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In this video I walk you through three practical habits and one bonus system that turn tools like #ChatGPT, #Gemini, and Claude into a real AI-native workflo...

Empowering Students to Evaluate AI Tools in a Values-Based Framework

In this episode of Life With Machines, we explore the widespread issue of students using AI to cheat in school, and ask the hard question: Is this just lazin...

Discover how educators can use AI tools like NotebookLM and Suno to hear student evaluations differently—transforming feedback into reflective, motivating, and actionable insights for course improvement.

Reflections on critique, criticism, and how we should engage in discussion about AI

From brain-rotting videos to AI creep, every technological advance seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function independently …

Learn to use AI as a thinking partner. This skills survive every AI update

“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...

This chart shows the share of answers from the following AI assistants (free versions) that contain significant/minor inacurracy (in Dec. '24 vs. May-Jun. '25)

Mixboard is an AI-powered concepting board that helps you explore, expand, and refine your ideas.

There’s a lot out there from folks trying and suggesting and selling ways for teachers to put their fingers in the dike holding back the allegedly inevitable AI tide.

This year’s senior class is the first to have spent nearly its entire college career in the age of generative AI, a type of artificial intelligence that can ...

This week our institution launched a uni wide assessment framework.

Commentary on Introducing Nano Banana Pro by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more

A complete playbook for every AI bubble debate.

When Canva first launched its code tools in Canva AI, I was pretty cynical. In fact, I was definitely too harsh, with my first post based on a few basic expe...

A prediction about Florida's coastline is wrongly portrayed by people engage in climate change denial -- but AI Mode does mess up the summary in a way that r...

Once I thought more deeply about what people had been asking for it made a lot of sense

These remarks were delivered this evening at the Creatively Critical Tech Speaker Series at Illinois State University. "There is no good way to say this." These are the opening words of Yiyun Li’s latest book Things in Nature Only Grow about life after the death by suicide of both

Common Sense Education provides educators and students with the resources they need to harness the power of technology for learning and life. Find a free K-12 Digital Citizenship curriculum, reviews of popular EdTech apps, and resources for protecting student privacy.

The unending tide of AI used for stupid things just keeps on coming, and as widely predicted, the major accomplices are managers and employers, sucked in with promises that AI will make their work faster and easier and less have-to-deal-with-humans-y.

This week has emphasized that now is the time for reimagining what critical AI education might look like in the coming months and years, an education that eschews industry-captured AI literacy lessons for an expansive, interdisciplinary civics education with an emphasis on digital degrowth and data center resistance.

We're spending too much time restating how important "productive struggle" is, and not enough time talking about why we do it. ** Why would I spend 2 hours toiling over something that will inevitably produce a less-than-polished product, when I could spend 10 minutes offloading that task and creating something that looks polished and (marketing insists!) sounds just like me? ** Increasingly, I think this is becoming this moment's defining question. I was thinking about it recently when discussing an The Atlantic article with Christopher Ostro's book club. The writer shares her experience of preparing for her daughter's birthday. In the midst of preparing (and putting a lot of time and effort into it), she finds out about an app that would do almost everything without too much effort. But she does things herself, because the very act of making an anti-ROI decision expresses value. Here's how the author (Miranda Rake) ends the article: "We didn’t have balloon arches, the cake came out a bit funky, and the Elsa experience was unbelievably awkward for the adults (though the preschoolers loved it). Still, I am so glad we all planned it—me, my daughter, and our community—slowly, imperfectly together." Going through a difficult process -- and engaging in struggle -- communicates value to her daughter. What does this mean for our classroom? As we teach and tout the power of "productive struggle," we need to think carefully about why students would go through it. What's on the other side? One of the problems with the grade-centered approach (and the transactional model of education, more generally) is that the motives for going through productive struggle may not be sustainable. What happens if/when the student leaves school, and doesn't have the impetus that we've build the system around? Anyway... Those are my thoughts for the day. | 36 comments on LinkedIn

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