Ogres Have Layers. So Does AI in Education. Most Colleges Stopped at the First One. | Szymon Machajewski 🧅 AI in education is like an ogre. It has layers and a doomsday clock. Most institutions are stuck and buying tools that work for everybody. This is not a strategic approach. These are the layers t...

🧅 AI in education in 4 layers.

🟢 Layer 1 — AI Literacy Edu (Universal / Foundational)
🟠 Layer 2 — AI for Edu (Infrastructure / Optional)
🔴 Layer 3 — AI in Edu (Core Mission / Required)
🔵 Layer 4 — AI of the Profession (Career Readiness / Required)

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The Learn-It-All Educator This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Learn-It-All Educator is a practical guide for faculty, instructors, and academic professionals navigating the age of generative AI. Drawing on real clas...

At your local library as an audiobook. #ai4edu

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Introducing Your Newest Study Buddy: stackoverflow.ai Meet stackoverflow.ai, your smartest study buddy for coding. Get instant, reliable answers, learn with community-validated explanations, and accelerate your programming journey with AI-powered support.

Introducing Your Newest Study Buddy: stackoverflow.ai Transforming How You Learn Coding—AI Meets Community Wisdom In today’s tech-driven world, developers and students.... @cosmicmeta.ai #AI4Edu

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Universities Risk Falling Behind Without a Clear AI Strategy Without a clear AI strategy, universities risk falling behind in innovation, student outcomes, and operational efficiency. Discover why developing an effective AI approach is crucial for higher education's future.

Universities Risk Falling Behind Without a Clear AI Strategy Why AI Strategy Matters Now Artificial intelligence is not just a futuristic concept—it has already.... @cosmicmeta.ai #AI4Edu

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Edcafe AI - Brew Teaching Materials with AI Edcafe AI is a powerful AI toolkit designed for educators to effortlessly generate and organize high-quality instructional and learning content.

I love trying new AI tools for education. My most recent discovery has been EdCafe AI www.edcafe.ai
My fave is the resource generator. It’ll find videos, PDFs, worksheets, and articles on a topic. Very helpful. #edcafeai

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Here’s another great book for educators. This one gives you practical ideas for using AI in higher ed. #edusky
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I loved Ethan Mollick’s book on coexisting with AI. It provides a reasonable and realistic outlook on how AI can augment what we do when we use it as a collaborator. #ethanmollick
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We can try via the system prompt to induce a response style that is more like a tutor and doesn't directly give answers for easy copy-paste, but if you lock down the behavior too much, students just use ChatGPT instead.
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🧵 Worth It? Wednesday: Claude Pro Edition
If ChatGPT is the Starbucks on every corner, Claude is the coffee shop down the street that fewer people know about, but makes better coffee. I've paid $40 for two months of Claude Pro so you didn't have to. Here's my verdict:
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⌛ The AI Time Paradox

🤔 Ever rush to save time with AI only to end up frustrated with mediocre results? You're not alone. Here's why this happens (and how to fix it)...

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What's a human skill that AI is making even more valuable?

DIRECTNESS!

By default, AI models are terrible at this. Every read someone's "sponsored by ChatGPT" email or post that's paragraphs long and think 👇
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A teacher skill that AI isn't much help with yet?

Making your course content relevant & relatable for students!

I switched to Spotify for the first time a year ago, and will admit

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🎵 Just presented "Teaching Music in the Age of AI" at the #NYSSMA winter conference! Let's explore how #musiced can prepare students for an AI-enhanced future while preserving the human elements that make music special... 🧵

#edusky #edchat #k12 #ai #ai4edu

What's the most under-rated AI tool?

Grok!

3 Reasons Why:

1️⃣ Paid version is only $8/mo

2️⃣ By far the most open guard rails of any LLM

3️⃣ Excellent image gen, which they just changed to Aurora

#edusky #ai4edu #aiart

Claude is finally allowing for customized "styles"

You can paste in or upload text of your writing

Then it analyzes it, generates a description, and allows you to generate text in a similar "style"
#edusky #ai4edu #aiedu #maktok

Perplexity Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.

🧵 Worth It? Wednesday: Perplexity Pro Edition
I've spent $60 over 3 months and used Perplexity.ai Pro daily so you don't have to.
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⁉️The biggest challenge with AI today?

📚It's not access to information, features, or the interface

🔌It's how do we intentionally INTEGRATE this in a way that matters?

#edusky #ai4edu #aiedu

Welcome
@mrk-all-day.bsky.social
and
@hi4ai.bsky.social

to the AI Educator #starterpack

#edusky #aiedu #ai4edu

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Our #aiart skills are going 🆙

with @mcneillms.bsky.social

in the #aiedu #ai4edu #starterpack

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😡 "AI kills creativity!" -multiple pundits who come across my feed

😎 "Watch this!" -my students using AI creatively on their assessments

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Weekly @buffer spread, as is tradition!

My takeaways from last week:

🦋 Blue Sky Social is 2014 Twitter Nostalgia, even the live chats are back!

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Information literacy and chatbots as search By Emily This post started off as a thread I wrote and posted across social media on Sunday evening. I'm reproducing the thread (lightly edited) first and...

An email newsletter written by "Emily"?

Not buying what you are selling there my friend @tommullaney.bsky.social #edusky #aiedu #ai4edu

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Reminder that Perplexity now has a MacOS app

Why is having it as an app better than a tab in your browser?

#ai #ai4edu #aiedu #edusky

That feeling when your student roasts you on something you have been roasting them on all semester 👀
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That feeling when your student roasts you on something you have been roasting them on all semester 👀
#edusky #ai4edu #aiedu

"It's never been easier for the best students to do brilliant work"
AND
"It's never been easier for the worst students to do terrible work"

-Me when asked what it's like to teach in an environment where Gen AI is incorporated

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AI Educators Pack added to the thread #edusky #aiedu #ai4edu bsky.app/starter-pack...