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Two encouraging data points on the road to broad recognition that it's important to get students writing, rather than doing automation-assisted document production. 1st from @drrebeccawinthrop.bsky.social on a large study that showed using AI decreases original ideas. www.nyti…
AI research papers are getting better, and it’s a big problem for scientists
What a difference a year makes. Last summer, the AFT announced a $23 million deal with Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic to launch a National Academy of A.I. Instruction for teachers. Now the teachers' union is calling for no A.I. chatbots in elementary schools. www.nytimes.com/…
“At UCLA, students in a recent sociology class said they were told in an email to ‘procure a mirror large enough to fully reflect your entire desk-area work space,’ and turn on their laptop camera so the professor could watch them during an online test.”
It's so problematic for many reasons. Not least, as I understand it, the Google DM RCT in 10 schools is part of a memorandum of understanding with the Dept for Ed "to develop a version of Gemini grounded in the national curriculum for England" 😱 www.gov.uk/government/p...
Do you know of studies that actually evaluate use of LLMs in the public sector or other kinds of knowledge work? Teknologirådet in Norway just published a report evaluating their own use of LLMs, based on careful logs from 35 cases. teknologiradet.no/publication/...
💥New | The Matthew effect in AI summary ✍️ @jpooley.bsky.social #ScholComm #Libraries #AcademicSky
The AI-generated podcast paper is out! I generaetd podcasts from four different source documents and an PDF using NotebookLM and found that in every case it translated cultural contexts to a standard, white, American language and context. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Amazing that after decades of hype about tech in education, we still have to get Larry Cuban back out reminding everyone that tech has *never* transformed the classroom or helped reform teaching - and no, AI doesn't make it different this time larrycuban.wordpress.com/2026/05/…
Lessons I Have Learned about Technology and Reform larrycuban.wordpress.com
‘CSU renewed its contract with OpenAI this month, agreeing to pay $13 million a year for the next three years. The decision was made despite the university facing steep budget cuts that could slash $144 million.’
CSU officials have renewed their contract with OpenAI for $13 million a year despite faculty opposition and millions of dollars in budget cuts across the system.
AI-assisted text is deadly for academic journal editors and reviewers. I'm detecting a lot more of it recently as an editor. It's still there in the "Frankencitations" and those little linguistic "tells" like "AI is not the cause. It's the symptom of an underlying reality." But it's more, too. 1/
Wee bit of advice for anyone writing up research about AI in education. Journals like the one I edit are drowning in it. Reviewers aren't accepting invitations. Most manuscripts offer *nothing* new. Yes it's a big current topic BUT it's not inevitably important as a research subject...
Maybe if they had actually read what my work says about education, data and the edtech industry, instead of relying on some kind of AI summary of it, they would recognize that I - as an academic "who lives in the literature" - am about the last person to want to convert it into autosummary podcasts
The imaginary of AI in education is so pervasive you can't even watch the Eurovosion Song Contest without weird references to automated classrooms and tutorbot assistants now
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