I'm a cognitive scientist with an interest in epistemic vigilance, and this essay that's been going around gave me pause. I don't think it's straightforward to apply the concept of epistemic vigilance to interactions with LLMs, as this essay does. 🧵/ sbgeoaiphd.github.io/rotating_the...

Can very young children craft a strong scientific counterargument using evidence and causal language? Yes! Teachers can help develop this skill by asking students to explore and refute multiple alternative explanations. doi.org/10.1037/dev0... #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

✨ Updated preprint ✨ Iris van Rooij & Olivia Guest (2026). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? PsyArXiv osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/aue4m_v2 @olivia.science Our aim is to make these ideas accessible for a.o. psych students. Hope we succeeded 🙂

If you would like to know what @balloonleap.bsky.social and I think about the relationship between generative AI chatbots and the teaching of writing, we have an article for you to read! 1/ #writingstudies #genai+writing #teamrhetoric cjsdw.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/dw...

Students' use patterns of generative artificial intelligence during problem‐solving in an intelligent learning system: Achievement goal orientation matters bera-journals.online...

"Taken together, our findings reflect a societal shift in people seeing AI as being more human-like and warm, and increasingly distinct from other digital technologies." There's a lot to unpack in this analysis of public perception of 12,000 #AI metaphors, but it's a warning about anthropomorphism.

Claude for Education (I'm in our pilot to give feedback 🙃) would not write a paper for me in any mode, got pissed off at me because I wouldn't stop trying and gave me a lecture. So, if I wanted that, I'd just go ask free Claude to do it. Problem not solved. YOU'RE NOT MY MOM, CLAUDE.

This is something that has been bothering me since I learned about an AI tool that has students "teach" an AI peer and then has the AI peer complete a quiz on the student's behalf using only what it has "learned" from the student.

‘2025 Voice of the Online Learner (UK Edition)’ "This report doesn’t claim to solve the challenges of online learning, but it ... telling us how to design better ones." 👉 Read my summary here: www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/elearning/20...

We are excited to share our latest publication in the Online Learning Journal: "New Normal in higher education for the post-COVID-19 world: Reimagining and reexamining factors for student success in online learning." Read more here: doi.org/10.24059/olj...

First, here is the paper this news is based on. Read it so you get a feel for the nuanced findings. You know, do the hard thing we accuse students of not doing. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Paper here 🔒💲 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A new paper argues that current generative AI tools offer little benefit for genuine learning unless students already have substantial prior knowledge. genAI gives probabilistic summaries, not the kind of support that builds expertise.

My essay for The Teaching Professor, "How Faculty Fool Themselves about Teaching and Learning" now freely available at ResearchGate www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Three words: pine, crab, sauce. There’s a fourth word that combines with the others to create another common word. What is it? When you finally get it, it may feel instantaneous. A recent study shows what happens in the brain during “aha” moments.

From a report by Oxford University Press, "Teaching the AI-Native Generation," comes this quote about a 17-year-old unable to find the right words. There are many things to be sad about in this world, but this one sticks with me. 1. This is being passed off as a benefit of generative AI. 1/x

Another example of the increasingly common situation where AI helps an academic with intellectually challenging work (solving a 42-year-old open math problem). Seems like real value in combining expert human guidance and increasingly powerful LLM. arxiv.org/abs/2510.23513

This is a heavy, emotionally charged paper... and so beautiful at the same time... a must-read. Link in the first comment.

Curious about how help-seeking behaviors relate to learning in an online learning environment? Then check out this open access (!) article authored by Chenyu Hou, featuring the outstanding mentoring of @shelbikuhlmann.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1007/s114...

Here's GREAT news for educators! You know all the hard work you put in to design outside of class activities to help your students learn? Well, when they do those things, in the order you intended, they actually learn more! Check it out: dx.doi.org/10.1037/edu0... #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

A major UNSW Sydney study found teachers suffer depression, anxiety, and stress at rates three to four times higher than the national average, largely driven by excessive administrative tasks. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I was happy to contribute to 'AI and the future of education: disruptions, dilemmas and directions', a publication by UNESCO aligned with Digital Learning Week. Check it out for an overview of thoughts from education experts and leaders on the #ai zeitgeist! #aied doi.org/10.54675/KEC...

“In educational contexts, rapid technology adoption can create or exacerbate inequalities between early and late adopters, particularly if the technology confers significant learning advantages.” arxiv.org/abs/2508.00717 Given schools’ jagged adoption AI, this is worth considering. #eduskyAI

Aggregate Non-Repayable Aid vs Aggregate Domestic Tuition fees, 2007-08 to 2023-24, in Billions of $2023. Canada has had net-negative tuition fees for seven years now.

Seems obvious, and yes: "organizations should establish clear norms for response times across different communication channels. ... Just as importantly, teams should have a shared practice for letting senders know when a timely response isn’t possible—preventing frustration and bottlenecks."

