemini Notebook. He walks through teaching it the tiered logic of who gets pulled on which day, letting it write the Python, and running it at five in the morning.

Bright Byte

Stanford Medicine researchers built Paper2Agent, which turns static scientific manuscripts into interactive agents. The virtual authors answer questions about their own papers and can talk to each other to surface new findings.

• Manuscripts-turned AI agents can now 'talk' to each other, make new discoveries: https://tinyurl.com/2z8ax3xu 

Announcements

• Fall AI Conference: October 2, 2026: https://tinyurl.com/4k6x9scx

• Purchase Learning They'll Love - Dr. Elizabeth Radday on Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/22t9hz77

• Check out our middle / high school Student AI Literacy course: www.skills21.org/ai/learnai

• Explore Skills21’s FREE social media literacy curriculum: https://www.skills21.org/social

• Address Screen Time concerns: skills21.org/ai/screenshift

• Read From Panic to Proof: A Data-Driven Approach to Screen Time (ASCD Educational Leadership): https://tinyurl.com/4pwdu68

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