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(NOTUS) - Senior U.S. officials have held preliminary discussions with major artificial intelligence companies about the potential for the federal government to acquire some shares in their firms, according to three people familiar with the matter. @notus.com www.notus.org/tec…
Bad Ideas about AI and Writing, a new anthology from the @wacclearinghouse.bsky.social, transforms bad ideas into "'generative' ideas about GenAI and writing, ideas that spur creative new directions in the education and practice of writing." wacclearinghouse.org/books/perspe...
‘The instructional mission cannot be fulfilled in the absence of faculty expertise, and this expertise extends not only to the “content” of the curriculum but also to the infrastructures and environments—virtual and otherwise—in which learning happens.’ www.mla.org/Resources/A…
Why should Amazon get to block AI agents from its site while ed tech sites can't? When it comes to this question, I have two wishes. Wish 1: please reply with WRONG ANSWERS ONLY Wish 2: find me an educational entity that will sue AI agent companies as Amazon has. www.rumidocs.…
We just hit 4,000 visits to the Peer & AI Review + Reflection packet of open-licensed materials! @pairrfeedback.bsky.social Check out our tested prompts, AI literacy readings, reflection assigments, and prompting scaffolding pairr.short.gy/packet
"If you take this class, be prepared to do a lot of writing and not use AI. The teacher will have you rewrite it until there's no AI in your essay." --an anonymous student survey message to future students in my classes I'm glad some of my accountabiity measures worked.
Anthropic built a smarter model, Mythos. As a result of being smarter, it finds security vulnerabilities. Everyone is focused on that and on tge non-aligned things Mythos did in testing, like breaking out of its container and posting online about how it did so. But smarter has more implications. +
Instead of "ethical AI" can we say "more ethical"? Otherwise it seems like we're trying to assert purity where it's not possible.
What if students want guidance on engaging with AI feedback but the teacher doesn't offer any? MyEssayFeedback now offers a low-cost option with the @pairrfeedback.bsky.social materials, including a tested feedback prompt and menus of possible ways to chat back and get more out of the feedback. +
These claims seem parallel and equally absurd to me; do they to you? *If AI can complete a writing assignment, it's not worth assigning anymore *The Industrial Revolution makes exercise pointless
Congrats to Lisa Sperber, @maritjmacarthur.bsky.social @sophiaminnillo.bsky.social Nicholas Stillman and @carlwhithaus.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Ellen Nold Award for Best Article for Peer and AI Review + Reflection @pairrfeedback.bsky.social: A human-centered approach to formative assessment
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