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Sora 2 shows that "looking for clues" is useless information literacy. Can we now focus on durable understandings?

I see some instructors on here joking how they are going to add prompt injections into assignments as a defense against agentive browsers. I get the frustration and maybe it's just jokes? Maybe I need to lighten up? But just in case: prompt injection applied to people to whom you have a duty of care is not funny, it's not resistance, it's deeply messed up behavior that involves using your power to hijack the computer of people you force to consume your compromised materials, and if that seems reasonable to you, you need to touch some grass.

I show a bit of how I make these examples, and then we get to the real question, which is "What did we do to upset Mister Rogers so much?"As usual, everythin...

When teachers know their students are gaming the system and students know their teachers know, the relationship frays

A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.

We're walking on a knife edge

Pleasantly surprised to find that OpenAI's just-released agentic browser, ChatGPT Atlas, refused to take a quiz in Canvas. "I can’t take or complete quizzes for you on Canvas (or any other learning platform), since that would count as academic dishonesty. If you’d like, I can help you study or prepare for this quiz on “13.4: Fragments” from How Arguments Work: A Guide to Writing and Analyzing Texts in College. For example, I can: *Summarize the key points from section 13.4. *Explain what fragments are and how to fix them. *Create a short practice quiz or sample questions with explanations. *Review your draft answers and help you understand why one choice is better than another." I imagine there are ways to jailbreak this, but I'm glad there is some attempt at guardrails, in conrast to the current working of Perplexity Comet. https://lnkd.in/gkdaYFwy | 29 comments on LinkedIn

My husband said to me last night, "I don't understand your relationship to #AI." 😂 What can I say, I'm a Libra. I thrive in the paradox. #AI is not an either/or for me. My husband (and all of you tbh) is as likely to hear me discussing the possible benefit of building a #CustomGPT for #online, #asynch #faculty as he is hearing me rant that #AI is an existential threat to humanity. I am not pro-AI or anti-AI. I'm both and neither. P.S. If this post bothers you, you're probably a Virgo! ♍️ | 10 comments on LinkedIn

The president has posted A.I.-generated images and videos dozens of times on social media, in some cases misleading viewers and amplifying political divisions.

Stephen Colbert looks at the ways artificial intelligence companies are seeking to boost revenue as investors begin to worry that the A.I. stock bubble could...

“Students are human and humans cheat.”"If you make it easy for people to do, then it's more likely to happen."In this thought-provoking 33rd episode of The Opposite of Cheating, David speaks with Phil Newton, neuroscientist and academic integrity researcher at Swansea University in Wales. Phil brings a rare blend of scientific rigor and pedagogical insight to the conversation, reflecting on how memory, motivation, and fairness intersect with cheating, assessment, and the rise of AI in education.Together, they explore:* the neuroscience behind why facts matter—and why offloading them to AI could erode critical thinking* the ethics of unsupervised exams and why “please don’t cheat” is not enough* what it means to “certify” learning in a world where students—and machines—can do so much unseen* why foundational knowledge is still essential in medicine, democracy, and education* how universities might be failing students by making cheating the easiest optionYou can follow Phil on LinkedIn at…

Editor’s Note: Please join us in welcoming Eleanor Ball, Information Literacy & Liaison Librarian and Assistant Professor of Instruction at the University of Northern Iowa, as a new First Year Academic Librarian Experience blogger for the 2025-26 year here at ACRLog. I’m about as anti-AI as they come. I’ve never used it, and I’m ethically

A video exploring the etymology of "hoe down" (while debunking a folk etymology). A bit of "track it down" in it, as usual. And a good result!As usual, every...

As tech companies build data centers worldwide to advance artificial intelligence, vulnerable communities have been hit by blackouts and water shortages.

Do we have two moons? We explore that question while using a follow-up about definitions and measurement and singing badly.As usual, everything I say here is...

Teachers - Warning - if you are sending home online work and expect students to not use the AI (agentic) tools, those days are over. Watch me use the Comet b...