Another example of a persistent problem with LLMs. They do very well on standard medical questions, but when the right answer is replaced with “none of the above” performance drops. More recent models generally have lower drops in performance. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Those of us studying edtech platforms and infrastructures in education talk a bit about vendor "lock-ins" - how schools can't get out of a platform once they're on it. This is a magnificent paper about that by @lucascone.bsky.social and Signe Sophus Lai www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Contradiction is key. For change to happen, students must recognize that what they believed is incompatible with the correct view. If there’s no conflict, they may just absorb the new fact into the wrong framework.

Not all wrong answers are equal. I used to think students just needed the right information to fix misconceptions but then I read the work of Michelene Chi🧵⬇️

Nice thing about this figure is unlike benchmarks on factuality or hallucinates eg FACTscore we dont know if the test questions reflected real world use. OpenAI basically gave us the stat we were wondering about (2) More info from system card cdn.openai.com/pdf/8124a3ce...

"Listening Rooms involvea pair of friends participating in a discussion with prompts provided in a ‘room’. ... One important aspect is that there is no authoritarian presence in the room, just the two friends chatting about what they see on the cards in front of them."

“Starting in July 2024, AI was suddenly everywhere all at once in Latin America after Meta Platforms started incorporating chatbots in its apps across the region. Whether users wanted them or not, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram became homes for a variety of AI bots.”

To me, this part is most important. I've had students read multiple ai generated “responses” to discussion questions they’d also answered themselves. It takes reading through about 3 before you start to realize it’s all the same. But we mostly use AI independently so don’t see the repetition.

"Some students said that they liked the AI’s topic more than their own human-generated topics. But the students hadn’t compared notes: only I had seen every single AI topic."

We are hiring an Academic Integrity Strategist within our fabulous Centre for Pedagogical Innovation @brocku.ca: brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/brocku_caree... The post end date is August 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM #academicintegrity

Starting to see this in more parts of the world: data from Taiwan shows unemployment among university grads is higher than unemployment in the rest of the population. If returns to education really are falling, this is an enormous global challenge to higher ed.

Neat example of AI in the humanities. A Google model trained on Latin text fills in lost parts of Latin inscriptions & identifies related texts. Historians increased their accuracy by 44% when working with the AI (Though AI alone beats historians, historian + AI was usually best by a small amount).

What was new to me was the full digital skills framework, with foundational skills, life skills, and skills for work which I think are a very useful framework for guiding induction and employability activities and/or for students self-reviewing their own skills. futuredotnow.uk/wp-content/u...

Canada Day spent, so far, tending to our yard, marvelling at a mouse, being proud of a new tomato flower, and making talk slides for our recent paper on Canadian graduate stipends, wondering what's next for Canadian science. Link here if that's how you want to celebrate 🇨🇦 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Interesting paper on boundaries in Innovative Learning Environments (ILEs), studying school-aged kids.

The evidence continues to accumulate that self-explanation is a powerful learning strategy, this time in digital learning environments. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1007/s106...

"many [problematic readers] defined reading Bleak House as skimming the text and relying on SparkNotes (which give plot summaries, characterizations, and analyses) to understand what they had just read" Oof. And how are these students defining reading now that genAI exists?

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results. t.co/JXeTALBPds

Pleased to see experiments testing the efficacy of a theory-informed GenAI chatbot that prompts generative learning . Some evidence it led to better conceptual understanding . I wish the control conditions were stronger. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1007/s106...

Remarkable to see the shift in AI regulation emphasis at G7. Two years ago it was all about regulation, risk-based systems, misuse, and accountability. Now it’s all about economic opportunity, framed as “AI for Prosperity.” 2023 doc: www.mofa.go.jp/files/100573... www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

I taught a graduate course on executive function (EF) in the spring. Before I forget, I thought I'd tell you about the readings students liked the best (at the end of the semester, I asked students to vote for their favorite papers, excl. any of mine). Here are the top vote getters. 🧵 (1/6)

One thing that this incredible study arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 is suggesting: When we start with our own thinking, then move to AI our thinking is amplified. "Novices from Brain-to-LLM group's recruited widespread connectivity when introduced to the tool." Bottom line: Start with writing. #eduskyAI

UCL aren't going back to 'all' in-person exams. Our terrific educators are working hard to find the balance between some in-person assessment, authentic assessment, supporting students to use AI ethically and critically, and using marking criteria to differentiate b/w what AI and humans can do

i just graduated from an elite american university. students would cheat on in person exams by going to the bathroom and using ai there. professors began asking for phones, so they just brought a second one. not sure how to patch this one

I agree that written exams are a solid choice, but my research on high-stakes assessments found that oral exams offer another robust and scalable way of avoiding rampant AI-fuelled cheating. Nothing is 100% cheat-proof, but written + oral exams are a sound combo. www.edsk.org/publications...