Higher order prompting: Applying Bloom’s revised taxonomy to the use of large language models in higher education Full paper

Jackson, J. (2025) “Higher order prompting: Applying Bloom’s revised taxonomy to the use of large language models in higher education,” Studies in Technology Enhanced Learning, 4(1). Available at: doi.org/10.21428/8c2....

#largelanguagemodels #smalllanguagemodels #smallai #genai | Jon Jackson Thank you to Association for Learning Development in Higher Education for having Karen Hudson and I as guest speakers to their ALDinHE AI community of practice webinar today to talk about our “Higher ...

Thank you to Association for Learning Development in Higher Education for having me as a guest speaker to their ALDinHE AI community of practice webinar today to talk about the “Higher Order Prompting” toolkit which builds on my paper from Jan 2025 (ref below)…

Screenshot of GitHub Copilot activity on a Pull Request. Includes some redacted text and code. Main comment from GitHub Copilot: The [redacted] function is missing its block body. It was originally const [redacted] = () => { but it seems => { was eaten. Let me fix that:

It's official. GitHub Copilot eats your code 😂

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Thanks for sharing Michael.

How the young use AI matters more than for how long That undermines the case for blanket bans or time limits, writes Sema Sgaier

How the young use AI matters more than for how long.

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#degreeapprenticeships | Jon Jackson Very happy to have been in attendance at the Night of Science and Engineering last week representing degree apprenticeships at QMUL with Jamie Hilder. Lots of encouraging conversations with represen...

Very happy to have been in attendance at the Night of Science and Engineering last week representing degree apprenticeships at @qmul.bsky.social

Meta, Google lose US case over social media harm to kids Alphabet's Google and Meta were found ​liable on Wednesday for designing platforms that are dangerous for kids and teens, in a landmark verdict that could force tech firms to rethink how they defend ‌...

Meta, Google lose US case over social media harm to kids - www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

The AI cheating question dividing universities Plus, the impact of rising oil prices on public finances

The AI cheating question dividing universities.

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Teacher agency and generative artificial intelligence: teaching in higher education as a responsive, cultural activity The widespread adoption of Generative Artificial Intelligence tools by students poses a challenge to teachers in Higher Education. This study aimed to explore the nature of teacher agency in a sett...

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Kahn, P. et al. (2025) “Teacher agency and generative artificial intelligence: teaching in higher education as a responsive, cultural activity,” Learning, Media and Technology, pp. 1–12. Available at: doi.org/10.1080/1743....

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The Role of Linguists in Understanding and Shaping Generative AI in Education The existing literature on the role of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in education has mostly focused on accuracy, ethics, academic integrity, and the role these technologies might play in...

Recent reading 📖

Zapata, G.C. (2026) “The Role of Linguists in Understanding and Shaping Generative AI in Education,” Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal [Preprint]. Available at: doi.org/10.18848/183....

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Perkins, D. (2003) “MAKING THINKING VISIBLE.” pz.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...

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It’s stories like these that provide moments of clarity for me as to why I’m in education… to help cultivate digital technologists of tomorrow who would absolutely never even consider rolling out a feature as objectively stupid as this.

It’s stories like these that provide moments of clarity for me as to why I’m in education… to help cultivate digital technologists of tomorrow who would absolutely never even consider rolling out a feature as objectively stupid as this.

I love posts like these because it provides a moment of clarity for me as to why I’m in education. I am in education to help cultivate digital technologists of tomorrow who would absolutely never… |... I love posts like these because it provides a moment of clarity for me as to why I’m in education. I am in education to help cultivate digital technologists of tomorrow who would absolutely never ev...

I love posts like these because it provides a moment of clarity for me as to why I’m in education…

#GenAI #Grammarly

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Rows of red chairs in foreground. Speaker at lectern in front of a large projector screen. Walls of old books line the room from the first floor up. Venue: the Octagon at QMUL, Mile End, London

Red chairs in background to the right. Student is being interviewed on camera, holding a microphone. Walls of old books line the room from the first floor up. Venue: the Octagon at QMUL, Mile End, London

3 alumni sit at a long table. An academic sits in the foreground with her back to the camera. 3 alumni are looking at the fourth alumni who is holding a microphone and speaking.

A final year apprentice stands holding a microphone delivering his presentation in front of a large projector screen. Walls of old books line the room from the first floor up. Venue: the Octagon at QMUL, Mile End, London

#DigiTechFest26 at @qmul.bsky.social today was a success 🎉

Our degree apprentices enjoyed an eclectic mix of guest speakers, an alumni panel, apprentice video showcase, and apprentice talks.

Some highlights:

- Contemporary cyber threats
- Small AI
- The epistemology of digital technologies

AI is helping expand the frontier of theoretical physics Theoretical physicists collaborate with OpenAI's artificial intelligence to solve complex calculations involving gluons and gravitons in quantum physics research.

AI is helping expand the frontier of theoretical physics (gift link) @economist.com

An uncomfortable truce in the AI platform wars Anthropic and Microsoft have struck an alliance on agents but the tussle over the future of the technology will only intensify

An uncomfortable truce in the AI platform wars

#GenAI #AI #AgenticAI

My prompt engineering strategy is to just ask "sure?" over and over again.

/jk

Stop Calling Them Soft Skills: Why Judgement, Empathy and Critical Thinking Are the Skills AI Cannot Replace The skills we have spent decades calling ‘soft’ are the only ones AI cannot do.

I can get on board with “human skills”.

I also like this quote:

“The discomfort of not having an instant response is where empathy actually lives. AI has been designed to eliminate that discomfort. Which means it has been designed to eliminate the conditions under which empathy develops.”

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OpenAl Updates to OpenAl's Privacy Policy Hello Jon Jackson, We wanted to let you know that we're updating our Privacy Policy to give you more information about what data we collect, how we use it, and how you can control it. Here's what's changing: Finding friends on OpenAl services You can now choose to sync your contacts to see who else is using our services. This is completely optional. Ads Ads may appear on Free and Go plans. Plus, Pro, Enterprise, Business and Education plans do not have ads.

What a time to be alive.

Hello ads 👋

#OpenAI #GenAI

Oh, and remember, these agents can still introduce infinite loops despite checking and testing their own work 😬

#genai #softwareengineering #apprenticeships #github #copilot | Jon Jackson Yesterday I took the plunge and demonstrated Agentic AI software development to my students for the first time... Long overdue? Maybe. Too early? Also, maybe. These were final year degree apprentices, some of whom already using GitHub Copilot in their workplace, so I considered this a low risk audience. Introducing this for first-years who are still learning how to code? That doesn't seem to be the right thing to do (yet)... I'll continue to reevaluate, of course. What are you reflections on introducing Agentic AI (not just standalone LLMs) to students for software development or other disciplines? Oh, and remember, these agents can still introduce infinite loops despite checking and testing their own work 😬 Would a newbie have spotted this? Maybe this is another teaching opportunity to add to the pile. #genAI #softwareengineering #apprenticeships #github #copilot

Recently I took the plunge and demonstrated Agentic AI software development to my students for the first time.

Long overdue? Maybe. Too early? Also, maybe.

These were final year degree apprentices, some of whom already using GitHub Copilot at work, so I considered this a low risk audience...

Excerpt from a GitHub Copilot session history, accessing an issue it originally ignored and apologising for the oversight.

My poor little GitHub Copilot agent got confused and totally built the wrong thing by ignoring the spec in an originally referenced GitHub issue but I think I got it back on track... 🤓

#genAI #software #agenticAI