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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

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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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It makes sense in this scenario for neither company to want to publicize a white-label version of Gemini behind Apple Intelligence.

The AI revolution is integrating chatbots like Grok and ChatGPT into all aspects of life, from education to friendship, so Ronny Chieng fights the dumbing ef...

Most of us in higher education are now familiar with generative AI bots, where you formulate a prompt and get a reply. Yet, we are now beginning the advancement to agentic AI, the autonomous 24-7 project manager.

This piece builds on earlier reflections I’ve shared about responsible, transparent and learning-focused use of AI in SACE assessments, extending that thinking into the wider question of how we gather trustworthy evidence of learning. A few weeks ago, in a curriculum meeting, a HASS (Humanities and

The emergence of Generative AI (GenAI) in higher education has prompted considerable discussion within the research community. Despite their centrality, students’ perspectives remain underexplored....

When it comes to the future of assessment, I think it's all right for faculty to create buckets. ---------- Bucket 1: Short-term changes that get us thorugh the day, the week, or the month. We can revise assessments by grounding them in other modules or in-class activities, using multimedia, or including a synchronous component. Maybe these end up being band-aids. That's all right. Band-aids are useful. ---------- Bucket #2: Long-term changes These are things like shifting to process-focused assignments, creating a culture of transparency, or shifting to alternative assessment. I think they'll have longer shelflives. But they take a while to set up. ******************** We can't do everthing all at once. I think it's perfectly all right to do small changes that get us through the semester, and recognize that we'll need bigger, more systemic changes down the road. That's what I talked about during my keynote at San Diego Community College District. We talked about how to manage those buckets. It's a key part of the conversation, because on surefire way to create change paralysis is to say "change everything about what you teach, right now."

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My experience with AI-amplified coding is not primarily about doing something I already know how to do faster.

“As you may have noticed, it is not easy to build data centers here on Earth.”

Edtech often gets a bad wrap, and for good reason.

One of the best things I took away from Karen Costa and Niya Bond's webinar on asynchronous online learning in the AI era yesterday was that we cannot "fix" the AI problem.

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