I'm keeping this simple, just a few recommendations per category.
Tools
- NotebookLM Google's AI research tool. Upload documents and get audio overviews, mind maps, slide decks, video summaries, and flashcards grounded in your sources.
- SciSpace AI research assistant for academic papers. Search 280M+ papers, run literature reviews, extract data, and get plain-language explanations of dense research.
- Gamma AI presentation maker. Describe your idea and get a polished slide deck, document, or webpage in minutes.
- Prompting PDF from Anthropic covering six practical techniques for getting better results from AI. Short, clear, and tool-agnostic enough to apply across chatbots. Or skip the suggestions and try Prompt Cowboy, which turns rough ideas into structured prompts.
- MagicSchool.ai Dozens of AI-powered tools for educators. Lesson planners, rubric generators, assessment builders.
Staying Informed
- One Useful Thing Ethan Mollick's newsletter on AI in work and education. Also his book: Co-Intelligence: Living & Working with AI.
- The AI Daily Brief AI news analysis covering models, policy, workforce impact, and industry trends.
- Education Disrupted Stefan Bauschard's newsletter on AI and education. Covers instructional redesign, workforce readiness, and what schools actually need to change.
- World Economic Forum, Work Trends Weekly newsletter from the World Economic Forum. Three curated stories per issue on jobs, skills, AI disruption, and education.
- Lex Fridman Podcast Long-form conversations on science, technology, philosophy, and intelligence with researchers and builders.
Courses
Use AI to learn AI. Make a small website or a smartphone app. You'll learn faster than you will in most trainings because AI is more like riding a bike than using Excel. You need the feel, and the feel comes from practice.
- Generative AI for Educators Google in partnership with MIT. Self-paced modules on using AI in teaching.
- OpenAI Academy Workshops, tutorials, live sessions from OpenAI.
- Training Magazine Network Free live webinars and recordings on L&D and workplace training.
For Educators
- MIT Sloan Generative AI Resource Hub Teaching cases, activities, and policy templates for integrating AI into higher ed.
- Code.org AI 101 Video tutorials and classroom activities explaining how AI works.
- AI Pedagogy Project Harvard metaLAB. Curated assignments and an AI guide for educators, especially in humanities and non-technical fields.
- Syllabi Policies 200+ college syllabus policies for generative AI use (Google Doc).
- UNESCO Guidance for GenAI in Education First global framework for using generative AI in education and research. Covers ethics, policy, data privacy, age limits, and classroom use.
Jobs and Workforce
- Stanford AI Index 2025 The most comprehensive annual report on AI trends. Covers benchmarks, investment, education, policy, and workforce impact.
- WEF Future of Jobs Report 2025 Survey of 1,000+ global employers on how AI, automation, and macro trends will reshape 22 industries by 2030.
- IMF: Gen-AI and the Future of Work Foundational 2024 report on AI exposure across global labor markets, with a newer January 2026 follow-up on skills, AI adoption, and job creation.
- McKinsey: Agents, robots, and us From McKinsey, who has many widely cited reports on automation, skill shifts, and labor market transitions. And great data visualization.
- Anthropic Education Study Analysis of ~1 million college students' AI usage patterns.