After the Streetlight Flickers I am a Witness Are you? #BlueSkyRemnant

Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’ www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme... #ai #artificialintelligence #genZ #genA

MIT research: heavy AI reliance weakens neural connectivity. Cognitive atrophy is real. The answer is not banning AI. It is designing learning that uses AI to increase challenge. 🧠⚠️ #Education #AIEDU

But … “AI is closer to electricity or the internet than ordinary software.” … AI is not software

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Accountability, research, and understanding are dependent on information, which must be preserved before it disappears. #VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #OpenAccess #Preservation @pbump.com @archive.org #OpenAccess #Preservation #MTVNews

“while AI assistance may ease initial learning, it appears to undermine the effortful processes needed for robust learning. These results have important implications for how generative AI tools should be integrated into higher education” #aied www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#aied feps-europe.eu/publication/...

Been thinking about the teachers who quietly redesign their lessons every summer versus those who attend three conferences a year but change nothing. The quiet ones never call it professional development. They just call it teaching.

The beach this evening

www.axios.com/2026/04/04/a... #AI #artificialintelligence

This. 👇 👇 👇 👇 Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-... #edchat #edreform #edpolicy #edtech #edcolo #edutwitter #teachertwitter #k12 #edadmin #suptchat #edleaders #edleadership #principals #AIinEDU

www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto... #edtech #learningdesign #aied

The evening beach …

Casuarina Beach … morning of the equinox

arxiv.org/abs/2509.22505 #aied #academicsky #research

#aied #research #academicsky doi.org/10.1080/1356...

Rain receding … Rain returning

There’s history on the beach This place has been around Throughout and inside time The cosmos and grains of sand Bear witness

today's completely unsurprising news. this ban was never about child safety anyway. it was about getting australians to face scan for internet access so tech corps could harvest the data - which then by used for facial recognition in surveillance systems. same reason the uk wants to do it.

Heeeeeeeeyyyy, guess who wants to regulate This Fucking Guy™️ into oblivion, maybe tell your friends in California’s 72nd district to get involved in my race www.kluweoc.com

Morning beach colours

The beach this evening

Cockatoos in Aldinga, South Australia

Low tide

#aied #education #edusky #academicsky humanstatement.org

Clouds

Another 4Cs … still about #curriculum but not 21st century skills #teaching

#aied #metaphor The illusion of thinking … & Large Reasoning Models ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-i...

beach moments giving some daily solace

The beach today moments now blown away

Albanese's silence in response to Trump's actions is understandable. In the short term, it may even feel prudent and arguably in Australia’s immediate interest, but caution can easily be interpreted as indulgence and, over time, can harden into habit. satpa.pe/cHOrzxT

Lines in the sand …

New OpenScholar LLM outperforms on lit reviews www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Discover the Longest Song in the World: A 639-Year Performance of the John Cage Composition Called “Organ/ASLSP (As Slow As Possible)”

The beach today

#TheWeekinData: Chatbot chat *Barnsley becomes first UK “tech town” *Social media for chatbots *Marginal gains. Ouch! Silicon Valley. Shenzhen. Barnsley. Previously famous for coal mining, a lamb chop and Kes, Barnsley is to be catapulted into the tech firmament. buff.ly/dph2PUB

“AI is moving at the speed of light. No country can see the full picture alone.” 40 experts will lead a fully independent scientific panel to build shared evidence on AI’s real-world impacts, while informing guardrails, cooperation, and innovation for the common good. https://ow.ly/Iyo150Y9lVx

Once were homes …

liking the reframing of "human skills" relevant for now - am finding the "21st C skills" agenda needing a rethink

#research #opendata

Casuarina beach before the rain

A call for research participants - current doctoral students and doctoral research supervisors #PhD #EdD #DPhil etc., in the #UK and #Finland. A UK-Finland collaboration to improve our understanding of the doctoral journey. Follow @drlindae.bsky.social - and DM if you need more information.

#data #consent #aied #research & assumptions … those “productivity tools” are tooling us www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The beach today - Lee Point

Clouds at Casuarina

In between the showers at Casuarina Beach

Fun fact. In 1916, Denmark sold the Danish West Indies to the USA, with the colony becoming the US Virgin Islands. The USA was worried Germany could take control of the islands, though they had no plans to do so. In exchange, the USA acknowledged Denmark's complete sovereignty over Greenland.

How AI Is Exploding Our Illusions of Rigor via @insidehighered www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #rigor #highered