Which feedback do students appreciate most — from teachers, peers, or large language models like ChatGPT? Which type actually helps them improve their work? And how do students’ feedback literacy and motivation influence these effects?
The answers we found in our randomized, blinded field experiment at Universität Zürich are now published open access at Computers and Education Open: https://lnkd.in/eQgnNu5z
Thanks to my coauthors for the stellar collaboration Flurin Gotsch Kai Schudel Claudia Marusic Jennifer Mazzarella-Konstantynova Hannah Bolten #DarioBütler Simon Luger Bettina Wohlfender Katharina Maag Merki | 13 comments on LinkedIn
25 Authentic Assessment in the era of AI (Oct 2025)
Authentic Assessment in the era of AI Course Design Series Tuesday, October 7th, 2025 Link to this presentation: 25 Authentic Assessment in the era of AI (Oct 2025) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oRFWP1kFVqT67NqI6Dk88O-1lNOuGOt4dedUg0anvv0/edit?usp=sharing
25 ChatGPT Tips to Work Smarter with AI Tools in 2025
Learn 25 practical ChatGPT tips from an AI instructor, including best features, smart prompting techniques, and how to avoid common mistakes with AI tools.
I keep writing about the AI tech boom (and potential bust) for a few reasons. One, like many other people, my stock portfolio has long been filled with tech heavy stocks (which makes me feel like a genius). Two, it’s a boom that is powering a remarkable portion of the American economy. And three, a […]
Libraries worldwide are exploring or ramping up their use of artificial intelligence, according to a new report by Clarivate, a global information services company.
How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet — Decoder with Nilay Patel
This is Sarah Jeong, features editor at The Verge. I’m standing in for Nilay for one final Thursday episode here as he settles back into full-time hosting duties. Today, we’ve got a fun one. I’m talking to Cory Doctorow, prolific author, internet activist, and arguably one of the fiercest tech critics writing today. He has a new book out called Enshittifcation: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It. So I sat down with Cory to discuss what enshittification is, why it’s happening, and how we might fight it. Links: Enshittification | Macmillan Why every website you used to love is getting worse | Vox The age of Enshittification | The New Yorker Yes, everything online sucks now — but it doesn’t have to | Ars Technica The enshittification of garage-door openers reveals vast, deadly rot | Cory Doctorow Mark Zuckerberg emails outline plan to neutralize competitors | The Verge Google gets to keep Chrome, judge rules in antitrust case | The Verge How Amazon wins: by steamrolling rivals and…
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In January 2024, I asked an auditorium full of community college instructors to tell me which stage of grief resonated most when they thought about their relationship with AI. Here's what they said:
7%: Denial - AI is overrated. I'll just wait it out.
15%: Anger - AI is running amok and undermines critical thinking.
38%: Bargaining - I'd learn more about AI if I wasn't so darn busy.
3%: Depression - What I love about teaching is slipping away.
38%: Acceptance - I'm ready! Where's my AI teaching assistant?
How do you think the results would shift if you posed this question to faculty today? Do you think your colleagues are feeling significantly *more* or *less* optimistic about AI than they were a year or two ago? If so, why?
#facultydevelopment #ai #edtech
Can AI Avatars Make Class Time More Human? — Learning Curve
Colleges are experimenting with making online teaching videos featuring AI avatar versions of professors. Some students find the simulated likenesses of their instructors a bit creepy, but proponents say the technology could be key to making college courses more active and human. The idea is that AI will make it easy to make personalized teaching videos so that more teachers can adopt a “flipped classroom” approach — where students watch video lecturers as homework so class time is spent on discussion or projects.
In this video we show, for what feels like the hundredth time, that AI Overview is a product that should be taken off the market but that AI Mode is fairly r...
Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda
ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.
Project Overview ‹ Your Brain on ChatGPT – MIT Media Lab
Check project's website: https://www.brainonllm.comWith today's wide adoption of LLM products like ChatGPT from OpenAI, humans and businesses engage and u…
Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda
ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.
I've been thinking about Alpha School and yet another article - this time it's "Parents Fell in Love with Alpha School's Promise. Then They Wanted Out" by Todd Feathers published today in Wired at https://lnkd.in/gNCAx47s - detailing the school leaders' saviorism and their vision of education as a dystopian surveillance hellscape.
What other visions of education should we pursue with teachers, students, and caregivers? A few years ago, I read, "Impossible Dreaming: On Speculative Education Fiction and Hopeful Learning Futures" by Shandell Houlden and George Veletsianos. They challenge speculative education researchers to shift focus away from apocalyptic futures and instead engage students in hope because "Imagining these hopeful education futures is necessary, to avoid reinforcing structures of injustice and inequality such as settler colonialism and to invite more radical imagination into our work as a means to seed the worlds we want to create and live in." You can read their excellent article at: https://lnkd.in/gKUGVjzc
I took inspiration from Houlden and Veletsianos for one of my dissertation studies. I challenged a group of high school students to design a speculative educational technology for collective thriving at their school. We discussed how Mariame Kaba, Ruha Benjamin, Seamus Heaney, and others conceive of hope. We watched sava saheli singhs' short film on speculative ed-tech #tresdancing. (Watch and teach the film at: https://lnkd.in/gNiCNXHJ). We prototyped, provided feedback, and revised. What emerged were projects that align with previous research findings that students often reproduce existing hierarchies in their speculative technologies - and powerful possibilities for civic action in the here and now grounded in community and justice.
Anyway, I reject Alpha School and its profiteering, dehumanizing education. Instead, I'll be working with teachers, students, and caregivers to imagine - and enact - otherwises "as a means to seed the worlds we want to create and live in."
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I investigate using the foundational question "Is this what people think it is?" as a follow-up -- and get strikingly good results. For people needing quick,...