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

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.

The anticipation surrounding GPT-5 created a dizzying buzz among tech enthusiasts who were obsessed with the idea that true artificial intelligence, known as AGI, was imminent.

Why higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work.

Meaningful relationships are about giving, not only receiving.

We're walking on a knife edge

An Algorithm Brought You To This Anti-Algorithm Essay

Careful and consentful models of digital education are being replaced by Authoritarian EdTech. The pedagogical choices digital learning now offers, such as how ...

By Hannah Rozear and Remi Kalir Duke University students and faculty now have access to a new AI Ethics Learning Toolkit, developed by Duke Libraries and the Center for Applied ...

Techniques we use with human agents should work just fine.

How the “opinionated” chatbots destroyed AI’s potential, and how we can fix it

A new paper that we will expand into our next book

A project from UMaine New Media