A custom news feed for teachers means getting relevant education news and lesson ideas delivered to your inbox on a schedule, so you never have to go looking for them.
That is exactly what Sara, a Year 9 science teacher, wanted. Here is her story.
The Sunday Evening Problem
Every Sunday, Sara spent about an hour doing the same thing: opening tabs, searching for new teaching ideas, skimming education blogs, and checking if anything important had changed in the curriculum space. She rarely found much. But she kept checking because occasionally she did, and she did not want to miss it.
It was not a huge time loss. But it was a reliable mood killer at the end of the weekend.
She wanted a way to get the good stuff without the searching.
What Sara Actually Needed
She broke it down into three things:
- News about science education and curriculum changes in her country
- Fresh lesson ideas or activities she could actually use in class
- Anything trending that teenagers were interested in, that she could tie into a lesson
None of that is hard to find. The problem is that finding it takes time every single week, and the results are hit or miss.
Setting Up Her Custom News Feed
Sara signed up for AIDular (free to start at aidular.com) and set up a weekly report. She typed her request in plain English, something like:
"Every Friday morning, search for: new science lesson ideas for secondary school students, education news about curriculum changes in the UK, and any science topics that teenagers are currently interested in online. Send me a short, sourced summary I can read in five minutes."
That is it. No settings to configure. No RSS feeds (a way to subscribe to website updates) to set up. No filters to learn.
AIDular runs the search each Friday, pulls together what it finds, and emails her a clean report with sources so she can click through to anything that looks useful.
What She Gets in Her Inbox
On Friday mornings, Sara now gets an email that might include things like:
- A new hands-on activity for teaching forces, shared by a science teacher on an education forum
- A note that the exam board updated its guidance on a specific topic
- A short piece on why teenagers are suddenly fascinated with deep-sea creatures (good hook for a biology lesson)
The report is short. She reads it over breakfast. If something looks useful, she saves it. If nothing fits that week, she deletes the email and moves on.
The point is she did not have to go looking. The information came to her.
Why This Works Better Than Just Googling
When you search manually, you tend to search for the same things in the same way. You get similar results. And you do it at a random time when you happen to remember to do it.
A scheduled search, set up once, runs consistently. It also covers more ground than a single search session, because it is not limited to the two or three queries you happen to type on a given Sunday.
Sara's Sunday evenings are now free. The tab-opening ritual is gone. And she says the Friday report has given her at least two lesson ideas she would never have found on her own, because they came from corners of the web she would not have thought to check.
Try It Yourself
If you are a teacher (or honestly, anyone who tracks a topic regularly), you can set up your own scheduled feed at aidular.com. The Lite plan is free. You write your request in plain English, pick a schedule, and AIDular handles the rest.