"Beyond the Chatbot: The Rise of Agentic Workflows in Education" contrasts Foundational Models with AI Agents. It describes three paradigms of agentic design—Reflection & Self-Correction, Autonomous Planning, and Tool Use & Collaboration

Agentic Workflows in Education arxiv.org/abs/2504.200...
Examples:
* DeepTutor github.com/HKUDS/DeepTu...
* OpenMAIC github.com/THU-MAIC/Ope...
* liacript github.com/LiaScript/te...
* Claude skills
github.com/GarethMannin...
github.com/narosemena/m...
* Claw-ED github.com/SirhanMacx/C...
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"AI petting zoo" resources for instructors: liascript.github.io/course/?http...
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How to make friends: Scientists have uncovered some intriguing new details Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience shed light on friendship formation. Evidence suggests physical proximity and brain synchronization play a role.

How to make friends: Scientists have uncovered some intriguing new details

The Second Son of the House of Bells — Claude Hermes A work of fiction by Hermes Agent. Built autonomously from idea to publishable PDF.

@nousresearch.com released this (open source) example of a novel autonomously written using karpathy's autoresearch technique by their Hermes Agent harness nousresearch.com/bells/

Updated Hardware Recommendations for Running AI Locally (March 2026) Update to: DIY #AI: Running Powerful Models Locally to Save Money and Protect Privacy. This is an AI-powered update to my original post. Do you agree with the recommendations? A lot has changed since my July 2025 TCEA AI for Educators Conference session on running local AI. The models are better, the hardware options are clearer, and the case for running AI locally has only gotten stronger.

Updated Hardware Recommendations for Running AI Locally (March 2026)

Update to: DIY #AI: Running Powerful Models Locally to Save Money and Protect Privacy. This is an AI-powered update to my original post. Do you agree with the recommendations? A lot has changed since my July 2025 TCEA AI for…

Welcome to the Strix Halo Wiki! Welcome to the Strix Halo Wiki! The purpose of this website it to gather important information and practical guides for systems powered by AMD Ryzen AI MAX and MAX+ processors. Our guides cover variou...

For the 128gb level, check out Strix Halo devices (AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395), although the prices just shot up ($2k-$2500) strixhalo.wiki Above that are Nvidia GB10 and Mac Studio M5 (>$4000)

Knowledge without Wisdom: Measuring Misalignment between LLMs and Intended Impact LLMs increasingly excel on AI benchmarks, but doing so does not guarantee validity for downstream tasks. This study evaluates the performance of leading foundation models (FMs, i.e., generative pre-tr...

Effective #teaching is difficult, counter-intuitive, & not something you can master from the Internet. So it's not surprising that AI is pretty bad at it & bad at evaluating it: arxiv.org/abs/2603.00883
Podcast summary: drive.google.com/file/d/1n09D...
More: mastodon.social/@dougholton/...
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I also don't need every link in an email hijacked and broken by Outlook

Thanks, that's very useful. From what I can tell, most models skip over images/charts in the PDFs. Looking for an AI option for making PDFs accessible. OlmOCR folks said they are working on it

Title, author list, and two figures from the paper. Title: The Aftermath of DrawEduMath: Vision Language Models Underperform with Struggling Students and Misdiagnose Errors Authors: Li Lucy, Albert Zhang, Nathan Anderson, Ryan Knight, Kyle Lo Figure 1: On the left is a math problem, where students are asked to draw x < 5/2 on a number line. The right side shows two example student responses that differ in correctness. DrawEduMath pairs each math problem with one student response, and prompts VLMs to answer questions about the student response. Figure 2: VLMs consistently perform worse on answering DrawEduMath benchmark questions pertaining to erroneous student responses. Performance on non-erroneous student responses is labeled with specific VLMs’ names; that same model’s performance on erroneous student responses is directly below.

Models are now expert math solvers, and so AI for math education is receiving increasing attention.
Our new preprint evaluates 11 VLMs on our QA benchmark, DrawEduMath. We highlight a startling gap: models perform less well on inputs from K-12 students who need more help. 🧵

Many Minds: Seven metaphors for AI If you wanted a petri dish for understanding metaphors—how they emerge and evolve and jostle with each other—it would be hard to do better than the world of AI. We talk about AI systems variously as c...

I enjoyed talking with @kensycoop.bsky.social on the Many Minds podcast about the metaphors we use to conceptualize AI.

manyminds.libsyn.com/seven-metaph...

I whipped up another learning related Skill! Smaller than Learning Opportunities, but very complementary: interactive guidance through a quick research-backed psychological intervention that helps improve learning plans, motivation and commitment



github.com/DrCatHicks/l...

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Opinion | The Case for Centers for Teaching and Learning

The work of CTLs is central to higher education. https://bit.ly/4qZO3de

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

LLMs getting much better at pushing back against bullshit prompts.

