Clemson launches Great Books department 120 scholarships, providing a Socratic tutor for each student. The Lyceum report notes professors are putting teaching first again.
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Department based on the Great Books
Up to 120 scholarships a year
Socratic tutor for each student
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- Original post
- city-journal.org - Linked in the post
Free K–12 Curriculum for Digital Fluency – new activity drop 11/16
Free K–12 Curriculum for Digital Fluency offers free AI and computer science courses and announces a new activity release on 11/16. The post highlights Katie and Sarah’s journey from Code.org games to AI-driven cholera modeling. The linked page lists free curriculum, teacher support, and policy work.
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New activity drop scheduled for 11/16.
84% of students already use AI; only 16% of high school leaders say all students learn AI in school.
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- Original post
- Free K–12 Curriculum for Digital Fluency - Linked page
Descript Updates: Animate Text, Layouts, Search, and Skills
Descript adds four features—Animate Text, Generative Layouts, media Search, and Underlord Skills—to reduce the number of tabs needed for video editing. Animate Text lets users select script text and apply kinetic typography styles. Generative Layouts create brand-consistent title and overlay packs from guidelines. Search finds clips across projects by phrase; Enterprise adds visual search. Underlord Skills let users save edits as reusable skills.
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Animate Text (kinetic typography) selects script text, picks a style, and AI animates emphasis words as editable text layers.
Generative Layouts generate a layout pack from brand guidelines, logos, and colors for titles, overlays, and lower thirds.
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Start Doing Graph Theory by Mikhail Lavrov added to ChapterPal collection
Start Doing Graph Theory by Mikhail Lavrov (2025) is now in ChapterPal’s collection of open textbooks. The book teaches graph theory through concrete problems such as scheduling, puzzles, and robotic inspection.
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Title and author: Start Doing Graph Theory by Mikhail Lavrov (2025)
Location: in ChapterPal’s collection of open textbooks
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Podcast Networks - single page for all your shows
Podcast Networks offers a single page for all your shows, providing a central location for multiple podcasts. It centralizes all content with a single top-level website.
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Single page for all your shows.
Centralizes all content with a single top-level website.
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Legora raises $550M; Kleros puts AI agent on trial
Legora raised $550M for legal AI agents. Kleros is putting an AI agent on literal trial at Devcon. Both statements highlight funding and a trial event.
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Funding: $550M raised by Legora for legal AI agents
Event: Kleros is putting an AI agent on literal trial at Devcon
