www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d... - argues that institutions are institutions are "not investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free."
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... - our universities struggle, staff and students suffer, yet these guys are swimming in Scrooge McDuck-esque pools of profit....
I also find it funny Peter Thiel is an anagram of The Reptile....
archive.org/details/cybe... - I think she is trying to get it re-released - that podcast is definitely worth a listen as she essentially gets cancelled but her work has proven the test of time.
@emilyehoyle.substack.com fascinating lecture at York yesterday Emily. Wondered whether you have come across Cyberselfish www.thenerdreich.com/paulina-bors... and also the discourse on techbros either misunderstanding or trying make dystopian scifi real?: www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech....
codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day... What “Smart” Really Means:
“Smart” often implies a lack of control
“Cheap” signifies compromised security
“Convenience” often involves hidden surveillance
The Golden Rule:
Never use your primary WiFi network for IoT devices
Treat them as strangers in your home
@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social you may want to check these out Yanis - pretty sure this is not you on this channel: youtu.be/GRXKavRIBN8?... - 16:15 you seem to develop a Canadian accent!
"platform-driven bureaucratic processes, although seemingly mundane, reconfigure teacher-student interactions, redistribute pedagogical authority, and introduce complex layers of administrative work into everyday schooling" doi.org/10.1080/1743...
youtu.be/aByWLQ7h2n0 #aiappeasment anyone? I can't even trust myself not to get distracted when working online - if my kids are on a laptop trying to do homework most of the time I check, they are doing something else. If they have a book/paper exercise, they happily get on with it...
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... @kaiserkuo.bsky.social - sure you know this story already but worth a read - a parallel narrative to Feifei Li's excellent autobiography...love the thought of fire side salons keeping the intellectual embers going during the Cultural Revolution...
Two Dancers, 1949, by Salvador Dali
Thanks Neil. Say no to #AIappeasement!
“Educational technology has become, in its ontological infrastructures, increasingly centralised, less open and more powerful. Through GenAI, it is less truthful, less trustworthy and more epistemologically nihilistic.”
@eam0.bsky.social & @steviegow.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Our open-access AIED commentary is out
"Artificial Intelligence in Educational Research and Scholarship: Seven Framings"
🙏 Goerge Veletsianos, Victoria I. Marín, Stefan Hrastinski, Ahmed Tlili, Henk Huijser, Sharon Altena, Giselle Ferreira and Jason McDonald
open-publishing.org/journals/ind...
Beginning to put some details on my visit to NZ in November for #ISSOTL. Going to spend a bit of time in Aus too. Anyone want me to come visit and talk about our work? Hidden Curriculum, belonging, assessment and curriculum design…
@davidmusgrave.bsky.social Enjoyed your INRAP session today, then found this: "...if the economy can't tell that we swapped out a human with an AI, well, that's what AGI is." centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/agi-beyond...
Picture of a translucent hooded, caped, skeleton wrapped around an alarmed looking man seeming to move him involuntarily
When the IT guy takes over my computer remotely
An absolute must watch: youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?... - we need to end Technological Appeasement.
Join the excellent Department of Learning and Teaching Enhancement at Edinburgh Napier - two full-time Academic Skills Advisers. jobs.napier.ac.uk/mthrprod_web...
Good morning. To foreshadow a project at KIng's where we are collecting examples from across faculties of modified assessments I have begun collecting a few from elsewhere. Is it about AI or is it just about better assessment? Some are former; some the latter I think. mcompton.uk/2025/03/24/a...
Great to hear Alistair and Rory giving China some thought - I'd recommend checking out @kaiserkuo.bsky.social and his amazing Sinica Podcast to keep up on China related research and culture: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...
www.studentxgenai.co.uk/genai-digest... - some useful GenAI and education resources so far this year.
Word of the day is ‘arsle’ (19th century): to have a distinct sense of going backwards.
A judge has ruled against Ross Intelligence, an AI company, in their case against Thomson Reuters. It's the first major AI fair use decision.
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/02/11/j...
#Copyright #FairUse #AI #ThomsonReuters #Westlaw
academicintegrity.org/resources/bl...
My new post on the ICAI Blog: What do new transparency and surveillance tools mean for the delicate dance of trust in universities in the era of AI? #academicintegrity
Lauren Lavern has a segment on BBC6 music called House Music dedicated to this...https://www.instagram.com/bbc6music/reel/C4GaNxdKdnY/ - Hilarious.
An admission of pseudo-science...
“No one wants to kill the golden goose,”...If management and marketing professors embraced all of psychology’s reforms, he said, then many of their most memorable, most TED Talk–able findings would go away. “To use marketing lingo, we’d lose our unique value proposition...” - Ouch.