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Posts by Natalie Lafferty

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The scientist who predicted AI psychosis has issued another dire warning Outsourcing your thinking to AI might be eroding your ability to reason. A new commentary warns that "cognitive debt" poses a critical threat to science, suggesting that bypassing mental struggle coul...

The scientist who predicted AI psychosis has issued a warning regarding AI eroding abilities to reason and leading to cognitive debt www.psypost.org/the-scientis...

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Seeing AI transparency statements at the bottom of some education and AI related articles. Good to see these but would perhaps be better to publish at the start of the article so the reader can make an informed decision on whether or not they want to go ahead and read it.

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Higher Ed Is Sleepwalking Toward Obsolescence — And AI Won’t Be the Cause, Just the Accelerant AI Has Exposed Higher Ed’s Hollow Core — The University Must Reinvent Itself or Fade

AI Has Exposed Higher Ed’s Hollow Core — The University Must Reinvent Itself or Fade substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Higher Ed Is Sleepwalking Toward Obsolescence — And AI Won’t Be the Cause, Just the Accelerant AI Has Exposed Higher Ed’s Hollow Core — The University Must Reinvent Itself or Fade

AI Has Exposed Higher Ed’s Hollow Core — The University Must Reinvent Itself or Fade substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Bonhoeffer on Stupidity (entire quote)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Stupidity www.platoscave.org/2021/10/bonh...

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Interesting data from a study of GenAI usage in studies amongst Scottish students saw no significant change in usage from 2024 to 2025. In 2025 more students highlighted concerns around ethical issues, copyright and desklling. #altc25

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SCAITEN Scottish Tertiary Education statement on the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)

AI principles developed collaboratively by the Scottish AI Tertiary Education Network being presented at #altc25 sites.google.com/view/scaiten

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Word cloud of responses from ALTC25 delegates to the question, what’s your prediction for the coming year in edtech?

Word cloud of responses from ALTC25 delegates to the question, what’s your prediction for the coming year in edtech?

Views amongst #altc25 delegates of the year ahead in edtech. Suspect these will resonate with others working across HE and FE.

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Spot on Julie. Also about appreciating what digital education teams bring and having a PVC and QAS Director that understand and appreciate their contribution and letting them lead and get on with it.

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Students highlighting the need for a standardised approach to module design at #altc25 Why has it taken the sector so long to address this?

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#altc25 the vle should be more like instagram. Does this highlight the challenge around attention literacy?

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I think that sums it up well.

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#altc25 The perennial question of how to communicate with students is posed to the student panel and the perennial response not email, use social media. Yet not all students are on social media and in the world of work you have to navigate email, Teams and multiple information channels.

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From Studio to Struggle: The Real Cost of Cuts at DJCAD “There is at least a sense that the teachers and the students are sort of in it together in all of their confusion… There’s a disconnect not between student and teacher but betwee…

The impact of the recent VS scheme at the University of Dundee on the art and design student experience. Unsurprising and no doubt similar challenges being seen across all academic disciplines. thejutejournal.com/2025/10/13/f...

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Sad to see so many talented, creative and innovative individuals leaving the University of Dundee today. Collective wisdom and institutional memory being lost. Wishing everyone who’s left on VS all the best and hoping that fulfilling and fun new opportunities open up.

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Media literacy: a case of policy failure A new report from the House of Lords provides interesting reading on the current state of media literacy in the UK.

Media Literacy: a case of policy failure - An interesting read hot on the heels of last week’s House of Lords Communications & Digital Committee’s report on media literacy published week davidbuckingham.net/2025/07/28/m...

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Trump wins first round in copyright chief's job battle | Creators' champion preps new bid to ensure AI transparency | Anthropic CEO urges debate on 'AI jobs bloodbath' #56 | PLUS: Sir Nick Clegg plays Charting bingo | NYTimes signs with Amazon's AI | Google news chief warns publishers as Pichai hits back |✨AND: Sam and Jony's 'coolest AI tech' ... but what is it?

A round-up of some of this week’s headline news on AI from Graham Lovelace grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/trump-wins...

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The Dark Side of AI Companionship: A Taxonomy of Harmful Algorithmic Behaviors in Human-AI Relationships | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

The Dark Side of AI Companionship: A Taxonomy of Harmful Algorithmic Behaviors in Human-AI Relationships dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

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‘An existential crisis’: can universities survive ChatGPT? Students are using AI to cheat and professors are struggling to keep up. If an AI can do all the research and writing, what is the point of a degree?

‘An existential crisis’: can universities survive ChatGPT?

www.thetimes.com/article/4176...

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AI secretly helped write California bar exam, sparking uproar A contractor used AI to create 23 out of the 171 scored multiple-choice questions.

AI secretly helped write California bar exam, sparking uproar arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents

Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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COMMENT: AI is out of control, we have the receipts | Copyright-denying OpenAI and Google pile pressure on UK | Angry authors to Meta: 'Get the Zuck off our books' #48 | PLUS: Indy launches AI-enabled Bulletin | Music execs: 'watch out for quantum and agentic AI' | Musk's xAI swallows up X | ✨AND FINALLY: Matt Haig's new big hit, One April Morning

AI is out of control, we have the receipts | Copyright-denying OpenAI and Google pile pressure on UK | Angry authors to Meta: 'Get the Zuck off our books' grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/comment-ai...

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The Learning Pit – Animated on Vimeo

Learning is hard. The learning pit player.vimeo.com/video/128462...

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Not least in that these projects helped many to gain great experience. Likely. Generation of leaders who won’t have had that research experience to bring to their leadership roles.

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David also flagged at #ALTC23 that there’s been no Gov funding since I think it was 2015. We saw the demise of the HEA and subject centres and funding for research projects, also we lost Jisc project funding. There was also HEFCE funding for research. These have all been a big loss to the sector.

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I think there are many that would agree with you on that.

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Five Questions to Build a Strategy People make strategy much harder than it needs to be. For some, the problem is that they focus too much on the tools: environmental scans, SWOT analyses, customer analyses, competitor analyses, financ...

#UCISA25 Reading developed this Digital Research Strategy in song the Roger L Martin 5 questions approach. This involved willed café style sessions. hbr.org/2010/05/the-...

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#UCISA25 Henrik Brogger from Reading outlining that when he joined the university, some disciplines received gold standard digital research services, others didn’t. Guessing this will be the experience in other universities too.

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#UCISA25 @dkernohan.bsky.social mentioning the very real challenges around recruiting staff to specialist IT roles in higher education.

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