GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all As of April 24 you'll be feeding the Octocat unless you opt out Microsoft's GitHub next month plans to begin using customer interaction data – "specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context" – to train its AI models.…

GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all

New research alert: Staff & student perspectives in #GenAI in #HigherEd in Scotland. Explore the report at sites.google.com/view/scaiten.... #AIEDU

New research alert: Staff & student perspectives in #GenAI in #HigherEd in Scotland. Explore the report at sites.google.com/view/scaiten....

what even is cheating now! Exactly that! Do have a look at Steal this poem: dogtrax.edublogs.org/2014/01/16/r... - which explored exactly that - and when we used that as a prompt for discussion with our students - it was fascinating - and their poems were too! #LTHEchat

And look at how we support students who make rational decisions (ethics, environment, deskilling etc) for wanting to avoid AI usage, we’ve seen this in areas like creative subjects, philosophy, environmental sciences etc - more so than say business & engineering #LTHEchat

Look out for us sharing research from our 2025 students/ staff survey of AI use across Scotland - it should be being published next week on our ScAITEN website (#LTHEchat)

#LTHEchat - I think that the AIAS scale is probably more useful for saying “I’d advise AI in this way because …. “ - rather than using it as “You must / you can’t “ in this assessment

Forgot the #LTHEchat

A1 - the other big challenge we have, as subject matter experts (or even vaguely knowledgeable!) it’s hard to remember back to not knowing it, and (in many cases) an inexpert learner. Our short cuts were Letts Study Guides. A1 is a shortcut, but one that hides gaps (like snow bridges over crevasses)

A1 #LTHEchat I think as well as what we care about- it’s encouraging students to think about what they want to care about (and need to care about)

Just watching #BBCbreakfast - they’re talking about a new programme to get children singing in school - who else remembers Singing together on the radio?

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have to say, not convinced about the new Apps thing - some programmes (office, I'm looking at you) weren't showing in it (though others that are in the Dock are, so it's not that); nor can I sort by *my* logic. (e.g. "Apple Guff" & Screencasting - two things I used to have, 1 ignored, 1 used!

My work Macbook has decided it needs to update, so, I'll do it on that one & then decide about what I'll do at home :)

4 videos: MacOS 26.0.1 Updated Faster, Better or Worse? MacOS Tahoe: Is it as bad as they say? Don't update to Mac0S Tahoe MacOS Tahoe is AMAZING

My Mac Mini (M4) is keen for me to update to Tahoe:
Google's suggested videos are: Who's done it & which video best fits your experience?

I was there at the start of the summer :) However, recently, just snowed under with work :( And got out of the habit of using this platform.

I've not been here for a while, so have only just seen that the ability to save posts has come. Woohoo :)

A laptop case with the Higher Education Academy Logo on

When conference bags were more than tote bags :)

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I think the environmental issues are useful to discuss, yes training takes a lot, but streaming Netflix etc also does. We need to be mindful of all digital environmental issues. Ethical issues such as copyright, bias etc are more specific in AI context than other scenarios.

That’s what gets Ed & Learning techs a bad rep :(
To me, I’m an Educator first & foremost, technologist 2nd. So, AI, useful to generate *potential* m/c questions to help students untangle a complex paper, or similar for an open question in a discussion board. Not the exam or formal coursework

Thank you! I thought it was under lifestyle. Perhaps I'm muddling Guardian navigation with BBC. (Interestingly, for something under UK, I can see 3 articles, Derbyshire, Hong Kong & Estonia. So, it's actually UK/Global education :)

A list of all the news sections and subsections on the The Guardian News paper. They used to have an Education section (I think it was Family & Education). It's no longer there.

Why has @theguardian.com stopped having a dedicated Education section. One that I'm sure used to have school / University subsections.

3: get back into being a 3 year old and asking “why?” - about even the most mundane of things

I can’t actually remember learning to ride my bike, but it clearly involved bruised knees, scrapes & figuring out what to do to not fall off. I do remember learning to wear a t-shirt (not no top) after falling off into the nettles one very hot day as I was figuring out the balancing stuff!

I also think there are huge diffs between personal reflection (which could even be “ thank goodness I never have to do that again”), reflection with peers, and reflection for assessment which is what many HEIs mean by reflection & many students don’t like

I think some areas just don’t call it “reflection”. For example in software engineering, you’d be asking did it perform as expected? What about edge cases? Could it be done more efficiently? It’s just not called reflection

Agree, can also highlight reflection for self, reflection with trusted peers, reflection for assessment … all start the same, may well emphasise different aspects

I think one of the potential dangers of that is *every* teacher getting students to do that. Doing it at the start to then help students understand the importance of doing it if using AI; maybe some will decide that working with original texts is actually more efficient (for them)