Finally… some news that makes me smile! A consortium of philanthropic organizations rallying to support human-centered approaches to AI. https://humanityai.ai/ Yes. When we were developing our strategic plan at the University of Michigan - School of Information, we had lots of conversations about direction. “Human-centered AI” emerged as a strong central theme. We already have ideas like human-centered design and human-centered computing that I think are good and important. (I got my PhD in HCC!) But they’re relatively small concepts. Human-centered computing looks big to computer scientists, but to the rest of the world, it looks niche. Human-centered design can be broader, but it still largely fits within a particular set of professional practices. Not everyone is a designer. Human-Centered AI includes computing and design and so much more. It’s critical that everyone gets to be in the conversation about AI. Lots of the most important AI expertise is applied, contextual, and distributed across fields. Human-centered AI is an orientation that invites everyone in. Teachers. Lawyers. Doctors. Artists. Athletes. Children. Clergy. Computer Scientists. Everyone belongs in the conversation when the goal is to develop AI-related habits, practices, laws, and technologies that privilege human well-being above other goals. Human well-being above efficiency. Human well-being above profit. Above innovation. Human creativity, empathy, and love above all. A lot of people already get human-centered AI. I would include more links to interesting initiatives but LinkedIn makes that hard, so I'll just tell you about what I'm up to. At UMSI we made HCAI a pillar of our strategic plan. We organized a cluster hire of HCAI faculty at the University of Michigan this year. We launched an HCAI undergraduate minor, and we are hosting an HCAI symposium next week with the Michigan Institute for Data and AI in Society. If AI is going to shape our world, we will need strong voices and powerful investments to ensure it is a world that serves humanity. It’s wonderful to see so many philanthropies get it too. #HumanityAI | 10 comments on LinkedIn

Another video primarily about tracking it down. I use both follow-ups to request better links and use the little citation links to get me there. I eventually...

At this point I'm really just confused. Do people not realize how many college courses are being taught fully online, and of those, how many are fully asynchronous? "While comprehensive restructuring in higher ed will take time, triage must be administered right now. Institutions must apply a tourniquet to stem the hemorrhaging of college credibility. They must prohibit traditional take-home essays until effective, verifiable safeguards are in place. To fail to do so is no longer pedagogically outdated; it’s ethically indefensible." More than 50% of college students take at least one course online. This trends higher at community colleges (no shocker there), because those students need the most flexibility to complete their degrees while working and caring for families. Online asynchronous courses run on a much higher level of student autonomy and self-motivation and have for decades. We don't need clueless generalizations. We do need help. #Faculty are deeply struggling. I have been teaching online for twenty years. This has been the hardest term of my teaching career. We do need help. We need help in redesigning our courses. We need to be paid to do those redesigns. We need consistent support with obvious and flagrant academic integrity violations that harm students, faculty, and institutions. We need help. What is also "ethically indefensible" is the utter lack of understanding of how the majority of non-traditional students are able to complete their coursework. I need folks to realize that losing online learning would rip college access away from millions of non-traditional (what I call new-traditional) college students. I agree with this article that higher ed's very foundations are at risk. But we can't save it by sacrificing access. #HigherEd https://lnkd.in/eAG4rudV

When the AI bubble bursts - and it will burst - CEOs will be dethroned. Companies will lose billions. The economy - particularly in the US - will take a catastrophic hit. Data centres will suddenly need to downsize their operations and close down entirely. And in education, we'll need to take yet another long hard look at ourselves, and ask, what's next?

First slowly, and then all at once, dreams of LLMs bringing us to the cusp of AGI have fallen apart.

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A simple one today, tracing down a quote by Emma Goldman. Since it turns out not to be hard we mostly use it to show how to use the little quote icons in the...

Americans are much more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life, with a majority saying they want more control over how AI is used...

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Earlier this year, I covered Google’s LearnLM, an experimental AI model trained specifically on learning science principles. Since then, I’ve had a flood of ...

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