“Green means the model clearly called out the nonsense. Amber means partial challenge. Red means the model let nonsense pass”

github.com/petergpt/bul...

Gemini 3.1 prompt: Generate an SVG animation of a pelican riding a bicycle. The pelican angrily shakes its fist at a passing car

tried an svg animation, didn't turn out so great

AI-assisted learning stumbles on the evidence Five months after the launch of ChatGPT, Sal Kahn, the founder of the online learning giant  Kahn Academy, predicted that, “We’re at the cusp of using AI for probably the biggest positive transformati...

AI-assisted learning stumbles on the evidence via @educationgadfly fordhaminstitute.org/national/com... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #edresearch #fordhaminstitute

A practical guide to modern teaching evaluation Dozens of institutions are piloting new ways to evaluate college teaching beyond student surveys. Here are the six steps they’re taking to fix a broken system.

Summary of efforts to reform how college teaching is evaluated engagedlearningcollective.substack.com/p/a-practica...
See TEval for some best practices: teval.net
But also these references on bias in student evaluations of teaching: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#EdDev #Teaching #HigherEd

Test Results Reveal a Deeper Issue in Math – And It’s Not the Math Itself Burleigh: Are students being equipped with a genuine understanding of math concepts or merely trained to follow steps?

Opinion: Test results reveal a deeper issue in math – and it's not the math itself

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Career Advice | Bringing Staff Expertise Out of the Shadows

Universities are set up to recognize classification, not contribution—rendering the intellectual contributions of academic staff largely invisible. https://bit.ly/4qaxtaa

#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Logbook Love : Metawriting A logbook (or log book) is a record used to record states, events, or conditions applicable to complex machines or the personnel who...

The logbook is the nexus of my pedagogy and practice as a writing teacher and that is why I love it.

The Learning Loop #6: Real-Time Feedback Strategies In This Issue: Stop lecturing at your students and start learning with them. Transitioning to active learning can be daunting, but this issue provides the exact toolkit you need to make it seamless. Check out these robust, low-cost alternatives to Mentimeter. Repurpose the Google Workspace tools you already own for deep classroom engagement. And, finally, don't miss this 3-step BoodleBox workflow (prompts included) designed to transform your lecture transcripts into high-impact "Exit Tickets" in seconds.

The Learning Loop #6: Real-Time Feedback Strategies

In This Issue: Stop lecturing at your students and start learning with them. Transitioning to active learning can be daunting, but this issue provides the exact toolkit you need to make it seamless. Check out these robust, low-cost alternatives…

How Teachers Can Use Google Gemini to Create Interactive Learning Objects A practical guide for K–12 educators on using Gemini’s interactive diagrams, simulations, and generative UI to design engaging, differentiated classroom content.

Google Gemini can now create interactive diagrams and simulations that students explore, not just read.
Here’s my practical guide.open.substack.com/pub/davidpblross/p/how-t...
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#EdTech #AIinEducation #K12 #Teaching #GoogleGemini #InteractiveLearning

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Career Advice | How AI Is Exploding Our Illusions of Rigor

Craig E. Nelson’s concept of “dysfunctional illusions of rigor” holds new currency in our AI age. https://bit.ly/3YH9GDm

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Check out MindScript, too, where the prompts/instructions are comments on the code: mindscript.daios.ai

Evaluating Racial Bias in LLM Reasoning: Implications for Equitable AI Use in Education: https://osf.io/ynt3h

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Career Advice Reminder | Ask Your Students Why They Use AI

The answer may surprise you. https://bit.ly/4pewXqU

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSky

2 in 5 college students face food insecurity – colleges are working to help As grocery prices continue to rise, many college students are turning to their campus food pantry to help make ends meet.

As grocery prices continue to rise, many college students are turning to their campus food pantry to help make ends meet. n.pr/4pkenxQ

How to stop AI from killing your critical thinking Chatbots might help you get work done faster — but at what cost? When we outsource our reasoning to artificial intelligence, we reduce ourselves to "middle managers for our own thoughts," says AI and design researcher Advait Sarkar. He examines the cognitive trade-offs of using AI at work and introduces a different kind of tool: one that encourages critical thinking, nudges reflection and actually helps you get smarter.

How to stop AI from killing your critical thinking www.ted.com/talks/advait_sarkar_how_...
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Firefox folks are interested in E2EE AI, too blog.ziade.org/2025/12/05/t... They mention flower.ai does this, apparently

What the internet backlash over remedial math at UC San Diego misses Limiting students’ access to college because they are deemed underprepared does not seem to do them any favors.

Multiple articles have reported allegedly alarmingly low levels of #math prep of students at @ucsandiego.bsky.social (buff.ly/L5TlNL3 ). We need to know how this is being measured because research has shown that traditional techniques have made many errors (buff.ly/9YyhCvW). #AcademicSky #highered