The AI Tsunami Is Here: Reinventing Education for the Age of AI
Commentary on The AI Tsunami Is Here: Reinventing Education for the Age of AI by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more
How are generative AI technologies impacting the stewardship, access, and use of scholarly collections?This week the Forum is delighted to host Kevin M. Guth...
This semester, I’m leaning into individual and social annotation.
This semester, I’m leaning into individual and social annotation.
Here’s my sequence.
****
1. Students annotate the syllabus as a group.
I share the syllabus as a shared Microsoft 365 document and students annotate. They ask questions, make suggestions, and engage with each other.
The goal is to clarify things about the course and also to get used to annotation.
———
2. Students see an annotation I did.
I did a “think aloud” annotation on one of our texts. I did Poe’s “The Raven.” I tried to be vulnerable with my annotations, helping out with some vocabulary but also making some connections that just occurred to me as I reread the poem.
———
3. Students do their own social annotation.
I gave students a set of poems — Angelou’s “Still I Rise” and some poems by Rupi Kaur.
Students annotated the poem in a shared Microsoft 365 document.
———
4. Students annotate themselves.
Students engage with a custom chatbot, that’s been designed to ask them provocative questions as they explore their own ideas.
They pop those chats into a Word Doc and then annotate their own chat. They look for their own thought patterns, identity their strongest moments, and so on.
****
In class, I also had students annotate passages and then take a look at each others’ annotations.
The goal is to highlight reading as both individual and social practice—which allows students to personally connect with the text, to think about thinking, and to participate in a larger community of practice.
——
Image: a picture of one of the best books on annotation I know of, by Remi Kalir, PhD. And it’s available open access. I’ll share the link in the comments. | 29 comments on LinkedIn
Professors Fear AI Will Rot Students’ Brains. The Research Shows It’s More Complicated Than That.
Learning is a complex process — and so is measuring it. Though research shows we have cause to be concerned about what happens when students use AI, the devil is in the details.
The Chatbot in the Classroom, the Forklift at the Gym
EDUCATION WEEK September 22, 2025 The Chatbot in the Classroom, the Forklift at the Gym By Alfie Kohn [This is a significantly expanded version of the published article, which was given a different title.] …
In our new commentary for the Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching, we explore everything we have learned after two years of working on the AI Assessment Scale AIAS
Largest study to date of consumer ChatGPT usage shows demographic gaps shrinking, economic value being created through both personal and professional use.
NEW: How to Use FREE Google Nano Banana AI (Step-by-Step Tutorial)
What if you could turn yourself into an action figure, stand in front of your own store, or even sail down a chocolate river — all in minutes? 🍪✈️In this vi...
Authoritarian EdTech - Eamon Costello, Stephen Gow, 2025
Careful and consentful models of digital education are being replaced by Authoritarian EdTech. The pedagogical choices digital learning now offers, such as how ...
In Adam Becker's must read book about our AI overlords More Everything Forever, one chapter opens with futurist Ray Kurzweil's plan to resurrect his father.
Testing Claude's Native Integration with Reminders and Calendar on iOS and iPadOS - MacStories
A few months ago, when Perplexity unveiled their voice assistant integrated with native iOS frameworks, I wrote that I was surprised no other major AI lab had shipped a similar feature in its iOS apps: The most important point about this feature is the fact that, in hindsight, this is so obvious and I’m surprised
